Toolszu Link Shortener

Toolszu Link Shortener connects your WordPress site to your free Toolszu account. Every time you publish, a short link is created in the background, ready to share on social media, in emails or in print.

The short link also becomes the WordPress shortlink of the post. “Copy shortlink”, the rel="shortlink" tag and sharing plugins that read it all use your Toolszu link, while your canonical URL and social preview tags stay exactly as they are, so SEO is not affected.

Features

• Auto-shorten on publish for the content types you choose (posts and pages by default, plus any public custom post type).
• Two short domains: biopage.link and myzu.link.
• Link style: short random codes (aX7b9Q) or readable post names (my-post-name-x7k).
• Bulk generate: select older posts in the list and pick “Generate Toolszu links” from Bulk actions.
• Click counts in the editor box, with a link to full statistics in your Toolszu dashboard.
• One-click copy from the posts list and the editor.
• QR codes for every short link. Download them as SVG or PNG for print, menus, flyers and events. Scans count as clicks of the short link.
• Your colors and logo on QR codes: pick the colors and show your site icon in the middle.
• QR Code block and [toolszu_qr] shortcode to show a QR code in any post or page.
• Bio pages: see your Toolszu bio pages with their clicks, copy their links and get their QR codes.
• Bio Page block and [toolszu_bio] shortcode to show a bio page on your site, embedded or as a button.
• Test connection button to check your API key before saving.
• Safe unlink: remove a link from a post in WordPress without deleting it in Toolszu.
• Light and fast: no external scripts, fonts or icon libraries are loaded.

Requirements

A free Toolszu account and its API key. Create an account.

External Services

This plugin uses the Toolszu API to create short links and read their click counts.

• Service: Toolszu API, https://app.toolszu.com/api/
• When it is used: when a post is published (if auto-shorten is on), when you click Generate or use the bulk action, when you open a post that has a short link (click count, cached for 15 minutes), when you open the Bio pages screen or add a Bio Page block (list of your bio pages, cached for 15 minutes), and when you click Test connection.
• Data sent: your API key, the post’s permalink, the chosen short code and domain. No visitor data is sent.
• QR codes are created inside WordPress and are not sent anywhere.
• Bio Page block: when “Embedded page” is chosen, visitors’ browsers load the bio page from biopage.link, myzu.link or app.toolszu.com, like any embedded content. The “Button” style only links to it.
• Terms of Service: https://toolszu.com/terms-and-conditions
• Privacy Policy: https://toolszu.com/privacy-policy