ShortURL
The ShortURL plugin provides short canonical permalinks to your posts and pages similarly to WordPress.com via its WP.me service.
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·10 active installs·Updated 16 years agoAs of April 2026, ShortURL is a WordPress shorturl plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 4.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Shorter Links.
0/5Rating
10active installs
4.1K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
The ShortURL plugin allows you to use your blog as your own URL shorterning service by implementing the Short URL Auto-Discovery specification. Your short URLs will be in the form of http://domain/-code.
The auto-discovery feature allows third-party services that honor it to use your own short URLs instead of generating new ones using services such as TinyURL, bit.ly, and others. This gives your posts and pages canonical short URLs that give you all SEO benefits and don’t leak traffic out to external domains and will prevent linkrot. The homepage short URLs is set to just http://domain/ as a unique feature.
The other great benefit of the ShortURL plugin is that the generated short URLs won’t break if you change the permalink structure of your blog or rename the slug of a parti…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.7+ requiredTested up to 2.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
0.4.2
- Minor plugin info cleanup
Contributors
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