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Announcement: After looking through the support requests and the code, I've decided to do a major re-think on the shortening process. As such, I'll take a little longer to re-write the plugin. I'll be adding in buddypress support and new social sharing support in the new iteration as well..

URL Shortener allows you to generate shortlinks for post/pages using URL Shorteners (e.g. Bit.ly, Su.pr and many others), with a few additional features.

Please check your settings when upgrading to Version 4.0 from previous versions prior to it.

What's New with 4.0

• QR Code Support (using Google Chart API)
• Additional Shorteners (Goo.gl, dlvr.it, yourls)
• Nice ID links with QR Code (i.e. http://your_site/123.qr)
• Version 4.0 features completely refactored code once again. Now includes classes which allows developers to easily extend the plugin.

Features:

• Automatic generation of a Short URL/Shortlinks
• Cached Shortlink - thus generated only once.
• Choose to generate shortlinks using permalinks or the posts ID (e.g. http://your_site/index.php?p=123).
• Relatively extensive shortlink support
• Action Hooks available for other plugins to utilize generated shortlinks (From Ver 3.0 Onwards)
• Nice ID links - http://your_site/123 instead of http://your_site/index.php?p=123
• Shortcode support (Ver 3.1): Place [shortlink] in your article where you want to display the shortened url.
• Append a link to short URL below your post content (Ver 3.1.1)

Refer to the documentation/wiki page at http://wiki.fusedthought.com/docs/url-shortener-wordpress-plugin for more information (eg. installation guide and known issues etc).

Services currently supported are:

• goo.gl (beta)
• bit.ly
• tinyurl
• is.gd
• Su.pr
• snipurl / Snurl / Snipr / Sn.im / Cl.lk
• cl.gs
• chilp.it
• smsh (aka sm00sh)
• urli.nl
• unfake.it
• awe.sm
• Voizle
• Interdose API
• dlvr.it

Suspended

• Ping.fm (Will be suspended until they reopen their API)

Available Template Tags

On-demand shortening function:

<?php fts_shorturl('http://www.google.com', 'bitly'); ?>

To show the generated links::

<?php fts_show_shorturl($post); ?>

Or if WordPress 3.0:

<?php the_shortlink(); ?>

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_shortlink

Available hooks and filters

• fts_use_shortlink (Action Hook)
• fts_filter_shortlink (Filter)

Future Versions and on:

• More services/features can be added upon request (http://code.google.com/p/url-shortener-plugin/issues/list)
• Do note that due to my increasing need to concentrate on my studies, and a lack of financial contribution from such plugin development, I cannot possibly accede to all requests.

Support via:

• http://wordpress.org/tags/url-shortener
• Contact me via my website ( http://www.fusedthought.com/contact/ )
• Please check the FAQ