Chris K Designs » Updates http://www.chriskdesigns.com WordPress tips, hacks, and plugins. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:06:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Using x.co with Twitter Tools in WordPress http://www.chriskdesigns.com/using-x-co-with-twitter-tools-in-wordpress/ http://www.chriskdesigns.com/using-x-co-with-twitter-tools-in-wordpress/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:52:59 +0000 Chris K http://www.chriskdesigns.com/?p=724 So the other day GoDaddy.com released it’s new URL shortener x.co. They’ve also built in an API, so from that, we can now use the Twitter Tools WordPress plugin with the x.co URL Shortener. I’ve hacked together a file based off the Twitter Tools bit.ly plugin that works in conjunction with the main Twitter Tools plugin without any issues that I’ve noticed so far. For now you need to do the following:

  1. An account with x.co (which is the same as a GoDaddy.com account)
  2. Install Twitter Tools for WordPress
  3. Download this .zip file and extract it into wp-content/plugins/
  4. Activate the Twitter Tools – x.co URLs plugin from your plugins list
  5. Login to your x.co account and click on the ‘Settings’ tab, copy down your API Key.
  6. From the ‘Settings’ menu select ‘Twitter Tools’ and you will need to enter your X.co API Key.
  7. That’s it, you are ready to tweet your posts with x.co shortened URLs!

If you have any feedback let me know and I’d be glad to see what I can do to help you out. I will try and get this up on WordPress.org within the next day or two for installation directly in your WordPress admin area.

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Check it out at the Better AdSense Targeting page. Let me know what you think in the comments.

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So last night I got the chance to finally see Diggnation at a live shoot here in Tempe at the Tempe Center for the Preforming Arts. I showed up at 3PM and ended up getting front row seats! I met some awesome people from all over the place including a guy who flew in from New Jersey to see the show. I took tons of pics over and put them up on my Flickr account. Some of them aren’t the greatest thanks to the stock flash on my Digital Rebel but they work. Below are some of my favorites from the show.

The logo etched into some stainless steel for the Tempe Center for the Arts Kevin Rose. A local wine maker gave them some 8 Bit wine. Doing their usual chugging that the crowd get's them to do. Alex is looking EPIC in this shot.
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