If you have been reading WillINeedIt for a while now, you will have noticed that we display a TweetMeme counter displaying the number of “ReTweets” a certain post gets via Twitter. This is a way of gauging how many people are sharing our posts and allows us to be able to connect with them again in the future.
Today, we have moved over to a new ReTweet button, one created by a certain John Resig. This ReTweet button plugs into the URL shortener we use on this blog; Bit.ly and will display the amount of people that have used the link to visit a page on this blog. If you are interested in learning how to place this inside your own blog, follow the instructions after the jump.
On 01.21.09, In Tips/Tricks, by Joshua
If you’re one of the millions of people who use Wordpress as your blogging platform of choice, you know how painful it can be to upgrade. You have to download the new version, backup your database, upload the new files to your server, etc, etc.
Alternatively, you could just install the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. Or, as I like to call it, the single greatest Wordpress plugin ever made. Not only will it upgrade your version of Wordpress, it will put your site in temporary maintenance mode, safeguard your data and backup your posts. And all you need to do while it’s upgrading is sit back and enjoy a tasty beverage. To make a good thing better, it even posts a message in your Wordpress dashboard that tells you when it’s time to upgrade! What’s better than that? If you said sex, you’re right. But that’s off topic.
You can download the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade here.
On 01.15.09, In How To, by Matt Brian
I run Wordpress for my blogs and have done since the start of 2006, it’s just an easy to use and powerful platform. If I run a Wordpress blog that is integrated with Twitter, I will always make sure that I install the TwitMe Wordpress Plugin, which will automatically post my new posts to Twitter when they are submitted.
The only problem I had with the service was the URL Shortening provider it used. At present, the plugin uses the timesurl.at domain, something that I didnt think was particularly short or appealing to the eye (another question is, can it be?).
So what I did was to set about changing the service to another. In my case, I like the http://is.gd/ service.
Below is a very quick tutorial on how to change this yourself.
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