Comments on: Using YOURLS with WordPress

By: Ian D

Ian D — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:57:49 +0000

Ahoy there,

is there a way to embed Yourls or at least get it running within a wordpress page or site?

cheers,

ian

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Setting up Your Own Yourls Short URL Service - VoodooPress — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:26:57 +0000

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By: Cristian

Cristian — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:40:01 +0000

Hi Otto,I installed YOURLS on wordpress multisite whit mapping plugin on and it is working, but I have a problem. I can’t set diffrent twitter addresses for each domain. Do you have an idee how I can do that?
Regards

By: Otto

Otto — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:46:50 +0000

This site is a multisite, domain mapping, install with http://ottodestruct.com. I’m using this plugin on it, Network Activated. So, works for me.

However, using YOURLS itself on the same domain as an existing WP install would indeed be problematic, at best. It could be done with some wild-and-wacky .htaccess rules, but it’d be fragile.

You might look at using a WP plugin to provide shortlinks instead. Something like this perhaps: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shorturl/

There’s others in the plugin directory too that might work.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:40:04 +0000

Sorry for digging up an old thread, but I too want to use this on the same site as a WordPress Network (multisite) installation. Not the wordpress plugin, per se, but install it on the same root directory as a wordpress network. I am very afraid that the either the Domain Mapping pluging or the wordpress permalink structure would conflict.

My network root is 4 characters plus a dot com, so the the shortest ever, but short enough. No one uses the root website other than me for network administration as of now. The other option is to create an additional url (then no worries, but don’t want to have to support another url forever for no reason) or just manually add redirects to by .htaccess whenever I want to create something short (wow would that be a pain). Or maybe there is other software that would work better for me.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

By: Jurij

Jurij — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:06:25 +0000

This helps me too. Thanks to Otto and Johnny!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:20:37 +0000

I use bit.ly pro for my shortlinks, does me fine!

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By: David Cowgill

David Cowgill — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:10:49 +0000

Great article Otto. I’ve setup yourls and it’s working nicely. The only change I wanted was to have a random short url created each time instead of the sequential numeric default.

I was going to hack at the code but found out a plugin already exists for this. It’s called “Random Keywords” and you can find it here: http://code.google.com/p/yourls/wiki/PluginRandomKeywords

Great stuff.

~David

By: Johnny Canuck

Johnny Canuck — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:50:37 +0000

Thanks Otto, I re-read your comments again and I managed to figured it out. I had to re-edit my .htaccess file for the YOURLS install directory:
# BEGIN YOURLS


RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /somedir/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /somedir/yourls-loader.php [L]

# END YOURLS
It’s the /somedir/ that is key. Both instances.