TwitterBuddy
TwitterBuddy is a plugin for WordPress that makes it easy to link to Twitter/Pownce users’ profile pages while creating or editing posts. It also makes it easy to link Hashtags. Just type a Twitter username in your post as you would if you were posting a tweet on Twitter and TwitterBuddy will automatically convert it to a hyperlink that points to http://twitter.com/username.
For example, you post this:
I found this application via @aalaap. It’s a wonderful little free app that…
… and TwitterBuddy will automatically convert your post to this:
I found this application via @aalaap. It’s a wonderful little free app that…
As easy as Twittering!
Usage is the same for Pownce, just that you need to prefix the username with a !, and for Hashtags, where you need to prefix the tag with a #.
TwitterBuddy will also set rel="external" and title="Twitter / username" to the a tag. Also, it will avoid erroneously linking email addresses to Twitter accounts (for eg. hello@hello.com will not link hello.com to the Twitter). If you come across a Twitter link that shouldn’t be there, @ reply me on Twitter.
As of version 0.2, you can also set a class and a window target name for the links. A class will let you style the links in a manner different from the other links in your blog, and the target name will let you open the links in a specific window (an IFRAME, a popup, or just _blank to open it in a new window).
Since this is an alpha release, TwitterBuddy will only be available from this location. Once I get fair feedback, I’ll send it up to the WordPress plugin repository.
TwitterBuddy should work with WordPress 2.0 and higher. It has been tested with 2.6.x and 2.7. It works a-okay.
Download: TwitterBuddy 0.2 (.zip, 4kb)
Download: TwitterBuddy 0.1 (.zip, 4kb)
Visit: TwitterBuddy on WordPress.org (not yet approved)