Seeing as it is International Wordpress Day, I’ve written a new Wordpress plugin that auto links a twitter at username (like @lantrix) in a post automatically.
Developed initally on Wordpress 2.3, it has successfully been tested on Wordpress 2.7.1.
Most of the other plugins out there either did this only in their “badge” or “widget” or where too full featured. This is a simple and quick plugin to get links in place to twitter people for the lazy blogger.
Visit my plugin page, give it a try and let me know what you think.
Richard X. Thripp said,
September 14, 2008 @ 03:04
That’s an awesome idea; I haven’t seen anyone else do it. Much easier then typing the whole HTML tag.
lantrix said,
September 14, 2008 @ 11:30
Thanks. Need drives the invention, and I was sick of typing out all the HTML too. I will actually update the plugin next and make it into the proper wordpress format; for inclusion into their plugin repository.
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November 18, 2008 @ 21:47
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David Bradley said,
March 27, 2009 @ 19:40
This just converts the twitter ID to the proper URL, I take it, could it be extended to call and display the associated avatar too, do you think?
lantrix said,
April 16, 2009 @ 16:42
Sure could. In what fashion would you like it to display. I don’t have the time to do at the moment due to my full time IT job. I’m also thinking of making hash tags work as well, and moving the plugin to the wordpress directory.
lantrix said,
May 25, 2009 @ 00:03
I’ve updated it for linking to #hashtags and @usernames in posts now, but no movement yet on the avatar. It could be done using CSS. Not sure yet. I’ve also requested for it to be included in the wordpress plugin directory. Head over and have a look at the plugin page.
Steve Patterson said,
May 25, 2009 @ 13:47
Hey thanks for this plug-in. I am going to install it and use it. @friendlyknoxguy
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June 30, 2009 @ 21:42
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