Bitly's WordPress Plugin

Love WordPress? Love Bitly? After installing this plugin, you’ll be able to shorten a link and view clicks right from WordPress. Your new links will be saved to Bitly for reference and deeper analysis.

To do that, you must have a Bitly account to use the plugin. Your account is where you store, edit, and view metrics for your links. Register at bitly.com.

No matter the type of site you own (from a personal blog to an ecommerce store and everything in between) Bitly makes it easy to create shorter links and keep an eye on your clicks. Whether you share your links on social, SMS, or email, a short link is easier to manage and remember.

Installing the plugin

You must have a Bitly account to connect to. You can create one at bitly.com. Your account is where you store, edit, and view metrics for your links. If you’re familiar with adding a plugin to WordPress directly, you can download the ZIP file and upload it to /wp-content/plugins/ after step 2. Otherwise, follow these steps: 1. Go to your WordPress plugins settings. 2. Click Add New. 3. Search for Bitly’s WordPress Plugin. 4. Click Install Now. 5. Click Activate. 6. Scroll down the list of your installed plugins, find Bitly, and click Settings. 7. Now you’ll connect the plugin to your Bitly account. Scroll down to Bitly’s WordPress Plugin and click Authorize. 8. Sign in to Bitly, if necessary, and click Allow. The plugin will retrieve an authorization from Bitly and update the Bitly OAuth Token field. 9. Scroll down and click Save Changes. 10. Select which types of entries you’ll be creating short links for. 11. If your Bitly account has more than one group, select a group. This is the group where your short links will be saved in Bitly. 12. If your Bitly account has more than one custom domain, select a domain. This is the domain that will be used for your short links. 13. Click Save Changes.