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As far as I know, there’s no automated process for getting the short, numeric-based permalink for your Wordpress entries, however, since it is both short and numeric, it’s really easy to come up with it yourself.
Why do you want it? Well, a lot of the human-friendly (and search-engine friendly) permalinks are really looooooooooong. So if you want to paste a link into an e-mail (or a comment) without wrapping, it’s handy to have a little tinyurl built into your blog (so you get Google juice).
So here’s how it works. All of your entries in Wordpress have a unique numerical ID. You can get to this through your back-end, under “Manage” -> “Posts”
Next to each post, on the far left, there’s a column called “ID.” This is the number you’re after. And guess what? They’re sequential - so if you can remember what your last post number was, you can skip this step.
Now the short URL follows a particular form, always. And this link is always valid (no matter how you set your long permalinks). It is like this:
http://www.yoursite.com/?p=[number]
So I can take this long URL (notice how it runs into my sidebar):
http://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2006/10/27/what-is-rss-good-for-musings-at-the-blog-business-summit/
And make it this url:
http://www.jason-preston.com/?p=874
Voila!
