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How To Start Shrinking Links On Your Domain Name in 5 minutes: Pretty Link Introduction Video

by Blair Williams on October 26, 2009 · 15 comments

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Let me show you how easy it is to be up and running with Pretty Link on your WordPress website in 5 minutes or less!

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How to Get Started Using Pretty Link — Blair Williams
October 26, 2009 at 8:39 pm

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J Glen January 11, 2010 at 9:22 am

Thanks for the Pretty Link Plugin and the supporting videos. This is easy to follow and helpful. I am just reviewing the first video so hope you don’t mind me commenting as I get to review other videos

Thanks again

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Renato January 25, 2010 at 1:28 am

Hi,

I have pro vertion, but I have a big problem.
All my posts starts with wide image, so when I chose the twitter bagde to stay in top right with text wrap, it appears in the back of the image.
Do you think you can help me fixing it?
Please write, I really need it.
I don’t use the badge because of it!
Thanks a lot!
love your plugin!

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Lawrence Rolograaf January 25, 2010 at 1:51 pm

Renato,
I chose for position “none” and included the template tag at the exact place where I wanted it in my theme. Does that work for you?

Lisa February 10, 2010 at 9:44 am

I created a pretty link, now how to use it, I’m confused!

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Hikari February 11, 2010 at 10:59 pm

I wasn’t able to download this video, could you post it as mov like the others?

And what plugin do you use for twitter comments? :D

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Blair Williams February 12, 2010 at 11:58 am

Okay — I posted the mov file for this video as a download — hope it helps — it’s an HD video so it may take a few minutes to download…

The Twitter Comments, Tweet Badge and Social Buttons on my site come from the Pro version of Pretty Link:

Pretty Link Pro

I like it quite a bit :D

Daryl Whicker February 22, 2010 at 7:47 pm

When I tried downloading Pretty Link I got this error:

Installing Plugin: Pretty Link 1.4.43
Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/pretty-link.1.4.43.zip.

Warning: curl_init(): Cannot initialize a new cURL handle in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1239

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1271

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1272

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1273

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1274

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1275

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1276

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1277

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1278

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1291

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1297

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1305

Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1309

Warning: curl_exec(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1324

Warning: curl_error(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1338

Warning: curl_getinfo(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1340

Warning: curl_getinfo(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1348

Warning: curl_close(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /homepages/34/d294047450/htdocs/wp-includes/http.php on line 1351

Download failed.

Your help is greatly appreciated!
Daryl

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cartpauj March 2, 2010 at 8:30 pm

After reading some of the problems you’ve been having it seems more likely to me that you’ve got a plugin that’s not working very well with WordPress. Try disabling all your plugins and see if this error goes away. If so, re-enable your plugins one by one until you find which one is the culprit.

Daryl Whicker February 22, 2010 at 9:21 pm

When I tried to upgrade this is the error message I got:

Error 500 – Internal server error
An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later.

WordPress 2.9.2 is available! Please update now. Should I upgrade this?

Thanks
Daryl

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cartpauj March 2, 2010 at 8:27 pm

Daryl, It’s always a good idea to stay up to date with the latest version of WP. Before updating WP it’s always a good idea to make sure your plugins will still be compatible. But lets address your issue at hand. I would recommend temporarily de-activating all your plugins and then try the update again. If you still have the error let us know.

puyo March 6, 2010 at 8:52 pm

i get confused to use this plugin. someone, help me

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cartpauj March 7, 2010 at 12:43 pm

What parts are confusing you?

Donna March 10, 2010 at 10:40 am

Hi,
Could someone please share with me why it is beneficial to use a Pretty Link for my internal pages? Why wouldn’t I just edit the permalink to “Beyonce” or whatever my desired name is? Hang on… Is it for tracking purposes?
If so, I guess I’d better watch the tracking video next! :o )

Thanks in advance!

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cartpauj March 10, 2010 at 1:20 pm

Pretty link is most beneficial to have links that point to your site that actually redirect the users somewhere other than your site when they click the link. It’s purpose isn’t to be overly beneficial for your own pages/posts but yes it can be very useful for tracking link clicks and conversions….especially with Pro version.

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