Michaelbox » identica http://michaelbox.net A container of ideas, creativity, passions, and adventures Fri, 11 May 2012 20:19:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Just a simple twitter/identica shortcode http://michaelbox.net/2010/04/22/just-a-simple-twitter-shortcode/ http://michaelbox.net/2010/04/22/just-a-simple-twitter-shortcode/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:01:17 +0000 tw2113 http://michaelbox.net/?p=154
 

I realized that I will likely reference many twitter people in posts and I think it is common courtesy to link to their profile so that you can go check them out if you want. However, I also want to be lazy and not have to type out their full twitter url all the time. Thus I decided that a shortcode would be nice and efficient.

With the following code, <?php function twitter_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) { return '<a href="http://twitter.com/' . $content . '" title="' . $content . '\'s Twitter Profile">' . $content . '</a>'; } add_shortcode('twitter', 'twitter_shortcode'); ?> I can wrap a username in [twitter] [/twitter] and have it output the full link, like this (Twitter)

Edit

I have since realized that this is perfectly capable of working with identi.ca as well. For wordpress users of Identi.ca, copy/paste the following code into your functions.php file. It will work the exact same way regarding wrapping the user ID <?php function identica_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) { return '<a href="http://identi.ca/' . $content . '" title="' . $content . '\'s Identi.ca Profile">' . $content . '</a>'; } add_shortcode('identica', 'identica_shortcode'); ?>

Like so: (Identica)

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