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Shorten your urls with WP.me

Posted by on 16th Aug 2009 Blogging News 11 comments

WordPressWith the recent closing and then reopening of tr.im, url shorteners have been in the news a lot. Matt Mullenweg is keeping them in the news a bit longer with the announcement of WP.Me, WordPress.coms new url shortener and apparently the only two letter .me domain in the world.

Matt explains that it is different from services such as TinyURL in a few ways:

  • Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now.
  • These are all exposed in the using rel=shortlink.
  • It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones.
  • The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
  • WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com.

WordPress.com bloggers should now see a ‘Get Shortlink‘ button next to your permalink when you edit or write a post.

I love how this is integrated right into the post editor. Apparently, self hosted WordPress users can use this too if they have the stats plugin (thanks to Greg Falken for pointing this out).

Link : WP.me — shorten your links

Kevin Muldoon is a webmaster and blogger who lives in Central Scotland. His current project is WordPress Mods; a blog which focuses on WordPress Themes, Plugins, Tutorials, News and Modifications and useful resources such as 101 Places To Find Images For Your Blog Posts.

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11 comments - Leave a reply
  • Posted by Greg Falken on 16th Aug 2009

    According to Matt (in comments), self hosted WP blogs can use the shortening service if they install the stats plugin.
    • Posted by Kevin Muldoon on 16th Aug 2009

      Thanks for clarifying that Greg. I didn't notice that :)

    • Posted by excITingIP.com on 17th Aug 2009

      But how to use it in self hosted blogs? I use the WP.com stats there, but don't see any URL shortener link! If anyone can help, it would be great.

      excITingIP.com
    • Posted by AKAuser on 23rd Aug 2009

      I saw that in the comments too and I do have wp.com stats installed on a self-hosted install of WP but it is not giving me the Get Shortlink like I am getting on my wp.com blog. Has anyone unraveled this big mystery yet?
  • Posted by Stefan on 16th Aug 2009

    I didn't really see the purpose before but now when you mention tr.im I understand why this is important. Since WordPress are so big wp.me will stay around for a long time.
  • Posted by kusza on 16th Aug 2009

    interesting,but, for some reason,.. rather difficult to do that.

    i sould restart to listing my new tiny url in many search engines, web directories.
  • Posted by Wilmaryad O'Sca on 17th Aug 2009

    Kevin,

    I suggest you take out "recently" in "With the recent closing and then reopening of tr.im recently" because it sounds redundant.

    Nice post.

    Rock on!
    • Posted by Kevin Muldoon on 17th Aug 2009

      Thanks for noticing that. I actually changed that line before rewording and fixed it before publishing but when I updated the post to add in the note about self hosting users I updated an older autosave version. Doh!
  • Posted by poker on 18th Aug 2009

    WP.me — shorten your links…..i dont know it true or not.

    I must try it…..thanks for sharing
  • Posted by Bayrak on 19th Aug 2009

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  • Posted by Teknoloji haberleri on 19th Aug 2009

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