{"id":299,"date":"2008-04-14T01:38:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T08:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2008-04-14T01:38:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T08:38:38","slug":"tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/299","title":{"rendered":"Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/izm81\">Twitter<\/a>.  If you ever wanted to know what I had for breakfast, now you can!  Yay.  I also updated my blog&#8217;s sidebar with custom widgets; something I&#8217;ve been meaning to do for a while.  I broke up the standard &#8220;Meta&#8221; widget into a Subscribe and an Admin\/Login widget, and shoved the admin\/login right below the Pages.  I also made a replacement tag cloud widget that can specify the maximum number of tags to include&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure why the standard widget (which defaults to 45, and gets quite big) wasn&#8217;t created with that option.  Also, taking Twitter&#8217;s motto to heart, I added my new Twitter feed as &#8220;Sutff I&#8217;m Doing&#8221; using a standard RSS widget.  I might have to modify that widget to strip off my username from every post, though&#8230;  it bothers me.  And I should do something with the search&#8230;..  I just haven&#8217;t figured out what.  Anyway, I think it looks much nicer now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure widgets probably already exist to do what I want, but I wanted to play around with WordPress and PHP a little.  ^.^  Being neither a WordPress nor a PHP person, <a href=\"http:\/\/lonewolf-online.net\/computers\/knowledgebase\/wordpress-how-to-create-widgets\/\">How to Create WordPress Widgets<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lonewolf-online.net\/computers\/web-development\/wordpress-creating-widget-admin-panels\/\">WordPress Widgets with Control Panels<\/a> were very helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I signed up for Twitter. If you ever wanted to know what I had for breakfast, now you can! Yay. I also updated my blog&#8217;s sidebar with custom widgets; something I&#8217;ve been meaning to do for a while. I broke up the standard &#8220;Meta&#8221; widget into a Subscribe and an Admin\/Login widget, and shoved the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/299\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tweet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[52,33,248,147,90,146,14],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-website","tag-blogging","tag-development","tag-links","tag-twitter","tag-web20","tag-widgets","tag-wordpress","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4jEMb-tweet","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}