Plugins

Add Advanced Shortcodes to Any WordPress Theme

by TwitterFools on April 9, 2011

Appearing first in WordPress version 2.5, shortcodes allow you to add beautifully styled buttons, notification boxes, tabbed content containers, image sliders and a host of other advanced functions without needing to know jquery, html or css. At the time, this functionality was only utilized by a few well-heeled html/css aficionados as you had to …

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WordPress Plugin – Twitterfools Trending Topics

by TwitterFools Editorial Staff on February 18, 2010

TwitterFools_WP_Plugin

wordpress_logoThe Twitterfools Trending Topics plugin for Wordpress is a simple plugin that adds a widget with a list of the Twitter Trending Topics. You can see it on the right navigator of TwitterFools.com

Unlike some other Twitter plugins, this one caches Twitter data, and provides you with a cache timeout option that lets you comply with Twitter API rate limiting. Caching is a good technique to both improve your site’s performance as well as ensure you don’t go over the API call limit.

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Plugin Update: Twitterfools Trending Topics v1.0.2

by TwitterFools Editorial Staff on September 28, 2009

TwitterFools_WP_Plugin

We’re very pleased to announce the first major update of the Twitterfools Trending Topics (or TTT) plugin for WordPress. This version (v1.0.2) includes a couple minor fixes, plus a major new feature : the ability to hover over any topic and view a description of the topic from WhatTheTrend.com. Be aware that the TTT plugin [...]

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WordPress Plugin – Twitterfools Trending Topics

by TwitterFools Editorial Staff on August 31, 2009

TwitterFools_WP_Plugin

wordpress_logoThe Twitterfools Trending Topics plugin for Wordpress is a simple plugin that adds a widget with a list of the Twitter Trending Topics. You can see it on the right navigator of TwitterFools.com

Unlike some other Twitter plugins, this one caches Twitter data, and provides you with a cache timeout option that lets you comply with Twitter API rate limiting. Caching is a good technique to both improve your site’s performance as well as ensure you don’t go over the API call limit.

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