On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Lorelle on WordPress <[email protected]> wrote: > That's what I thought, but the more I think about it, the more I think it > could have value if we say something and link to appropriate tags in the > Plugin Directory. > > Like defining what integration means. In my classes I call them Share, Push, > and Pull - Share means you "share" information manually through social > media, Push is to tell the world through social media, and pull is to bring > social media to your blog. > > Using that analogy, it would be ideal for the Codex to cover getting a short > link to share manually (aren't they adding the short URL to the core?), > examples of how to automate the process to push posts to social media, and > how to use the Feed Widget to pull social media stuff into the site, and > feature links to Plugin tags that do the pushing and pulling for examples of > WordPress Plugins that make it easier. > > This could be a WordPress Lesson. I'm sure there are more sophisticated > techniques, but I think we need to have a page that gives some basics to > answering the question of how and can I integrate my blog to social media. > > More brainstorming ideas? > > Lorelle
Shortlinks are already in core, have been since... err.. 2.9 or 3.0. I use them in my Simple Twitter Connect and Simple Facebook Connect plugins (Simple Google Connect is in progress). I dunno. I think this is too big a concept, with too many opinions* and ways of doing it. "Integration" is a big thing, with a lot of separate sub-topics and such. You can break it down into parts, but even in those parts there's dozens of possible ones, each has different upsides and downsides, etc. -Otto * my opinions and methods for doing this sort of thing are the only correct ones, of course, but not everybody agrees. ;) _______________________________________________ wp-docs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs
