Shorten Links when Sharing Post on Twitter

[neodjandre]

Is there a way to shorten links automatically (perhaps using bit.ly) when sharing on twitter?

Could you tell me where the code lies for the sharing widget so perhaps we could edit it manually?

many thanks,
Andrew

[neodjandre]

actually we found this plugin WP Bitly which works great. We just need to edit your code to include the call to its php function.

Return a shortlink for the current post:
wpbitly_shortlink();

Returns a shortlink for the specified post ID:
wpbitly_shortlink(42);

So where would the code to edit be ?

[rad]

Hi @neodjandre,

Thanks for writing in.

The existing share element isn’t meant to be customized, it’s not currently possible. Though, I’ll add this to our issue tracker as a feature request.

Thanks!