brianweiss

I was able to resolve this. It was a jQuery conflict issue between various plugins and my code. Once I cleared that up, it works well…

Just to elaborate, when I execute this code in single.php:

echo the_permalink() . '<br/>';
echo get_bitly(the_permalink()) . '<br/>';

I see the long URL both times.

I activated the plugin, added the line to wp-config.php with a token I got, and checked on bitly.com that the URL shortens OK…