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The Short Link WordPress plugin automatically creates a link element in the section of the post's page with rel="shortlink" attributes. The URL in the href attribute defaults to the id number of the post in question but can be overridden with a human-friendly slug after the post has been saved.

It also creates an HTTP Link header that conveys the same information as a performance optimisation (clients need only do a HTTP HEAD to resolve the URL)

The link element looks like this:

<link rel="shortlink" href="{url}" />

The HTTP header is:

Link: <{url}>; rel=shortlink

Related Links:

• Google Code Site: http://code.google.com/p/shortlink/

Authors: akrabat, samj