Comments on: Shorter Links WordPress plugin

By: BillSaysThis

BillSaysThis — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:30:08 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the plugin! I've installed to our blog and can see the short URL in the header of single post pages, but the URLs don't work, they result in a Not Found error message.

Example: http://blog.kachingle.com/2010/03/pardon-this-brief-commercial-interruption-and-3k-post-celebration-by-masterstrack/

Short URL of same: http://blog.kachingle.com/1232

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

By: Rev=Canonical and all that Jazz | DaveDevelopment

Rev=Canonical and all that Jazz | DaveDevelopment — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:58:38 +0000

[...] also contributed a basic bit of code to Rob Allen's Shorter Links plugin for wordpress, allowing users to specifying a base url, davedevelopment.co.uk isn't [...]

By: Sam Johnston

Sam Johnston — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:31:54 +0000

Sorry to be the one to spoil the party, but RevCanonical is a notoriously bad idea. Google's Matt Cutts for one has pointed out the security implications of claiming canonical-ness rather than giving it (as they do), and if you're going to list one inbound link then you really should list them all. A *much* better idea is to use rel=shortcut. It fits with "shortcut icon" and actually makes sense ("shortcut" means "a route shorter than the usual one", referring to the canonical URL in this instance). It avoids URI vs URL confusion, space vs underscore confusion, and most importantly REV vs REL confusion (that could result in users' sites vanishing from the Internet). Sam

By: Rob...

Rob... — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:34:37 +0000

Jeff,

Thank you very much :)

It works on my installation, but I have output buffering enabled, so missed it...

Regards,

Rob..

By: Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:02:06 +0000

Here you go (sent by email too):

http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/2009/shorter-links-headers-fix.patch

By: Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:00:53 +0000

The

if (!headers_sent())

check will never succeed in a wp_head action, and not just because the line preceding it was an echo. ;-) I'll send you a patch to fix this up.

By: baron

baron — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:29:31 +0000

Works great, thank you