[Plugin: Tweet Blender] Show picture instead of twitpic link
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I recently switched to Tweet Blender because it looks really nice and it does a really good job at recognizing links, hastags and usernames.
It does not, however, do everything my heart desires. I really want to show a few twitter posts (selected by a hashtag) on my blog (so far so good)
However, most people seeing this will know nothing about Twitter and will not know to click the twitpic links I use. What I would really like is to have it show a thumbnail of the picture instead of the link.This sounds like a big implementation but I think it doesn’t have to be.
I’m not good at any programming language (I know a little Actionscript) but I can usually “read” what is going on.
I saw this part in tweet-blender/js/main.js:// if we are linking URLs if (TB_config.general_link_urls) { tweet.text = tweet.text.replace(/(https?:\/\/\S+)/gi, '<a rel="nofollow" href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>'); }
And think it could be adapted like this:
if (TB_config.general_link_urls) { if ([the link looks like a twitpic link]){ [take the twitpic embed code and insert the last bit of the twitpic URL into it] } else { tweet.text = tweet.text.replace(/(https?:\/\/\S+)/gi, '<a rel="nofollow" href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>'); } }
Where I put text between square brackets thats where I don’t know what code to use.
the embed code looks like this:<a href="https://twitpic.com/125ccv" title="title of the page"><img src="https://twitpic.com/show/thumb/125ccv.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="nearly the same a the title of the page"></a>
The URL you would have at the start would include the unique identifier used to find the href URL and the thumbnail url, I dont think the title and the alt are really necessary but If this ever becomes a full fledged feature It would be nice to be able to adjust the size.
I’m hope I managed to convey my idea and I’m sorry it took me so long to do so.
I’m really hoping for a quick “code edit” short term solution and maybe in a new update a solution thats integrated in the settings page.
This long term solution could even be formatted in such a way that people could adapt it to any service providing a embed option.
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