iestyn.net » short http://www.iestyn.net/wp "the concrete world is starting to get ya." Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:27:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Short URLs with Wordpress http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/07/short-urls-with-wordpress http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/07/short-urls-with-wordpress#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:21:36 +0000 Iestyn http://www.iestyn.net/wp/?p=290 A big thanks to Brighton-based NixonMcInnes for supplying a Wordpress plugin that, with widespread adoption, would help ease the problem that would occur should one of the URL-shortening services die. Jeremy also writes about the problem here.

After activating the NixonMcInnes plugin, the url of this post will be both a search-engine friendly: http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/07/short-urls-with-wordpress

..and it will also be:  http://iestyn.net/wp/?p=290

Ok,  so that’s 27 characters vs 25 for a tinyurl, and less should I want to alter some URL rewriting (which I’ll do soon). Not bad, and I’ve just saved my own tiny piece of the internets. 

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