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WP PlugIndex currently records ShortURL version 0.4.2 as active, updated 17y ago and tested up to WordPress 2.8.
Overview
About this plugin
The ShortURL plugin allows you to use your blog as your own URL shorterning service by implementing the Short URL Auto-Discovery specification. Your short URLs will be in the form of http://domain/-code.
ly, 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 http://domain/ as a unique feature.
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.
com to use rel="shortlink" vs the alternative proposals, the ShortURL plugin is also using it now.
More on the topic:
Microformats Wiki: rel=”shortlink”
WP.me – shorten your links
To Do
Test against WordPress 2.9 and WordPress MU
Add a settings page
Add a widget
Integrated with Google Analytics
Integrate with the top Twitter plugins to use ShortURL instead of third-party services
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
short url
url shortener
revcanonical
shortlink
shorturl
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 2.8
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 2.8.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to2.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 2.7 · PHP not listed
Update activity16 Aug 200917y ago
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