Comments on: YOURLS: Short URL Widget

By: Alex (Viper007Bond)

Alex (Viper007Bond) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:39:01 +0000

My plugin pulls the data from the YOURLS plugin which in turn pulls the data from a custom field where the short URL has been cached.

By: AMYunus

AMYunus — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:06:03 +0000

Hi Alex,
Your widget displays an automatic generated short url. And then sometime I change the short url to another url. But your widget seems display the old short url.

By: Nathan Bunn

Nathan Bunn — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:15:28 +0000

Cheers Alex, but there’s actually no need to fiddle with anything.

I had a look through the Options panel of Ozh’s plugin and, lo and behold, found options to create short URLs for forums, topics and replies, as well as media and posts. Yet another lesson in searching before asking for the answer :$

Also, using Keith’s code (for some reason, the code you gave didn’t do anything), I’ve been able to call URLs for each topic and forum from in my template as normal. Since bbPress 2.0 sits in your standard WordPress template and uses the standard WordPress theme files, I assume that the widget will work. Since my theme is completely static, I can’t guarantee that, but I’d be willing to bet money they will stay, even when browsing the forums.

This is going to make my custom share links absolutely fantastic. Thanks!!!

By: Alex (Viper007Bond)

Alex (Viper007Bond) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:08:08 +0000

My plugin merely exposes the short URLs that Ozh’s plugin fetches, assigns, and stores. In short, you’ll want to talk to Ozh to confirm that his plugin is having short URLs generated for forum topics.

My plugin may also need massaging though as it will only display the widget if is_singular() returns true (i.e. you’re viewing a single post or page) which I doubt it does for forum threads, but I’m not familiar enough with bbPress to be sure.

In short, you’ll need to fiddle with stuff.

By: Nathan Bunn

Nathan Bunn — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:27:38 +0000

Does this plugin also work with bbPress 2.0 forum topics (since bbPress moved from a standalone piece to a plugin for WordPress since version 2.0)? I’d ask about Yourls to Twitter, but that’s not your plugin as you’ve said, so I figure that, if this works with bbPress 2.0, so will Ozh’s plugin, since that plugin is a prerequisite to using yours.

By: Alex (Viper007Bond)

Alex (Viper007Bond) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:56:55 +0000

This is more a YOURLS question than a question relating to my plugin, but yes. The tweet button itself is configurable, although it will depend on how you’re adding the button to your site. If it’s just in your theme, then it’s easy. Just use http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_shortlink

By: John

John — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:26:57 +0000

Thanks for this great plugin! Is there anyway to integrate the short-url into the ‘Tweet’ button? Example, when a user clicks the button, the short-url is populated in the text area, instead of the page’s long url.

By: Alex (Viper007Bond)

Alex (Viper007Bond) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:03:01 +0000

Sure. Use this:

[url]

By: klynn

klynn — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:41:03 +0000

Hi. Is there any way to make the short link a live url? Thanks..

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:30:58 +0000

Great plugin, thanks…

By: alan peterson

alan peterson — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:26:50 +0000

Great Plugin.. I got here via link from Pligg to (http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/yourls-shorturl-widget/) From (http://forums.pligg.com/questions-comments/23175-yourls-short-urls-your-domain.html) Seems Pliggs got it all figured out. They dont want to talk about YoURLs at all!

By: Yourls short urls on your domain | PHP World

Yourls short urls on your domain | PHP World — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:46:32 +0000

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By: Yourls short urls on your domain | Pligg CMS Forum

Yourls short urls on your domain | Pligg CMS Forum — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:36:18 +0000

[...] urls with my own domain name like the YoURLs plugin for wordpress . You can read about this here YOURLS: Short URL WordPress Plugin Basically you install YoURLs in a sub folder on your domain and use it to output a shortened url [...]

By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:00:22 +0000

Thanks Alex, much appreciated. I’ve been looking everywhere. Great Plugin btw

By: Alex (Viper007Bond)

Alex (Viper007Bond) — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:48:20 +0000

They’re cached in the post meta by the YOURLS WordPress plugin (not my plugin).