Comments on: Implementing Internet-Friendly Short URLs with WordPress

By: rev=canonical providing on-site link shortening via the link element | flapjacktastic

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:17:59 +0000

[...] nixonmcinnes.co.uk/2009/04/07/implementing-internet-friendly-short-urls-with-wordpress/ (or ?p=1017) another WP plugin wp_rev_canonical.php which adds link elements for rev=canonical and for rel=alternate-shorter (i.e. rel=”alternate shorter”) [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:53:58 +0000

Hi Sam, thanks for your comments. You’re right that support for the rev attribute in link elements is currently deprecated in HTML 5, however it’s worth pointing out that the HTML 5 spec is ongoing, and is not likely to be finalised for some time yet. I hope that, with support for rev=”canonical” ramping up across the Web, the HTML working group will consider re-introducing the rev attribute.

By: Sam Johnston

Sam Johnston — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:28:30 +0000

G’day,

rev=canonical is a notoriously bad idea. Not only has “rev” been deprecated for HTML 5 (with good reason), but if users mix up rel and rev (as they already are) then they could do serious, permanent damage to their search engine rankings.

“alternate” is also not appropriate because it refers to an alternate version of the *content* (e.g. PDF, text) – not the URL.

Of all the short/shorter/shortcut/short_url/shorturl suggestions the only one that’s really got legs is “shortlink… you should see about implementing this instead.

Sam

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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:49:53 +0000

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By: Phil Nelson

Phil Nelson — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:59:26 +0000

I’ve got a plugin for serving shortened URLs from your Wordpress install called ‘le petite url’, which you can check out here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/le-petite-url/

I’ve seen a lot of support for rev=”alternate” lately, but I’m not sure if we’ll implement it yet.

By: Jenni

Jenni — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:18:40 +0000

can I put in a vote for NM.it as the domain instead?

By: Patrick Mays

Patrick Mays — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:21:18 +0000

very cool! I guess all we need to do is set nixmc.com as an alias of nixonmcinnes.co.uk in apache ideally it would 301 redirect to the correct url by checking what domain is being used :)

By: rev=”canonical” in Wordpress « RevCanonical’s Blog

rev=”canonical” in Wordpress « RevCanonical’s Blog — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:11:34 +0000

[...] update: and so has Steve Winton [...]

By: Short URLs with Wordpress at iestyn.net

Short URLs with Wordpress at iestyn.net — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:21:45 +0000

[...] big thanks to Brighton-based NixonMcInnes for supplying a Wordpress plugin that, with widespread adoption, would help ease the problem that would occur should one of the [...]