Shortlinks by Pretty Links – Best WordPress Link Tracking Plugin

• Update readme.txt
• Fix JS error on options page
• Set cookie using secure attribute when accessed via secure connection
• Fix PL Link Inserter jumping to bottom of page on WP 6.1
• Fix Gutenberg deprecation notices

• Fix index replacements

• Fix upgrade to Pro bug

• Fix fatal error if update transient is false
• Notifications Inbox
• Small bug fixes
• Pro: Don't force black background on cloaked urls
• Pro: License key optimizations

• Review notification dismissal improvements

• Removing vestigial files

• Show link slug instead of full URL in list
• PHP 8.0 support
• Pro: Fix keywords being replaced in scripts

• UI Tweaks
• Pro: Fix auto-created links not using requested slug
• Pro: Link rotation weights of 1% supported now

• Remove duplicate queries to help performance
• Fix compatibility issue with WPML language prefix in URL's
• Pro: Fix infinite loops with broken or missing import files

• Add support for sponsored rel tag
• Add sponsored toggle support in gutenberg and tinymce editors
• Fix report graphs not loading for some
• PRO: Fix bug with keywords replacements
• PRO: Cleaned up GA support

• Add support for nofollow in Gutenberg popup
• Fix post_author being set to 0 on CPT
• Fix for duplicate links being created
• Fix clicks ordering on links list
• Fix Redirection dropdown display WP 3.5

• Change shortcut key to CTRL + P instead of CTRL + K
• Support for Nofollow and Tracking Quick Edit and Bulk Edit on the links list page
• Fix keyword replacement regex

• PRO: Fix replacements checkbox getting unchecked when using page builders

• Fix broken Add New link page - theme conflicts

• Disable "enter" key on the Target URL field
• Add copy to clipboard to the add/edit link page
• Fix the incorrect message being display when updating a link
• Redirect to the links list page after creating or updating a link
• Add the ability to sort by Clicks to the links list table

• Fix description conflict with the WP Product Review plugin
• Avoid menu position conflicts
• Add Target column to links list table
• Disable auto-saving on links
• Fix links having Draft status on creation
• Fix not being able to Create/Edit links until saving options
• Fix Prettybar color issue when saving plugin options

• Fix Avada Fusion Builder conflict
• Fix redirect caching on update/welcome page
• Fix conflict with WP Product Review plugin

• Fix issues when accessing the plugin as a non-administrator
• Simplify the checks in is_slug_available
• Add slug and url as searchable fields in the links list
• Fix for high CPU issues and huge log sizes
• Fix layout issue on the update page
• Fix category migration not running
• Fix errors when dates are null
• Call wp_cache_delete after update/delete_option
• Only redirect if delete succeeds, redirect status code 307
• Fix failed category/cpt migrations

• Re-designed Admin UI especially the Admin Links UI including links listing, adding new links and editing links
• Added an Insert Pretty Link button for Gutenberg Paragraph Blocks
• Security fixes and hardening
• Fixed Slug is not Available Error
• Removed Pretty Links Groups (lite users will still be able to access legacy groups on the links listing page but pro users & lite users who upgrade to pro will have their groups migrated to become link categories)
• PRO ONLY: Added Pretty Link Categories
• PRO ONLY: Added Pretty Link Tags
• PRO ONLY: Fixed some issues with Pretty Link Imports and Exports
• Many other small fixes and enhancements

• More security hardening

• Fixed some security issues

• Fixed broken charts in dashboard widget
• Fixed duplicate social buttons
• Fixed warning of "invalid argument supplied to foreach"

• Changed clipboard library
• Fixed an issue with non-countable strings for PHP 7.2
• Fixed issue with large indexes utf8mb4 innodb
• Fixed issue with ampersands in Keywords
• Fixed issue with keywords being replaced
• Fixed issue with '+' sign not allowed in slugs
• Fixed self-closing tags for keyword replacement
• Fixed Arabic (UTF-8) characters

• Fixed a conflict with Mulit-site variable name

• Fixed Target URL Rotations
• Fixed domain mapping and home_url in Multi-site
• Fixed GeoRedirect for IPv6

• Fixed IP conflict with Flywheel
• Fixed wp_redirect race condition

• Addressed security vulnerabilities
• Fixed content-type header
• Fixed -1 PHP memory_limit error
• Updated redirects to use wp_redirect()
• PRO Enhanced WooCommerce keyword replacements
• PRO Fixed replacing keywords in header and other HTML tags
• PRO Fixed link expiration dates being 1 day off

• Redeploy to WP Repo

• Fixed pixel redirect type tracking
• Fixed ordering for geo redirects
• Fixed URL validation
• Fixed split test reporting

• Fixed a regular expression warning
• Use PHP's url validation in utils

• Enhanced database performance
• Added code to automatically remove click data from the database that is no longer being used
• Fixed numerous bugs
• PRO Prevent keywords autolinking from creating circular links

• Fixed numerous bugs

• Fixed numerous bugs

• Fix URI params not sticking
• PRO Fix apostrophe in keywords

• Important performance fix
• PRO Fixed an issue with Google Analytics integration

• Fixed a small javascript issue
• Fixed a small issue with Keyword Replacements
• Fixed an issue with the pro automatic update code that was affecting lite users

• Fixed Link titles on the Pretty Link listing admin screen
• Fixed a small collation issue
• Added convenience links on the plugin listing admin screen

• Added an Insert Pretty Link editor popup to create and insert pretty links while editing a page, post or custom post type
• Added a base slug prefix feature so that new Pretty Links can be prefixed
• Added auto-trimming for clicks to keep click databases operating at full performance
• Refactored entire codebase
• Completely new UI
• Tools have been better separated out into it's own admin page
• Now fully translatable
• Fixed numerous bugs including "Slug Not Available" issue
• Numerous stability, security and performance fixes
• Removed banner advertisements on the Pretty Link list admin page for lite users
• PRO Added support for automatically created links on Custom Post Types
• PRO Added automatic link disclosures for keyword replacements
• PRO Added pretty link keyword replacement indexing for better performance
• PRO Added Geographic redirects
• PRO Added Technology-based redirects
• PRO Added Time-based redirects
• PRO Added Link Expirations
• PRO Enhanced Link Rotations to accept more target URLs
• PRO Enhanced Social Share buttons to look better and support modern social sites
• PRO Enhanced QR codes code that produces them quicker and at larger sizes
• PRO Added an auto url replacement blacklist to ensure some URLs won't ever be replaced
• PRO Added the ability to add custom head scripts to redirect types that support it (Javascript, Cloaked, Pretty Bar, Meta Refresh, etc)
• PRO Enhanced the reliability and amount of data that can be imported and exported
• PRO Changed auto update system to use a license key instead of username / password
• PRO Consolidated the "Pro" Options to appear on the main Pretty Link Options admin page
• PRO Removed the Twitter Badge option ... this is now handled better with the social share bar or through another plugin like Social Warfare
• PRO Removed the Auto-Tweet capability ... auto-tweeting is handled better on a service like Buffer or Hootsuite

• Fixed available security exploits - recommended all users update to 1.7.2 as soon as possible. Thanks to Stephen Sandison for bringing this to our attention!

• Fixed slug already taken issue
• Fixed http banner issue
• Fixed compatibility with PHP 7+ issue

• Fixed slug already taken issue
• Fixed http banner issue
• Fixed compatibility with PHP 7+ issue

• Fixed deprecated get_currentuserinfo() call

• Small security fix

• A fix to remove url encoding from target urls

• Two security fixes

• Fixed bug with some reports not showing
• Fixed twitter auto-posting issue
• Fixed scheduled posts not auto tweeting
• Upgraded code to work with PHP 5.4+
• Other minor bug fixes and code improvements

• i18n enhancements
• Small fix to auto tweeting in pro
• Fixed small IP address issue in hits
• Added help text
• Fixed small Google Analytics issue in pro
• Fixed issue with meta refresh / javascript redirect in pro
• Added titles to keywords in pro
• Added redirect header hooks in pro
• Security Fixes

• Replaced Open Flash Charts with Google Visualization on hit reports
• Security Fixes
• Bug Fixes

• Additional Fixes

• Security Fixes
• Fixed some issues with Pretty Link running in WordPress Multisite
• Altered the way Keyword Replacements can be disabled on individual pages in Pro
• Fixed an issue with import feature in Pro
• Fixed an issue causing "ghost" update messages in Pro
• Updated browscap file for more accurate click tracking
• Fixed an issue that interfered with Pretty Link's option saving for some users

• Fix Fixed some potential security vulnerabilities

• Feature Added Bulk Actions for Pretty Link Management page
• Feature Added the ability to change the number of rows displayed in the Pretty Link Management page (no longer limited to 10)
• Feature Added 1-click copy for pretty links in the Pretty Link management page and bookmarklet
• Feature Added the ability to click on the referrer links in the pretty link hits table
• Fix Fixed the permission issue when clicking on some links in the pretty link admin interface
• Fix Fixed the timestamp issue in hits that some people were experiencing

• Feature Re-factored the add/edit link screen to be more intuitive and accurate
• Feature Added the ability to add a new group from the Add / Edit Link screen
• Fix Using uniqid() to generate visitor id for normal & extended tracking now in order to increase performance and avoid issues with mt_rand and pow
• Fix Replaced all code dependent on curl to now use the more versatile WP_Http
• Fix Altered the hits list for normal & extended tracking to use GMT time
• Fix Fixed some issues with Parameter Forwarding
• Fix Fixed the conflict with W3 Total Cache Object Caching that was causing pretty link options to not be saved when it was enabled
• Pro Feature Added Double Redirection for any pretty link
• Pro Feature Added Google Analytics support for any pretty link by integrating with the Google Analyticator, Google Analytics for WordPress and Google Analytics Plugin
• Pro Feature Added Delayed Redirection for any pretty links using Javascript and Meta-Refresh Redirection
• Pro Feature Added the ability to automatically create and download QR Codes pretty links
• Pro Feature Added the ability to change the minimum user admin role that can access Pretty Link
• Pro Fix Made some major performance enhancements to Keyword and URL Replacements
• Pro Fix Fixed an issue adding Twitter accounts for some users running wordpress within a subdomain
• Pro Fix Fixed an issue with select all links

• Feature Re-factored the add/edit link screen to be more intuitive and accurate
• Feature Added the ability to add a new group from the Add / Edit Link screen
• Fix Using uniqid() to generate visitor id for normal & extended tracking now in order to increase performance and avoid issues with mt_rand and pow
• Fix Replaced all code dependent on curl to now use the more versatile WP_Http
• Fix Altered the hits list for normal & extended tracking to use GMT time
• Fix Fixed some issues with Parameter Forwarding
• Fix Fixed the conflict with W3 Total Cache Object Caching that was causing pretty link options to not be saved when it was enabled
• Pro Feature Added Double Redirection for any pretty link
• Pro Feature Added Google Analytics support for any pretty link by integrating with the Google Analyticator, Google Analytics for WordPress and Google Analytics Plugin
• Pro Feature Added Delayed Redirection for any pretty links using Javascript and Meta-Refresh Redirection
• Pro Feature Added the ability to automatically create and download QR Codes pretty links
• Pro Feature Added the ability to change the minimum user admin role that can access Pretty Link
• Pro Fix Made some major performance enhancements to Keyword and URL Replacements
• Pro Fix Fixed an issue adding Twitter accounts for some users running wordpress within a subdomain
• Pro Fix Fixed an issue with select all links

• Fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could have affected a very small number of users

• Added the option to redirect on the template_redirect hook
• Fixed an issue with the database upgrade process
• Added Javascript redirection for pro users
• Added Meta-Refresh redirection for pro users
• Fixed issue where keywords were only being replaced on the first post of the post overview page for pro users
• Fixed issue preventing the graph from appearing on the conversion reports page for pro users
• Fixed issue with automatic tweeting when a post title contains a dollar sign for pro users

• Fixed XSS Vulnerability
• Fixed an activation issue
• Fixed an issue with Pretty Link Export link for Pro users

• Critical performance fix
• WP_Error on dashboard fix

• Fixed issue with mt_rand overflowing
• Fixed another XSS Vulnerability
• Fixed some issues with the automatic update process for pro users
• Made some big security enhancements
• Fixed some issues with the public link creation widget
• Fixed an issue with the update database mechanism
• Removed Keyword Caching from Pro
• Optimized Keyword Replacement routine in Pro
• Fixed a small issues with automatic post link creation routines
• Changed the way slugs are generated and now default to 4 character slugs

• Fixed XSS Vulnerabilities
• Added more indexes to Pretty Link tables
• Other minor fixes

• Updated to be fully compatible with WordPress 3.1 and WordPress MultiSite for all users
• Fixed link rotation issue (weights not sticking) for Pro Users
• Fixed auto link creation issue with the group not being set properly for Pro Users
• Fixed the slug available routine for all users
• Fixed the delete hits issue with simple click counting for all users
• Fixed some keyword replacement deletion issues for pro users

• Fixed the CSV export issues
• Moved all Pretty Link images to Amazon CloudFront
• Added TweetDeck & Twitter for iPhone support for Pro Users

• Fixed the CSV export issues
• Moved all Pretty Link images to Amazon CloudFront
• Added TweetDeck & Twitter for iPhone support for Pro Users

• Added the ability to change the pretty link tracking mode to simple, normal and extended
• Fixed numerous debug issues
• Fixed memory_limit issue in pretty link
• Fixed pretty bar issue affecting pro users

• Fixed bugs related to the cloaking and pretty bar redirection changes

• Removed cloaking & pretty bar redirection to comply with wordpress.org policy requirements

• Updated to use the Twitter oAuth authentication protocol
• Updated the tweetbadge to use the new Twitter Tweet Button

• Added title detection
• Added enhancements to the Pretty Link Bookmarklet
• Added better support for IIS by redefining the fnmatch function if it isn't present
• Changed the keyword replacement algorithm in Pro to replace links throughout the post when thresholds are set (instead of only linking to the top x keywords)
• Fixed some issues surrounding keyword content caching in Pro

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• Fixed the option reset issue

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• Fixed bookmarklet/fopen issue affecting some users
• Fixed XML-RPC auto-tweeting of Posts
• Fixed Scheduled auto-tweeting & link creation of Posts issue
• Fixed bulk auto link creation issue
• Added slug choice for your post
• Added a twitter message formatting textarea on the post edit screen

1.4.13 = * Fixed the option reset issue

• Fixed the nested slug cookie issue.

• Fixed PrliUrlUtils not found error affecting some users
• Added instructions for installing the Pretty Link bookmarklet on the iPhone
• Added a URL Alias feature to Pro to allow tweet counts to be aggregated and hence, more accurate

• Fixed the php strict tags issue affecting some users
• Fixed the click record issue affecting some IIS users
• Added DOCTYPE line to Pretty Bar HTML
• Elimitated Pro upgrade messages for Pro users

• Added the Social Network Button Bar for Pro Users

• Fixed https image loading / path issue
• Fixed bookmarklet javascript encoding issue
• Fixed import / export issue for pro users
• Added Hyves.nl and Sphinn to the social buttons bar
• Added more placement options for the social buttons bar
• Added a social buttons bar shortcode & template tag

• Added IPv6 support for IP Address Exclusions
• Added Twitter Comments post widget for Pro users
• Added RSS feed support for the tweet badge for Pro users

• Fixed UTF-8 issues
• Enabled UTF-8 Pretty Link slugs
• Enabled UTF-8 tweets for Pro users
• Fixed several issues for users hosted on Windows
• Added padding configuration to space the buttons on the social bar for Pro users
• Fixed the html validation issues with the tweet badge and social buttons bar for Pro users

• Added known robot and unidentified browser filtering to Pretty Link stats
• Added IP Address range definition to the Excluded IP address field
• Fixed html formatting issue on the bookmarklet success page
• Added the ability for Pro users to remove or alter the attribution link on the Pretty Bar
• Added new shortcodes for Pro users to display the title, target url and social networking buttons for a newly created public pretty link
• Enhanced the default success page for public link creation for pro users
• Fixed the redirect-type not being set bug for pro users allowing public link creation
• Fixed another php short-code bug affecting Pro users (thanks to Clay Loveless of KillerSoft for helping me with that one)

• Fixed an installation issue for PHP4 users

• Fixed some bugs in the install
• Added nofollows to links in the social bar & re-tweet badge

• Fixed the html entity display issue for target urls
• Reduced package size of Pretty Link for more reliable installation
• Added Customizable Bookmarklet for Pro Users

• Simplified SQL Calls and reduced the number of them that it takes to load a page
• Modified tweets to be counted for each link -- even ones not associated with a post -- got rid of the url_alias feature
• Streamlined database calls & fixed a bug in the api
• Added the ability to tweet to multiple accounts...
• Added tweetmeme count checking and added additional twitter account validation

• Fixed a bug with link creation from the bookmarklet, post publishing and public link creation that was introduced in the last release

• Added some more support options
• fixed some minor bugs in keyword replacement and pro options.

• Altered the where Pretty Links are redirected to put less burden on normal page loads
• Optimized Group & Report SQL calls to be significantly faster
• Added a shortcode & template tag for pro users to display their pretty links on pages & posts (the shortcode is [post-pretty-link] and the template tag is the_prettylink())

• Fixed a bug in pretty link, pixel & cloaking redirection.

• Optimized CSV download of hits
• Optimized more SQL calls
• Fixed keyword replacement bug on password protected posts for Pro Users
• Fixed group issue on options page for Pro Users

• Added more support options for all users
• Updated install
• Added exclude tweet badge/comments & social media buttons for specific pages & posts to the page/post edit screen for pro users

• Fixed a redirection issue for all users

• Made significant changes to the Pretty Link Pro update routines
• Fixed several bugs with remote url reading

• Fixed pro export issue
• Fixed html within shortcodes in keyword replacement issues for pro users
• Fixed XHTML validation for pro users using keyword replacement
• Added an email button to the social bar for pro users
• Fixed update code for pro users to not display false update message
• Fixed url utilities port configuration for all users
• Fixed url validation issue for all users

• Fixed some update and validation bugs affecting a small number of users

• Fixed browsecap integration for users on PHP 5.3 or higher
• Added new browsecap file to include android based phones in hit results
• Fixed form submission issues affecting a small number of users
• Fixed a pro update bug affecting some users
• Fixed a bug affecting pro users more tag and keyword replacement

• Added support for Pre-Slug URL elements -- this will be helpful for those users who don't have rewrite working fully
• Additional, unnecessary postmeta fields not being created anymore for pro users
• Fixed auto pretty link creation and auto twitter posting on scheduled and xml-rpc post for pro users
• Fixed twitter badge count issue -- it was reporting incorrect tweet results for some pro users on some posts
• Added Option to show tweet badge and/or social buttons in the RSS Feed

• Fixed pretty link path issue

• Fixed more pretty link path issues to easily handle pre-slug elements in custom permalink structures
• Optimized php code executed in pretty link tracking
• Replaced fsockopen with curl for validating urls and grabbing the target url title

• Added an enhanced CSV Hit Reports...
• Added CSV IP History reports... (the history of each visitor by IP address)
• Added CSV IP Origin reports... (the first time we see each visitor click a Pretty Link)
• Separating CSV Reports into blocks of 5000 rows each ... this will help with performance in a major way and prevent locking ...
• Added an option to use a prefixed element from your permalink structure (this is necessary for users who need an index.php as part of their permalink structure)
• Fixed the pretty link nesting issue so larger slugs are matched first enabling users to create folder structures more efficiently
• The Link Description is now showing up as the meta description for Pretty Bar'd and Cloaked Pretty Links
• Altered Tweet badge so it shows up as an image which will help it stay consistent across sites and won't ever mess up the excerpts ever again
• Cleaned up the front facing CSS for the tweet badge, social buttons and twitter comments
• Checked the [tweetbadge] shortcode and the_tweetbadge() template tag and verified that they are working properly...
• Fixed saving posts / pages issue... Now pages are saved & auto tweeted (if the option is set)...

• Fixed the phantom postmeta issue

• Refactored and Options code
• Pro: Refactored Update code to work with the upcoming WordPress 3.0
• Pro: Tweet Badge now loads asynchronously in an iFrame to prevent performance issues when updating multiple tweet badges simultaneously.
• Pro: Enabled limit on number of keyword replacements to occur per page load
• Pro: Cleaned up options code
• Pro: Added keyword replacement to comments and feeds and an option to make all links into pretty links automatically.

• Fixed a subdirectory redirection issue

• Updated code for WP 3.0
• Fixed tweetbadge indexing issue
• Added an underscore to postmeta values

• Fixed a performance issue in Pretty Link affecting some users when viewing their dashboard
• Fixed the custom menu auto-tweet issue affecting some Pretty Link Pro users

• Fixed Keyword Caching Issue for Pro Users
• Fixed recording duplicate tweet issue for Pro Users