Twitter integration

Twitter BirdI just implemented the ‘Twitter Tools‘ plugin. Again, surprisingly easy to bolt-on, no issues and looks to be working just fine, first time. I could get used to this level of ‘fit for purpose-ness’.

I went mainly for the defaults in terms of configuration. Simply set it up with my login for Twitter and away we went.

Some great features in this plugin; (i) It displays your recent Twitter activity in the sidebar, (ii) You can Tweet directly from the site if you’re logged in and (iii) It automatically consolidates your tweets into a daily/weekly blog-post.

WordPress convert

I heart WordPressI moved my blog from Google’s Blogger across to WordPress today. Why? Well, partly because it’s included in my hosting package with QIQ, so I can run the code on my hosting server, and partly because my good friend reckoned it was the pro bloggers’ blog tool of choice.

It was astonishingly easy to move from its original location on Blogger; literally one click and a sign-in and it was done. Now we’re live on the manicmorff domain!

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