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Twitter Plugin For Mango Blog

Twitter, the popular micro blogging social phenomenon is taking the blogosphere by storm. I felt Mango Blog needed to keep up with the times. I was also working on a new theme that required a twitter sidebar widget. This meant I had to force myself to learn about the plugin system for mango blog. I was about to throw in the towel, call it quits and cry my eyes out then all of a sudden it started to "click". Within the next hour or so I fixed my plugin and got it working as intended. Hooray!

Features

I tried to make it as flexible as possible. Adding a few extra hooks for future styling needs.  While I was at it. I added a custom javascript that automatically links @Usernames as well as hyperlinks in the tweet. Something the original twitter badge does not do.

Configuration Settings

I tried to make the plugin settings functional as well for future proofing the plugin. I added the ability to customize the H2 text that appears in the sidebar. Or you can choose not to show any heading at all by leaving the field blank.

Additionally, I added a location selector for the follow me hyperlink. There are three settings available: None for do not show a link. Below for displaying the traditional link below the posts, or Above if you want to link to a twitter logo or other graphic.

Lastly, I added the ability to specify the number of posts to show at a time.

Download Plugin

So here is it! My very first mango blog plugin! Since this is my first plugin, I would really appreciate your feedback, comments or suggestions.

Custom Tag Option

As a side note, I also have a custom tag version of this plugin. It's not as good as the plugin, but sometimes a theme might require something unique that a sidebar plugin cannot provide.

Thank You

Thanks to Laura for advising me on pod enabeling this plugin, and also for writing a portion of the installer script so that it's "Mango Certified"

Mango Blog Comment Form Replacement

Mango Blog uses the same default code for it's comment form as wordpress. Although I have seen worse offenders, the current form does pose a few accessibility chalenges that I would prefer to fix. So this evening I set out to rework the comment form and try to make it more accessible and customizable. This is an early prtotype of a new form that I hope would become the new standard for mango blogs comment forms. Let me explain the challenges that I have identified with the current format, and why I have chosen the form design that I did. If anyone has suggestions for improvement please let me know.

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Share This! A Social Bookmarking Tag For Mango Blog

Share This

Share This 1.0 is a free social bookmarking tag for mango blog that adds links for some of the most popular social sites.

Installation

1. To install "Share This" copy the shareThis.cfm file and the sharethisicons folder to your /tags/custom folder.

2. Be sure to include this line at the top of your template page.

<cfimport prefix="custom" taglib="../../tags/custom">

3. To use the tag, all you need to do is include it in your template someplace between the opening and closing <mango:post> tags.

<custom:shareThis>

Download the ShareThis Tag for Mango Blog