[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10640: Support "shortlink" URL shortening
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#10640: Support "shortlink" URL shortening
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Reporter: samj | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: reopened
Priority: normal | Milestone: 3.0
Component: General | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: dev-feedback |
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Comment(by janeforshort):
-1. I'm with Denis, dd32, etc: plugin territory. wp.me is an Automattic
service, so keeping out of core is necessary to prevent built-in service
bias. Putting in something that would support choosing any service
wouldn't have the bias, but I doubt it would be a top request for the
majority of (our millions of worldwide) users, so on that count it doesn't
belong in core, but in a plugin. Putting in code to create a short URL
from your own domain name seems unevenly useful... the whole point of
shorteners is to get the minimum number of characters possible, but if my
blog is at anawesomebutlongishdomain.com, shortening the path without
shortening the domain name wouldn't help enough in the keep-it-under-140
effort.
So I vote plugin, and if the plugins that address it become popular
enough, we could consider a core plugin for it. Most core feature
proposals have to prove themselves by achieving popularity as a plugin
first; why should this one be different?
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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10640#comment:21>
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