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This 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:

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'Nuff said.

1. I was cast in Glengarry Glen Ross, which opens tonight at The Generic Theater and runs till Feb 10. You try keeping up with a blog while rehearsing a play and see how it goes. I'm playing Kevin Spacey.
2. I went to Georgia twice, Charlottesville 4 or 5 times, Baltimore once, North Carolina once, D.C. twice, and almost went to Florida.
3. I'm not allowed to write; it's a writer's strike, after all.
4. Okay, I'm allowed to write. But I tried to get permission to reprint a great article from Creative Screenwriting about the strike and why it's important, and they were all enthusiastic but never got back to me.
5. I watched a bunch of Oscar screeners with my dear friend Ginny and her son Matt and his awesome girlfriend Joan. They're voting members so they get the magic DVDs.
6. Cloverfield is going to be the most profitable movie in years. I know this has nothing to do with why I haven't been writing lately, I just wanted to point it out. Want to make massive cash? Shoot a movie for <30 mil, cast unknowns, shoot handheld camera, and only use 10 minutes of the expensive kind of CGI. NOTE: this will only work if you put talented people in charge.
7. I got two baby sugar gliders and have been raisin' 'em up. You try keeping up with a blog while being a daddy. It's impossible. What? Lots of people do it? Fuck.

Bitch on a mission.