NOV
18
2008
WordPress Plugin: Shorten Link Text
by Traveling MattThis is my first WordPress plugin. It doesn't do much, but I hope it will come in handy for a lot of people. It takes the "Next Post" and "Previous Post" links at the top of single-post pages and shortens them so they fit in the space alloted for them by the template.
When you are viewing a single post (by clicking on its title on the main blog page, or the "Read More" link) these navigation links are typically found up above the post and allow the visitor to navigate quickly to the previous post or next post chronologically. But when those posts have titles which are particularly long, they can break the layout. An example from a blog I designed: Click to read the rest of this entry »
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