Short Links?

Hi there!

Thank you very much for your kind words. I am very glad you like the plugin! ??

Shortening URLs is on our road map. We would normally integrate Bit.ly API into the plugin, so it’s self-sufficient and doesn’t require any third party add-ons. We also don’t want users to be limited to just bit.ly, some may want to use other service providers. Hence, we want to take a little bit more time on this ??

Thank you for the suggestion. If you have some more, please direct them to us!

All the best

Another vote for short URLs, please. Otherwise, an excellent plugin.

Thanks!

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Fantastic!

Are there any particular shortening services you would like to see within the plugin?

1. Actually, I have my own purchased URL that I use for my own short code – SocialAlerts.com vs Alrtz.co – could you add a way to include custom short urls?

2. I’d like the ability to use the “?p=nnnnn” as a shortlink as well so I can use SocialAlerts.com/?p=nnnn / Alrtz.co/?p=nnnn instead of twitter truncating the url if its too long ??

3. Last (and feel free to remove this as its ALMOST off topic), please remove the need for {{URL}} to be mandatory in a tweet template. That way, I could manually add my (or any) shorturl if I wish ??

THX!

Thank you for your suggestions. These are fantastic.

I am not sure we will be able to support custom shortening such as your own domain. However, if we add the Bit.ly support to Tweet Wheel you will be able to setup your own domain in your Bit.ly account and use that within Tweet Wheel. A small workaround, but as a reward for using Bit.ly you get pretty amazing analytics.

3. Last (and feel free to remove this as its ALMOST off topic), please remove the need for {{URL}} to be mandatory in a tweet template. That way, I could manually add my (or any) shorturl if I wish ??

I know for a fact we cannot do this. The reason it’s there is to prevent people from abusing the plugin. I would really love to believe in everyone’s good intentions, but I know for a fact there are users that would schedule random tweets not related to any post at all. It could result in Twitter banning Tweet Wheel app.

Another reason is to prevent people from complaining that a URL to their post wasn’t automatically appended to a tweet, which one would assume. Some may think that URL is being added automatically when a tweet is pushed to Twitter, which is incorrect.

There must be a validation. I am sorry.

However, if we introduce Bit.ly, bullet point number three will become irrelevant because you will use your own domain via them!

With respect, I know for a fact that you can. And Im not sure why one would say that you can not.

There are DOZENS of plugins that let you customize your URL and they have NOT been banned. YES, there are those who will abuse the function, without question. But simply because there MIGHT be abuse doesnt mean that there WILL be abuse. To say that you cannot do this…is a lot different than saying that you will not do it for whatever your reasoning.

For example, if my url to tweet is SocialAlerts.com/washingtondc/july4thweekend, thats more than 22 chracters and Twitter will shorten it. I’d rather it say Alrts.co/July4thInDC which would make it look better visually (twitter would not shorten it) and redirect it to the original post on my end, a completely legitimate process. YES one could abuse that but that isnt YOUR fault. Thats the wordpress owners fault. And that wouldnt get YOUR program banned…it may get THEIR account banned but not YOURS…

In either event, I’d like you to consider it. It would be an excellent addition for your product and some of the best products out there have the ability to use custom shorteners…