What Twitter Says: A Wordpress Plugin
Andi just finished a Wordpress plugin, it’s called What Twitter Says.
What does it do?
What Twitter Says basically shows the result of your search query on your Wordpress blog, it takes a search query (string) as an input. Think of the possibilities:
- Showing all tweets that has your topic of interest, for example: architecture, cooking and dota.
- Showing all tweets from you and the ones mentioning your username.
- You get the idea, fill in the list ;)
Requirements
This plugin requires Wordpress 2.7 and has been tested up to version 2.7.1.
Installation Instructions
Put that shiny automatic plugin install to use, will ya :p
Navigate to your wordpress dashboard > Plugins > Add New and search what twitter say.
Activate the plugin after and you’re done.
How to use What Twitter Says
If your theme supports widgets (as most themes do nowadays), go to your dashboard > Appearance > Widgets and you’ll see the What Twitter Says widget there.
What Twitter Says widget
The title field is self explanatory.
The ‘all of these words’ and ‘any of these words’ fields is where you input your search query. Why two different inputs? Here’s the difference.
All of these words: if you enter rice field, the plugin will display tweets that has both words in it.
Any of these words: if you enter rice field, the plugin will display tweets that has any of them.
Number of tweets field is self explanatory, I think.
If your theme doesn’t support widgets, don’t worry, we still love you. Here’s how you can call the function from anywhere in your template.
<?php twitterSay("and field", "or field", numberOfTweets); ?>
Replace the “and field” with the string you’d normally put in “All of these words” field, and the “or field” with “Any of these words”. If you get the line of PHP code up there you’ll know what I mean :)
The settings on the image is the one I use for my blog, the output is my tweets and people mentioning me. Check it out here.
If you see any bugs, please don’t hesitate to let us know. This is our first plugin :)
Div Design team, over and out.