{"id":4019,"date":"2008-11-14T05:36:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T05:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins-wp\/twitter-links\/"},"modified":"2008-11-14T05:40:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T05:40:19","slug":"twitter-links","status":"publish","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/twitter-links\/","author":83270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"version":"1.0","stable_tag":"1.0","tested":"2.7","requires":"2.6","requires_php":"","requires_plugins":"","header_name":"Twitter Links","header_author":"Matt Freedman","header_description":"","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2008-11-14 05:40:19","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=991603","header_plugin_uri":"http:\/\/mattsblog.ca\/plugins\/twitter-links\/","header_author_uri":"http:\/\/mattsblog.ca\/","rating":0,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":10,"downloads":2416,"num_ratings":0,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation"],"tags":[],"upgrade_notice":[],"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":0},"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":["1.0"],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":[],"screenshots":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[107,159],"plugin_category":[44,56],"plugin_contributors":[89377],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-4019","plugin","type-plugin","status-publish","hentry","plugin_tags-comments","plugin_tags-twitter","plugin_category-discussion-and-community","plugin_category-social-and-sharing","plugin_contributors-speedboxer","plugin_committers-speedboxer"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/twitter-links.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[],"raw_content":"<!--section=description-->\n<p>This plugin will convert valid <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> usernames mentioned in comments into a link to their Twitter profile page. For example, if somebody mentions \"@mattfreedman\" in their comment, this plugin will check with Twitter to see if the user \"mattfreedman\" exists (which is does) and when it does, it will convert it into \"<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mattfreedman\">@mattfreedman<\/a>\".<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Please note: As this plugin converts usernames on the fly (<em>whenever and everytime<\/em> somebody views the comments), and checks Twitter for every username (to ensure it's valid), I <em>strongly<\/em> recommend using a caching plugin such as <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-super-cache\/\" title=\"WP Super Cache\">WP Super Cache<\/a>. Which will not only lessen the load on Twitter's servers, but also speed up page loads.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Although it says this plugin requires WordPress 2.6, I see no reason why it wouldn't work with earlier versions, I just haven't tested it with earlier version.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>This plugin requires cURL to be installed on your server, and has only been tested with PHP 5.2.x.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<p>To install this plugin, please follow these instructions:<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Download and extract the ZIP archive.<\/li>\n<li>Upload <code>twitter-links.php<\/code> to your <code>wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> folder.<\/li>\n<li>In your WordPress administrative panel, go to Plugins, scroll down to <strong>Twitter Links<\/strong> and click <em>Activate<\/em> to the right of it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","raw_excerpt":"Converts Twitter usernames mentioned in comments (eg. @mattfreedman) with a link to the mentioned user&#039;s Twitter profile page.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/4019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4019"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/speedboxer"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}