Theming drupal is like getting your head sewn to the carpet.
12 days ago
Thinking about it. Just thinking. Okay, more than thinking. Plotting. But not much more.
110 days ago
A friend and I were fiddling around with Twitter and I decided to put my Twits in a sidebar. Twitter provides a few ‘badges’ for this but, like any good geek, I wanted a little more control.
Fortunately, Twitter also provides a RSS feed.
Textpattern Plugins to the rescue. The RSS parsing was trivial — Bit Santos’ bit_rss is dead simple to install and configure. While not as fully featured as a hand-rolled Magpie RSS feed parser, it did what I wanted and took five minutes to get up and running.
The remaining problem was that the Twitter feed prefaces each item with an @fultonchain (my username). This is kind of redundant when included on a weblog but something I have no control over. What I do have control over is what is displayed and another TXP plugin, an7_filter, made it easy for me to replace the ‘@fultonchain’ with whitespace.
Thanks to Textpattern, the total time from conception to implementation was about fifteen minutes. It doesn’t get much easier.
377 days ago
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