When sharing urls on Twitter or other social bookmarking tools, you need short urls. The most common solution is to use an url shortener services. Even if this is a good idea, you can get short urls using only WordPress. How? Just read on.
This hack is very simple. Instead of using permalinks, let's use the post ID to get a shorter url.
Paste the following code on your single.php file:
<?php echo get_bloginfo('url')."/?p=".$post->ID; ?>
It will output an url of this form:
http://www.wprecipes.com/?p=54
And you're reading for twitter sharing!
Thanks to Aytemir for this great idea!
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