Category Archives: Idno

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This is a quick post to introduce you to a little plugin I wrote for wordpress, wordpress-idno-feedwidget.

The plugin creates a wordpress widget that lets you display the latest content from your Idno site in your blog sidebar. It’ll render the first 50 characters of a status update, and the titles of blog posts, with an author picture and a link to both the author profile and original posting. Image posts are also rendered, with a thumbnail view (although this could be made more efficient).

There is plenty of room for improvement; I’d like to render different types better, videos and events with an appropriate player for example, but it’s a start! The widget makes use of the JSONP endpoint, so make sure you’re using the latest codebase.

» Visit the project on Github...

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Further to my previous post on embedding Idno posts, I’ve written a WordPress plugin to make the process even easier!

Now, you can embed a post in your blog by placing the permalink of the blog inside the new [idno] shortcode, for example:

[idno]http://mysite.com/permalink[/idno]

or, to override the default size of the embed code:

[idno width="somesize" height="somesize"]http://mysite.com/permalink[/idno]

» Visit the project on Github…

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One of the things that I thought it’d be cool to be able to do with Idno, is to be able to embed a post into a blog post, rather like you can with a tweet or public Facebook posting.

Embedding posts mean that you can take a posting that you or someone else has written on their Idno site, and then build up a conversation around it.


So, I wrote a quick plugin that provides this functionality!

This current version uses an iframe to display an embed view of the selected object, using code inserted using the JSONP api, which gives you a live view of the object complete with latest comment count and using your site’s theme choices. Future versions of the plugin may make more use of the raw data returned via the JSONP endpoint.

All links will open in a new tab, so if you want to see the comments (or comment directly, if the site in question uses my in place comments plugin), then you can follow links without causing problems.

Have fun!

» Visit the project on Github…