Clicklet URL Shortener turns long URLs into short links on your own domain, like example.com/promo, and tells you how they perform. No third-party service, no monthly fee, and your data stays on your site.
Built for speed
- Short links resolve before the theme and most of WordPress load. With the optional fast path, they resolve before other plugins load too.
- Requests that cannot be a short link (multi-segment paths, files, admin, REST) are filtered out from the URL alone, without a database query.
- Clicks are recorded after the visitor has been redirected, so tracking never slows a redirect down.
- Works with persistent object caches such as Redis and Memcached.
Privacy friendly by default
- No raw IP addresses are stored. Visitors are counted with an anonymous hash that changes every day.
- No cookies, and no requests to external services.
- Countries come from your CDN or host (for example Cloudflare) when available.
Features
- Unlimited short links with custom or generated slugs
- Groups to organize links (a link can be in several groups)
- Automatic short links for posts, pages and custom post types, kept in sync when the permalink changes
- Short link panel in the block editor, and short links as the WordPress shortlink (admin bar, rel=shortlink)
- 301, 302, 307 and 308 redirects
- Click history with no time limit: clicks, unique visitors, countries, devices, browsers, operating systems and referrers
- Bots, link previews (Slack, WhatsApp, Facebook…) and browser prefetches are not counted as clicks
- Expiring links, by date or number of clicks
- Password-protected links (passwords are stored hashed, with brute-force protection)
- QR codes generated on your site (SVG and PNG), with QR scans counted separately in the stats
- Dashboard widget: shorten a URL and see the week’s most clicked links
- Query string forwarding
- Optional prefix, for example
/go/promo - Protection against slugs that would hide existing pages
- Import & export links, daily stats and click details as CSV: move everything between sites or edit links in a spreadsheet (Excel files with semicolons work too)
- One-click migration from URL Shortify and Pretty Links, including click history, groups and link passwords
- REST API and WP-CLI commands
- Multisite support
Contributing & Bug Report
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.
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Screenshots
All your short links in one place: shorten a URL in one step, search, sort and copy links.
Click statistics per link: clicks, unique visitors, referrers, countries, devices, browsers and QR scans.
Link options: password protection, redirect type, expiry date, click limit and query string forwarding.
Import & Export: move links and statistics between sites as CSV, or migrate from another plugin.
Settings: privacy-friendly tracking, data retention and the optional fast path.