Shorten long URLs (NOT like tinyurl.com

  • silentwarrior

    (@silentwarrior)


    19 years ago

    Hi everyone

    I just installed WordPress yesterday, and now Ia€?m looking for a plug-in which shortens my long URLs. It should put three dots somewhere inside the URL, I dona€?t want tinyurl.com or sth. similar. (Maybe you know the three-dot function from some forums.)

    Is there such a plug-in? Or anything comparable? Thanks in advance for your help, Ia€?ve been googling for quite a long time now without finding anything useful.

    Regards,

    Sacha

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  • vaamyob

    (@vaamyob)

    If you want, “my-shorter-url” instead of, “this-is-a-really-long-url-that-I-am-not-fond-of”

    you can change the post slug to “my-shorter-url”

    on a post by post basis ??

    Thread Starter silentwarrior

    (@silentwarrior)

    Hi!

    Thanks for your response, but ita€?s not about the titles of the blogs. I know how to shorten the slugs, but they are finde. In fact, during my Google research I even found a web site which dealt with the problem of (too) long slugs.

    Buta€“againa€“this is not my problem. Ia€?m speaking about totally normal links in the post text which are just too long for the width of my web site.

    Les Bessant

    (@lesbessant)

    You mean you’re entering links something like this:

    http:\www.thisisaveryveryverylonglink.etc.etc.com

    Why not enter them like this:

    <a href="http:\www.thisisaveryveryverylonglink.etc.etc.com">a description of a link</a>

    Which will just show the text in your post, nicely underlined as a link?

    Or am I missing what you’re after as well?

    TechGnome

    (@techgnome)

    https://www.thisisnotwhathewants.com

    https://www.thisis…wants.com

    I’m assuming the link itself will be the full URL, only the text would be shortened.

    <a href="http:www.thisisthekindhewants.com">www.thisis...wants.com</a>

    ???

    -tg

    I’d like to have a solution to this problem too. It can really screw up themes in some browsers (esp IE it seems.)

    Actually, I just found the solution!
    https://minglewithingle.com/archives/2005/06/24/link-truncator-v05/

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