Shorten2Ping 1.2.2

Author: Samuel Aguilera

Sends status updates to Ping.fm or Twitter everytime you publish a post. Using Bit.ly, Tr.im, YOURLS, Su.pr or even your own domain for shortened permalinks (accounts on these services required). So this way you can send status to many sites at once if you have a Ping.fm account or send only to Twitter if you prefer that

Installation:

Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation (or install it directly from your dashboard) and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page.

After that go to options page ‘Shorten2Ping’ and fill the required information for your accounts, and customize the message template if you want.

Now you’re ready, the plugin will notify Ping.fm or Twitter (at your choice) everytime you publish a new post (and Ping.fm will do the same to every site that you configured there, if you use this service).

faq:

Will this plugin works in WordPress older than 2.7?

Maybe, but use it at your own risk. I’ll not support anyone using outdated WP (or outdated PHP). At this moment I’m running this plugin on WP 2.7.1 and PHP 5.x and works fine, and it’s supposed to do on WP 2.8 too (but not tested yet). If you run anything below WP 2.7 and PHP 5.x, please update for your own good! (and dont ask me for support).

Why you did this plugin?

I wanted a (single) simple plugin for using Ping.fm + Bit.ly to notify about new posts to my contacts.

Are you planning to add more features?

At first only a few little improvements maybe. But if someone suggest a nice feature, and if I have time enough maybe I’ll add it.

But it’s not my priority. I want to keep it simple.

I want to show the short permalink to my visitors. How can I do this?

Simply put in your theme where you want to show short permalink. You can add the parameter ‘linktext’, and it will use the short permalink as text for the link too. Or if you have advanced knowledge of WordPress

theme coding, you can get the ’short_url’ post meta directly and showing it as you like.

Hey man!, when I turn off shortener services in Shorten2Ping and send notifications directly to Twitter, I get Bit.ly links anyway…

Twitter has decided to shorten ALL URLs (except the ones already shortened) sent to Twitter using Bit.ly service (without user API). But you can keep track of the statistics if you dont put your Bit.ly information in the Shorten2Ping settings.

Shorten2Ping 1.2.2