=== Base64 Shortlinks ===

Contributors: jwz
Tags: shortlinks
Requires at least: 2.7
Tested up to: 6.8.2
Stable tag: 1.7

This plugin makes your shortlinks shorter!

== Description ==

The default WordPress "shortlink" URLs look like this: `http://www.example.com/blog/?p=123`, where "`123`" is actually a 7+ digit decimal number. This plugin shrinks your shortlinks by encoding that number into only 4 characters, and using the abbreviated URL prefix of your choice.

On my site, the default shortlinks are 35 bytes long, even though I have a very short domain name. This plugin shrinks them to 21 total bytes, which is comparable to most public URL-shortener services, and better than many.

E.g., this: `http://www.jwz.org/blog/?p=13240780`  
becomes: `http://jwz.org/b/ygnM`

This doesn't affect your (long) permalinks: those can still be in whatever format you like.

== Installation ==

1. Upload the `base64-shortlinks` directory to your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the "Plugins" menu in WordPress.
3. Select the "Base64 Shortlinks" menu under "Settings" and enter your Shortlink URL Prefix.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0 =
* Created

= 1.1 =
* Shortlinks that happened to have "-" in them were failing.  Fixed.

= 1.2 =
* Fixed a bug that affected blogs installed in the root directory of their site.

= 1.3 =
* Fixed a bug that caused shortlinks to be longer than necessary on 32-bit systems.

= 1.4 =
* Fix for WordPress 4.0.

= 1.5 =
* Eliminated some PHP warnings.

= 1.6 =
* Don't use PHP short-open tags.

= 1.7 =
* Added base64-redir-quick.php for those with performance concerns.