Comments on: Did You Know WordPress Has It’s Own URL-Shortener Built In?

By: aks

aks — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:02:13 +0000

wow never heard this thing. thanks for sharing.

By: krishna

krishna — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:44:38 +0000

This is a good find regarding the URL-shortener in Wordpress. Thanks for sharing it here

By: squareart

squareart — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:46:33 +0000

Thanks for this, looking forward to trying out the GoCodes plugin.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:21:53 +0000

Slightly OT, but what’s also annoying is when Twitter (web interface at least) automatically shortens longer URLs even when there’s room for them. Not sure what the threshold is; anyone know?

I can imagine using one of my domain names and a shorter URL in this way, but it still being turned into a TinyURL by Twitter (none of my domain names are particularly short – at least 10-15 characters each not including TLDs)

By: `rolandinsh`

`rolandinsh` — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:39:48 +0000

For short links in my blogs I’m using in footer of post my.domain.tld/?p=22 And using it for several “share services” or simply selectable input field

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:54:22 +0000

A reminder to WordPress users that if you have a site with a lot of content, it is recommended that a number be in your pretty permalink to speed up the process of finding your post in the database. A pretty permalink like example.com/2009/post-title works better than example.com/post-title/, though the time delay is almost unmeasurable from what I understand. There's been a lot of discussion about this recently in the WordPress Community. When you use a link shortening service, it goes out to the service and goes through their database to pull out the post set for that URL. This can take a little extra time to process the page, but it also can backfire if that link shortening services closes. I recommend using the default WordPress method per your examples, Chris, or sticking with one that has been around for a long time and has a lot of support from the community. Great suggestion, Chris.

By: John (Human3rror)

John (Human3rror) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:52:22 +0000

I wrote this just the other day! same concept.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:26:49 +0000

Thanks for the GoCodes mention. :)

And if you go with the WP default p=123 method, you can shorten the URL down even more by editing your .htaccess file and redirecting example.org/123 to example.org?p=123.

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:18:45 +0000

That’s a nice find, but Still need to figure out how I can use for my affiliate links

By: Lynette Chandler

Lynette Chandler — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:13:36 +0000

Yes but of course! *slaps head* Just use WP default URLs – like they were before activating permalinks. Brilliant.

Sometimes the answers to our questions are the most obvious (and simplest). Thanks Chris for the reminder