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"
Hey Mark,
Finally redesigned my site, and your Twitter plugin is part of it...
Works fine, except in IE6 (yes, I know, but I thought I'd better test it) - which for some reason marks all tweets as having been posted in the last minute.
Not a show-stopper - to be honest, anyone using IE6 deserves all they get - but I thought you might like to know...
@seb Glad to hear that someone is using my plugin! That's awesome! IE6 is acting wonkey? Imagine that? haha. I will have to run some tests on it. I have to admit that I did not test it on IE6. I'm sort of "over it" but I should still support it for plugins that I create. That being said, I have an upgraded twitter coming soon that supports cached tweet's. So when I roll it out, I will hopefully have a fix for IE6. Thanks for alerting me to the issue.
I got this error and cant get it to go back
Please help
Error:
Object of type class java.lang.String cannot be used as an array
Works great Mark! Keep up the sweet work