Ever had someone make a comment on your blog and leave a really long, ugly URL in the post? Sometimes it will break your theme and make your site look silly, but even if it doesn’t, it’s still really ugly.
Keep those URLs under control with WP Chunk, a great little plugin that takes those long URLs and compresses them into a much better-looking and less destructive link, while still keeping it intact.
You can even define how long you would like the truncated link to be (in characters.) Take a look at the first comment below to see what the plugin does to the long URLs.
Download WP-Chunk for Wordpress
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Here’s what a shortened URL looks like:
http://egonitron.com/2007/05/1.....ing-tools/
As you can see if you click on it, it still leads to the full URL I typed in.
Thanks for the kind words, I’m glad to hear you fins my little plugin useful
It’s gotten pretty damn popular!
Whoo: Thanks for creating it!
Egon, thanks for the link. We run into this fairly often on my blog and I usually end up having to fix it by hand. This is going to be a big time saver. Thanks again! Oh and mad props to whoo!
Good to hear. I hope it really helps you out, Seo blog.
egon, any other useful plugins I should look into? Right now I use akismet and wp-cache and that’s about it.
@Seo blog: Absolutely! I have a bunch of plugins I can recommend, depending on what it is you want to do specifically. Head over to my contact form and we can email each other instead of using the comments:
http://egonitron.com/contact/