shortlink - Custom short url for wordpress post

How can I display a short url of the post in the content arrea like

Shortlink - 

instead of the standard

Shortlink - /?p=1234

WITHOUT USING ANY PLUGINS or other services like bitly

How can I display a short url of the post in the content arrea like

Shortlink - https://www.example/abc24g4

instead of the standard

Shortlink - http://example/?p=1234

WITHOUT USING ANY PLUGINS or other services like bitly

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Without a plugin or service? You can't. There's no such thing.

From the documentation for wp_get_shortlink() (emphasis mine):

This function exists to provide a shortlink tag that all themes and plugins can target. A plugin must hook in to provide the actual shortlinks. Default shortlink support is limited to providing ?p= style links for posts. Plugins can short-circuit this function via the ‘pre_get_shortlink’ filter or filter the output via the ‘get_shortlink’ filter.

Not sure of what you are trying to accomplish.

Sounds like you want to show the "shortlink" of the current post in the current post contents.

Create a shortcode (code below) and add to your templates functions.php file, then add [show_current_page_url] some where in the post contents to display the url.

function show_permalink_for_post( $atts ){

        // this gets the current page or posts permalink
        $link = get_permalink(get_the_ID());

        return $link;
}
add_shortcode( 'show_current_page_url', 'show_permalink_for_post' );