New: Yurls sharing icon for WordPress

An article on this Yurls blog, you can easily add to your Yurls page by clicking on the Yurls icon. Do you have a WordPress.com blog, you can add such an icon to your blog. It goes like this:

• Login to your blog (WordPress)
• Go to ‘Settings’ and click ‘Sharing’
• Click ‘add a new service’
• Service Name: Yurls
• Sharing URL: http://www.yurls.net/addlink.php?url post_url =%% & tit ​​=% post_title%
• Icon URL: http://static.yurls.net/common/img/addYurls.gif
• Click ‘save’
• Drag the Yurls icon to activate this service
• Click ‘Save Changes’

New: Scoop.it

With Scoop.it you can create your topic-centric media by collecting gems among relevant streams. Embed a Scoop.it topic on Yurls is easy. It goes like this:

• click: new box
• choose: scoop.it
• fill in the information of the Scoop.it topic like the title, the number of posts and the speed of the slider
• confirm

http://www.yurls.net/ | http://www.scoop.it/

New box: Rainradar Germany

You now can add a box ’Rainradar Germany’ to your Yurls-page. Here’s how:

• Click ‘new box’
• Choose ‘Weather’ in the menu on the left
• Click ‘Rainradar Germany’
• Confirm

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Yurls linkchecker extended

The link checker on Yurls you can check whether the links on your Yurl still work. Recently we extended the link checker. Not only the dead links are found, but also the links that still work, but a permanent redirect to another URL. To check these links can be useful because it is not always directed to a page or website of your choice. You can find the link checker under ‘settings’.

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Link checker for all users

For users of Yurls there’s now a tool to detect dead links. How it works:

You can find the Link checker under ‘settings’. Click the link checker and order the links on your page to be checked. It takes some time before the process of link analysis has been completed, but usually within an hour you will find a list of dead links on your page. If many users simultaneously check their links it may take be a bit longer. The best you can do is to return later. If you quit Yurls, the process of link monitoring continues.

After checking the links you can customize (pencil) or remove (cross) the link.

Check the link first before you modify or delete!
After adjusting or removing, the link disappears from the list.

Not every link that is found is a dead link. If some working links ever again return to the list, then you can click the last icon. The link goes to a list of links that are excluded from the following link checks.

New on Yurls: copy a box

At the request of many users new to yurls the possibility to copy a box within your own  Yurls-page. The box can be copied to another location on your page. The original copy remains unchanged when you edit it. Copying a box like this:

Go with your mouse on the icon behind the title of the box and select box copy:

 

Change the title if desired and select a page and a column and click ‘confirm’.
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Yurls Tip 1: publication date for page and box

Sometimes you want a particular page or section that you created in  Yurls to be public on a later date. It is now possible for a section or page to link a date.
Do this:

• Open the page or box
• Check ‘yes’ behind ‘Set Period?’
• Click on the icon to select a date
• Click on Confirm

Yurls 2.0

The new version of Yurls is online! A new design and new features. Questions and comments can be sent to support@yurls.net.
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Timetable Yurls migration

This week Yurls will be renewed. 

Timetable
December 28 22:00 – Migration Yurls
Adjustments made after this time will not be saved!
December 29 7:00 Migration completed
You can log in again and make adjustments.

YURLS 2.0

YURLS will be entirely overhauled just before January 2011! The possibilities for the user are to be extended and a new design is also underway. Last week several translations were completed.