How To Create Even Shorter Pretty Links

March 11, 2010 by · 11 Comments
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Do you wish you could use a shorter domain name with your Pretty Links? Take the www out of the beginning of your Pretty Links? Is the WordPress portion of your website in a sub-directory and would like your Pretty Links to come from the top level of your domain name? Well, Pretty Link Pro can help you solve any of these problems to make your Pretty Links as short as possible.

So, granted, there are some small hurdles to get through initially but you’ll find that it’s quite easy to put your short links on another domain name and continue to manage them from your wordpress admin — even if your wordpress blog is in a subdirectory of your website.

Here’s what you’ll need to do to get a custom short link working: [Read more...]

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blairwilli @jenknox there is a way to use an alternate domain name for your Pretty Links -- this post may help: http://blairwilliams.com/syz
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blairwilli @chrisWhite Yes - that feature is in Pretty Link Pro -- here's a blog post I just did about it: http://blairwilliams.com/syz ...
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New Pretty Link Video Tutorials Added

November 9, 2009 by · 1 Comment
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demoI’ve had a ton of requests from Pretty Link and Pretty Link Pro users to update and expand my video tutorials for these products. I’ve finally gotten around to recording the first of these.

Do you need help with:

  • Getting started with Pretty Link on your WordPress Website
  • Setting up Pretty Link Redirects
  • Organizing your links with Pretty Link Groups
  • Advanced Link Options
  • Tracking Hits on your Pretty Links
  • Pretty Link Global Options

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dmhoro RT @blairwilli: New Pretty Link Video Tutorials Added http://blairwilliams.com/hxn (via @prettylink) thank you!!!
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More Twitter Automation Comes to Pretty Link Pro

October 14, 2009 by · 5 Comments
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multi_twitterIn the 1.4.27 release of Pretty Link Pro there are some major refinements. The first of these refinements is the ability to set up multiple twitter accounts that your blog can post to. You can now automatically post notifications of each of your blog posts to however many Twitter accounts you want to simultaneously. This feature arose from my need to tweet posts out to 3 twitter accounts that I own — before I was auto tweeting to my main account @supercleanse and then re-tweeting to my other two. This was time consuming and kind of defeated the purpose of auto tweeting altogether.

In addition to multiple twitter accounts, we’ve optimized the page load time for users of the social media button bar, re-tweet badge and of Pretty Link. Many of the SQL queries were slowing down some of the page load times.

Finally, we made many back end changes to the system so that it will be able to accommodate some of the awesome new features we have planned next (some of which were revealed in this month’s survey). Enjoy!

UPDATE: Okay, so there was actually a significant bug that was released with version 1.4.27 — if you haven’t done it already go out and upgrade to 1.4.28 where it has been fixed! Sorry for any issues.

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Social Network Buttons for Posts Added to Pretty Link Pro

September 6, 2009 by · 12 Comments
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I just added (in version 1.4.18) a simple but extremely useful feature to Pretty Link Pro — the social network buttons bar. This feature will put a configurable row of social networking buttons on your posts and/or pages that use your Pretty Links!

To enable this feature, just go to your “Pro Options” menu item, click “Page and Post Options”, make sure Automatic Pretty Link creation is enabled on pages and/or posts, and then click the checkbox to enable the social networks button bar… Now you can configure which buttons to display and where to display them (above or below your page/post content).

I’m personally excited to start using this feature on all of my sites — you can actually see it on this post. While this feature is cool and very useful, it is only the beginning — you can expect to start seeing even more exciting enhancements to this feature very soon.

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