With this Plugin you optimize your workflow 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.
Compared to other solutions this plugin caches the generated shortened URL – 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.
<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>Caches the Short URL – 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>
Possible values are “1” for active and “0” for disabled
<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>
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>.
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>.

Short URL Generator

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

Gerald Yeo

Notice: I’ve have since stopped development of this plugin as I feel that the state of URL Shortening services seems to have converged and there isn’t much more progress I have in the pipeline for this plugin.
<a href="http://wiki.fusedthought.com/docs/url-shortener-wordpress-plugin" title="URL Shortener" rel="nofollow ugc">URL Shortener</a> allows you to generate shortlinks for post/pages using URL Shorteners (e.g. Bit.ly, Su.pr and many others), with a few additional features.
Please check your settings when upgrading to Version 4.0 from previous versions prior to it.
What’s New with 4.0
<ul>
<li>QR Code Support (using Google Chart API)</li>
<li>Additional Shorteners (Goo.gl, dlvr.it, yourls) </li>
<li>Nice ID links with QR Code (i.e. http://your_site/123.qr)</li>
<li>Version 4.0 features completely refactored code once again. Now includes classes which allows developers to easily extend the plugin.</li>
</ul>
Features:
<ul>
<li>Automatic generation of a Short URL/Shortlinks</li>
<li>Cached Shortlink – thus generated only once. </li>
<li>Choose to generate shortlinks using permalinks or the posts ID (e.g. http://your_site/index.php?p=123).</li>
<li>Relatively extensive shortlink support</li>
<li>Action Hooks available for other plugins to utilize generated shortlinks (From Ver 3.0 Onwards)</li>
<li>Nice ID links – http://your_site/123 instead of http://your_site/index.php?p=123</li>
<li>Shortcode support (Ver 3.1): Place [shortlink] in your article where you want to display the shortened url.</li>
<li>Append a link to short URL below your post content (Ver 3.1.1)</li>
</ul>
Refer to the documentation/wiki page at http://wiki.fusedthought.com/docs/url-shortener-wordpress-plugin for more information (eg. installation guide and known issues etc).
Services currently supported are:
<ul>
<li>goo.gl (beta)</li>
<li>bit.ly</li>
<li>tinyurl</li>
<li>is.gd</li>
<li>Su.pr</li>
<li>snipurl / Snurl / Snipr / Sn.im / Cl.lk</li>
<li>cl.gs</li>
<li>chilp.it</li>
<li>smsh (aka sm00sh)</li>
<li>urli.nl</li>
<li>unfake.it </li>
<li>awe.sm</li>
<li>Voizle </li>
<li>Interdose API</li>
<li>dlvr.it</li>
</ul>
Suspended
<ul>
<li>Ping.fm (Will be suspended until they reopen their API)</li>
</ul>
Available Template Tags
On-demand shortening function:
<pre><code><?php fts_shorturl('http://www.google.com', 'bitly'); ?>
</code></pre>
To show the generated links::
<pre><code><?php fts_show_shorturl($post); ?>
</code></pre>
Or if WordPress 3.0:
<pre><code><?php the_shortlink(); ?>
</code></pre>
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_shortlink
Available hooks and filters
<ul>
<li>fts_use_shortlink (Action Hook)</li>
<li>fts_filter_shortlink (Filter)</li>
</ul>
Future Versions and on:
<ul>
<li>More services/features can be added upon request (http://code.google.com/p/url-shortener-plugin/issues/list)</li>
<li>Do note that due to my increasing need to concentrate on my studies, and a lack of financial contribution from such plugin development, I cannot possibly accede to all requests. </li>
</ul>
Support via:
<ul>
<li>https://wordpress.org/tags/url-shortener</li>
<li>Contact me via my website ( http://www.fusedthought.com/contact/ )</li>
<li>Please check the FAQ</li>
</ul>

URL Shortener

This plugin allows you to generate shortlinks for post/pages using URL Shorteners (e.g. Bit.ly, Su.pr, YOURLS, Goo.gl and many others).

Short URL Generator vs URL Shortener