diff --git a/wp-admin/includes/misc.php b/wp-admin/includes/misc.php
index d776681ccc..de6fc4e94c 100644
--- a/wp-admin/includes/misc.php
+++ b/wp-admin/includes/misc.php
@@ -288,21 +288,6 @@ function update_home_siteurl( $old_value, $value ) {
 	}
 }
 
-/**
- * Shorten an URL, to be used as link text
- *
- * @since 1.2.0
- *
- * @param string $url
- * @return string
- */
-function url_shorten( $url ) {
-	$short_url = str_replace( array( 'http://', 'www.' ), '', $url );
-	$short_url = untrailingslashit( $short_url );
-	if ( strlen( $short_url ) > 35 )
-		$short_url = substr( $short_url, 0, 32 ) . '…';
-	return $short_url;
-}
 
 /**
  * Resets global variables based on $_GET and $_POST
diff --git a/wp-includes/formatting.php b/wp-includes/formatting.php
index 65ef3e36d2..231c252ae4 100644
--- a/wp-includes/formatting.php
+++ b/wp-includes/formatting.php
@@ -4769,3 +4769,23 @@ function wp_staticize_emoji_for_email( $mail ) {
 
 	return $mail;
 }
+
+/**
+ * Shorten an URL, to be used as link text
+ *
+ * @since 1.2.0
+ * @since 4.4.0 Moved to wp-includes/formatting.php from wp-admin/includes/misc.php and added $length param
+ *
+ * @param string $url URL to shorten
+ * @param  int $length Maxiumum length of url to return
+ * @return string
+*/
+function url_shorten( $url, $length = 35 ) {
+	$stripped = str_replace( array( 'https://', 'http://', 'www.' ), '', $url );
+	$short_url = untrailingslashit( $stripped );
+
+	if ( strlen( $short_url ) > $length ) {
+		$short_url = substr( $short_url, 0, $length - 3 ) . '…';
+	}
+	return $short_url;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index 0e6448f2a3..0b018097ab 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '4.4-alpha-35313';
+$wp_version = '4.4-alpha-35314';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.