{"id":1228,"date":"2009-04-21T23:58:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T21:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2009-04-21T23:58:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T21:58:47","slug":"use-twitter-to-identify-yourself-on-wordpress-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/use-twitter-to-identify-yourself-on-wordpress-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Twitter to Identify Yourself on WordPress Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#39;re a Twitter user, got a WordPress blog, and would like to throw in some interactions between those two, don&#39;t miss this plugin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceoftech.com\/swhitley\/?p=683\">Twitter Connect<\/a>. Using the brand new <a href=\"http:\/\/apiwiki.twitter.com\/OAuth-FAQ\">Twitter&#39;s OAuth API<\/a>, this plugin lets you identify yourself using your Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/twitter-connect.gif\" alt=\"twitter-connect\" title=\"twitter-connect\" width=\"517\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/twitter-connect.gif 517w, https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/twitter-connect-300x191.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like it for several reasons: it&#39;s cool, it&#39;s quick, and it opens the door to getting more information from your commenters. Right now it gets one&#39;s Twitter avatar and use it like a Gravatar, but I&#39;d hack it so it would display a link to the Twitter profile and show commenter&#39;s latest tweet just like some plugins add your latest blog post. I also think that Twitter related blogs (such as Twitip) could enforce using this as a probably very effective anti spam method.<\/p>\n<p>I like it. I&#39;m putting it on top of my &quot;plugins to install&quot; list. Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joetek\">@joetek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#39;re a Twitter user, got a WordPress blog, and would like to throw in some interactions between those two, don&#39;t miss this plugin: Twitter Connect. Using the brand new Twitter&#39;s OAuth API, this plugin lets you identify yourself using your Twitter account. I like it for several reasons: it&#39;s cool, it&#39;s quick, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[352,85,292,245],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-oauth","tag-plugins","tag-twitter","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}