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WordPress Gets A URL Shortening Service WP.me

by | Friday, 14th Aug 2009 | Comment | Share

users, you misery of choosing between a good URL shortening service is now over. The WordPress team has released a new shortening service in the form of WP.me, this will be used across all the current WordPress.com services.

WP.me Features

  • WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world.
  • Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now.
  • These are all exposed in the <head> using rel=shortlink.
  • It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones.
  • The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
  • WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com.

There are several more things why WP.me is better than the other URL shorteners out there, Matt the co-founder of WordPress can explain better.

WP.me – shorten your links [Official WordPress Blog]

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