Description
The default WordPress βshortlinkβ URLs look like this: http://www.example.com/blog/?p=123
, where β123
β is actually a 7+ digit decimal number. This plugin shrinks your shortlinks by encoding that number into only 4 characters, and using the abbreviated URL prefix of your choice.
On my site, the default shortlinks are 35 bytes long, even though I have a very short domain name. This plugin shrinks them to 21 total bytes, which is comparable to most public URL-shortener services, and better than many.
E.g., this: http://www.jwz.org/blog/?p=13240780
becomes: http://jwz.org/b/ygnM
This doesn’t affect your (long) permalinks: those can still be in whatever format you like.
Installation
- Upload the
base64-shortlinks
directory to your/wp-content/plugins/
directory. - Activate the plugin through the βPluginsβ menu in WordPress.
- Select the βBase64 Shortlinksβ menu under βSettingsβ and enter your Shortlink URL Prefix.
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Contributors & Developers
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Changelog
1.0
- Created
1.1
- Shortlinks that happened to have β-β in them were failing. Fixed.
1.2
- Fixed a bug that affected blogs installed in the root directory of their site.
1.3
- Fixed a bug that caused shortlinks to be longer than necessary on 32-bit systems.
1.4
- Fix for WordPress 4.0.
1.5
- Eliminated some PHP warnings.
1.6
- Don’t use PHP short-open tags.
1.7
- Added base64-redir-quick.php for those with performance concerns.