WordPress plugin: WP @Twitter

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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:

@BenjaminReid

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.

10 comments

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  • twe4ked wrote on

    Nice idea, is it active here?

    Test: @twe4ked

    • Nouveller wrote on

      It isn’t active hear at the moment and it doesn’t work on comments. I’ll try that out!

      • Nouveller wrote on

        It now works in comments, I’ve changed it slightly though.

        You have to type:
        [@BenjaminReid]

        To get @BenjaminReid

  • twe4ked wrote on

    Test: @twe4ked

  • Enk. wrote on

    This plugin is great.
    Thanks Benjamin, you always bring great stuff ! :)

  • vl wrote on

    @visitlocal

  • vl wrote on

    @visitlocal

  • vl wrote on

    Will users have to use ‘[ ]‘ on our website comment function? I doubt they’ll remember that each time.
    @visitlocal

    • Nouveller wrote on

      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.

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