Title: UnShorten
Author: jonrogersuk
Published: <strong>October 27, 2009</strong>
Last modified: October 27, 2009

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# UnShorten

 By [jonrogersuk](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonrogersuk/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/unshorten.0.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/unshorten/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/unshorten/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/unshorten/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/unshorten/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/unshorten/)

## Description

When you use tweets in your blog, you will probably have loads of shortened urls
like me – bit.ly, su.pr is.gd… But your blog readers would probably rather see the
real address. Me too. While this feature is integrated in loads of twitter clients,
it’s not yet in WordPress. Oh, hold on, now it is! UnShorten will look at any link
that has the link text the same as the URL and will try to expand the URL. The hyperlink
URL will stay the same but the link text will change to the real, un-shortened link.
Neat, hey?!

**Requirements**

 * PHP 5.2.0 or newer (PHP4 is dead anyway)
 * WordPress 2.7 or newer

## Installation

### Manual Installation

Extract all files from the ZIP file, **making sure to keep the file/folder structure
intact**, and then upload it to `/wp-content/plugins/`.

### Automated Installation

Visit Plugins -> Add New in your admin area and search for this plugin. Click “Install”.

**See Also:** [“Installing Plugins” article on the WP Codex](https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins)

### Plugin Usage

Just enable the plugin, you’re good to go!

## FAQ

#### It’s not working!

Ummm. I don’t know either. Drop me a note and I’ll try to figure it out.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“UnShorten” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ jonrogersuk ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonrogersuk/)

[Translate “UnShorten” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/unshorten)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/unshorten/), check 
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/unshorten/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/unshorten/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/unshorten/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.1.0

 * Initial release!

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.8**
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/unshorten/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ jonrogersuk ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonrogersuk/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/unshorten/)

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