Best yourls plugins for WordPress
The most popular yourls plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. YOURLS Link Creator leads with 500+ active installs, ahead of Better YOURLS (200+) and YOURLS (100+). All 5 plugins tagged “yourls” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 yourls plugins
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YOURLS Link CreatorThe most installed yourls plugin, with 500+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 13 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
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Better YOURLS200+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 12 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
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YOURLS100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago.
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kURL40+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
All 5 plugins tagged “yourls”
YOURLS Link Creator
Down in the last 7 days:36#9,114by Andrew Norcross10 years ago
Creates a custom short URL when saving posts. Requires your own YOURLS install.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.5(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Better YOURLS
Down in the last 7 days:33#11,731by Chris Wiegman7 years ago
Integrate your blog with YOURLS custom URL generator.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.9(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
YOURLS
Down in the last 7 days:35#15,183by Ozh12 years ago
Use YOURLS (a free GPL URL shortener service) to create short URLs of your posts, or for your BuddyPress groups and users
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
kURL
Up in the last 7 days:88#22,546by Gerald Drißner2 months ago
Connect WordPress to a self-hosted YOURLS instance to create, sync, manage, and track short URLs from the admin area.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day