Updated URL shortening rewrite
Something I’d meant to do since the day I did it was to add the rewrite rule so that I could exclude the l? from URL shortened links my social bookmarker generated. (I had been repeatedly poked for leaving this out too) The original idea->implementation was 30 minutes, so this takes it up to 35 minutes for the project, and only took a few months to implement. My entire .htaccess including the WordPress business is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]{3,3})$ l.php?$1 [L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
And everything seems to be working as it should. That brings me up to 122 characters for the messages that accompany my URLs!