doc/tips/add_chatterbox_to_blog.mdwn



If you use twitter or identi.ca, here's how to make a box
on the side of your blog that holds your recent status updates
from there, like I have on my blog
--[[Joey]]


Enable the [[plugins/aggregate]] plugin, and set up a cron
job for it.


At the top of your blog's page, add something like the following.
You'll want to change the urls of course. Be sure to also change
the inline directive's [[PageSpec]] to link to the location the
feed is aggregated to, which will be a subpage of the page
you put this on (blog in this example):
[[!template id=note text="""

[[!aggregate expirecount=5 name="dents" url="http://identi.ca/joeyh"

feedurl="http://identi.ca/api/statuses/user_timeline/joeyh.atom"]]

[[!inline pages="internal(./blog/dents/*)" template=microblog
show=5 feeds=no]]
"""]]


To filter out @-replies, append "and !@" to the [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]].
The same technique can be used for other filtering.


Note: Works best with ikiwiki 3.10 or better.