XF 1.2 How to shorten URL's in messages

[LurkerLou]

When a member copies and pastes a url in the message body, is there anyway to automatically shorten it so it does not show the entire url?

 

[Martok]

The easiest and tidiest way of shortening a URL in a message is to use the URL tags e.g.

[URL='http://xenforo.com/community/threads/how-to-shorten-urls-in-messages.59822/']Shorten URLs?[/URL]

becomes

Shorten URLs?

Easy to do with the link button too, just type the text, select it, click the Link button and in the pop-up box paste in the URL.

 

[LurkerLou]

That's the optimal way but members don't use it often.

 

[Jeremy]

You'll need a resource that fetches the pages title if its not in URL tags.