Wordpress and Magento Development

Feb02

Update: WordPress Plugin Tweet This

I recently added Tweet This to my site, a plugin for WordPress that enables your visitors to easily post a link to your article in their Twitter stream. The key point here, easier is better. One-click goodness will surely get your articles into the Twitterverse.

The plugin was updated yesterday with many more admin features along with options for Digg This, Plunk This and Ping This links. You can see all four at the bottom of this article.

A very welcome addition is customization of how the text is sent to Twitter. The default is ‘[URL] [TITLE]‘ but I followed John Chow’s lead and modified mine to ‘Reading @mesmerlab [TITLE] [URL]‘. I had to modify the plugin code itself when I first installed it.

Thanks go out to Richard X. Thripp for this great upgrade!

Jan22

Add Video to your Twitter page with BubbleTweet

Kevin Sherman over at BubbleTweet has come up with an innovative way to add video to your own Twitter page. Enter a Twitter username on their home page and you get a prompt to add a video with your webcam. Notice I didn’t say ‘your’ username. Check out Housegirl’s page for an example of promoting someone else. Jer979 gives us an idea of what to expect if you follow him.