Best short plugins for WordPress
The most popular short plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Evermore leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Bring Back the Get Shortlink Button (1K+) and short.io (100+). All 21 plugins tagged “short” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 short plugins
- 1.
EvermoreThe most installed short plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
Bring Back the Get Shortlink Button1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 3.
short.io100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 4.
Get Shortlinks90+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 5.
Twitter Friendly Links70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
- 6.
Stomp70+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 7.
Brief Message50+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
Simple Short Links40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 9.
Shortnotes10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 10.
GentleSource Short URL10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
All 21 plugins tagged “short”
Evermore
Down in the last 7 days:28#5,998by bennettmcelwee9 months ago
Evermore automatically abbreviates all posts when they appear on a multiple-post page such as the main blog page.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Bring Back the Get Shortlink Button
Down in the last 7 days:12#6,600by Thorsten Frommen3 years ago
This plugin brings back the Get Shortlink button, which is hidden by default since WordPress 4.4.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
short.io
Down in the last 7 days:186#13,303by gugu1 year ago
Use short.io generated shortlinks for all your WordPress posts and pages, including custom post types.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Get Shortlinks
Up in the last 7 days:159#17,205by Kostas Vrouvas7 years ago
Get the classic "Get shortlink" from WordPress 3.7. Developed to make it easier for people at Mentor to get shorlinks and open sourcing it.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Twitter Friendly Links
Down in the last 7 days:64#18,209by Konstantin Kovshenin16 years ago
Your very own TinyURL within your OWN domain! If you DO promote your blog posts in Twitter, then you MUST make your links look cool!
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Stomp
Down in the last 7 days:36#18,372by cubecolour1 year ago
Stomps the footer element to the bottom of the visible page on short pages.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Brief Message
Down in the last 7 days:251#20,159by ZIPANG2 months ago
Add a widget to display a short sentence.It will be displayed in the form of Twitter.Like the theme "P2", logged-in users can post from the front end.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Short Links
Down in the last 7 days:136#22,916by Robert Chapin12 years ago
Adjust the WordPress shortlinks format with an extra settings page.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Shortnotes
Down in the last 7 days:223#32,331by Jeremy Felt1 year ago
Add a notes post type to WordPress. For your short notes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
GentleSource Short URL
#36,223by gentlesource14 years ago
Automatically shortens the blog post URL.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SCuD
Up in the last 7 days:723#40,967by Brian Layman12 years ago
Allows you to disable ShortCodes on a per post/page basis.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Virtual Sidebar
Down in the last 7 days:7,758#43,656by athenaofdelphi14 years ago
The Virtual Sidebar plugin allows you to create 'virtual' sidebars that can have their content inserted into posts using shortcodes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP URLs Shortener 2015 + Social icons + Analytics[goo.gl]
Up in the last 7 days:2,026#44,804by khubbaib11 years ago
Shortify allows you to track, in real-time, the clicks and referrers on any shortened URL Within Wordpress dashboard.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Yun
Up in the last 7 days:2,444#45,587by wpyun6 years ago
Use Yun generated short links for all your WordPress posts and pages, including custom post types.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Plink URL Shortener
Down in the last 7 days:10,908#46,899by persianlink9 years ago
Automatic wordpress link shortener, shortens posts, pages, categories, affiliate links, shorten external links or any URL via plink.ir
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Shortener URL Redirect
Down in the last 7 days:5,267#47,208by florianluce5 years ago
Generate short url for all posts, custom post types and pages to redirect your user to the long URL. No more long URLs share!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP URLs Shortener + Social icons [Official]
Down in the last 7 days:2,121#47,331by M. Ali Saleem5 months ago
Automatic wordpress link shortner, shorterns posts, pages, categories, affiliate links, shorten external links or any URL via eeb.me
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
goo.gl URL Shortener for WordPress
#48,105googl-url-shortener-for-wordpress16 years ago
wp-goo.gl allows you to publish links in your posts or comments using goo.gl short URL service.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day