Redirection is a Wordpress plugin that let’s you add URL redirections to your blog. This is very useful if the addess of some or even all of your blog posts changed. The setup is straight forward: just enter source and target URL and the redirection is set up. The more advanced users can even add redirections based on regular expressions.
I (mis)used this plugin to setup short URLs to my profiles on social networks. I own the domain frommknecht.net, which happens to be my surname followed by the .net extension. So I thought it would be a great idea to forward frommknecht.net/fb to my Facebook profile, frommknecht.net/twitter to my Twitter page and so on. With Redirection, that’s very easy. Just go to the Redirection-settings, enter e.g. /twitter as “Source URL” and the link to your Twitter page as target. That’s all. After adding the redirection, your Twitter page will be available via http://<your-blog-url>/twitter.
This way, you could even use Wordpress as your private short-URL service ala bit.ly.
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