Blog
News and articles from the vanityURLs community.
Cloudflare Access is not a checkbox
When to review Cloudflare Access settings and where to look when private vanityURLs paths are blocked
Random slugs still have human readers
How vanityURLs balances short random slugs, readability, and tag-specific defaults.
Edit custom, leave defaults boring
Why vanityURLs keeps product defaults separate from instance-owned links, branding, policy, and public pages.
Keep scanner traffic out of the Worker
Why a vanityURLs instance should use Cloudflare edge controls before traffic reaches the Worker.
Make the short domain look owned
How to think about branding a vanityURLs instance without turning the redirector into a design project before it works.
Migrating from Cloudflare Pages redirects to vanityURLs Workers
Move an older vanityURLs instance from Cloudflare Pages _redirects to the current Cloudflare Workers runtime without losing the link inventory.
Owner labels for short-link change history
Why vanityURLs records a small owner label beside links, and how it helps teams understand who changed what.
Protecting the reputation of a short-link domain
Why vanityURLs treats blocklist policy as part of operating a trustworthy short-link domain.
Reading your vanityURLs admin dashboard
Use the protected _stats dashboard to inspect routes, lifecycle states, and metadata quality without turning vanityURLs into a CMS.