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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I was quietly working in my WordPress install when I noticed a very sly update at the top of my dashboard. “WordPress 3.0 is available! Please update now.” This is news I’ve anxiously awaited for months now. I’ve followed the blog, checked out some release candidates and finally, the day has arrived! Well, I didn’t [...]
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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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Continue ReadingWe’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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We’ve all wondered from time to time why a particular topic trends on Twitter. Some of the them seemingly come out of nowhere and rise to the top of the shared Twitter consciousness. Well, we are pleased to say the mystery is solved thanks to a most helpful site that went under our radar until now.
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Continue Readingwordpress_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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As we were building twitterfools.com, we looked at lots of Twitter plugins for Wordpress. Here’s our list of great Twitter plugins for your Wordpress blogs.
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