Description
Shortlinks allows you to easily retrieve the shortlink for your WordPress posts, pages, categories, post_tags, attachments, custom post types, and custom taxonmies.
By default, WordPress uses links a query string ( ie: http://blog.aizatto.com/?page_id=3565 ) to load up your posts, pages, categories, etc. But when you enable permalinks, the query string is hidden by the WordPress rewrite rules. Having pretty urls is great, but also makes the website less flexible. For example, changing a posts published date will change the URL.
While we can’t control how other people will link to our site, we can control how we link to our internal sites.
By default, with permalinks enabled, when visiting WordPress with a shortlink, WordPress will redirect you to the permalink URL.
How It Works
Shortlinks hooks into the WordPress filter get_shortlink to enable shortlinks for all WordPress types.
You can use Shortlinks in your own theme or plugin.
To return the shortlink for a post, page, or custom post type, where $id represents the ID:
<?php echo wp_get_shortlink($id, 'post'); ?>
To return the shortlink for a category, where $id represents the category id:
<?php echo wp_get_shortlink($id, 'category'); ?>
To return the shortlinks for custom taxonomy, where $id represents the term id, and $taxonomy represents the custom taxonomy:
<?php echo wp_get_shortlink($id, $taxonomy); ?>
Installation
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- Upload the
shortlinksfolder into your plugin directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Screenshots
Easily get shortlinks for posts
Easily get shortlinks for pages
Easily get shortlinks for a single page
Easily get shortlinks for categories
Why I Created It
WordPress supports shortlinks by default, but only allows the user to get the shortlink for a post. Finding it unacceptable, I created a plugin to get shortlinks for all content types.
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Change Log
v0.1 – 12th April 2010
- Initial Release
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Ok maybe this is stupid – but where do I put that snippet of code so that this works?
In my tests, ?p=id shortlinks work for both posts and pages. They’re a little shorter than ?page_id=. I’m not sure why WordPress does not support ?p= shortlinks for pages automatically.
I cruised your various sites. Interesting. I resorted to whois to find an email for you before I realised I could post a comment here on this plugin. I’ve published a somewhat popular plugin myself and I get fed up with people emailing me problems when I’ve specifically asked them to post comments, so I thought I better check here first!
Would you be so kind as to email me if you reply to this comment? I haven’t subscribed to the comment feed by RSS and I don’t see an email subscribe button on this blog.
Oh, on a complete aside, while I think about it, would you be interested in forming a WordPress hosting cooperative?
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