{"id":2636,"date":"2010-01-10T11:42:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2014-01-21T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T15:13:00","slug":"on-twitterology-and-wordpressery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"On Twitterology and WordPressery"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I barely use it. I always forget about it. Yes, I have crossposters to move content from my blog to Twitter by Tweeting a link back to my latest post. Yes, I have a widget for Opera that lets me access Twitter easily with a nice windowed interface.<\/p>\n

I forget about it. It happens. *shrug*<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how valuable Twitter is, to be honest. But it’s there.<\/p>\n

What brings Twitter to mind is that I upgraded the WordPress plugin I use — WP To Twitter<\/a> — this morning and crashed my blog for about three minutes. I’m not sure why<\/i> the blog crashed, but it did. White screen of death, which suggests a function conflict somewhere. I deleted the files for the plugin off the server, went to WordPress Extend<\/a>, downloaded the version of the plugin I’d upgraded from, and tried again. All was well with the world.<\/p>\n

The one thing WP To Twitter didn’t do, however, was to provide a sidebar of Tweets. The blog theme I currently use, Brian Gardner’s Core theme<\/a>, has a Twitter sidebar widget built in, but the functionality was limited. It couldn’t exclude Tweets, like the links back to my blog content.<\/p>\n

Alex King’s Twitter Tools<\/a>, however, does do that with its sidebar widget. And while it can push a Tweet with a link to my latest blog post, it can’t do what WP to Twitter does — it can’t let me write a custom Tweet for a post. Twitter Tools can attach a hashtag, but it won’t let me write a Tweet that is something other than the post title and link.<\/p>\n

Thus, I’m thinking of using both<\/i> plugins. Let WP to Twitter handle pushing Tweets to Twitter — post title and link if I want that, a custom string if I want that. Let Twitter Tools handle the importing of Tweets to my blog’s sidebar. It’s overkill to do that, I know, but to achieve what I want it looks like, for the nonce, that this is what I must do. :tired:<\/p>\n

And, to completely baffle long-time Allynologists, this post was written in Firefox. Yeah, I know. Crazy, innit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a Twitter account. I barely use it. I always forget about it. Yes, I have crossposters to move content from my blog to Twitter by Tweeting a link back to my latest post. Yes, I have a widget for Opera that lets me access Twitter easily with a nice windowed interface. I forgetContinue reading “On Twitterology and WordPressery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[351,4096],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-meta","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}