Tweetmeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on twitter to determine which links are popular. Tweetmeme is able to categorize these links into categories and subcategories, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what your interested in.

Tweetmeme provide a button that you can add to your website or blog to enable you to share new content and tweet about it. The button provides a fully integrated URL shortener and the story or pages title. Each link which is posted on twitter adds one link to the link count on that story.

This plugin allows you to easily add the Tweetmeme button to your blog posts in b2evolution and allows you to choose where the button should be placed along with being able to choose between the compact or normal style buttons and specify your source name. The choices available for the position are the top or bottom (or both) of your post along with positioning it to the left or right of the text.

More about these options can be found on the Tweetmeme button page

Download the Tweetmeme Plugin, upload it to your plugins folder and install it via the Global Settings tab. Read the readme file and update your settings. Post a comment here with any questions.

This is a port of the Frugal Wordpress Theme which is a crisp, clean and simple design. I have stayed true to as much of the original design as I could while obviously including things for the unique features of b2evolution like multiple blogs etc.

This skin is currently designed for the 2.4.x series of b2evolution and therefore does not support the new features in the 3.x series like intro posts etc. The skin should still work with no problems on a 3.x installation of b2evolution but will just not display the intro posts. This update will be coming soon.

Download the Frugal skin, upload it to your skins folder and install it via the Global Settings - Skins tab. Please feel free to post a comment here with any questions.

I noticed that the Google Reader team tweeted today about the fact that you can now embed "Share in Reader" links on your site. As it seams you can never have too many ways to share the content of your blog these days I thought I would spend a few minutes and have a play with this for b2evolution. If you are happy to open up your skin files then you can add the following in a location of your choice to get the "Share in Reader" link:

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You can obviously add the appropriate images etc to make this look nicer and it wouldn't be too hard to wrap all this up in a b2evolution plugin if there is a desire for that kind of thing. If you are going to hack about with your skin files, make sure you back them up first

It is amazing what can happen when a simple bit of code is looked at by a group of talented developers..... Hot on the heels of the previous Twitterlution update we now have another one by ¥åßßå.

Right from the start Twitterlution was reliant on a PHP extension called curl which allowed the plugin to talk to twitter. This was OK for the majority of people but every so often a b2evo user would find that their host hadn't enabled curl on their PHP installation, which effectively meant that they couldn't use the plugin. As of this release, the plugin will use curl if it is there but if not fall back to a way that doesn't use a php extension. This is very cool as it opens up the plugin to more people.

The second update is the addition of a new placeholder that will get replaced when your message is posted through to twitter. Now the $title$, $excerpt$ and $url$ placeholders will be replaced appropriately. The Excerpt field can be found on the Expert tab when writing a new post.

These new features have been included into the b2evolution 3.2.0-beta version and for 2.4.x user, go get the plugin from the Twitterlution plugin page and enjoy.

Thanks again ¥åßßå for the update