=== URL Shortify - Simple, Powerful and Easy URL Shortener Plugin For WordPress ===
Contributors: kaizencoders
Author URI: https://www.kaizencoders.com/
Tags: url shortener, short links, link tracking, urls, links
Requires at least: 5.0.0
Tested up to: 5.6
Stable tag: 1.2.13
Requires PHP: 5.6
License: GPL-3.0+
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses

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

== Description ==

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 own domain name!

#### Simple and fast URL shortener!

URL Shortify allows to reduce long links from [Facebook](https://facebook.com/), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/), [Linked In](https://www.linkedin.com/) and top sites on the Internet, You can copy the shortened URL and share it on websites, chat and e-mail

#### Shorten, share and track

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.

#### Benefits

> ➡️  **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

#### Features

> 👉 **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 shorteners can be slow when redirecting your visitors. That damages customer satisfaction and it slows down your site. Our plugin is the fastest way to link!

> 👉 **EDITABLE DESTINATION URL**
> Update destination URL of branded links anytime.

> 👉 **LINK SEARCH**
> 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.

> 👉 **PARAMETER FORWARDING**
> Automatically forward parameters to the destination URL by appending them to branded links.

> 👉 **BASIC LINK ANALYTICS. TRACK EACH AND EVERY USER WHO CLICKS 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.

> 👉 **DASHBOARD**
> Get useful KPIs & information right on your dashboard

> 👉 **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 FROM PRETTY LINK PLUGIN** [Coming Soon!]
> Are you Using the Pretty Link WordPress plugin and want to swap to our powerful URL Shortener tool? We make the process easy by letting you quickly import your old links and settings.

> 👉 **BULK LINK CREATION** [Coming Soon!]
> Import branded links in bulk

#### PRO Features

> 👉 **UNLOCK FULL CLICK HISTORY**
> 7 days click history is available with URL Shortify free version. Unlock full click history by upgrading to PRO.

> 👉 **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

> 👉 **Meta Refresh**
> Redirect visitors to a target URL with the Meta Refresh Tag

> 👉 **EXPIRED SHORT LINK**
> 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**
> Generate QR codes from your branded links

> 👉 **TRAFFIC ROUTING** [Coming Soon!]
> Send visitors to specific landing pages or direct them to your mobile app based on their location & device.

> 👉 **RETARGETING** [Coming Soon!]
> Add retargeting pixels to your links and turn every URL into perfectly targeted ads.

> 👉 **UTM BUILDER** [Coming Soon!]
> Add UTM parameters to destination URLs to get branded link metrics in Google Analytics

> 👉 **UTM PRESETS** [Coming Soon!]
> Save preset templates for UTMs and save time when creating branded links

> 👉 **ACCESS CONTROL** [Coming Soon!]
> Manage roles who can create & manage branded short links

#### Integrations

> ➡️ [WooCommerce](http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce)
> Now, Store Owner can shorten the WooCommerce Products links and share it on various social media platforms. They can also track the clicks on shortened links

> ➡️ [Super Socializer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-socializer/)
> It enables users to share short links of your website content over 100+ popular sharing networks resulting in increased user traffic. And you will also get an insight into your website traffic when they click on short links.

> ➡️ [Sassy Social Share](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sassy-social-share/)
> It enables users to share short links of your website content over Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Whatsapp, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, and over 100 more social sharing and bookmarking services.

> ➡️ [Easy Digital Downloads](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads)
> Now, generate a short link of digital products and share it on various social media platforms.

> ➡️ [The Events Calendar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/)
> Create and manage an events calendar on your website and share events short links wherever you want.

> ➡️ [Events Manager](https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/)
> Events Manager is a full-featured event registration plugin for WordPress based on the principles of flexibility, reliability, and powerful features!

> ➡️ [Betterdocs](https://wordpress.org/plugins/betterdocs/)
> Create a stunning and resourceful knowledge base for your customers and keep a track of it.

> ➡️ [WordPress Knowledgebase](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-knowledgebase/)
> Create an attractive and professional knowledgebase. It’s easy to use, easy to customise, and works with any theme.

> ➡️ [Modern Events Calendar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/modern-events-calendar-lite/)
> One of the best WordPress Event management plugin

Do you want us to integrate your WordPress plugin with URL Shortify❓❓❓ [Let us know](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/url-shortify/). 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.


#### TRANSLATIONS

Does URL Shortify speak your language? If not, [translate “URL SHORTIFY” into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/url-shortify/).

#### DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS/ FEEDBACK/ FEATURE REQUEST/ BUG REPORT❓

Feel free to create a ticket [here](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/url-shortify/). We love to communicate with you and reply to all your queries.

#### Spread The Word ❤️

If you like URL Shortify, please leave us a [⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/url-shortify/reviews/#new-post) 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!


== Installation ==

Option 1:

1. Go to WordPress Dashboard. Locate Plugins -> Add New
2. Search **URL Shortify** plugin using the search option
3. Find the plugin and click Install Now button
4. After installation, click on Activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.

Option 2:

1. Download the plugin [url-shortify.zip](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugins/url-shortify.zip)
2. Go to WordPress Dashboard. Locate Plugins -> Add New
3. Click on Upload Plugin link from the top
4. Upload the downloaded **url-shortify.zip** file and click on Install Now
5. After installation, click on Activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= 1. Do I need any third party services like bit.ly, tinyurl.com to generate short links? =

No. You don't need it. URL Shortify plugin will generate short links with your own domain.

= 2. Do I need to buy PRO to generate short links?

If you want to shorten the links, you don't need to buy the PRO version. But, at any time you can upgrade to PRO and get more benefits of it.

= 3. I have queries/ feedback/ bug reports. Where should I contact you?

Feel free to create a ticket [here](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/url-shortify/). We love to communicate with you and reply to all your queries.

= 4. I am using other URL Shortener plugins and want to migrate to URL Shortify. What to do?

Create a ticket [here](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/url-shortify/). We will help you to migrate to URL Shortify from other URL Shortener plugins.

== Screenshots ==

1. Links List

2. Add New Link Form

3. Link Analysis

== Changelog ==

**1.2.13 [2020-01-18]**

* New: Full link analysis available for 700 days [PRO]
* Update: Improved UI
* Fix: Link search issue
* Fix: Stats are not visible on dashboard

**1.2.12 [2020-12-21]**

* New: Added support for custom post type - kruchprodukte
* Update: Now, able to get links data of 1 year

**1.2.11 [2020-10-28]**

* Update: UI improvements

**1.2.10 [2020-10-06]**

* New: Generate QR code for short links [PRO]
* Update: Added title for quick share links

**1.2.9 [2020-09-02]**

* New: Redirect visitors to target URL using HTML Meta Refresh [PRO]

**1.2.8 [2020-08-25]**

* Fix: PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function Kaizen_Coders\Url_Shortify\Common\Actions::get_short_permalink()

**1.2.7 [2020-08-14]**

* New: Cloak Links [PRO]
* Update: Compatible with WordPress 5.5
* Fix: Redirection type saving issue

**1.2.6 [2020-08-11]**

* New: Integrate with [Modern Events Calendar Lite](https://wordpress.org/plugins/modern-events-calendar-lite/) plugin
* Update: Added link statistics on custom post types

**1.2.5 [2020-07-27]**

* New: Added dashboard widget to create short link
* New: Show linked Post/ Custom Post with Short links
* Fix: Array to string conversion

**1.2.4 [2020-07-20]**

* New: Performance Improvement
* New: Show Unique & Total Clicks on groups list
* New: Integrate with [WordPress Knowledgebase](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-knowledgebase/) plugin

**1.2.3 [2020-07-13]**

* New: Share short link via Whatsapp
* New: Added top locations info, referrers info, device info, browser info & platforms info on Dashboard [PRO]
* New: Added top locations info, referrers info, device info, browser info & platforms info on group analysis page [PRO]

**1.2.2 [2020-07-10]**

* New: Added top locations info [PRO]
* New: Added referrers info [PRO]

**1.2.1 [2020-07-06]**

* New: Added device info [PRO]
* New: Added browser info [PRO]
* New: Added platform info [PRO]
* Update: Improve link clicks report

**1.2.0 [2020-07-03]**

* New: Added support to protect short URLs with password [PRO]
* Fix: Sorting of clicks details
* Fix: Show date based on set timezone

**1.1.9 [2020-06-29]**

* New: Added option to set expiration date for a link [PRO]
* Fix: Post id removed on link edit

**1.1.8 [2020-06-24]**

* New: Add statistics link on group dashboard
* New: Added short links for Betterdocs sharable links
* Fix: Website icon shrink issue

**1.1.7 [2020-06-22]**

* New: Added daily clicks analysis for a specific link
* New: Added clicks reports for link groups
* New: Integrate with [Betterdocs](https://wordpress.org/plugins/betterdocs/) WordPress plugin

**1.1.6.1 [2020-06-18]**

* Fix: Templates path not found the issue (case sensitive)
* Fix: Controller not found issue

**1.1.6 [2020-06-18]**

* New: Added daily clicks analysis on the dashboard
* New: Integrate with [WooCommerce](http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce) Products
* New: Integrate with [Super Socializer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-socializer/). Thanks [heateor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heateor/) for the help.
* New: Integrate with [Sassy Social Share](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sassy-social-share/).
* New: Integrate with [Easy Digital Downloads](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads) Products
* New: Integrate with [The Events Calendar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/) WordPress plugin
* New: Integrate with [Events Manager](https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/) WordPress plugin
* Fix: Sort clicks history issue

**1.1.5 [2020-06-15]**

* New: Dashboard with useful KPIs

**1.1.4 [2020-06-10]**

* New: Search clicks based on Country, Browser & device in click history
* Fix: Link creation issue

**1.1.3 [2020-06-08]**

* New: Add/ Edit/ Delete groups
* New: Add links to multiple groups
* Update: Now, able to create a short link from Posts & Pages lists screen

**1.1.2 [2020-06-04]**

* Fix: Onboarding issue

**1.1.1 [2020-06-04]**

* Fix: Call to undefined function Kaizen_Coders\Url_Shortify\Common\add_meta_box() fatal error

**1.1.0 [2020-06-04]**

* New: Create short links for Posts & Pages automatically.
* New: Unlock full click history [PRO]

**1.0.4 [2020-06-01]**

* New: Link Statistics (Click History last 7 days)

**1.0.3 [2020-05-25]**

* New: Search links
* New: Sort links by name & created on time
* New: Update Tracking data

**1.0.2 [2020-05-18]**

* New: Added support for link tracking
* New: Now able to copy short link
* New: Show quick stats (Unique Clicks, Total Clicks)

**1.0.1 [2020-05-14]**

* New: Create nofollow/ noindex links
* New: Create Sponsored links
* New: Added support for parameters forwarding

**1.0.0 [2020-05-07]**

* Initial Release