Have you ever seen sites that have a little input field at the bottom of their post with a short link to their article? Well usually that shortlink is coming from the WordPress get_shortlink filter. In this article, we will show you how you can use the get_shortlink codes to display a little input box in your post. It will also allow your user to select the shortlink on one click which makes it easy for them to copy and paste it.
All you have to do is put this code somewhere in the loop (usually in single.php) file.
<?php if (function_exists('wp_get_shortlink')) { ?>
<div><span class="post-shortlink">Shortlink:
<input type='text' value='<?php echo wp_get_shortlink(get_the_ID()); ?>' onclick='this.focus(); this.select();' />
</span></div>
<?php } ?>
This will bring you the same shortlink that you see when you click the Get Shortlink Button below your post title.
By default it is yoursite.com/?p=1082 or something similar. But that can be replaced with other services by using any shortlink plugin that uses the “get_shortlink” filter to override the shortlink properly like WordPress.com Stats for (wp.me) or WP Bitly for (Bit.ly or Bit.ly PRO)
Once you have the code added in your theme, the preview would look like this:
Source: OttoPress
Hello there.
I am having JetPack which is providing wp.me shortlinks. I don’t wants to show the shorten URL to visitor but I wants, when they share my article on any social network then the short URL will propagate rather than the long %postname% format URL of my theme.
How to do that? If JetPack make it available then might my theme is not supporting that thing. I think there is something to do with rel=shortlink. Please help.
This was a wonderful post thank you so much, was first site i looked at in google and i found my answer right away just brilliant this worked for me, im using jet pack on my blog and it’s done the trick thank you so much for a simple way to integrate short links to post page. Just brilliant
Sorry, I don’t think I have a single.php file. Would I have to access that through the FTP site or can this be added somewhere on the our self-hosted WP dashboard?
Thanks!
If you don’t find a single.php file in your theme, this means that you are probably using a child theme. In which case, either you need to override that single.php file by creating a new one in your child theme’s folder. Or, you would need to use the hooks provided by your theme framework.
@Konstantin I have heard that Goo.gl is not so comfortable
There’s also a Goo.gl plugin for WordPress native shortlinks
And yes it’s written by me muwhahaha!
~ @kovshenin