Review: IntenseDebate
This post was written by derek and filed under: Wordpress, featured, introducing
Update: I just noticed that as of yesterday, 13 November 2008, that IntenseDebate is no longer restricted to invite-only registration! So head on over to their site and grab an account today!
Yesterday I finally got an invite code for IntenseDebate and promptly installed it right here on my Wordpress blog. Here are my initial thoughts.
Installation
The installation process for IntenseDebate was really quite straight forward and simple for Wordpress, seeing as they have made it a plugin. For those of you familiar with WP and the use of plugins will have no problems installing this system. you simply download the plugin zip file, unzip, upload to your plugins directory, and activate. Then it’s just a matter of modifying a few settings (I left everything pretty much stock) and taking a look on your site to see how it looks. 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 »
