wordpress tip: generate wp.me short urls for your site

**DVTimes** · 12-20-2009, 05:22 AM

cool

will give it a try

**rowan** · 12-20-2009, 05:26 AM

Why would you want to rely on a third party for all of your URLs to work? I can understand there's a need for it with a limited field length app such as twitter, but why WP?

**fris** · 12-20-2009, 05:29 AM

Originally posted by rowan

Why would you want to rely on a third party for all of your URLs to work? I can understand there's a need for it with a limited field length app such as twitter, but why WP?

for Twitter mainly, just an alternative to tinyurl or any other service, your normal links work still, doesnt change those.

**seeandsee** · 12-20-2009, 06:04 AM

Originally posted by fris

wordpress.com intoduced wp.me short urls for hosted blogs, but you can also do this via your self hosted blog.

Install the wordpress.com stats plugin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/

You need a wordpress.com account, and use the API key once you have it.

The following code will generate your wp.me shortcode

Code:

<a href="<?php echo get_shortlink($post);?>">short link</a>

or you can get it by clicking generate shorturl

sample of it working -> http://wp.me/pKjxA-1

enjoy.

wordpress tip: generate wp.me short urls for your site

wordpress tip: generate wp.me short urls for your site

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