Comments on: Shorten this

By: The Internet

The Internet — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:29:29 +0000

[...] in August Jeffrey Zeldman posted an article called Shorten This about the evils of URL shortening services. He says that publishers should publish their own short [...]

By: Permanent Redirect with an Action Filter | {funky fresh}

Permanent Redirect with an Action Filter | {funky fresh} — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:35:28 +0000

[...] “Shorter URLs” and really enjoyed the insights. At the bottom of his post he credits Zeldman with a similar post, both focusing on the potential pitfalls and frustrations with URL shortening. [...]

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Linky na v�kend 253 | conBLOG p�e Ji�� Bure� — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:59:19 +0000

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By: Indirizzi abbreviati? I grandi del web li gestiscono in proprio / Web 2.0, Social Network, Motori di ricerca, Blogging, P2p, Virus, Applicazioni web / Web *.0 / Mytech

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:24:27 +0000

[...] soluzione più ovvia -suggerita anche da Jeffrey Zeldman- è quella di creare un proprio servizio di abbreviazione, cosa che diversi siti e servizi [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:04:05 +0000

Love this Plugin. This gives the links I offer to people a bit of legitimacy, just as emailing from my own email address does.

Also, birds fly south in the winter.

By: bb

bb — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:38:48 +0000

Hi, please try this multiple URL shortener:
http://0xbb.us
It’ll shorten many links into one page, and provide visit count!
It will work perfectly when you want to share many links at once,
especially for contents like news, pictures….

I hope you find it useful! ^^

By: Rahim Snow

Rahim Snow — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:45:27 +0000

Alright,

Thanks to Dean Robinson’s comment at http://cdevroe.com/notes/wp-short-urls/, I found the answer I was looking for.

Adding this line in your .htaccess

RewriteRule ^x/([0-9]+)$ ?p=$1 [R=301,L]

automatically gives your blog posts their own short URLs based on their post ID.

http://zeldman.com/2009/08/10 (WP already does it for you)

http://zeldman.com/?p=50 (WP already does it for you)

http://zeldman.com/x/50 (that new line in your .htaccess takes care of this)

Enjoy!
Rahim

By: Rahim Snow

Rahim Snow — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:18:41 +0000

Jeffrey,

Help me understand. The Short URL plugin allows you to manually create shortened urls. This means that once you finish a blog post, you go to this plugin, create a short url, and point it to your new blog post’s long url. Only then do you have http://zeldman.com/x/50, correct? Or am I mistaken? I tried the plugin and this is how it appears to behave.

What I’m looking for is a plugin that automatically generates short urls of all your existing posts and pages. That way, as soon as you activate the plugin, the following urls become available

http://zeldman.com/2009/08/10 (WP already does it for you)

http://zeldman.com/?p=50 (WP already does it for you)

http://zeldman.com/x/50 (the plugin would take care of this)

Do you or anyone else know of a plugin that does that?

Thanks so much!
Rahim

By: Are URL shortners reliable? — Steve Kinney

Are URL shortners reliable? — Steve Kinney — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:04:42 +0000

[...] Gruber, Jeffrey Zeldman, and Joshua Schachter all recommend that sites consider rolling their own shortened URLs. Zeldman [...]

By: Short Links, IDNs (and Wordpress) - Who is Chris Neale?

Short Links, IDNs (and Wordpress) - Who is Chris Neale? — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:04:37 +0000

[...] This http://zeldman.com/x/50 and the comments attached to [...]

By: SitePoint Podcast #24: Those Frames are Ironic

SitePoint Podcast #24: Those Frames are Ironic — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:50:03 +0000

[...] Shorten This (Jeffrey Zeldman) [...]

By: Chris Neale

Chris Neale — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:50:29 +0000

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By: Things I Shared This Week — kevinbriody.net

Things I Shared This Week — kevinbriody.net — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:55:48 +0000

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By: URL shorteners | Publishing 2.0 Reading | Newsgroup | Publish2

URL shorteners | Publishing 2.0 Reading | Newsgroup | Publish2 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:34:26 +0000

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By: Preparation for the Fall | CoPress

Preparation for the Fall | CoPress — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:31:28 +0000

[...] Facebook, FriendFeed, and tr.im. Jeffery Zeldman, a notable designer, has taken the approach of not using any third-party URL shorteners and instead runs all of his posts off his own domain with a WordPress plugin called, you guessed [...]