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20+ Useful URL Shortener Plugins for WordPress

by . February 29th, 2012

Oftentimes we need to share URLs but the original address can be a bit too long.

Furthermore, with Twitter, long URLs cannot fit within the 160 word limit and thus, URL shorteners are important.

WordPress lets you shorten a URL to a post/page by using the ‘Get Shortlink’ feature just below the Post Title on the Add New Post page. However, in order to get really ‘short’ URLs, we can rely on URL shortener plugins as the default URL might still prove to be quite long!

In this article, we take a look at 20+ URL shortener plugins for WordPress.


1. Bob’s Dumpr URL Shortener Integration


Bob’s Dumpr URL Shortener Integration uses dumpr.info to shorten URLs and also provides an API for other plugins.

Plugin Homepage | Download


2. Custom URL Shortener


 

Custom URL Shortener makes it easily to quickly add a short URL to your posts or pages.

Download


3. Goo.gl Shortlinks


 

This plugin uses Google’s Goo.gl service to shorten URLs.

Plugin Homepage | Download


4.Goo.gl URL Shortener for WP


 

Another plugin that uses Goo.gl to shorten URLs, but it comes with the added goodness of in-context URL shortening (shortens URLs within comments, posts and pages).

Plugin Homepage | Download


5. la petite URL


 

la petite URL offers personal and customized URL shortening for WordPress.

Plugin Homepage | Download


6. LNQ.me URL Shortener


 

LNQ.me URL Shortener plugin uses the LNQ.me service to shorten URLs and replaces the default WP shortlinks structure.

Plugin Homepage | Download


7. Self Shortener


Self Shortener plugin lets you shorten URLs on your WordPress site. It is available in both English and Japanese.

Plugin Homepage | Download


8. Short URL


Short URL modifies WP’s get_short_link() function. It is different from other plugins in the fact that it does not essentially use a third party service to shorten URLs. Thus, instead of www.goo.gl/YouTheDesigner, your URL will become www.yourwebsite.com/YouTheDesigner

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9. Jetpack by WordPress.com



Jetpack by WordPress.com comes with a URL shortener in the form of WP.me Beyond that, it also features a plethora of other goodies!

Plugin Homepage | Download


10. Tinyit.cc


Tinyit.cc automatically generates short URLs for posts and places them at the end of each post. It can also be made to automatically post the generated URLs to your Twitter account.

Plugin Homepage | Download


11. Tweet Button with URL Shortening


This plugin adds a ‘tweet’ button to your site which can be used along with the URL shortener of your choice — such as su.pr, bit.ly, digg, tinyurl or awe.sm.

Plugin Homepage | Download


12. Twi.im URL Shortener


 

This plugin uses the twi.im URL shortening service to shorten URLs.

Plugin Homepage | Download


13. unfake.it URL Shortener for Twitter Tools



unfake.it serves as a filter plugin that shortens URLs before posting them to Twitter.

Plugin Homepage | Download


14. URL Shortener


 

This URL shortener plugin integrates many URL shortening services in the WP shortlinks mechanism.

Plugin Homepage | Download


15. WG bit.ly Shortener


This plugin uses bit.ly shortening service to generate short URLs.

Download


16. YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter


This plugin generates short URLs using services such as YOURLS and/or bit.ly and then posts them to Twitter.

Plugin Homepage | Download


ADDITIONAL PLUGINS

17. BuddyPress Tweet URLs

BuddyPress Tweet URLs add tweet buttons to your activity stream posts. It generates short URLs using the YOURLS shortener service.

Download

18. GentleSource Short URL

GentleSource Short URL automatically shortens the blog post URL.

Plugin Homepage | Download

19. Short URL for Posts

Short URL for Posts converts all links in <a href tags to shorter ones.

Plugin Homepage

20. SosoBz Short URL

SosoBz Short URL is another plugin that can be used to shorten URLs using soso.bz shortening service.

Plugin Homepage | Download

21. Simple URL Shortener

Simple URL Shortener supports over 100 URL shortening services.

Plugin Homepage

Which service do you use to shorten your URLs? Let us know in the comments!

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