Shortlinks
You may already be using one of the popular URL shorteners, such as bit.ly or TinyURL, to publish links on Twitter or other services. WordPress.com has its own URL shortening feature, wp.me, so that you can quickly and easily get shortened links to your blog posts and pages and share them to the world.
- Go to Posts/Pages -> Add New or open an existing post/page in editing mode.
- Directly under the title field, next to the post/page Permalink, you will see the Get Shortlink button.
- Click Get Shortlink; a dialog box will appear with the post or page’s shortened URL. Copy it and distribute it as you wish.
Sure, the functionality is the same as other URL shortening services, but WP.me is different in a few ways:
- WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world.
- Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now.
- These are all exposed in the <head> using rel=shortlink.
- It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones.
- The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
- WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com.
Last modified: October 22, 2009
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