YOURLS

There are a few things I’ve discreetly mentioned over the past weeks, either on Twitter (follow me!) or through the project wiki pages, that are well worth an official blog post: forums, nightly builds and hook list. 1. Forums! Some … Continue reading →

I’m particularly excited by this one: Ian Barber got his hand dirty and wrote the first release of an APC Cache plugin for YOURLS. In case that’s Greek to you, APC stands for Alternative PHP Cache and is a PHP … Continue reading →

Off the box, YOURLS allows you to share your shortened URLs through Facebook, Twitter or FriendFeed*. Need more? You can tap into the plugin API and share with any other platform. For instance: YOURLS + Tumblr YOURLS + identi.ca * … Continue reading →

A lot of you, beloved users, are using YOURLS to set up public shorteners. Sooner or later you all face the same problem: abuse by spammers, sometimes until your hosting provider shuts down your site. Hopefully, thanks to the plugin … Continue reading →

If you want to make a public interface for your own YOURLS setup and want a new design to hack from, check @tomslominski‘s project: Infinity Squared is an open source interface that looks like WordPress’ default theme, Twenty Ten. Demo … Continue reading →

Today a YOURLS users expressed an interesting request: Hello, I’d like to show a toolbar for, say, http://sho.rt/b when I enter the address http://sho.rt/t/b. Is there any fast modification I can make on the toolbar sample to make this work? … Continue reading →

Golddave has a neat tutorial on how to create a Twitter bot with YOURLS and Cron. He’s using it to tweet on @golddave the daily new Dilbert strip. Do you have an interesting use of YOURLS to share? Then share! … Continue reading →

Happy New Year, fellow YOURLS users. May this year bring all sorts of shortened URLs to you and your family! I’m done writing my upcoming book about WordPress plugins (Professional WordPress Plugin Development) so I’m back on being able to … Continue reading →

I’m delighted to announce the availability of the YOURLS 1.5 “Ronnie James Dio” release. \m/ Dio \m/ First, in the tradition of an Open Source CMS I particularly love and steal code from, I decided to baptize YOURLS release after … Continue reading →

Even though the 1.5 version is not ready yet, I also have in mind the next release, 1.6, which will introduce a much needed DB rethinking. Currently the DB schema is very weak and inefficient, making it difficult to introduce … Continue reading →