{"id":1281,"date":"2009-06-25T22:56:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T20:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2009-06-25T22:56:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T20:56:06","slug":"introducing-yourls-your-own-url-shortener-and-its-wordpress-plugin-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/introducing-yourls-your-own-url-shortener-and-its-wordpress-plugin-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing YOURLS (Your Own URL Shortener) and its WordPress Plugin Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, if I didn&#39;t forget to upload a zip archive or to press a &quot;Commit&quot; button, it should be all here for you: the GPL&#39;d URL shortener <a href=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/didnt-know-but-im-awesm-a-post-about-url-shorteners-gpl-and-wordpress\/\">I wrote about earlier<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/lesterchan.net\/\">Lester Chan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/\">I<\/a> have been using for a while now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/yourls-logo.png\" alt=\"yourls-logo\" title=\"yourls-logo\" width=\"201\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1276\" \/>Our URL shortener service is called <a href=\"http:\/\/yourls.org\/\">YOURLS<\/a>, as in <strong>Y<\/strong>our <strong>O<\/strong>wn <strong>URL<\/strong> <strong>S<\/strong>hortener. It&#39;s all GPL, free, do-what-you-want-with-it. Lester is running it on his own domain lc.sg, I&#39;m running it on ozh.in, and it&#39;s fun :)<\/p>\n<p>A companion for YOURLS is a WordPress plugin (of course) that will generate short URLs for your posts when you publish them, and promote them on your Twitter account. You&#39;ll like the plugin even if you&#39;re not running your own YOURLS as it&#39;s also designed to work with tr.im, bit.ly, is.gd and tinyurl.com for maximum fun.<\/p>\n<p>Get <a href=\"http:\/\/yourls.org\/\">YOURLS<\/a>, then get the plugin: <a href=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/yourls-wordpress-to-twitter-a-short-url-plugin\/\">YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if I didn&#39;t forget to upload a zip archive or to press a &quot;Commit&quot; button, it should be all here for you: the GPL&#39;d URL shortener I wrote about earlier that Lester Chan and I have been using for a while now. Our URL shortener service is called YOURLS, as in Your Own URL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[85,354,245,359],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-plugins","tag-tinyurl","tag-wordpress","tag-yourls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}