Lai Tran May 18, 2011 0 Comments

Found Twitter Tools Bit.ly Plugin

I searched far and wide…and ultimate found a fix for why Twitter Tools did not shorten the URL.  Why didn’t the author simply mention activate the additional plugin?  What could have been a few clicks turned out to be a 3hr session of sweat and tears. For those of you out there who just installed […]

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Lai Tran May 18, 2011 0 Comments

3rd Time is a Charm

Okay, that failed.  I have now left the function.php file alone and instead edited the Twitter Tool plugin itself following this example. $ch = curl_init(“http://api.bit.ly/shorten?format=xml;version=2.0.1&login=USERNAME& apiKey=APIKEY&longUrl=”.get_permalink($post_id)); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); $data = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); $xml = new SimpleXmlElement($data, LIBXML_NOCDATA); $bitly = $xml->results->nodeKeyVal->shortUrl; $url = apply_filters(‘tweet_blog_post_url’, $bitly);  

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Lai Tran May 18, 2011 0 Comments

Function.php Mod Didn’t Work

Going back to the original line below.  Hopefully, this will work. add_filter(‘tweet_blog_post_url’, ‘bitly’);  

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Lai Tran May 18, 2011 0 Comments

Twitter Tool to Enable Bit.ly Short URL

I’ve been trying to figure out how to use Bit.ly to create a URL for my Tweets using the Twitter Tools Plugin.  This here is a test to see if the mods I did to the function.php file in my theme is successful following the instructions here.

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Lai Tran May 17, 2011 0 Comments

Call w/o Showing Your Phone #

This is an easy one…kina like wow, that’s it.  Push *67 before the number, your caller ID will show up as unknown or blocked.  At times when you’re not sure who’s on the other line.  This may be a good option for ya.

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