Exclude Specific IP Addresses from Clicks

Your own visits — and those of your team — quietly inflate every short link's click count and skew your reports. URL Shortify PRO fixes this with an Excluded IP Addresses list: clicks coming from any address you add are never recorded, so your statistics reflect real visitors. You set it once under Settings → Reports.

Exclude an IP address

1. Go to URL Shortify → Settings → Reports.
2. Find the Excluded IP Addresses field under Reporting Options.
3. Enter the addresses to ignore, separated by commas.
4. Save the settings.

Clicks from any listed address are dropped before they are counted, so they never appear in your dashboard, per-link statistics, group reports, or CSV exports.

What you can enter

The field accepts single addresses, several addresses, and wildcard ranges:

To make this easier, the field shows your current IP address beneath it — copy that value in to stop counting your own clicks straight away.

Make sure URL Shortify reads the right IP

Behind a proxy, load balancer, or CDN such as Cloudflare, the address WordPress sees may be the proxy's rather than the visitor's — which means your exclusions could match the wrong thing. URL Shortify exposes a free setting for this in the same tab: How does URL Shortify get IPs? under URL Shortify → Settings → Reports.

Leave it on the default (automatic) unless your excluded addresses aren't taking effect. If they aren't, switch it to the server variable your host uses — for example HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP on Cloudflare — so URL Shortify reads the real visitor address before matching it against your list.

Exclude IPs vs. filter robots

Excluding IPs removes clicks from addresses you name — your office, your team, a monitoring service. Filtering robots removes automated clicks from crawlers and bots you can't predict by address. They solve different halves of the same problem, so most sites use both. See Filter out robot clicks.

Conclusion

Adding your own and your team's addresses to Excluded IP Addresses under URL Shortify → Settings → Reports keeps internal traffic out of every report and export. If exclusions don't seem to apply, check the free How does URL Shortify get IPs? setting so the plugin reads the true visitor address. Pair this with robot filtering for reports built only on real visitors.

FAQs

Is excluding IP addresses a free or PRO feature?

Excluding IP addresses is a URL Shortify PRO feature. The Excluded IP Addresses field appears under Settings → Reports only with a PRO license. The related How does URL Shortify get IPs? setting in the same tab is free, but the exclusion list itself requires PRO.

How do I stop URL Shortify from counting my own clicks?

Go to URL Shortify → Settings → Reports, and add your address to Excluded IP Addresses. The field displays your current IP address beneath it, so you can copy that value straight in. Save the settings, and your future visits will no longer be recorded against any short link.

Can I exclude a whole range of IP addresses?

Yes. The field accepts wildcards, so 192.168.2.* matches every address on that subnet and 192.168.*.* matches a wider range. Separate multiple entries — exact addresses or wildcard ranges — with commas. This is useful for excluding an entire office network rather than listing each device.

My excluded IP is still being counted — why?

Behind a proxy, CDN, or load balancer, WordPress may see the proxy's address instead of the visitor's, so your exclusion won't match. Open URL Shortify → Settings → Reports and set How does URL Shortify get IPs? to the server variable your host uses, such as HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP on Cloudflare, then re-check the address shown.

Does excluding an IP delete clicks already recorded?

No. Exclusions apply only to new clicks from that point forward; they don't remove history that was already counted. To clean up past inflated clicks, use the trim clicks tool to delete older click data.

Related

• Filter out robot clicks
• Understanding clicks and clean reports
• Trim old clicks
• Link tracking