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1. Joen
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Hi,

   All the "Tweet This" plugins out there are totally bloated, so I wanted my own simple tweet this function call:

   <a href="http://twitter.com/home/?status=<?php the_title(); ?>: <?php echo get_bloginfo('url') . '/?p=' . get_the_ID(); ?>">Tweet This</a>

   Very simple eh? It tweets the title of the post, and your URL in the format of "http://mywebsite.com/?p=4571" where 4571 is the id of the post. Works fine.

   Problem is: TweetBacks doesn't pick up this URL.

   I've tried to add a hack to the plugin to search for this URL, and while I haven't tested it, I figured I'd write it down here in hopes the author will add something like this to the core:

   Edit "tweetbacks.php".

   At line 413, insert this:

   // Hack to add custom shorturls
   if (!isset($shorturls['shortpermalink'])) {
   	$shorturls['shortpermalink'] = get_bloginfo('url') . '/?p=' . get_the_ID();
   }

   This should add another array entry to the list of URLs to search for.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetbacks/

2. Joen
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   As a small update to this, I can confirm that this hack does in fact work.

   http://noscope.com/journal/2009/11/moai

   The second tweetback uses the custom type of shortlink.

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