Last Four Tweets:

1. Tuesday, January 19th, 1:27 ET

   Twitter Causing Clutter

   I’ve decided to stop importing my tweets automatically into this blog. Even after the hours I spent figuring out a way to differentiate them from other posts.

   There was just too much clutter.

   I even added a link at the top of this page to exclude Twitter posts from the view, but that didn’t quite work for me. There was still too much noise coming into the site.

   So I decided, instead, to add a widget to the top of the page that dynamically updates with my last four Twitter updates. I’ve removed a similar widget from my sidebar. We’ll see if I’m still happy with that after a few days.

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2. Notes: 1 / Sunday, January 17th, 3:44 ET

   Using {TagsAsClasses} In Tumblr

   It took a while, but I finally figured out how to differentiate text posts, like this one, from text posts that are imported automatically from my Twitter feed. You’ll notice that any posts that were imported from my Twitter feed will have, near the top, “This post was automatically imported from my Twitter feed.”

   The Tumblr {TagsAsClasses} dynamic tag identifies the root domain of the importing URL. In this specific case, that’s ‘twitter_com’. So, anywhere you put {TagsAsClasses} in your custom HTML will be rendered as twitter_com in the HTML, assuming that the post was imported from Twitter.

   The same hold true if the content was imported from another site, like Digg. In that case, {TagsAsClasses} would be rendered as digg_com.

   In my custom HTML, I added the following line to the section for text post templates, in the location that I wanted the text to be displayed:

   <div class=”{TagsAsClasses}”></div>

   In my example, this renders in the final HTML as:

   <div class=”twitter_com”></div>

   Then, in my CSS I defined:

   .twitter_com:before {
   content: “This post was automatically imported from my Twitter feed”;
   }

   So, any post imported from Twitter will load the div that calls the twitter_com class. That div will display the content, “This post was automatically imported from my Twitter feed.” You can see the end result on this blog.

   Of course, how this works, exactly, will vary depending on your template and how it’s set up.

   Now, I’d like to be able to automatically tag these imports as Twitter, but I haven’t figured that one out yet. I may actually remove the Twitter imports entirely, because I don’t want things to get too noisy.

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3. Friday, January 15th, 5:46 ET

   No Go On The Import

   Decided that it was easier to just treat my old blog as an archive. You can find it here: http://www.andrewbaisley.com

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