Automagic Link Shortening for Non-Hosted WP

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Blogs hosted on wordpress.com get automatic link shortening via http://wp.me/, but for those who prefer to seek out our own hosting solution is there a plugin that will, upon publishing a new post/page, make an api call to bit.ly (or other such service) store the resulting url and return it from wp_get_shortlink()?

I have searched without success. Any help would be appreciated.

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  3. You could also add something like this to your functions.php to add a short link (powered by tinyurl) to each post or page you have:

    function shortLink($content) {
$url = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$short_url = file_get_contents('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.urlencode($url));

$content .=  '<div class="short-link">Here's a short link <a href=".$short_url.'">Short Link</a></div>';

return $content;

    }

    add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘shortLink’);