{"id":98348,"date":"2012-09-29T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=98348"},"modified":"2012-10-07T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T22:54:43","slug":"how-to-shorten-your-wordpress-post-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/how-to-shorten-your-wordpress-post-links\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Shorten Your WordPress Post Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need to shorten the links to your WordPress posts?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy with the free <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/jetpack\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress jetpack plugin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot of spammers and malware creators use long links, and I\u2019ve noticed a lower click through rate with long links, probably because of this. Thankfully WordPress has the solution built right into the post editing dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>All you do is click that little \u201cGet shortlink\u201d option, as in this screenshot\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98349 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/short-link-1.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"750\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2026and you get an instant short link for your WordPress post:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98350 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/short-link-2.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"750\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Try it out next time you\u2019re in WordPress<\/p>\n<p>-Enjoy,<\/p>\n<p>Seth C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to instantly shorten your WordPress blog links for sharing on Twitter, in emails or on Facebook wall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132058,"featured_media":98352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[982],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-98348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98348"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=98348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}