Apr 05 2010

Qik?

Category: PersonalChrisM @ 1:40 am

To anyone who hasn’t yet clicked on the links in any tweets that mention Qik, you’ll find videos I have streamed live from my mobile phone. I have just gone back and edited each of these posts so that you can also watch the videos from within this site. HOWEVER, as these are tweets, they are automatically put in the Asides category. This means you’ll not see the video on the front page, you’ll need to click on the (0) link at the end to see the post in it’s entirety.
I’ve also added pictures to all the twitpic tweets, however these should show on the front page, as no embed tag is necessary.
If this is all Latin to you, don’t worry. Either click the little number in brackets after any post that mentions Qik, OR just click the qik.ly link.

8 Responses to “Qik?”

  1. KZBlog says:

    Hey, been meaning to ask, how do you get the Twitter posts to have different format? Thinking of implementing something similar or maybe whatever you did will help me in my ultimate goal of having tweets be excluded from the lead story thing on my front page.

  2. Alex C says:

    Aye, still want mine to look like this too but the thing you sent me is slightly different to the intructions and after the mess I made last time I’m scared to touch it 🙂

  3. ChrisM says:

    @KZBlog. If your theme has support for asides built in, you just need to specify the category you put tweets into as the aside one. If not, you need to be better at coding than AlexC, and modify your theme manually. Search online for wordpress aside. I think the 1st result should be a good start.

    @AlexC what is slightly different to the instructions? Just keep a backup of any files you’ll be modifying, and make sure you can access the site via FTP first. Then hack away at the code until it looks right, secure in the knowledge that you can fix it yourself should something go wrong 🙂

  4. KZBlog says:

    Ah, that’s going to mess up the lead post coding I think. Oh well. Not a big deal, just would have been cool.

  5. Alex C says:

    Hey, you make me out to be stupid. I’ll explain: The instructions say look for the code that says (for eg.) “the eggs in the saucepan” but my code will say “the sausages in the frying pan” or even “the dog tried to escape via the catflap”!
    So I had a little hack at it as best I could, saving my original index file very carefully, and as I suspected, it didn’t work. Then, as you know cos you somehow fixed it, despite me placing my original file back exactly as it was, something had gone wrong and my blog stopped working.
    Admittedly I have been too scared/lazy to have another shot but the first experience wasn’t great.

  6. KZBlog says:

    @AlexC I had the same issue and when I put in that code, the whole thing went to hell. I read somewhere that the aside function doesn’t play nice with every wordpress theme depending on how they handle The Loop.

    Found this online:
    http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/using-wordpress-categories-to-style-posts/

    Much more powerful because it actually lets you control how any category is formatted and it does it all with css. If you look at my homepage, you can see how Tweets look compared to other posts–excluding my lead/first post obviously.

    Now if only I could figure out a good way to make that lead post display either the first sticky post OR the most recent post not in a certain category, I would be a happy man.

  7. ChrisM says:

    @AlexC – I don’t make you look stupid, that is just your paranoia kicking in. (Irina, all my other friends, and random people I meet in the street often discuss the laughable extent of your paranoia ;-P We sometimes follow you in the street and whisper about it, just out of hearing range.
    Seriously, my guide to restoring your files will work, from what I remember from when I fixed your site that time, you’d just put an index.php in the wrong folder, or more precisely the wrong index.php in the root folder. I think.

    @KZBlog, thanks for taking the time to let Alex know that the situation really is with manually adding Asides to themes that don’t have native support for it.
    I’m not sure if it will help with your needs, but in case you would need to add categories to some posts in order to aid in correct displaying etc., I know there is a plugin that allows certain categories to be hidden. Not the posts themselves, just the category name from being displayed on your blog. As an example, you could assign a post to a category with a name of “Feck Off And Die Everyone”, and only you would see that category name in the admin backend of your blog, the post would only display any other categories it belonged to when seen from the frontend. Not any sort of complete solution for you, but perhaps a piece of the jigsaw that might help you get to the desired end result.

  8. Alex C says:

    Quick reply:
    @KZblog – thanks for info. I will check this out when I have a spare sec 🙂
    @Chris – ok,ok, I get it. Admitt that you love to encourage me though!