Embedded Tweets in WordPress 3.4

With the new latest version of WordPress you can now easily embed Tweets into your blog posts.

Previously this could be done – but only with a plugin. I’m actually pretty excited about this feature. I may use it only on rare occasions – but it’ll be super handy when I do.
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Video test with iOS WordPress app

Testing out the video feature on the iOS WordPress app. Shot the video straight on my phone and uploaded it here – right away – all from my iPhone 4.

It saves as an MOV file and uses HTML 5 (or HTML 4) to run on your site. So if you can’t view the video, be sure and update your browser.

Update your WordPress copyright date automatically

Three months into the new year and I’m still coming across several websites that I manage that are still showing a copyright for last year.

DOH!

It’s easy to forget as the calendar rolls over to update all your copyright (or Creative Commons) tags on your websites, so why not automate it?

Simply replace the latest year (i.e. © 2005-2010 Jonathan D. Blundell) with this simple code:

<?php echo date('Y'); ?>

So you’re resulting copyright line will look like this:

&copy; 2005-<?php echo date('Y'); ?> Jonathan D. Blundell

And every year, your copyright statement will update with the current year.

Easy peasy!

Now I just need to go update this in all my footers… DOH!

Add a share on Pinboard.in link to your WordPress blog

Drawing pin
Drawing pin | Photo by Christian Guthier

If you’re making the move from del.icio.us to Pinboard.in you may be encouraging your blog readers to do the same (and I definitely encourage you to make the switch if you haven’t already).

And if that’s the case, why not add a “share this” link on your WordPress posts?

Since Pinboard.in is modeled after the first version of del.icio.us API, the share this link is fairly similar to del.icio.us.

To add a link for Pinboard.in, simply add this code to your single.php file in your WordPress theme:

<a href="http://pinboard.in/add?showtags=yes&url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&description=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>" title="Bookmark this on Pinboard.in" target="_blank">Bookmark this on Pinboard.in</a>

If you want, you can always replace the text “Bookmark this on Pinboard.in” with a graphic or other text, like I’ve done below.

And of course, if you like this post, be sure and Bookmark it on Pinboard 🙂