Twig – WordPress Twitter Integrator

I just put together my first release of Twig, a plugin for WordPress that will pull your tweets from Twitter, cache them in a database, and display them chronologically intermingled with your WordPress posts.  It the first version, so there are bound to be bugs with it.  I hope to add more features soon, but I wanted to get an initial version out the door before the scope creeps into oblivion.

If you’re brave enough to try this initial release, please let me know if you encounter any bugs, as well as ideas for feature enhancements you might have.  Cheers!

• Download Twig 0.1
• Documentation
• Plugin Page @ WordPress.org
  

April 21st, 2009  Software   Tags: plugin, Software, twitter, Wordpress Links, more...

Web site changes

I’ve made a couple of changes to my site.  As you can probably see, I have added my twitter feed to my front page.  I’ve done this because I don’t post to my main blog as much as I used to – I post my thoughts to Twitter (which then automatically get copied to my main web site and Facebook).  I will probably reserve my traditional posts for longer posts.  It was not a simple tasks to intermingle Twitter posts within the WordPress loop, but I eventually got it to work with some sloppy code.   The posts are cached and updated every 30 minutes.

I also am trialing my web site back on a Windows server (previously it was on Linux).  I’m doing this to consolidate web hosts, and hosting on Windows gives me most stuff on Linux as well as ASP.NET.  I generally prefer Linux hosting when .NET isn’t needed, however, this will save me time and money.

There will be bugs with the new setup, but I’ll take care of them as I see them.  I see my Flickr feed isn’t updating, which is probably a permission issue (curse Windows permissions!).  I’ll work on that.

April 9th, 2009  Web Site   Tags: blog, hosting, twitter, update, website, more...