<p>With this Plugin you <strong>optimize your workflow</strong> as it enables you to auto-generate a shortened URL to your blog posts. So neither you nor your readers have to do it. These Short URLs are particular useful for twitter and alike as these services limit the messages of their users to a certain amount of characters – which leads to the situation that their users are forced to have an eye on what exactly they want to write. And by providing a very short URL it’s easier for them to spread the word on your blog article as they have more characters left for personal remarks.</p>
<p>Compared to other solutions <strong>this plugin caches the generated shortened URL</strong> – this makes it faster. If the permalink of the article changes, a new Short URL will be automatically generated. It also allows you to choose your favorite from a couple of Short URL Providers and lets you insert the shortened URL via a handy shortcode.</p>
<h4>Usage:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Place <code>[shorturl]</code> in your article where you want to display the shortened url.</li>
<li>Add optional info with parameters (see below)</li>
<li>If you don’t like shortcodes you can use the complete auto mode – that way the shortened URL gets always auto-added at the end of your articles.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatic generation of a Short URL to the blog post.</li>
<li><strong>Caches the Short URL</strong> – So it’s only generated once.</li>
<li>Offers 6 different URL Shorteners to choose from (bit.ly, tr.im, is.gd, u.nu, snurl.com, tinyurl.com).</li>
<li>Provides optional parameters to further increase workflow.</li>
<li>Can add self-defined labels in front (or around) the URL(s).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Options:</h4>
<p><strong>Possible values are “1” for active and “0” for disabled</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>txt => Will add a label in front of the URL(s) (default: 0).</li>
<li>full => The permalink will also be displayed (default: 0).</li>
<li>link => Displays the URL(s) as HTML link (default: 0).</li>
<li>short => Displays the Short URL (default: 1).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Additional info</h4>
<p>For more information, examples, questions and previews – please have a look on the <a href="http://hjacob.com/blog/2009/06/short_url_shortcode_wordpress/" title="Short URL Plugin for WordPress - Original post by Hendrik Jacob" rel="nofollow ugc">plugins website</a>.</p>
<p>There is also a <a href="http://hjacob.com/blog/2009/06/short_url_shortcode_wordpress_german/" title="Short URL Plugin für WordPress - Original Artikel von Hendrik Jacob" rel="nofollow ugc">german version of the plugins page</a>.</p>


Short URL Generator

This plugin automatically generates a Short URL for your article. You can choose your favorite provider and get multiple options.

Nikolay Kolev

<p>The ShortURL plugin allows you to use your blog as your own URL shorterning service by implementing the <a href="http://wiki.snaplog.com/short_url" rel="nofollow ugc">Short URL Auto-Discovery</a> specification. Your short URLs will be in the form of <code>http://domain/-code</code>.</p>
<p>The auto-discovery feature allows third-party services that honor it to use your own short URLs instead of generating new ones using services such as <a href="http://tinyurl.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">TinyURL</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/" rel="nofollow ugc">bit.ly</a>, and others. This gives your posts and pages canonical short URLs that give you all SEO benefits and don’t leak traffic out to external domains and will prevent linkrot. The homepage short URLs is set to just <code>http://domain/</code> as a unique feature.</p>
<p>The other great benefit of the ShortURL plugin is that the generated short URLs won’t break if you change the permalink structure of your blog or rename the slug of a particular post or page.</p>
<p>Due to the recent choice of both the <a href="http://microformats.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Microformats</a> community and <a href="http://wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress.com</a> to use <code>rel="shortlink"</code> vs the alternative proposals, the ShortURL plugin is also using it now.</p>
<p>More on the topic:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-shortlink" rel="nofollow ugc">Microformats Wiki: rel=”shortlink”</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/shorten/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP.me – shorten your links</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>To Do</h3>
<ul>
<li>Test against <a href="https://wordpress.org/" rel="ugc">WordPress</a> 2.9 and <a href="https://mu.wordpress.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress MU</a></li>
<li>Add a settings page</li>
<li>Add a widget</li>
<li>Integrated with <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Analytics</a></li>
<li>Integrate with the top <a href="http://twitter.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a> plugins to use ShortURL instead of third-party services</li>
</ul>


ShortURL

The ShortURL plugin provides short canonical permalinks to your posts and pages similarly to WordPress.com via its WP.me service.

Short URL Generator vs ShortURL