Demo on new live Twitter short code plugin.
Display user timeline for account ‘eastlondonlines’
As above, but displaying author name and picture
Display hashtag-search for ‘#wordpress’ with limit of 5 tweets and author names and pictures displayed
Search for string ‘east london line’ with title and 50x50px author pictures
This is a test of the Twitter Feed WordPress short code plugin, by Alex Moss.
This is a Twitter timeline for a particular user:
This is a #hashtag search
And a Twitter Search, including all content:
Useful. Shame the result looks so bad though. It’s possible to turn off user photos
but it’s the three big square buttons that screw up the typography (look at the line-spacing), and these can’t be turned off, or easily re-styled with CSS, without adding extra items to every short code, unfortunately. It’s also not automatically updated. There’s potential here for producing an extended version of the plugin, with more formatting options, and an Ajax-based live-update feature. Unfortunately, I sent a slightly ranting email to the developer, which I now slightly regret, complaining that the comment-form for the plugin page on his website was only usable by people with Facebook accounts, so I’m not sure how amenable he’s now likely to be to me hacking his plugin around. Oops.
Croydon Underpass Art. Photo: Dominika Stefanska
One week after the vandalization of the £10.000 street art project at Norwood Junction, two local artists reveal a new art project in what is locally know as the dingiest underpass in Croydon.
YouTube have changed their embed code. This is a test of various methods of embedding YouTube content in a post.
I’ve been writing a plugin for various Google-Maps related tasks. It’s going to be pretty cool. This is a test of the function to insert an externally-hosted Google map.
I’ve been having major issues getting Google Maps working with locally-hosted XML files. I’ve more-or-less got it working now, by making a custom single-post template, with the necessary extra scripts in the document <head> section to communicate with the Google Maps server and initialise the map.
Google maps can only be seen in single-post view. (more…)
I’ve just made my first WordPress widget, and I’m very proud..!
Actually, it’s not all that impressive, and probably duplicates functionality already available in other plugins, but it fulfils our needs, and hopefully will be useful to someone else out there, too.
It’s essentially an enhanced version of the standard WP Links widget. I extracted the code from my WordPress installation, and added a number of useful extra options, exposing some more of the controls of the wp_list_bookmarks() function.
I’ll tidy up the code a little, and release it into the wild (or at least the WP Widgets repository) soon.
I will be posting development news and notes here, so stay tuned for code-snippets and other WordPress stuff, as I discover it!
