WordPress Wednesdays: Twitter Links
Posted on November 19th, 2008
Our good friend Matt Freedman has been keeping pretty busy lately. It was just last week that we told you about his Comment Approval Notification WordPress plugin and this week, he’s got another great offering that will keep you in touch with the rest of Internet.
Twitter is a great networking and microblogging platform. Just as you may want to another blog from time to time, you may also want to link to a friend’s Twitter profile. Instead of typing out the URL by hand, you can simply make use of Matt’s Twitter Links WordPress plugin. In a nutshell, this replaces any instance of a Twitter username in your posts with a link to that person’s Twitter Profile.
Naturally, it would not be a good idea for the plugin to scan your entire post, replacing every second word with a hyperlink. That’s why Matt has it setup that it will only scan through terms that are prefaced with the @ symbol. For example, if I were to write @bluefur or @mattfreedman in a blog post, those would link to twitter.com/bluefur and twitter.com/mattfreedman, respectively.
You can find more information about Twitter Links on Matt’s blog and you can download it here.
CORRECTION: As per Matt’s comment below, the plugin is meant to work only with comments at this time and not within the blog posts themselves. He may change this with future revisions, however.
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Actually, it only works in comments. Although I may change that in later versions.
Question for you….I see that you have 564 Twitter followers….how did you pull that off? and what exactly do they “get” when they follow you? notifications of your blog posts? or what?
Is this something that I should be utilizing? What is the benefit to your blog?
Phil
Phil,
Good questions I will post about twitter and your questions for this weeks weekends project.
I’m looking forward to it…also…is that twitter ID field for your comments new? I’m going to get a twitter ID now to see what this is all about.
Thanks,
Phil