{"id":13282,"date":"2009-01-31T00:45:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T07:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/01\/31\/polishing-the-tweets.html"},"modified":"2009-01-31T00:45:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T07:45:59","slug":"polishing_the_tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/31\/polishing_the_tweets.html","title":{"rendered":"Polishing the Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Per Doyce’s inspiration<\/a>, I’ve tweaked things in my templates so that (if all goes well) anything I post here via Twitter will not have the “In passing (200912021347)” style of title, but instead excerpt the first five words of the post as the title. <\/p>\n

This isn’t actually changing the post title (Twitter doesn’t have any such thing, so it can’t be passed along from it; instead, it’s generated by the MT-Twitter plug-in), but is manipulating the underlying Movable Type templates to include code that looks like this:<\/p>\n

\n

<mt:IfCategory name=”Tweets”>
<$mt:EntryExcerpt words=”5″$>
<mt:Else>
<$MTEntryTitle$>
<\/mt:IfCategory><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’ve done this in the usual index and archive templates, in the bits of code that show the latest comments at the top of the index page, and in the Atom\/RSS feeds (I believe). There are a few unlikely places that you might still see it show up, and I’ll still see the true “In Passing” title inside of MT, but I think I can live with that.<\/p>\n

Now I just need to bear in mind that the first five words I put in are title-worthy.<\/p>\n

(I’m doing this because it’s been bugging me, I’ve been meaning to do it, and I suspect I may do a Tweet or two tomorrow and wanted this in place — which means I’ll probably come home to see how broken I’ve made the whole thing. \ud83d\ude1b )<\/p>\n

For the record, since it’s been asked, and if I don’t write it down someplace I’ll forget, I generate that underlying Tweet title by specifying the “In Passing” in the MT-Twitter control panel, and then create the rather ugly date-time string by changing in the Twitter.pl file this …<\/p>\n

\n

$entry->title( $twitter_title . ‘ (#’ . $tweet->{id} . ‘)’ );<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

… to this …<\/p>\n

\n

$entry->title( $twitter_title . ‘ (at ‘ . jsondate2ts( $blog->id, $tweet->{created_at} ) . ‘)’ );<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And that’s probably about as technical as I should be at this hour of the night. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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