{"id":67,"date":"2010-08-29T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T23:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-08-31T07:37:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T14:37:44","slug":"lessn-your-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/lessn-your-url\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessn Your URL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68\" title=\"lessn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lessn.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lessn.png 600w, https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/lessn-300x50.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just ran across a pretty awesome personal url shortener (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shauninman.com\/archive\/2009\/08\/17\/less_n\" target=\"_blank\">Lessn<\/a>)\u00a0that you can use on your own site. These services are great for sharing links, especially on Twitter to reduce character count. For instance, this posts link is (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/lessn-your-url\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/lessn-your-url\/<\/a>), but shortened to (<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffsoo.com\/s\/3\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/jeffsoo.com\/s\/3<\/a>).\u00a0It is extremely easy to install and use. After I set up a database and changed some settings in the .php file, I was good to go. The only thing that I would prefer is that it would create a url without the extra folder (<em>http:\/\/wwww.website.com<\/em><strong>\/x\/<\/strong>), but I would assume that it could work if I threw all the files into my root folder.\u00a0Though it doesn&#8217;t provide any metrics like bit.ly, it&#8217;s definitely worth a try on your own site, especially if you have your own shorter vanity url.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just ran across a pretty awesome personal url shortener (Lessn)\u00a0that you can use on your own site. These services are great for sharing links, especially on Twitter to reduce character count. For instance, this posts link is (http:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/lessn-your-url\/), but shortened to (http:\/\/jeffsoo.com\/s\/3).\u00a0It is extremely easy to install and use. After I set up a database [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,33],"tags":[38,14,37],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-web","tag-bit-ly","tag-twitter","tag-url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}