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wp-bitly

Bitly's WordPress Plugin

Create short links to your content with Bitly’s WordPress Plugin.

bitly custom domain shortener shortlink url
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Open evidence

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95 / 103 rows with source links

92.2% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

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0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days
334 466 -28.3% 3.8K

Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 1.0
Uninstall issue [Fix provided]

Uninstall issue [Fix provided]: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Uninstall issue [Fix provided] Within the uninstall.php file, replace the wpbitly_uninstall() with the following code: To the plugin author : please add this fix.
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.97
E error

E error: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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E error Hi, I installed the plugin to try it out but got a fatal error on the writing settings page: An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 307 of the file .../wp-content/plugins/wp-bitly/includes/class-wp-bitly-settings.php.
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.97
PHP error on Plugin Uninstall

PHP error on Plugin Uninstall: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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PHP error on Plugin Uninstall When I uninstall the addin, there is this error – can you please fix?
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
WP-Bitly discontinued

WP-Bitly discontinued: users show security, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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WP-Bitly discontinued I have requested from the plugins team that this plugin be removed from the repository, with no response.
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.9
Shortlinks stopped showinf after upgrade to 2.7.1

Shortlinks stopped showinf after upgrade to 2.7.1: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Shortlinks stopped showinf after upgrade to 2.7.1 I had to rollback the plugin to 2.5.2 version, after updating to 2.7.1, because the plugin stopped working.
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.85
PHP Error in array_reverse() on line 126 of class-wp-bitly-metabox.php

PHP Error in array_reverse() on line 126 of class-wp-bitly-metabox.php: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

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PHP Error in array_reverse() on line 126 of class-wp-bitly-metabox.php Hi, I’m encountering a critical error with the WP Bitly plugin when editing a post in the WordPress admin area.
complaint review · high severity · relevance 0.85
Plugin has been abandoned

Plugin has been abandoned: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Plugin has been abandoned This plugin just no longer works and it starts to create critical errors with other plugins on the website.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.92
uninstalling the bitly plugin

uninstalling the bitly plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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uninstalling the bitly plugin I want to uninstall this plugin, but the message uninstalling just continues indefinitely.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.88
Failed to retrieve access token

Failed to retrieve access token: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Failed to retrieve access token Hi – Your plugin seems like a great idea in theory but in practice for me and many others it seems it simply doesn’t function – I have followed your installation instructions implicitly and continue to get ‘ Failed to retrieve access token ‘ I have also created a token from within Bitly and pasted it into the plugin setting th
mixed review · medium severity · relevance 0.87
Generally good but conflicts with SEO

Generally good but conflicts with SEO: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Generally good but conflicts with SEO Generally good, but slow at updating known bugs.

Competitor Context

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Bitly URL Shortener praise owner · intel 31.3 · weakness 16.8
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1 source link Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
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No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

20 shown from 53 collected
neutral Italian Translation support · 2025-09-21T22:40:12+00:00 · low severity · custom domain

The user states that the Italian translation for the Bitly plugin is complete.

Evidence: The Italian translation is complete.
Italian translation hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Improve I18N Issues Based on 2.7.4 and other issues support · 2025-05-18T09:52:12+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

Improve I18N Issues Based on 2.7.4 and other issues: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Improve I18N Issues Based on 2.7.4 and other issues I fully localized this plugin into zh_TW and I found several I18N issues.
bugs compatibility missing feature value hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint PHP Error in array_reverse() on line 126 of class-wp-bitly-metabox.php support · 2025-05-08T09:06:56+00:00 · high severity · custom domain

PHP Error in array_reverse() on line 126 of class-wp-bitly-metabox.php: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PHP Error in array_reverse() on line 126 of class-wp-bitly-metabox.php Hi, I’m encountering a critical error with the WP Bitly plugin when editing a post in the WordPress admin area.
bugs compatibility value hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Plugin Compatibility with PHP8.2 support · 2024-01-25T07:06:16+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

Plugin Compatibility with PHP8.2: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin Compatibility with PHP8.2 When we go to the “edit page” it is giving blank page and I started debug log which states Uncaught TypeError: array_reverse(): Argument #1 ($array) must be of type array, null given in your-project/wp-content/plugins/bitly-main/includes/class-wp-bitly-metabox.php:138 It it public function display_metabox($post, $args) this f
bugs compatibility hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Uninstall issue [Fix provided] support · 2023-09-15T11:26:45+00:00 · high severity · custom domain

Uninstall issue [Fix provided]: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Uninstall issue [Fix provided] Within the uninstall.php file, replace the wpbitly_uninstall() with the following code: To the plugin author : please add this fix.
bugs compatibility missing feature support hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Plugin has been abandoned (1 star) review · 2023-07-25T14:40:01+00:00 · high severity · custom domain

Plugin has been abandoned: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin has been abandoned This plugin just no longer works and it starts to create critical errors with other plugins on the website.
bugs support reliable hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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question shortcode into post support · 2022-12-25T22:39:13+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

shortcode into post: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: shortcode into post Is there away to use a shortcode to put bitly links inside of the post? [bitly_shortcode] would display bitly.link/34taeregla Is there away to use a shortcode to put bitly links inside of the post? [bitly_shortcode] would display bitly.link/34taeregla bump bump
hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Doesn’t Shorten Any Links support · 2022-12-13T01:05:08+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

Doesn’t Shorten Any Links: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Doesn’t Shorten Any Links I installed the plugin and completed the authorization process but all my external links remain the same.
setup hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint uninstalling the bitly plugin support · 2022-11-18T15:13:50+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

uninstalling the bitly plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: uninstalling the bitly plugin I want to uninstall this plugin, but the message uninstalling just continues indefinitely.
bugs compatibility support setup hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Shortlinks stopped showinf after upgrade to 2.7.1 support · 2022-08-08T19:26:10+00:00 · high severity · custom domain

Shortlinks stopped showinf after upgrade to 2.7.1: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Shortlinks stopped showinf after upgrade to 2.7.1 I had to rollback the plugin to 2.5.2 version, after updating to 2.7.1, because the plugin stopped working.
bugs support hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Failed to retrieve access token support · 2022-03-17T16:44:55+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

Failed to retrieve access token: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Failed to retrieve access token Hi – Your plugin seems like a great idea in theory but in practice for me and many others it seems it simply doesn’t function – I have followed your installation instructions implicitly and continue to get ‘ Failed to retrieve access token ‘ I have also created a token from within Bitly and pasted it into the plugin setting th
bugs compatibility missing feature support hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Plugin doesn’t work (1 star) review · 2022-03-09T14:52:58+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

Plugin doesn’t work: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin doesn’t work Just like the previous reviewer said: The plugin does not work.
bugs support setup value hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Not work! (1 star) review · 2022-01-25T16:33:14+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

Not work!: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The plugin does not work.
bugs hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint ERROR: Failed to retrieve access token support · 2021-12-02T00:09:23+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

ERROR: Failed to retrieve access token: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: ERROR: Failed to retrieve access token I’m getting this error message when I click the Authorize button: “ERROR: Failed to retrieve access token.” Could you help me, please?
bugs support hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint Fail to generate shortcut link support · 2021-09-28T04:30:37+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

Fail to generate shortcut link: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Could you help me to check what’s going on?
bugs support hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint PHP error on Plugin Uninstall support · 2021-09-18T03:55:32+00:00 · high severity · custom domain

PHP error on Plugin Uninstall: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PHP error on Plugin Uninstall When I uninstall the addin, there is this error – can you please fix?
bugs compatibility missing feature setup hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise Muito bom, para quem tem rede social (5 stars) review · 2021-09-05T22:24:25+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

Muito bom, para quem tem rede social: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Muito bom, para quem tem rede social ta mais que provado que é um site bom, as vezes temos que pedir para pessoas encurtar um link, uma TAG, ou uma campanha de publicidade, para mim está aprovado.. ta mais que provado que é um site bom, as vezes temos que pedir para pessoas encurtar um link, uma TAG, ou uma campanha de publicidade, para mim está aprovado..
hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise lovee support · 2021-08-05T11:28:45+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

lovee: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: lovee hot This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by eno12 .
quality hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise Cool (5 stars) review · 2021-06-21T16:31:49+00:00 · medium severity · custom domain

Cool: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Cool It’s taken me a while to understand the “generate short link” command does replace the plain vanilla wp.me short-link. Well done Bitly, glad to see you and my vanity url back in the console. It’s taken me a while to understand the “generate short link” command does replace the plain vanilla wp.me short-link. Well done Bitly, glad to see you and my vanit
hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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complaint E error support · 2021-06-05T16:43:18+00:00 · high severity · custom domain

E error: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: E error Hi, I installed the plugin to try it out but got a fatal error on the writing settings page: An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 307 of the file .../wp-content/plugins/wp-bitly/includes/class-wp-bitly-settings.php.
bugs compatibility missing feature setup hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor url drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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