Testing the Blackbird Pie WordPress Plugin

I decided to install the Blackbird Pie WordPress plugin and play a little bit with it. The WordPress plugin was created after Twitter created the Blackbird Pie service. It allows you to embed tweets into your blog posts, just like you would do with other embeddable media (flash games, videos, etc.).

The plugin gives you a few possibilities to embed tweets. The most easy to use is to take the complete URL of a tweet and paste it into your blog post. I added the following two tweets by using the complete URL and the id of the tweets.

Here are two embedded tweets from my timeline:

A tweet in Romanian:

Nu înţeleg de unde a apărut ideea că oamenii nu visează în culori. Se leagă de faptul că uităm parţial visele, a.î credem că-s în alb&negru.

May 22, 2010 11:48 am via SnaptuReplyRetweetFavorite

@danielvoicu

Daniel Voicu

And one in English:

Use the force, Luke! Use that fucking thing, you moron! Oh crap, you're drunk.

May 21, 2010 7:46 pm via SnaptuReplyRetweetFavorite

@danielvoicu

Daniel Voicu

I used [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/danielvoicu/status/14483309763"] for the first tweet and for the second I used [blackbirdpie id="14439778971"].

When you use these commands, you will notice that the plugin creates custom fields. You can edit them afterwards. I didn’t edit the first tweet just to show you the plugin has a small issue when it comes to special characters, in this case some Romanian letters.

You can find the plugin here, and if you want to read more about it, visit the developer’s site.

posted: 10 May 22
under: Za Web