For Social Network Sharing (to services like Facebook and Twitter) and for SEO purposes it can be very beneficial to create short URL Links (for example: http://tinyurl.com/7aueutw) for your post articles and pages, this can be quite simple to create and setup in your WordPress site. Here at Press Pixels we have created a quick guide below on how to create short URL (TinyURL for this guide) and with this create Twitter Publish Links for your Posts.
Getting the Short URL (TinyURL)
This quick tip tutorial will create a Short URL for your Post, and then will also show you how to use that link to create a custom “Share on Twitter” button. Firstly, open up your themes functions.php file and add the following code at the bottom; this little snippet gets called within your post and returns the generated TinyURL for a post. Read more…