Title: Generate Shortlinks
Author: Jason Grim
Published: <strong>ނޮވެމްބަރ 25, 2010</strong>
Last modified: ނޮވެމްބަރ 25, 2010

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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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# Generate Shortlinks

 By [Jason Grim](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jasongrim/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/generate-shortlinks.1.0.zip)

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

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/generate-shortlinks/)

## Description

**Background**

WordPress has created the wonderful functionality of generating shortlinks for post
on your blogs. With advanced
 permalink structures a single link to your site can
take up 89% of a short email or a facebok update. However, Wordpress created a very
ugly system, the shortlink system simply provides the default permalink structure
with ugly url variables.

Here is the documentation on adding shortlinks to your themes on the [WordPress Codex](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_shortlink)

**Use**

Some themes use the template method to share the short url of your post. The use
of this plugin would convert all of those
 links to trackable ones with bit.ly or
shorter ones with the other services.

Also, when you create a new post a button is created next the the URL of your new
post. If you click the “Get Shortlink” button
 a popup will provide a simple little
link to share with all of your friends and fans.

## Installation

 1. Upload to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. A new menu item under ‘Settings’ is added, it is titled ‘Shortlinks’.

## FAQ

  I do not see the “Get Shortlink” within my new post editor?

Make sure you have pretty permalinks enabled in `Settings->Permalinks`

  Bit.ly is failing?

Sign up for a bit.ly account at `http://bit.ly`.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Jason Grim ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jasongrim/)
 *   [ Ryan Street ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryanstreet/)

[Translate “Generate Shortlinks” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/generate-shortlinks)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Plugin Released.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.0.5**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/generate-shortlinks/)
 * Tags
 * [bitly](https://dv.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bitly/)[isgd](https://dv.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/isgd/)
   [plugins](https://dv.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/plugins/)[shortlinks](https://dv.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortlinks/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://dv.wordpress.org/plugins/generate-shortlinks/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Jason Grim ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jasongrim/)
 *   [ Ryan Street ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryanstreet/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/generate-shortlinks/)

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