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UPDATE: Thanks to Ozh’s Comments I have updated the post below. It sounds like the plugin will be updated for WP 3.0. However, it will then stop working with WP 2.9 and below. I am leaving this page up for those of you who wish to use an older version of WP but would still recommend updating to a newer release when one becomes available.

I’ve been using YOURLS to host my own shortlink site at brurls.com for quite some time. I recently found the YOURL’s WordPress to Twitter Plugin. This plugin is great however the, get_shortlink function added to WP 3.0 as well as the latest version of WordPress.com Stats plugin caused some small usability issues. Such as the “Get Shortlink” button showing up twice.

My solution? Make it so when you click on the “Get Shortlink” button it gets the YOURLS shorlink instead of the wp.me one. This required the following changes that I’m hoping OZH will adopt or modify.

Remove the following from inc/options.php (Lines 427-428)

$('#edit-slug-box').append('<span id="<span class=">yourls-shorturl-button</span>"><a onclick="prompt(\'Short URL:\', \'<?php echo $shorturl; ?>\'); return false;" href="#">Get Short URL</a>');
 $('#yourls-shorturl-button a').css('border-color','#bbf');
 

Next add the following functions to either inc/core.php or plugin.php

//the following two functions are from WordPress.com Stats Plugin by Andy Skelton Thanks Andy
//shortlink url for WP <= 2.9
function wp_ozh_yourls_get_shortlink_html($html) {
 $url = wp_ozh_yourls_geturl($id);
 $html .= '<input id="YOURLS-shorturl" type="hidden" value="' . $url . '" /><a onclick="prompt('URL:', jQuery(\'#YOURLS-shorturl\').val()); return false;" href="#">' . __('Get Shortlink') . '</a>';
 return $html;

}

The final step is to modify the plugin.php file to change the renamed wpme functions and update for WP 3.0

// WP 2.9/3.0 & wp.me play nice together
add_action('plugins_loaded', 'wp_ozh_yourls_wpme' );
function wp_ozh_yourls_wpme() {
 if( ! function_exists('wp_get_shortlink') ) {
 // Remove these only for WP < 3.0.
 remove_action('wp_head', 'wpme_shortlink_wp_head');
 remove_action('wp', 'wpme_shortlink_header');
 //Add shortlink URL html
 add_filter( 'get_sample_permalink_html', 'wp_ozh_yourls_get_shortlink_html');
 } else {
 // Add a shortlink handler for WP >= 3.0.
 add_filter( 'get_shortlink', 'wp_ozh_yourls_raw_url');
 }
}

That should do the trick and be backwards compatible!

This is more of an open question than a fantastic discovery. One thing we want to do with WPBook is allow custom theme modification that won’t be overwritten by plugin upgrades. I’ve been looking into ways to check to see if a theme exists. If it does uses it if not use the default plugin theme from the plugin directory.

I know how to do a php check for “if file_exists” however, checking for all theme files seems a bit silly. What I’m wondering is if there is a way to check if the theme exists with at least a folder and index.php file.

Another thing I’ve been wondering, there is a WP_PLUGIN_DIR function but not WP_THEME_DIR function is there a workaround for this?

Any help on this issue would be great!

With almost 130,000 downloads and support for more than 50 sites it is safe to say that David Cramer’s wp-lifestream is the best WordPress Lifestream plugin out there. The idea of a lifestream is to bring all your data from the sites you visit to one place. The current version of this plugin doesn’t support DailyBooth one of my favorite photo publishing sites. So I took the challenge of writing the extension for it.

This lead me to loving the plugin even more. Extending the class was remarkably easy. However, for some of you who are less technically inclined or don’t want to go though the work of writing this class yourself I have packaged the DailyBooth extension here. Just download it and up place it in wp-content/lifestream/extensions and you should be good to go by adding your DailyBooth username under feeds.

Hope you find this extension useful.