This plugin makes your shortlinks shorter!
| Author: | jwz (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.7 |
| WordPress version tested: | 6.8.2 |
| Plugin version: | 1.7 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 12-08-2011 |
| Last updated: | 30-07-2025 |
| Rating, %: | 0 |
| Rated by: | 0 |
| Plugin URI: | https://www.jwz.org/base64-shortlinks/ |
| Total downloads: | 3 879 |
| Active installs: | 10+ |
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The default WordPress “shortlink” URLs look like this: http://www.example.com/blog/?p=123, where “123” 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.
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