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yourls-logoYOURLS (Your Own URL Shortener) is a URL shortener, like TinyURL, except it’s all GPL and you can run it on your own server, publicly or for your own use only. It was made by Lester Chan and myself. Learn more about YOURLS.

This plugin, YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter, is the bridge between YOURLS, Twitter and your blog: when you publish a post or a page, it will use your own YOURLS install, either hosted on the same webserver, or another server, to create a short URL for your post and send it to your Twitter account. The plugin also works with public popular services such as TinyURL, tr.im, is.gd or bit.ly.

Download

Download the plugin : yourls-wordpress-to-twitter.zip
Extract and upload to your blog, preserving directory structure.
Enjoy.

Features and configuration

I’m going to be lazy, aren’t screenshots worth a thousand words? Here are 3000 words.

Plugin configuration:
screenshot-1

Title little helper: count characters to help you keep under the tweetable 140 char limit:
screenshot-2

From the Write screen, you can (re)generate short URLs and (re)promote your (old, for example) posts:
screenshot-3

Template Tags for you theme

The plugin comes with two template tags:

wp_ozh_yourls_url()
Will echo a HTML link with short URL (will generate it on the fly if needed) for the current post.
Example output: <a href="http://ozh.in/j5" rel="nofollow alternate shorter" title="short URL">http://ozh.in/j5</a>
Suggested use: in the loop, in single.php, in page.php

wp_ozh_yourls_head_linkrel()
Will output a <link/> in <head> for the current post (see revcanonical.appspot.com and shorturl.appjet.net for more info)
Example output: <link rel="alternate short shorter shorturl" href="http://ozh.in/j5" />\n
Suggested use: in header.php, if is_single() or is_page()

wp_ozh_yourls_raw_url()
Will return (or echo if you pass true to it) the short URL, with no HTML tag or anything else. Just the raw URL.

Feedback

Yeah. Go ahead.

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  1. 156
    Aryan Australia »
    commented, on 12/Mar/10 at 11:01 pm # :

    or you can send me a config.php file which suits my need

  2. 155
    Aryan Taiwan »
    replied, on 12/Mar/10 at 9:42 pm # :

    Can we have a private chat so i can explain you the whole think so we can sort my problem out ;)

  3. 154
    Ozh France »
    commented, on 12/Mar/10 at 8:17 pm # :

    Aryan » I think I am exactly understanding what you want. Private install (password protected admin) *but* public stats and public API. Please re-read my replies and YOURLS doc.

  4. 153
    Aryan Australia »
    said, on 12/Mar/10 at 11:19 am # :

    you are not getting me … i want that people can see stat and able to use my website shortening service with yourls plugin but on the other hand admin must be protected

  5. 152
    Ozh France »
    said, on 11/Mar/10 at 9:49 pm # :

    Aryan » http://yourls.org/#Config see Optional settings

  6. 151
    Aryan Australia »
    thought, on 11/Mar/10 at 9:13 pm # :

    /** Private means protected with login/pass as defined below. Set to false for public usage. */
    define(‘YOURLS_PRIVATE’, false);

    Look at this ….

    if i set it to true no one can see stats of its shorten url…. and if it is false than anyone can access the admin panel
    or if i change the path of my admin folder

    my yourls to twitter plugin stops working

    Need Your help in this badly

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