TweetFeed Plugin Released
This post was written by derek and filed under: Plugin, TweetFeed, coding, featured, introducing
I’m going to keep this one short and sweet. I spent a little bit of time (when I wasn’t working) over the last week and turned that little script I mentioned in the last post into a full blown wordpress plugin with a working settings page and everything! This is my first plugin, but I did test it quite a bit. Obviously, if you run into any issues in using it, do not hesitate to contact me by leaving a comment on this post. Read the rest »
Really Simple Tweet Gathering (with a few bonuses)
This post was written by derek and filed under: PHP, Plugin, Widget, Wordpress, coding, introducing
Update:
I just realized that for some reason the wp-syntax plugin has converted a bunch of my characters to their HTML equivalents. I will go through and try to fix that later. For now, take it with a grain of salt. I will upload the file later and put a <link here>. Thanks and Enjoy!
Preface:
I wrote this simple script / plugin so that I could get my latest tweet from twitter to display on my blog (right over there → in the sidebar). I know, I know, there are plenty of prepackaged and readily available plugins for twitter on wordpress in the wild, but none of them did things the way I wanted them to be done. Some allowed you to tweet directly from you blog, I don’t want that. So were quite intrusive and bore quite the burden on the page loading, you couldn’t possibly want that. The best one I found was a plugin called Simple Twitter, and as the name so succinctly states, it’s incrediby simple. I found this one to be nearly what I wanted, which is why I used it as a “jumping off point” for the script I’m presenting here, but it lacked a couple of key functionalities that I wanted. Read the rest »
