Yes, the testing is complete and the new version of Simple URL Shortener is available.

The final tally is 87 new services, 1 removed, giving a grand total of 111.

There are some other changes too, including extra parameters to allow the passing of API keys, username and passwords to the shortening services.

Well, I managed to finish off testing all the URL shortening services yesterday. However, as this had involved code changes I thought it only prudent to re-test them all again.

Now I have 4 broken again… so more testing today. I notice that one site has been suspended – I wonder whether I should include them, assuming they’ll be back, or remove them?

You never know, I might have this plugin out this week. Maybe.

After an entire lunch of debugging, I’d managed to fix 2 URL shorteners! Sure enough, there was a bug in my JSON script.

Anyway, I spent a lot more time in the evening and managed to get the failures from 39 down to 14. This included 2 further bugs in the JSON code!

What has become obvious, is that there are few issues which effect a lot of URL shorteners – many are individual problems. There are also 2 APIs which don’t appear to be working properly, so the number I launch with may be going down.

I’ll spent this lunchtime hacking down the number again (although the poor, poor FTP speed I get at work really doesn’t help with this).