PublishPress Shortlinks – Create Custom URLs for Posts – Share Previews for Draft Posts

Description

With PublishPress Shortlinks you can create custom links for your posts. These links are brandable, trackable, and can have custom view permissions. You can share links for any type of content, even unpublished posts in draft status.

Key Features in PublishPress Shortlinks

✅ Automatically create shortlinks for your posts
✅ Use your own website domain for shortlinks
✅ Customize the slug for each shortlink
✅ Share shortlinks for posts in any status
✅ Add password protection to your shortlinks
✅ Automatically export your shortlinks on a specific date
✅ Choose from 301, 302, and 307 redirects
✅ Track who is clicking your shortlinks with analytics
✅ Generate a QR code for each shortlink to allow easy sharing
✅ Cloak your affiliate links

Automatically create shortlinks for your posts

PublishPress Shortlinks will automatically generate links for all your posts and pages. This makes it really easy to have shareable links for content. These shortlinks are available from the Posts screen and the Post Edit screen.

Use your own website domain for shortlinks

There’s no need to use an external service to build and track your links. With PublishPress Shortlinks, all your custom URLs use your own domain name. To avoid conflicts with any regular URLs on your site, there’s also a folder which is set to « go » by default. This means that your custom URLs will look like this: https://example.com/go/shortlinks

Customize the slug for each shortlink

Every post has its own URL. By default, the final part of the URL will be a unique combination of 5 characters, so your shortlink will look like this: https://example.com/go/8vi3n. However, you can customize the slug so it looks like this: https://example.com/go/shortlinks.

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Share shortlinks for posts in any status

When you’re writing a draft post, do you sometimes need to share it with someone who doesn’t have access to your site? PublishPress Shortlinks is the answer. PublishPress Shortlinks allows you to share posts before you make them public. If you’ve written a draft of a post, you can share a preview with other people. You can protect these links by combining this with other features, including password protection and automatic expiry of links. This feature is similar to the Public Post Preview plugin, but with more features and customizable features.

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Add password protection to your shortlinks

Edit a shortlink and go to the « Security » tab. You’ll be able to create a password for your sharable links. Nobody will be able to access the post via your shortlink unless they know the password.

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Automatically expire your shortlinks on a specific date

Edit a shortlink and go to the « Security » tab. You’ll be able to choose an expiration date for your shortlink. Anyone trying to visit your link after the expiration date will see the message, « This link is expired. »

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Choose from 301, 302, and 307 redirects

Edit a shortlink and go to the « Redirection » tab. You can choose what kind of redirect is used for each link. 301 (Permanent) redirects are used to tell search engines that a requested URL has been permanently moved to another URL. If you’re confident that your target URL will never change, then use this redirect type. 302 and 307 (Temporary) redirects tell search engines that the requested URL has been moved temporarily, but will be back eventually.

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Track who is clicking your shortlinks with analytics

PublishPress Shortlinks has a Logs feature that records everyone who clicks your links. These logs are then turned into analytics charts so you can see how popular each shortlink is.

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Generate a QR code for each shortlink to allow easy sharing

PublishPress Shortlinks will automatically create a QR code for each link. This makes it easy to download and share the QR code so people can visit your URL. This is great for advertisements, brochures, PDFs, restaurant menus, or anywhere you want to use a QR code.

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Cloak affiliate links

PublishPress Shortlinks is ideal for websites that have affiliate links in posts. You can manage, clean up, brand, and track your links. It’s a great tool for cloaking affiliate links. PublishPress Shortlinks is a great tool for marketers plugin for people who want to clean up their affiliate links.

Create Shortlinks via Keyboard Shortcuts

Click Ctrl/Cmd + / anywhere in the WordPress admin area to instantly create shortlinks.