Comments on: Simple URL Shortener

By: David

David — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:12:34 +0000

I’ve taken a quick look and it uses a compatible API, so I’ll add it to the next release!

By: shelby

shelby — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:16:35 +0000

Anyway you can add http://minify.us to the included shorteners?

By: David

David — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:01:33 +0000

LESSN is free URL Shortening service that you can install on your own domain. This means that there’s no fixed URL associated with it – currently, as this plugin stands, that’s not supported.

Besides, I’ve taken a quick look and API details are not obvious. I can see an API key is present and there’s a bookmarklet option available, but I can’t find any API documentation. As much as I’d love to have to install and work it out from scratch via the code… no, I won’t

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:49:33 +0000

Is this compatible with the Shaun Inman “LESSN” personal URL shortener? It has an API ( which I use on my iPhone with Tweetie2).

By: Lloyd Vincent

Lloyd Vincent — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:12:49 +0000

I had the same problem as Local Landing I think and resolved it by creating the cache folder manually since for some reason it didn’t exist after installing the plugin.

Works great now, thanks!

By: David

David — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:18:28 +0000

The first thing to do is to confirm the attributes on the cache folder – ensure it is fully writable.

If that doesn’t work the latest version of the plugin has an option to turn off the caching – that certainly should resolve the issue!

By: The Local Landing

The Local Landing — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:50:28 +0000

We’ve been using simple twitter link (and URL shortener since 1.5) to put a twitter link on each of our posts, but it seems like with each update it becomes more and more difficult to have things display properly. Currently, instead of a twitter link, we’re showing an error message:
Simple URL Shortener: Could not update cache file …/simple-url-shortener/cache/c2bb4c9e31be9949ac09e2104a3685b2a3aa60e0.suc

This started happening after the latest update of Simple URL shortener.

Before the last update, this code worked fine for providing a twitter link for us.

Is there something in the new update of Simple URL shortener that isn’t working with Simple Twitter Link? I can’t figure out what to do.

Any help is appreciated.

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By: David

David — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:36:04 +0000

Hi Larry.

I’d put a facility in to define your own, but there are so many different ways that the API works, it would be difficult to do so.

If it’s one that’s not exclusively for yourself and has an API of some kind, then let me know the details and I’ll get it added.

By: Larry McLeod

Larry McLeod — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:08:11 +0000

I want to use this with bw.ly which I own I was going to upload WP to that – so do I understand this URL shortener I have to use one of the ones listed here? How can I use my own?