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WP Plugin: Shrink your affiliate links

Own a WP blog? This is pretty nifty!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/

Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. You can now shorten links using your own domain name (as opposed to using tinyurl.com, bit.ly, or any other link shrinking service)! In addition to creating clean links, Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host. Pretty Link is a killer plugin for people who want to mask their affiliate links, track clicks from emails, their links on Twitter to come from their own domain, or generally increase the reach of their website by spreading these links on forums or comments on other blogs.

Sounds good. Thanks for sharing! I'll try it.

good plugin, I own pretty link pro ;)

Also, if anyone is interested in only the short links without all the other tracking information:

You can have very, very short links like this:

http://www.cutiesr.us/a/4305

That go to their corresponding posts. #4305 is the post's ID, and goes here:

http://www.cutiesr.us/4305-erica-won...fect-tits.html

(your perma link will change depending on your settings, of course).

All you need is the following ...

Create folder "a" in your root.

Inside, create two files, ".htaccess" and "index.php"

Inside the .htaccess file, put:

Code:

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On



RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ /a/index.php?id=$1 [R=301,L]

inside index.php put:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?
// URL variables
$id = $_GET['id'];
if(!ctype_digit($id)){header("Location: /");}
// Include base WP files and connect to DB
include('../wp-config.php');
mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db(DB_NAME) or die(mysql_error());
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM {$table_prefix}posts WHERE ID='{$id}' LIMIT 1");
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

$url = get_permalink($id);
header("Location: {$url}");
exit();

And whala, you've got your very own short URLs!

edit: hi fris!

Bump for a helpful WP resource

nice stuff :thumbsup

I've been using Twitter Friendly Links exclusively for that purpose, but I will have to check this out. If I am reading the OP right, that would do away with me having to use a links.php file to mask affiliate urls.

Coolness, and thanks for sharing!

Anyone using the PRO version of this?

If I read well, then you can change all exsisting links with the PRO version?

sounds like a blast. thanks !

Quote:

Originally Posted by closer (Post 16793386)

Anyone using the PRO version of this?

If I read well, then you can change all exsisting links with the PRO version?

ya plus a bunch of other features, i bought the unlimited pro license

"gocodes" plugin does it well

Seems to be a good one, thanks for sharing!