Changing the intents HTML code

Hey Tom,

I can think of two ways you could approach this, both require creating your own template tag:

1: This is the quickest. You can take the line you quoted and replace $the_feed->html->tweet_intents() part with the HTML you wish have instead.

2: This is the most thorough. $the_feed->html is an instance of the DB_Twitter_HTML class. In your theme, you can create a class to overwrite this i.e. My_Twitter_HTML extends DB_Twitter_HTML and within this class add your own version of the tweet_intents() function.

Once you’ve done this, assign your newly created class to the feed object by adding the following directly under $the_feed = new DB_Twitter_Feed( $feed_config );:

$url_data = array(
	'tw'     => $the_feed->tw,
	'search' => $the_feed->search,
	'intent' => $the_feed->intent
);

$the_feed->html = new My_Twitter_HTML( $the_feed->options, $url_data );

In both cases make sure to update any existing instances of the template tag to your new one.

To explain the second option you’re extending the original HTML class and overriding only the intents method with your own HTML (feel free to customise other HTML parts too). Then, in the template tag, you’re overwriting the original instance of the HTML object with your own instance which will have the lovely new HTML to drafted.

None of this has been tested, it’s all impromptu, so you may need to play around with it.

Let us know if it works,
Eji

It did indeed. Thank you very much ??

I’m a bit of a rookie at this, so an easier explanation would be greatly appreciated. I head to the Edit Plugin area of the Twitter feed plugin, but then l get a little lost. There are a few .php & .css files, but I have no idea to where to plugin the code or where to change Favourite to Favorite.

Hi. Here’s how I did it, adding this to the end of my functions.php theme. I’ve put the code in a gist so it’s easier to read. You can then put the code on your site using the siteName_twitter_shortcode_function shortcode (defined at line 139), and change the actual code of the intents (taken from the plugin files) from lines 196-217.