URL shortening can be helpful in many ways. Sharing links with friends, saving up character spaces etc are some of them. Word press, a famous platform for blog making, consists of many helpful features. A word press plug-in is available which helps in URL shortening. The plug-ins available in word press are usually very easy to install and user friendly. The shortened URL can then be used for every post in word press. Following are 5 such plug-ins.

Short-URL plug-in: This is a user friendly and easy tool for URL shortening. Users are also able to count the number of clicks of the short URL. This counter can be reset with a clear all button. This plug-in also include pagination feature. Htaccess can be setup easily with this plug-in

YOURLS word press plug-in: This is a URL shortening service in word press which can also be used to tweet the shortened URLs to twitter automatically. The settings of this plug-in allow you to configure in such a way that URL s can be set to tweet when a new post is added or a new page is added. The plug-in will send the shortened URL and the title of the post to twitter. It is a very easy to use plug-in.

WP-Chunk: This is a URL shortening plug-in that will help to shorten URLs in the comments filed. The blog visitors usually add some thing related to a particular post in the comments section. They do this by adding the URL of a post or page they are referring to. This plug-in will shorten the URL s in the comments section so that it looks pretty neat.

Pretty Link: This is another useful plug-in that shortens any web page’s URL. The number of visits to the shortened URL can be count with this plug-in. Other than the counter the plug-in can store information about the visitor’s source, browser used by the visitor, the operating system etc. Another main feature is that the URL shortening can be done with your own domain name.