24 thoughts on “ShortURL”

1. I unzipped the packet, uploaded and acti­vated the plu­gin. For the life of me, I can’t see the plu­gin any­where in the set­tings, or where to actu­ally use the plu­gin. Please help.

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   • As of release 0.4.2, the plu­gin doesn’t have any cus­tom set­tings — it just silently cre­ates, han­dles, and exposes to ser­vices your short URLs with­out any bells and whistles.

     If you want to pro­mote your own short URLs, then you cur­rently have only one option — to use either the_shorturl(), or get_shorturl() func­tion in your blog’s template.

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     • Now you need a short domain for your link­ing pur­poses. Ni.ck not existing/taken?

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2. Thanks for that infor­ma­tion. How do I go about get­ting the short url for my own use? For instance, if I wanted to post a short url in Twit­ter for one of my posts?

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   • Which Word­Press plu­gin for Twit­ter are you gonna use? Or are you doing it via Twit­ter­Feed or Friend­Feed exter­nal services?

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3. I use HootSuite.

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4. I acti­vated the plu­gin and used both the_shorturl(), or get_shorturl() in this form in my single.php tem­plate file and noth­ing showed up.

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5. Here’s the error mes­sage
   Warn­ing: preg_match(): Com­pi­la­tion failed: unrec­og­nized char­ac­ter after (?< at off­set 10 in /wp-content/plugins/shorturl.php on line 87

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   • I guess you have an older ver­sion of PHP. I’m gonna roll out a fix in a bit. I will ping you once it’s avail­able. The new release will also add sup­port for Tweet­able, which is pretty decent and will auto­mat­i­cally tweet your new posts using your own URL shortener.

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6. I pro­pose an option to show the short URL on the page. That way if any­body feels like shar­ing it they don’t have to have to go through the trou­ble of a shortener.

   I added a quick and dirty func­tion to the script if you’re inter­ested, and could be an input that auto-selects text for the user for easy copy and past­ing, but more than any­thing I just wanted to show demand for such func­tion­al­ity:
   http://blowintopieces.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/shorturl_showURLOnPage.patch

   Chee­rio.

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   • I’m work­ing on it realdy — it mim­ics WordPress.com’s interface.

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7. Your plu­gin looks very inter­est­ing, will give it a try soon!

   Just a ques­tion: Let’s pre­tend I’m run­ning my Word­Press blog under http://www.myblog.com — would it be pos­si­ble to use a sec­ond, shorter domain which also is mine (e.g. http://www.mybl.og) to show the short­ened URLs of http://www.myblog.com?

   Greet­ings from Ger­many,
   Olli

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   • Yes, that’s the idea I’m work­ing on. When you use an alter­na­tive domain like mybl.og in your exam­ple, the dash/tilde won’t be nec­es­sary, which would make the short URLs even shorter.

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8. Sounds very great! The top-notch would be a fea­ture like already imple­mented in the “Synected” plu­gin: That vis­i­tors can gen­er­ate their own short-url (option­ally with an own string after the dash) — how­ever: Let me know if you need some beta-testing, my site is still under heavy devel­op­ment so I’m always able to test things out.

   Greet­ings,
   Olli

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9. Hey there — how’s devel­op­ment of your plu­gin work­ing? Lookin’ for­ward to try it out!

   Greet­ings,
   Olli

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10. I pro­pose an option to show the short URL on the page. That way if any­body feels like shar­ing it they don’t have to have to go through the trou­ble of a shortener.

    I added a quick and dirty func­tion to the script if you’re inter­ested, and could be an input that auto-selects text for the user for easy copy and past­ing, but more than any­thing I just wanted to show demand for such func­tion­al­ity:
    http://blowintopieces.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/shorturl_showURLOnPage.patch

    Chee­rio.…

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11. Hi Niko­lai,

    the redi­rect is work­ing fine, but the_shorturl() or get_shorturl() aren’t. I’ve found that it’s because of a var name in line 15 (should read $id, not $post_id) and now it’s work­ing ok.

    Thanks a lot for the plu­gin, it solves per­fectly a prob­lem I had with twit­ter and exter­nal shorteners.

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12. Also, a 301 (per­ma­nent redi­rect) seems more suit­able that the wp_redirect default 302 (tem­po­rary redi­rect), and it’s the usual choice for all short­en­ers (you can see the dif­fer­ent ser­vices choices here: http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204).

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    • Thanks for the sug­ges­tions! Expect the new ver­sion tomorrow.

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13. Hi there — is this plu­gin work­ing with newest ver­sion of WPMU?

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14. Hey, I really like the plugin.

    I’ve got a cou­ple of minor fixes to make it com­pat­i­ble with more ver­sions of PHP.

    Also, I’ve got a sim­ple options page to make it eas­ier to set up the seper­a­tor char­ac­ter, etc.

    Please con­tact me, I’d like to con­tribute to the plugin.

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15. Hello,
    I installed the plu­gin, acti­vated in wp-admin and then used both the func­tion in the fol­low­ing man­ner —–>

    and

    and I got noth­ing echo’ed/printed.

    This is really annoy­ing. Can any­one tell me why noth­ing is being echo’ed/printed??

    Thanks,
    Quanta

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16. I’ve installed Short URL and Tweet­able but can­not find out how they inter­act. I would like Tweet­able to tweet my posts with Short URL, but I can­not find the set­ting to make that hap­pen. Can you enlighten me?

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17. Are you still work­ing on this? I’m inter­ested on the Tweet­able func­tion. I hope there will be a new ver­sion in the near future.

    Cheers!

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