I’m using the “FriendFeed Activity” widget to show the latest 7 enties of my friend feed. However, FriendFeed just aggregates my Twitter, Blog (via RSS) and YouTube activities. That are things Twitter couldn’t handle at the beginning, but now can. So I’m thinking of removing my FriendFeed and switch completely to Twitter (and a Twitter … Read more
I have been advised how to add additional contact info fields to the User admin area here (Click here). However, I am not entirely sure how I can display the the field contents in a link within my template files. Here is the code in my functions.php: add_filter( ‘user_contactmethods’, ‘more_contactmethods’ ); function more_contactmethods( $contactmethods ) … Read more
I have 264,307 “http” (post_type = http) rows in my wp_posts table. 99% of those have them have this post_title: GET http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/@xcentric.json?count=100 and “error” as the post_status. Can I simply delete these without it affecting my site? My wp_posts table is 5gb! Thanks 2 Answers 2 Here is a bait-and-switch approach to deleting all those … Read more
The below code is used to pull in my Tweets and post them as individual blog posts on my WordPress site. I would like to add a “Follow me on Twitter link” after the tweet when it is displayed in the main body of the post. How would I do this? So for example, it … Read more
I would really like to add @anywhere support to my blog, as my posts usually mention two or three Twitter users. I’m not much of a code monkey though, and so I’m looking for something that adds @anywhere without me having to do too much configuration. Is there a plugin available where I can add … Read more
Using the twitter plugin, so you can have your twitter posts loaded into the sidebar of your wordpress blog, is there any way of filtering the posts? For example, I will post technical stuff I’m interested in on twitter, I want that to show up on my blog, but I may also post non-related items, … Read more
I am interested in displaying the top 3 stories in the past week based on the total number of shares on Facebook and Twitter. I have found that these share counts are more useful indications of what is popular in comparison to sorting by the number of comments using ‘orderby’ => ‘comment_count’. So my question … Read more
I’m pulling in the XML from Twitter via OAuth. I’m doing a request to http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml, which returns the following XML: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <user> <id>16434938</id> <name>Lloyd Sparkes</name> <screen_name>lloydsparkes</screen_name> <location>Hockley, Essex, UK</location> <description>Student</description> <profile_image_url>http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/351849613/twitterProfilePhoto_normal.jpg</profile_image_url> <url>http://www.lloydsparkes.co.uk</url> <protected>false</protected> <followers_count>115</followers_count> <profile_background_color>9fdaf4</profile_background_color> <profile_text_color>000000</profile_text_color> <profile_link_color>220f7b</profile_link_color> <profile_sidebar_fill_color>FFF7CC</profile_sidebar_fill_color> <profile_sidebar_border_color>F2E195</profile_sidebar_border_color> <friends_count>87</friends_count> <created_at>Wed Sep 24 14:26:09 +0000 2008</created_at> <favourites_count>0</favourites_count> <utc_offset>0</utc_offset> <time_zone>London</time_zone> <profile_background_image_url>http://s.twimg.com/a/1255366924/images/themes/theme12/bg.gif</profile_background_image_url> <profile_background_tile>false</profile_background_tile> <statuses_count>1965</statuses_count> <notifications>false</notifications> … Read more
Because of the Twitter API 1.0 retirement as of June 11th 2013, the script below does not work anymore. // Create curl resource $ch = curl_init(); // Set url curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, “http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/myscreenname.json?count=10”); // Return the transfer as a string curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // $output contains the output string $output = curl_exec($ch); // Close curl resource … Read more
I’ve seen wp-snippets.com uses Twitter sign-in which somehow creates a WordPress users with the Twitter credentials. wp-snippets.com > signin with twitter > Oauth > CallbackURL = wp-admin with twitter credentials written to WP user How is this achieved? I’ve searched a lot plugins and cannot see anything that writes twitter user details to the WordPress … Read more
