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Add Twitter to Pligg

Posted by Geoserv in Featured Articles, Tutorials on 01 31st, 2009 | Comments | 5,236 views

With the growing popularity of Twitter, it’s time to Twitterize your Pligg install.

There are a number of things you can do to integrate Twitter with Pligg, we are going to look at one of them now, and I will post further ideas later.

One of the best places to integrate Twitter would be the submitted story summary.

For example:

That’s how your summary looks now.

So, lets Twitterize it so it looks like this:

Here’s how to do it,

open link_summary.tpl:

Find,

<span id="stories-{$link_shakebox_index}" style="display:none;"> » {#PLIGG_MiscWords_Save_Links_Success#} <a href="{$user_url_saved}">{#PLIGG_MiscWords_Save_Links_Go_To_Saved#}</a></span>
{/if}

below it add,

<span id="twitter" style="background: url(‘/templates/yget/images/twitter.png’) -8px -10px no-repeat;padding: 2px 20px 0px 20px;">
<a href="http://twitter.com/home/?status=Reading+{$url}+thanks+{#PLIGG_Visual_Name#}+@+{$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}" target="_blank">Tweet This</a>
</span>

save.

Download and upload the following image to templates/yget/images directory.

That’s it.

Here’s a story Tweeted:

There is a downside, the user submitting the Tweet may need to edit the status if the story being submitted has an extremely long URL. Most times this will not be an issue.

This addition will allow users to Tweet the submitted stories URL and it also credits your Pligg install at the same time.

Have fun.

By the Way, follow me on Twitter and I will follow you back.