fitztrev

Are they both actually links? If you click them do they do anything? or are they just text?

The comment one is usually automatically turned into a link while the post one remains just text. That might be what the problem is.

Make it a link.

Click on the “Show/Hide Kitchen Sink” button in the TinyMCE viewer (it’s the last button with 3 rows of small, colorful squares). It will show you a whole new row of the less commonly used buttons.

Is the URL that you are testing in your content indeed long enough? It has to be at least 50 characters.

You can change that on this line:

if ( strlen($link) > 50 ) {

I just tested exactly like you have pasted above and it worked perfectly.

I released a plugin that does this: Comment Url Compacter

It does it for comments only, but add this line to it, and it will work the way you want, too:

add_filter('the_content', 'compact_comment_urls');

Whatever file you’re working on… wherever you want the WordPress functions.

Just do a php require of wp-blog-header.php.

Example:

require_once('/home/fitztrev/public_html/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');

Then you can use any of WordPress’s functions.

I experienced something very similar to this earlier today. I couldn’t reproduce it, though. (I forgot what I had done.)

So I can verify the behavior.

I use it for clients. No problems.

Why care? It doesn’t change anything for your visitors.

It sounds like a lot of work and will make upgrading a hassle.

I don’t think it’s possible. You could edit your templates to make your own title function used only for posts.

P.S. There are also these 2 functions which may be helpful, although wp_insert_post already incorporates them:

wp_set_post_categories()
wp_set_post_tags()

You can use custom fields, maybe?

AdSense limits how many ads can show. I believe it’s 3 ad blocks and 1 ad link per page.

The easiest way is to call the wp_insert_post() function.

Do a ‘require’ of wp-blog-header.php in your script and you’ll be able to call it. You pass wp_insert_post() an array that contains all the post info and the categories/tags and it will take care of the rest.