Good News for wordpress.com bloggers. Automattic’s wordpress.com introduced their own url shortening service but just for wordpress.com blogs. Now blogs on wordpress.com get inbuilt feature of url-shortening service. While writing any blog post, you get an option to create a short-link for that post alongside the post permalink. The short link would be somewhat like http://wp.me/abcd .. The biggest advantage of using this feature is their reliability i.e. as long as wordpress.com is live, your links will remain live. Now bloggers should not fear about their tiny links going dark and serving the unpleasant ‘not found error’.
Some of the remarkable shouts about this feature as stated on wordpress official blog are :
- 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.
Shorten url on wordpress.com hosted blog
How can you use it?
You can’t use it if you are on self-hosted wordpress blog as of now..
While creating or editing any post, you can click on ‘Get Shortlink’ button next to permalink, and in the popup, the short-url for that post would be already highlighted. Just use the link as you want.
Shortlink feature is also available for any page on your WordPress.com hosted blog, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar.
Did this new service made difference to wordpress.com hosted blogs ?
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Does it mean that we are going to see this for self hosted wordpress blog also? The best thing is it is a two letter TLD and reliablity is the biggest factor.
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@Ricky – No Ricky bro as self hosted wordpress blogs may mark spamming and they ensure their new service remains spam free..