[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10640: Support "shortlink" URL shortening

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#10640: Support "shortlink" URL shortening
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 Reporter:  samj             |        Owner:          
     Type:  feature request  |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal           |    Milestone:  3.0     
Component:  General          |      Version:          
 Severity:  normal           |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  needs-patch      |  
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Comment(by miqrogroove):

 I believe there's a 3.0 feature freeze just around the corner, so can we
 help give samj a yes/no answer to his feature request?

 The latest version of my plugin provides automatic shortlinks on posts,
 attachments, pages, and categories.  Shortlinks for tags are disabled in
 my plugin, but I added comments in each function where it could be
 supported given a custom/future redirection system.

 This framework also includes two template tags for human-readable links,
 which were found to be preferred by Google.  The need for a second tag
 arises in distinguishing between singular and loop type objects (category
 page vs. each post's category) in templates, which had not been a concern
 in the headers-only protocol.

 I'm open to ideas about making my plugin more abstract, if that helps.

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