What is a URL shortener?

A URL shortener is a simple tool that takes a long URL and turns it into a short URL.

Links sometimes are too long, complicated, or distracting that we might need to shorten or make them simpler.

There are many URL shortener services out there.

Sharing unpleasant URLs on Social Media might frighten your followers.

That's why the TinyURL and Bitly URL shortener services are integrated into the plugin.

FS Poster also offers self hosted URL shorteners for shortening URLs by serving them under your own domains. Here are they: Rebrandly, Your SL, Shlink, and Polr.

Go to FS Poster Settings > URL settings, activate the URL shortener service option, and then pick a service to use: