Pretty Link plugin for wordpress
Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. You can now 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, Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host. Pretty Link is a killer plugin for people who want to mask 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.
Examples
This is a link setup using Pretty Link that redirects to the Pretty Link Homepage where you can find more info about this Plugin:
Features
- Gives you the ability to create clean, simple URLs on your website that redirect to any other URL
- Generates random 2-3 character slugs for your URL or allows you to name a custom slug for your URL
- Tracks the Number of Hits per link
- Tracks the Number of Unique Hits per link
- Provides a reporting interface where you can see a configurable chart of clicks per day. This report can be filtered by the specific link clicked, date range, and/or unique clicks.
- View click details including ip address, remote host, browser (including browser version), operating system, and referring site
- Download hit details in CSV format
- Intuitive Javascript / AJAX Admin User Interface
- Pass custom parameters to your scripts through pretty link and still have full tracking ability
- Ability to rewrite these custom Parameters before forwarding to Target URL
- Setup Pretty Links as Tracking Pixels and track impressions
- Exclude IP Addresses from Stats
- Enables you to post your Pretty Links to Twitter directly from your WordPress admin
- Enables you to send your Pretty Links via Email directly from your WordPress admin
- Select Temporary (307) or Permanent (301) redirection for your Pretty Links
- Cookie based system for tracking visitor activity across hits
- Organize Links into Groups
- Create nofollow/noindex links
- Turn tracking on / off on each link
- Keep users on your site even when being redirected by using the PrettyBar which stays at the top of the page
- Ability to configure and skin the PrettyBar to mirror the look and feel of your site
- Hide the Target URL by loading it in a full-screen frame
Installation:
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Upload ‘pretty-link.zip’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ director
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Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
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Make sure you have changed your permalink Common Settings in Settings -> Permalinks away from "Default" to something else. I prefer using custom and then "/%postname%/" for the simplest possible URL slugs.
