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via.mg – Auto Short Links & Social Previews
Every post gets a short link, and a share preview that looks right on WhatsApp and Facebook.
via.mg ranks #50,492 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Aug 30, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1
v1.2.2
Current Version v1.2.2
Updated 3 weeks ago
Last Update on 30 Aug, 2026
Refreshed 6 hours ago
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- Version
- 1.2.2
- Last Updated
- Aug 30, 2026
- Requires WP
- 5.6+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- viamg
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about via.mg – Auto Short Links & Social Previews
Yes. No ads, no tracking of your readers, no data resold, and no paid tier waiting to close over features you already use. via.mg is a small self-funded product from Madagascar; the plugin is free and open source.
Your site is unaffected. The plugin never replaces a permalink: the canonical address of a post stays your own site's URL. If via.mg disappeared, your posts would keep working exactly as before, and only the short links already shared would stop resolving. That is a narrow promise, but it is one we can actually keep.
Four things, and nothing else: the post's address, its title, its description and the address of its featured image. No reader data, no IP addresses, no visitor statistics, no subscriber lists. The plugin also sends an explicit via-mg-wp/ user agent so that via.mg stops receiving your site's address, which WordPress would otherwise include by default.
No. The plugin writes no og: tag into your site, so Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO or SEOPress keep full control of your pages. via.mg serves the share preview on the short link's own page. The honest corollary: this preview only applies when the short link is what circulates. When someone shares your normal post URL, your SEO plugin decides the preview, as it always did.
No. The call has an 8 second timeout, and a network failure is simply retried the next time you save. Publishing never waits on via.mg.
Yes. The plugin acts on behalf of your via.mg account using a token you create at https://via.mg/compte/api. Creating an account is free.
No, never. via.mg recognizes a destination that has already been shortened and returns the existing link.
The copy gets its own short link. A short link belongs to the post it was created for, so a duplicate never inherits it and never overwrites the original's share preview.
On via.mg, in your "My links" area. The plugin links there from the edit screen.
It is stored in your site's database, in the options table, and the settings screen never shows it again once saved: the field stays empty, and leaving it empty keeps the token you already saved. It is never included in a WordPress content export. Treat a database backup as sensitive, and revoke the token from your via.mg account if you ever suspect it leaked.