This isn’t the plugin that I’ve been raving about building for the past week or so but just a plugin I thought about and wrote in my lunch hour today. So just hold out a little longer before I release my first full blown WordPress plugin. Anyways, read on and download the plugin, it makes my life slightly easier so…
What does it do
It allows you to type ‘[@username]’ in your WordPress posts or comnents to reference a user on Twitter. So if you typed [@BenjaminReid] into your post it would output:
<a href="http://twitter.com/BenjaminReid" target="_blank" title="BenjaminReid on Twitter">@BenjaminReid</a>
Installation
Download and extract the zip file and upload wp-at-twitter.php into /wp-content/plugins/ and then just hit activate in your plugin admin area.
Author: Nouveller
My name is Benjamin Reid, I live in the UK and keep the magic locked into this site.
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wordpress plugins | WORDPRESS wrote on October 30, 2009
[...] WordPress plugin: WP @Twitter | Nouveller [...]
twe4ked wrote on November 1, 2009
Nice idea, is it active here?
Test: @twe4ked
Nouveller wrote on November 2, 2009
It isn’t active hear at the moment and it doesn’t work on comments. I’ll try that out!
Nouveller wrote on November 2, 2009
It now works in comments, I’ve changed it slightly though.
You have to type:
[@BenjaminReid]
To get @BenjaminReid
twe4ked wrote on November 2, 2009
Test: @twe4ked
Enk. wrote on November 8, 2009
This plugin is great.
Thanks Benjamin, you always bring great stuff !
vl wrote on December 24, 2009
@visitlocal
vl wrote on December 24, 2009
@visitlocal
vl wrote on December 24, 2009
Will users have to use ‘[ ]‘ on our website comment function? I doubt they’ll remember that each time.
@visitlocal
Nouveller wrote on December 24, 2009
I can change it so they don’t have to use ‘[]‘ but it would mess up email addresses. If I have time to work on the regex that it uses you wouldn’t have either problem.