b2evolution

FriendFeed is a service that makes it easy to share with friends online. It offers a fun and interactive way to discover and discuss information among friends..

Friendfeed provide a number of ways to display the content that you are aggregating through the Friendfeed service namely the Friendfeed badge and the Friendfeed feed widget. This plugin allows you to embed your Friendfeed badge or your Friendfeed feed widget into your blog.

The plugin comes in two parts - the first part is a widget that will allow you to embed either your badge or feed widget inside a b2evolution container (the sidebar of your blog for example). Add this widget like you would any other widget to your blog. The second part is a text renderer (something in b2evolution that will change certain text in your posts to something else) that will embed your Friendfeed feed widget into a blog post.

Download the Friendfeed 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.

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.

Features

1. NEW - You can now see the tweet stats for a configurable number of posts
2. NEW - You can now see the tweet stats for a specific post on the edit post screen
3. NEW - You can now change the URL shortner you are using
4. Allows you to easily add the Tweetmeme button to your blog posts in b2evolution
5. Allows you to choose where the button should be placed - top or bottom (or both) of your post along with positioning it to the left or right of the text.
6. Choose between the compact or normal style buttons
7. Allows you to change the source which you retweet, E.g. "RT @yourname "

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 now comes in two versions - the existing b2evolution 2.4.x version that does not support the new features in the 3.x series like intro posts etc and the new b2evolution 3.x version that does support intro posts etc.

Skin settings are also now used to allow you to turn off post metadata and choose whether to display the b2evolution logo (the link back in the footer is always maintained)

Download the 2.4.x version of the Frugal skin or the 3.x version of 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

Best,

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

Best,