Hum

Hum is a personal URL shortener for WordPress, designed to provide short URLs to your personal content, both hosted on WordPress and elsewhere. For example, rather than a long URL for a WordPress post such as http://willnorris.com/2011/01/hum-personal-url-shortener-wordpress, you could have a short URL like http://willnorris.com/b/FJ. Additionally, if you have a custom domain for short URLs, you can shorten things further like http://wjn.me/b/FJ. Once the plugin is enabled, the shortlink for a page or post can be found in the “Shortlink” item in the WordPress Admin Bar.

WordPress post IDs are shortened using the NewBase60 encoding scheme which is specifically optimized for brevity and readability, with built-in error correction for commonly confused characters like ‘1…