About this plugin
io) is a URL shortener with click tracking and privacy-first website analytics. 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
io account. A free plan is available (10 links, 1,000 tracked clicks per month).
External services
io. io or save an API key on the Settings screen.
io/api/integrations/wordpress/exchange)
io. 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. io and receives an API key for this site.
Nothing else about your site or its users is sent.
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.
io/api/v1/websites/{id}/stats)
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. io in the browser.
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Only if you turn on Website analytics. io. 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.
io/api/analytics/server-hit)
Only if you turn on Website analytics and also tick “Report visits by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google and other bots” (off by default). 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.
io/api/analytics/bot-signatures)
Only while bot visit reporting is on. 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
txt), bundled with the plugin; no fonts are loaded from other servers.