Mike L

KaizenCoders

URL Shortify helps you beautify, manage, and share any URL on or off of your WordPress website. Create links that look how you want using your domain name! It’s a Simple, Easy & Elegant self hosted alternative to Bitly, TinyURL, Cuttly, Pretty Links, URL Shortener By My Theme Shop, Rebrandly, BL.Link, Short.io, and many other SaaS URL Shortener services.
<h3>✨Simple and fast URL shortener!</h3>
URL Shortify allows to reduce long links from <a href="https://facebook.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Linked In</a> and top sites on the Internet, You can copy the shortened URL and share it on websites, chat and e-mail
<h3>Shorten, Share and Track</h3>
Your shortened URLs can be used in publications, advertisements, blogs, forums, e-mails, instant messages, and other locations. Track statistics for your business and projects by monitoring the number of hits from your URL with the click counter, you do not have to register.
URL Shortify enables you to shorten links using your own domain name (as opposed to using tinyurl.com, bit.ly, or any other link shrinking service)! In addition to creating clean links, URL Shortify tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os, and host. URL Shortify is a killer plugin for people who want to clean up their affiliate links, track clicks from emails, their links on Twitter to come from their own domain, or generally increase the reach of their website by spreading these links on forums or comments on other blogs.
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<h3>💝WHY You Need Link Shortener aka URL Shortify</h3>
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➡️ Brand – Enhance brand visibility and trust by putting your brand name on every link you share 
 ➡️ Collaborate – Share branded short links across departments, regions, and teams with one cohesive strategy 
 ➡️ Integrate – Incorporate branded links into your existing processes, workflow, and tools with ease 
 ➡️ Track – Understand social media, email marketing, ads, and SEO through detailed click stats 
 ➡️ Optimize – Growth and Target your audience with our link shortener 
 ➡️ Scale – Increase usage with an infrastructure that can grow at the same rate as your business 
 ➡️ Easy – It’s easy and fast, enter the long link to get your shortened link 
 ➡️ Shortened – Use any link, no matter what size, URL Shortify always shortens 
 ➡️ Secure – It’s fast & secure 
 ➡️ Reliable – All links that try to disseminate spam, viruses, and malware are deleted
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<h3>Features</h3>
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⚙️ Easy Configuration 
 Easily set up your Link Redirects (301, 302, and 307) and all your Link options
👉 Create Short Links 
 Create short links that your visitors will easily be able to memorize and that you can fit into Tweets, Facebook posts, and more.
👉 Faster Than Any External Shortener 
 External Shortener can be slow when redirecting your visitors. That damages customer satisfaction and slows down your site. Our plugin is the fastest way to link!
👉 Editable Destination URL 
 Update destination URL of branded links anytime.
🔎 Search Links 
 Find a specific branded link using an inbuilt search tool.
👉 Fully Customizable 
 Change settings to make your short links just the way you want them. Make sure your links reflect your brand and stick in the memory!
👉 Hide Affiliate Links 
 URL Shortify is a great way to hide affiliate links. This is a perfect way to ensure that people don’t bypass your links and cost you money!
👉 Easy To Use 
 URL Shortify could not be easier to use. This is a quick way to generate links to any page on your site!
👉 301 SEO Redirect 
 Create branded links that are optimized for search engines
👉 Redirect With 302/307 Headers 
 Redirect your visitors and keep them updated as to what’s going on. This is a good way to deal with dead links and keep that visitor engagement.
👉 Parameters Forwarding 
 Automatically forward parameters to the destination URL by appending them to branded links.
👉 Basic Link Analytics. Track Each And Every User Who Click A Link 
 Full analytics for individual links and link groups, including geo 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇩🇪 and device information, referrers, browser, IP, and more.
👉 Automatically Create Short Links For Posts & Pages 
 Want to create short links for WordPress Posts & Pages? Don’t worry. We will save you time by creating short links for Posts & Pages automatically.
👉 Organize Short Links In Groups 
 Group links together for easier management and analytics for a group as well as the individual link.
👉 Add & Move links to group in bulk 
 Move links to group and add links to group in bulk using Bulk actions.
👉 Dashboard 
 Get useful KPIs & information right on your dashboard
👉 One Click Share 
 Copy your shortened URL right from the dashboard and share it instantly.
👉 Link Prefix 
 Added Link Prefix setting using which you can set the prefix for all links. Once you set the link prefix, prefix will be added to short links 
 generated after that.
👉 GDPR Privacy 
 As a data processor, URL Shortify is fully compliant with GDPR
👉 Quick Add Dashboard Widget 
 Quickly create short links from WordPress Dashboard using URL Shortify Quick Add Widget.
👉 Import links from CSV file. 
 Exported links from other tools in CSV format? You can directly import all links from CSV file to URL Shortify.
👉 Allow to show Short URL with the Posts, Pages & with the excerpt. 
 With the use of settings you can display Short URL to above & below to Posts, Pages & Excerpt.
👉 REST API to create short links. 
 Able to create short links using WordPress REST API from anywhere.
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<h3>One click Import from other WordPress plugins</h3>
We have one click import setup for following WordPress Plugin. If you are using any of the following plugin, you can import all your short links in a single click.
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👉 Pretty Links 
 👉 ThirstyAffiliates Affiliate Link Manager 
 👉 URL Shortener by MyThemeShop 
 👉 301 Redirect 
 👉 Simple 301 Redirects 
 👉 Redirection 
 👉 <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/shorten-url/" rel="ugc">Short URL</a>
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<h3>Premium Features</h3>
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📊 Full & Real Time Link Analysis 
 7 days click history is available with URL Shortify free version. Unlock full click history by upgrading to PRO.
👉 Generate Short Links For Posts, Pages & Custom Post Types in bulk 
 Using Bulk Generate Short Links feature, you can generate Short Links in bulk in a single click.
👉 Cloak Links 
 Link cloaking is the process of disguising the affiliate link URL provided by an affiliate program to obfuscate the affiliate ID and make the link shorter. This protects your affiliate commissions by making the affiliate ID less visible. At the same time, it makes the link more visually appealing to visitors
👉 Popular Links Dashboard Widget 
 Show popular links right from the WordPress Dashboard using Popular Links Widget
👉 Enable/ Disable Shortlinks For Custom Post Types 
 Create short links for all custom post types. You can also enable/ disable the creation of short link for different post types
👉 Meta Refresh 
 Redirect visitors to a target URL with the Meta Refresh Tag
👉 Customize Slug Character Count 
 By default URL slug is of 4 characters. With URL Shortify PRO, you can customize it according to your need
👉 Expired Short Links 
 Decide when a link will be automatically turned off by the system.
👉 Password Protected Links 
 You can also protect your short links with the password with this PRO ONLY feature
👉 Advanced Link Analysis 
 Visualize popular click metrics from audiences like top countries, devices, frequent times, and more
👉 QR Codes Of Short Links 
 Generate QR codes from your branded links
👉 Filter Out Known Robots Clicks 
 Stop tracking clicks from the known robots and track only real clicks.
👉 Exclude IP Addresses 
 Stop tracking clicks that come from specific IP addresses. Add those IP addresses into Excluded IP addresses list.
👉 One Click Social Share 
 Share short links on social media like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Linkedin, Pinterest, Telegram, VKontakte, Email, Hacker News, etc in a single click from the links dashboard
👉 Custom Domains 
 Access short links from multiple custom domains along with your main site.
👉 Access Control 
 Manage roles who can create & manage branded short links, groups and manage settings.
👉 Anonymise Clicks Data 
 Anonymise all click data will anonymise all personal click data like IP address, User-Agents, Referrers, Country, OS, Device, and more without impacting clicks count.
👉 Convert Your Site Into URL Shortener Service 
 Enable public-facing URL Shortener form using which anyone can generate short URL.
👉 UTM Builder 
 Add UTM parameters to destination URLs to get branded link metrics in Google Analytics
👉 Bookmarklet 
 No need to come to URL Shortify dashboard or Chrome or Firefox extension to generate short link. Using Bookmarklet, one can create short link in a single click for any webpage they are visiting.
👉 UTM Presets 
 Save preset templates for UTM parameters and save time when creating branded links.
👉 Export Short links & click history 
 Export click history for analytics purpose.
👉 Case Sensitive short URL 
 Generate short URL case sensitive. That means <code>/abcd</code> & <code>/Abcd</code> have different target URLs.
👉 Dynamic Redirection, aka Traffic Routing 
 Send visitors to specific landing pages or direct them to your mobile app based on their location, device, operating system or Browser.
👉 Delete historical click data 
 Delete historical click data older than 30 days, 60 days, 90 days and all clicks at once.
👉 Tracking Pixels – Retargeting 
 Add retargeting pixels to your links and turn every URL into perfectly targeted ads. Use Google Tag Manager, Facebook pixels to retarget your audience.
👉 Link Rotations 
 Add multiple target URLs for short link and redirect based on the weights of the URL.
👉 WP All Imports 
 Now, you can generate short links automatically after importing Posts, Pages, Products, Courses etc… using WP All Import WordPress plugin.
👉 Filter Links 
 Filter links using Groups, Redirect Types, additional link parameters like Nofollow, Sponsored, Parameter Forwarding & Tracking On/Off, Password Protected links & Expired links.
👉 Tags [Coming Soon!] 
 Quickly add tags to the links and search links based on the tags. It’s a great way to organize links and find them quickly.
👉 Broken Link Checker [Coming Soon!] 
 Quickly find the broken links and restore their functionality, ensuring your website is up and running smoothly.
👉 Amazon Affiliate [Coming Soon!] 
 Adds your Amazon Affiliate-Tag to all Amazon URLs before redirection.
👉 A/B Testing [Coming Soon!] 
 Learn how new page components influence users’ behavior by doing A/B Testing
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Do you want to buy URL Shortify PRO? <a href="http://kaizencoders.com/url-shortify-pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Buy Now</a>
<h3>Integrations</h3>
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➡️ <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a> 
 ➡️ <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-linkz/" rel="ugc">Social Linkz</a> 
 ➡️ <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/lifterlms/" rel="ugc">LifterLMS</a> 
 ➡️ <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/sassy-social-share/" rel="ugc">Sassy Social Share</a> 
 ➡️ <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads" rel="ugc">Easy Digital Downloads</a> 
 ➡️ <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/" rel="ugc">The Events Calendar</a> 
 ➡️ <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/" rel="ugc">Events Manager</a> 
 ➡️ <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-knowledgebase/" rel="ugc">WordPress Knowledgebase</a> 
 ➡️ <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/modern-events-calendar-lite/" rel="ugc">Modern Events Calendar</a>
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Do you want us to integrate your WordPress plugin with URL Shortify❓❓❓ <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/url-shortify/" rel="ugc">Let us know</a>. We would love to integrate your WordPress plugins. We will check the possibility of integration and if it matches, we will integrate your plugins too.
<h3>What users are saying about URL Shortify?</h3>
👉 Great customer service
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I bought the life time license yesterday and sent Mike a question about whether a bookmarklet feature will be available soon.
He responded within 24 hours, promising that they will create that feature soon. That’s great customer service.
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<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcfest/" rel="ugc">marcfest</a></li>
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👉 Extremely helpful support & amazing timesaver!
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I really can’t say enough good things about this plug-in!
I had been using one that was last updated 6 years ago (eek!) & it suddenly stopped working (& making an error on my site). I reached out to Mike L & he worked to get my information imported – on Christmas Eve!!!!! So incredibly thankful & I highly recommend 🙂
<a href="https://wordpress.org/support/users/mommy5boys/" rel="ugc">mommy5boys</a>
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👉 Support & Quality Plugin
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The support and help in setting up my plugin were fantastic. Mike walked through the specific use case with me. The plugins easy to use, fast, efficient and does what it says. Excited to see it evolve too and kick the competitors! 
 – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/driverasp/" rel="nofollow ugc">driverasp</a>
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Go to <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/url-shortify/reviews/" rel="ugc">URL Shortify plugin review section</a> and read our all reviews.
<h3>Translations</h3>
Does URL Shortify speak your language? If not, <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/url-shortify/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate “URL SHORTIFY” into your language</a>.
<h3>DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS/ FEEDBACK/ FEATURE REQUEST/ BUG REPORT❓</h3>
Feel free to create a ticket <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/url-shortify/" rel="ugc">here</a>. We love to communicate with you and reply to all your queries.
<h3>Spread The Word ❤️</h3>
If you like URL Shortify, please leave us a <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/url-shortify/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐</a> review and also spread the word about it via Facebook and Twitter. That helps fellow website owners assess URL Shortify easily and benefit from it!
<h3>What’s Next</h3>
If you like this plugin then consider checking out our other solutions:
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/update-urls/" rel="ugc">Update URLs</a> – Quick and Easy way to search old links and replace them with new links in WordPress
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If you move your WordPress website to a new domain name, you will find that internal links to pages and references to images are not updated. Instead, these links and references will point to your old domain name. Update URLs fixes that problem by helping you change old urls and links in your website.
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<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-linkz/" rel="ugc">Social Linkz</a> – Lightweight and fast social media sharing plugin
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Easily place social share icon on your posts, pages etc..
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<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/logify/" rel="ugc">Logify</a> – Simple & Easy to use activity log plugin for monitor & record system changes
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/magic-link/" rel="ugc">Magic Link</a> – Simple, Easy and Secure one click login for WordPress
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/utilitify/" rel="ugc">Utilitify</a> – Supercharge Your WordPress Site With Power Pack WordPress Utilities
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It’s a simple & neat plugin which helps you to customize your WordPress setup in a very elegant way.
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URL Shortify – Simple, Powerful and Easy URL Shortener Plugin For WordPress

I have used the pretty links  plugin before but it doesn't have these plugin options so I suggest you use this one with so many free options 

A good tool for saving


This plugin is really cool as it generates a more user friendly short link with your own domain for free.


Awesome plugin

Excellent

Useful

URL Shortify helps you beautify, manage, share & cloak any links on or off your WordPress website. Create links using your domain name!

Mehul Gohil

Ankur Modi

CleanLinks is your all-in-one solution for creating branded, customizable short links directly within WordPress. Whether you’re managing affiliate campaigns, simplifying external URLs, or just looking for a professional way to share links, CleanLinks makes it easy.
Designed to be lightweight yet powerful, CleanLinks lets you create 301 and 302 redirects, track clicks, categorize links, and export all your links to CSV – with a single click.
<h4>Key Features</h4>
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<li>Branded Short Links – Cloak long URLs under your own domain.</li>
<li>CSV Export Tool – Export all your links in CSV format with one click for backup or reporting.</li>
<li>Click Tracking – Optional built-in analytics to track link clicks.</li>
<li>Organize Your Links – Group links with tags for easy management.</li>
<li>SEO-Friendly – Compatible with SEO and caching plugins.</li>
<li>Developer Friendly – Built using WordPress standards with hooks/filters.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Minimum Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.5 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 8.0 or higher</li>
<li>MySQL 5.5 or higher</li>
</ul>
<h4>Automatic Installation</h4>
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<li>Go to your WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li>Navigate to Plugins → Add New.</li>
<li>Search for “CleanLinks”.</li>
<li>Click “Install Now” and activate.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Manual Installation</h4>
<ol>
<li>Download the CleanLinks plugin.</li>
<li>Upload it to your <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory via FTP or File Manager.</li>
<li>Activate CleanLinks from the “Plugins” screen in your WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li>Navigate to CleanLinks menu to start managing your branded links.</li>
</ol>

CleanLinks

Create branded short links, manage redirects, cloak affiliate URLs, and export links via CSV – all from your WordPress dashboard.

URL Shortify – Simple, Powerful and Easy URL Shortener Plugin For WordPress vs CleanLinks