Plugins
Add the twittar plugin for WordPress w/ comment threading
I talked about the Twittar plugin in a previous post. But learned that the read me text file was only useful for installing the necessary php
code into WordPress themes that don’t have comment threading enabled.
Since most new themes past version 2.7, pull the comments section from functions.php
file, that is where you have to edit the avatars in order to show the twittar settings.
First open you functions.php
, and look for a line of code that says:
function custom_comment()
This is where your new comments are pulled from when you have the threaded comments enabled.
Now just find <?php echo get_avatar( $comment, $args['avatar_size'] ); ?>
& replace with <?php twittar(70, "", "", "avatar avatar-70 photo", 1, "R"); ?>
. Keep in mind that you will need to edit the Twittar setting to fit your site.
Plugins
Plugin Review: WP Greet Box
Yesterday I found and downloaded the WP Greet Box plugin from Omni Noggin. This plugin could be a very useful tool and keeping visitors from various sites, asking them to subscribe to your RSS feed.
A great feature of this plugin is the ability to allow or disallow a user to remove the banner if they so choose to. Another great example is the different icons and text that show up from where the user come from. For example if this post was to get tweeted by yourself or any reader, and one of your followers clicked on the link, a Twitter icon and the associated text would show up on the post.
So far I am really liking this plugin! I have only had it one day, and haven’t played or tweaked with the options. But, you can add in your own icon’s and text from what ever referral site you like that may not be included in the plugin default. That’s cool!
I am going to have to give this plugin a rating of 5 stars. If you liked this post and you’ve download the plugin, please tweet it & head to WordPress.org and vote for this plugin.
Plugins
Tested: Twitip ID Plugin
There is a really neat plugin named Twitip-ID for WordPress. As you can see, if you have commented on this site I was using this plugin.
While it is still in beta testing I feel that it is a really nice plugin, plus it will automatically put the required field into your comments template without any editing. I choice to to manually input the field for custom css and styling.
This plugin is really awesome and allows for other to employ their Twitter ID for other to follow them, giving a little more incentive for people to comment:).
But I have been having a little problem. The Twitter ID’s are generated and stored into the post’s meta as a custom field. Im not sure if I am the only one affectied by this, but as time passed the custom fields generated by commentators started to take over the drop box, and wouldn’t allow the regular custom fields I use to show.
Another think i would like to touch base on is the fact that even if a comment got cought and filtered through Akismet, the custom field of some spammy email address and aa value close to SncSJHfd6sNSs was still generated and stored in the Database of the post..
So from my perspective, I am going to deactivate this plugin at this time and hope the the next releases with touch base on some of these issues.
Update:
Following a message I posted on the WP Twitip ID forum, Andy Bailey replied:
I am working on an update to the twitip plugin. at the moment it is only at beta stage and I have a few things I want to add or change for a proper release. I will get on it as soon as I can!
Plugins
Beyond Twitter: Tweetsuite & Tweetbacks
Every one is aware of Twitter, I hope. Well there are many, many plugins for your WordPress that you can use. So I am not going to be like every one else and write a post with 3o twitter plugins for WordPress. I am just going to talk about one special plugin that is hitting the WP community.
Tweet Suite: a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes the following features:
- Server-side (no-JS or remote calls) TweetBacks
- ReTweet-This buttons for each TweetBack
- A digg-like Tweet-This Button
- Automatic Tweeting of new posts
- A Most-Tweeted Widget
- A Recently-Tweeted Widget
- A My-Last-Tweets Widget
- A My-Favorite-Tweets Widget
You can see it in action at JeanaSays. I may even use this plugin on this site!!
Known Issues:
Seems as though this plugin is not compatible with this Google Analytics plugin. *Thanks to Shayne Sanderson for pointing this out.
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