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1. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm having a serious case of the brain farts.

   In THEORY I know that I should be able to use a function filter to have Twitter Tools use ugly permalinks in tweets (to force shorter urls and yet keep 'branding').

   Since I KNOW I'm way short on sleep, does this look right in theory?

   // Add hook for Twitter Tools URL shortening filter
   add_filter('tweet_blog_post_url','makeShortURL');
   
   // Function to make the short URL
   function makeShortURL($url) {
     global $post;
     $shortpost = $post->ID;
     $shortpost = "http://domain.com/" . $shortpost;
     return $shortpost;
   }

2. Alex Mills (Viper007Bond)
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You'd need a plugin to map http://domain.com/123 to the post, but yes, that should work.

3. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Doy. So I added in a p?= in there ;)

   // Add hook for Twitter Tools URL shortening filter
   add_filter('tweet_blog_post_url','makeShortURL');
   
   // Function to make the short URL
   function makeShortURL($url) {
     global $post;
     $shortpost = $post->ID;
     $shortpost = "http://domain.com/p?=" . $shortpost;
     return $shortpost;
   }

   And that kicks back domain.com/p?= ... dang it. $post->ID is wrong.

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