rgeyer

Twitter API Shortcodes (TAS for short) is currently in Alpha, and should not be considered at all stable! With that said 
please provide any feedback so we can make things better!
TAS allows you to put single tweets or entire twitter searches into your posts and pages using shortcodes. The tweets and searches 
are displayed in HTML markup, so the become “part” of your site, which is good for SEO.
The generated markup can be customized by putting a tweet.tpl (smarty template) file into your theme directory. This also means that 
theme authors can support this plugin directly.
Tweet templates assume that each tweet is in some block with the class ‘status’ (preferably a div like so
<
div class=”status”>), and that in that block, there is a block for images with the class ‘images’ (preferably a div like so
<
div class=”images”>)
All single tweets are cached in your local wordpress database, making performance ultra fast and reducing the number of requests 
necessary to the Twitter API.
Twitter searches can also be cached, allowing you to keep a history of that particular search. This is useful if you want to 
tweet about a particular event with a hash tag, then display all of your tweets for that event on a page, or in a post even 
after those tweets fall out of the twitter search index.
<h3>TODO</h3>
This is a list of things which currently are not yet working (hey it’s an alpha version) 
* Avatar updates

Twitter API Shortcodes

A plugin to add single tweets or twitter searches to your posts and pages using shortcodes

Andy Skelton

Em Shreve

Sphinx Search is distributed as another example of the Search API project and uses Sphinx has a backend for searching.
The plugin requires some additional server side work (installing and configuring Sphinx, a cron job, etc.), so it should only be used by advanced users. Details on how to install the plugin can be found on the Installation page.
<h3>Issue Tracker</h3>
WordPress Search API has an <a href="http://code.google.com/p/wpsearchapi/issues/list" rel="nofollow ugc">issue tracker</a>. Please submit any bug reports or feature suggestions here.

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