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Silvercover Link Shortener
v1.1.0 · by Hamed Takmil
A lightweight WordPress plugin creates branded short links on your domain, tracks clicks, and provides reports.
About this plugin
Silvercover Link Shortener turns long URLs into clean, branded short links served from your own WordPress site (e.g. https://yoursite.com/go/abc123). It is ideal for sharing posts and WooCommerce products, tracking campaign performance, and keeping all your click data in your own database instead of an external shortener.
Features
- Branded short links on your own domain (
/go/your-code). - Automatic or custom slugs — let the plugin generate a random code, or type your own.
- Detailed click tracking — date/time, IP address, country, browser, and referrer.
- Per-link reports inside a dedicated admin dashboard.
- Editor metabox — create and copy a short link directly from the post/page/product edit screen.
- AJAX row actions — shorten or copy a link straight from the Posts/Products list, with no page reload.
- One-click copy to clipboard (with a fallback for non-HTTPS environments).
- Translation ready (i18n) — full text domain support with an included
.potfile. - Secure — nonce-protected forms and
manage_optionscapability checks (admins only).
Requirements
- WordPress 5.6 or higher
- PHP 7.4 or higher
- (Optional) WooCommerce — for short links on product pages
External services
This plugin connects to the ip-api.com IP geolocation API to look up the country associated with a visitor’s IP address, so that country can be shown in the per-link click reports.
It sends the visitor’s IP address to ip-api.com every time a tracked short link is clicked (one request per click, containing only the IP address). No other data is transmitted.
This service is provided by ip-api.com: Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.