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(Short URLs) Now Every Blog and Post On WordPress.com Has a WP.me URL

Very much awaited and an interesting feature has got added to Wordpress.com blogs today, they now have a short url of their own, powered by Wp.me . Automattic has decided to grant Wp.me urls to all permalinks in Wordpress.com blogs. In a blog Automattic says

URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways.

  • WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world.
  • Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now.
  • These are all exposed in the <head> using rel=shortlink.
  • It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones.
  • The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
  • WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com.

If you are a Wordpress.com user, there is now a “Get Shortlink” button next to your permalink when you edit or write a post, and when you click it you’ll get a popup with the beautiful link already highlighted for your copy and pasting pleasure.

Image: Wordpress.com blogs and posts get Wp.me short urls.

Image: Wordpress.com blogs and posts get Wp.me short urls.

If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar.

Congratulations to Automattic for getting this cool feature up. TinyURL and Bit.ly you dont need to worry much, because this feature (Wp.me short urls) will only work for WP.com hosted blogs.

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