Automatically provide ShortURL for your WordPress blog posts

Automatically provide shorturls for your WordPress blog posts

Are you on Twitter? I am. This service make an intensive use of shorturls in order to reduce the size of urls. Why not provide automatically provide a shorturl to your readers so they can use it on Tweeter?

To achieve this recipe, simply open your functions.php file and paste the following code

function getsUrl($url) {

$surl = file_get_contents(“http://s.jar.io/api.php?url=”.$url);

return $surl;

}

On your single.php file, paste the following within the loop:

< ?php $turl = getsUrl(get_permalink($post->ID));

echo ‘ShortURL: < a href=”’.$turl.’”>‘.$turl.’< /a>‘

?>