UseClick.io (https://useclick.io) is a URL shortener with click tracking and privacy-first website analytics. This plugin connects your WordPress site to your UseClick.io account, so you can create short links, see their clicks and read your visitor reports without leaving wp-admin. Short links Crea
PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.
CompatibilityRequires WordPress 6.5 and PHP 7.4.
SourceWordPress plugins · Oct 19, 2026
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About this tool.
UseClick.io (https://useclick.io) is a URL shortener with click tracking and privacy-first website analytics. This plugin connects your WordPress site to your UseClick.io account, so you can create short links, see their clicks and read your visitor reports without leaving wp-admin.
Short links
Create a short link for any URL on the built-in short domain or on your own branded domain.
Pick a custom slug or let UseClick.io generate one.
A Short link box in the post editor and a Short link column in the post and page lists, with click counts.
A Short links screen with search, campaign filter, click counts, copy, edit and delete.
Campaigns, UTM parameters and geo-targeting (send visitors from chosen countries to a different URL) on the Starter plan and above.
Detailed click analytics (countries, devices, browsers, referrers) open in your UseClick.io dashboard.
Website analytics
Pick one of your UseClick.io websites and switch tracking on. The plugin adds the UseClick.io tracker to the head of every public page.
No cookies. IP addresses are not stored. Browsers with Do Not Track turned on are skipped.
Administrators are not counted by default; you can also skip all logged-in users.
Free plan: one website as a 14-day trial. Starter and above: 5 to 100 websites.
Optional, off by default: report visits by AI assistants and search bots (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google) that never run JavaScript.
Plan-aware
The plugin reads your plan from the API and marks features your plan does not include, so you do not fill in fields that the API would reject. When a request needs a higher plan, the error names the plan and links to the pricing page.
Account required
This plugin is a client for the UseClick.io service and needs a UseClick.io account. A free plan is available (10 links, 1,000 tracked clicks per month).
External services
This plugin connects to UseClick.io, a link shortening and analytics service run by UseClick.io. Nothing is sent to UseClick.io until you click Connect with useClick.io or save an API key on the Settings screen.
Connect with useClick.io (https://useclick.io/dashboard/connect/wordpress and https://useclick.io/api/integrations/wordpress/exchange)
Only when you click Connect with useClick.io. Your browser is sent to useclick.io with this site’s address, the address of its wp-admin and a random one-time value; after you sign in and confirm, it returns to wp-admin with a one-time code. WordPress then sends that code and this site’s address to UseClick.io and receives an API key for this site. Nothing else about your site or its users is sent.
UseClick.io API (https://useclick.io/api/v1)
Used to check your API key and read your plan, list your branded domains and Website Analytics websites, add this site to Website Analytics, and create, list, update and delete short links. Requests are sent when you save or test a key, open the plugin’s screens, create or edit a link, open the post editor or a post list (to show click counts, cached for five minutes), or click Create short link for a post. Each request carries your API key. When you create or edit a link it also carries the link details you entered: destination URL, slug, domain, campaign, UTM parameters, country targets and, for posts, the post title.
Reports on the Website analytics screen (https://useclick.io/api/v1/websites/{id}/stats)
When this site is tracked and an administrator opens the Website analytics screen, WordPress asks the UseClick.io API (with your API key) for this website’s numbers: visitors, page views, top pages, sources, countries, devices, browsers and bots for the chosen date range. The answer is cached for five minutes and drawn on that screen by the plugin; nothing is loaded from useclick.io in the browser.
Only if you turn on Website analytics. The script is loaded by your visitors’ browsers on public pages and sends the page path, referrer, screen width and the website ID to UseClick.io. UseClick.io reads browser, device type, operating system and approximate location (country, region, city) from the request and counts unique visitors with a hash that changes every day. No cookies are set and IP addresses are not stored.
Only if you turn on Website analytics and also tick “Report visits by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google and other bots” (off by default). When a request to your site comes from a known bot user agent, WordPress records the page address, the bot’s user agent, the referrer, the visitor country header set by Cloudflare (if present) and your website ID, and sends these records to UseClick.io in batches every few minutes, authenticated with your API key. Requests from people are never sent this way and no IP addresses are sent.
Bot list (https://useclick.io/api/analytics/bot-signatures)
Only while bot visit reporting is on. Once a day WordPress downloads the current list of bot user-agent names from UseClick.io. No data about your site or visitors is sent with this request.
Terms of service: https://useclick.io/terms
Privacy policy: https://useclick.io/privacy
Credits
The admin screens use Plus Jakarta Sans (SIL Open Font License 1.1, assets/fonts/OFL.txt), bundled with the plugin; no fonts are loaded from other servers.
See it in action
Screenshots & previews.
Create link screen: domain, custom slug, campaign, UTM parameters and geo-targeting, with your plan's usage.Short links list with click counts, campaigns, copy, edit and delete.Settings: connection status, plan and limits.Website analytics settings: who is not counted, optional AI bot reporting and what is collected.Short link column in the posts list, with click counts.Short link panel in the block editor sidebar.
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Getting started.
01Install and activate the plugin.
02Click “Connect with useClick.io” (in the notice on the Dashboard or under UseClick.io > Settings).
03Sign in on useclick.io, or create a free account (only an email address is needed), and click Connect. You come straight back to WordPress, connected. No key to copy: the plugin receives its own API key, named after your site, directly from UseClick.io.
04Create links under UseClick.io > Create link, or from the Short link panel when you edit a post.
05Website analytics starts by itself when you connect: the plugin adds this site’s domain to your UseClick.io account (or uses the website you already have for it), adds the cookie-free tracker, and shows the reports under UseClick.io > Website analytics.
Prefer to paste a key? In your UseClick.io dashboard open Account > API keys (https://useclick.io/dashboard/account/api-keys), click “+ Create API key”, name it after your site and click “Create key”. Then open UseClick.io > Settings > “Or paste an API key”.
Yes. The plugin connects to your UseClick.io account with an API key. The free plan includes 10 links and 1,000 tracked clicks per month.
Do I need an API key?
No. Click “Connect with useClick.io”, sign in or sign up, and confirm: the plugin gets its own key automatically. If you prefer, create a key under Account > API keys in your UseClick.io dashboard and paste it under UseClick.io > Settings > “Or paste an API key”. The full guide is at https://useclick.io/docs/wordpress-plugin.
Which features need a paid plan?
Campaigns, UTM parameters, geo-targeting and changing a link’s destination after it is created need the Starter plan or above. Website analytics is included on Free as a 14-day trial for one website (visits are recorded for 7 more days after the trial), and on Starter and above. The plugin marks these features when your plan does not include them.
Who can create short links?
The UseClick.io screens need the manage_options capability (administrators). The Short link box and column are available to users who can edit other people’s posts (editors and administrators), for posts they can edit. Developers can change both with the useclick_capability and useclick_post_link_capability filters.
Does the tracker set cookies?
No. Unique visitors are counted with a hash that changes every day, and IP addresses are not stored. Whether your site needs a consent banner depends on everything else it loads, so check with your own legal advice.
Does the tracker count me while I test?
Not while you are logged in as an administrator, unless you untick “Administrators” under Do not count.
Can I use my own domain for short links?
Yes. Add a branded domain in your UseClick.io dashboard. It then appears in the domain list when you create a link.
What happens to my links if I remove the plugin?
Your links keep working; they live in your UseClick.io account. Deleting the plugin removes its settings and the short links saved on your posts from the WordPress database.
Can I point the plugin at a different server?
For testing, define USECLICK_API_BASE_URL in wp-config.php or use the useclick_api_base_url filter. The tracker URL can be changed with USECLICK_TRACKER_URL or the useclick_tracker_url filter.
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