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1. Justin Sternberg
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Would it be possible to add to the importer the ability to include a link to the actual tweet on twitter.com? I'm using this plugin to backup my twitter profile, and the only bummer is that I have no way of getting back to that tweet on twitter.com.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/

2. Justin Sternberg
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Ooh, just enabled custom-fields in the screen options and saw that the tweet id is saved, so i can use that to generate the urls. You guys are awesome! :)

3. Justin Sternberg
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   For anyone looking for this same feature, here's a function you can use to replace the_permalink, if you want to send it to the twitter unique tweet url.
   

   function twitter_permalink( $echo = true ) {
   global $post;
   
   	$twitter_username = sanitize_title_with_dashes( get_option( 'aktt_twitter_username' ) );
   	$tweet_id = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'aktt_twitter_id', true );
   	$twitter_permalink = 'http://twitter.com/'. $twitter_username .'/status/'. $tweet_id;
   
   	if ( $echo == false )
   		return $twitter_permalink;
   	else
   		echo $twitter_permalink;
   }

   And to use it in your code, something like this:
   <a href="<?php twitter_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank">view on twitter</a>

   Or to return it in function, something like this:
   

   $twitter_permalink = twitter_permalink( false );
   echo '<a href="'. $twitter_permalink .'" target="_blank">view on twitter</a>';

4. Alex King
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Or you could use the built-in aktt_status_url() method... and you'd be better off using esc_url() on the final URL than sanitizing the username on retrieval.

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