Title: PublishPress Shortlinks – Custom URLs for Posts and External Links – Share Previews for Draft Posts Author: PublishPress Published: februari 18, 2023 Last modified: april 7, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/tinypress/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3466115) ![](https://ps.w.org/tinypress/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3462735) # PublishPress Shortlinks – Custom URLs for Posts and External Links – Share Previews for Draft Posts By [PublishPress](https://profiles.wordpress.org/publishpress/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/tinypress.1.5.0.zip) * [Details](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/tinypress/#description) * [Reviews](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/tinypress/#reviews) * [Development](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/tinypress/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tinypress/) ## Description With PublishPress Shortlinks you can create custom links for your posts and external links. These are not ordinary links! * Make your links short and memorable. * Track who clicks on your links with detailed analytics. * Control who can visit your links with passwords, expiry dates, and access control. ### How to use PublishPress Shortlinks * **Custom URLs for your posts**. Imagine you’re hosting a big event and have a page on your website with all the details. PublishPress Shortlinks allows to create a short, memorable link for the event, for example: https://publishpress. com/go/cool-party. You can track how many people click the link. You can set the link to expire after the event finishes. You can even download a QR code to share on brochures. Oh, because of the next feature, you can do all of this even if you’re selling event tickets on another website. * **Custom URLs for external links**. Imagine you run a website with toy reviews. You join affiliate programs and make money when people click on your links and buy tools. PublishPress Shortlinks allows to create a short, memorable link for each toy, for example: https://publishpress.com/go/cool-toy. You can track how many people click the link and get a full analytics report on those clicks. ### 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. [More on customizing shortlinks](https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/how-to-customize-shortlinks/) ### 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. [More on shortlinks for unpublished posts](https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/posts-status-visibility/) ### 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. [More on passwords for shortlinks](https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/protect-shortlinks/) ### 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.” [More on expiry dates for shortlinks](https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/protect-shortlinks/) ### 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. [More on redirects for shortlinks](https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/redirect-options-for-shortlinks/) ### 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. [More on logs for shortlinks](https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/analytics-and-logs-for-shortlinks/) ### 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. [More on QR codes for shortlinks](https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/qr-codes-for-shortlinks/) ### 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. ## Screenshots * [[ * You can get the shortlink for any post via the Posts screen. * [[ * The All Shortlinks screen allows you to edit any shortlink * [[ * The Shortlinks screen allows you to quickly edit any shortlink and download a QR code * [[ * The Redirection tab has settings for the redirection method, no follow, and sponsored options * [[ * You can password protect your shortlinks and add expiry dates * [[ * The All Logs screen will keep details of everyone accessing your links * [[ * Select which post statuses are accessible when visiting a PublishPress shortlink ## FAQ ### PublishPress Shortlinks is helpful to whom? PublishPress Shortlinks is particularly helpful to affiliate marketers & website owners. It helps them to manage, clean up, brand, and track their links. In addition to affiliate marketing, PublishPress Shortlinks is also helpful to SEO marketers, bloggers, merchants, social media marketers, and anyone else who wants to easily take control of their link strategy. ### Is it compatible with any WordPress theme? Yes, absolutely! PublishPress Shortlinks mainly runs in the WordPress admin, so it is not dependent on any one WordPress theme. ### Is PublishPress Shortlinks translatable? Yes! PublishPress Shortlinks is ready for translation. You can easily translate PublishPress Shortlinks into the language of your choice. ### Is PublishPress Shortlinks similar to other plugins? It’s similar to the Public Post Preview plugin because it allows you to share posts before you make them public. It’s similar to link sharing plugins such as Bitly, Better Links, and URL Shortly because it enables you to create custom URLs for your posts. It’s similar to affiliate link plugins such as PrettyLinks and Thirsty Affiliates because it enables you to create affiliate URLs for promoting your partners. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/32239376569de105e1dd662df81c625d2449f6d3038d2d6c9bfae3885ffc493d? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[I find it useful to brand a link](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-find-it-useful-to-brand-a-link/)󠁿 [wocmultimedia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wocmultimedia/) februari 23, 2026 1 reply I have installed it and it’s easy to use as well as useful to brand my special product linksGood job done. Go one this way PublishPress. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/bdcb0e77c818c68b74f3b8b9a8be3e4ac5f571625b4181b5f06d806b90be47a2? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[great plugin for link shortener](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-for-link-shortener/)󠁿 [raju6](https://profiles.wordpress.org/raju6/) mei 24, 2024 Great working and this Plugin is very Easy and Effective. [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tinypress/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “PublishPress Shortlinks – Custom URLs for Posts and External Links – Share Previews for Draft Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ PublishPress ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/publishpress/) * [ Steve Burge ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stevejburge/) * [ Adesina Adedeji ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/deji98/) “PublishPress Shortlinks – Custom URLs for Posts and External Links – Share Previews for Draft Posts” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/tinypress/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “PublishPress Shortlinks – Custom URLs for Posts and External Links – Share Previews for Draft Posts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/tinypress) ### Interested in development? 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