Urban Jungle by jonesnickjon
I really like importing my tweets to this site because I find so much relevant and useful information via Twitter that I want to store and share.
Seriously. If you’re a teacher and you’re not on Twitter, what are you waiting for? It’s professional development on steroids — and fun, to boot!
But I like searching my site much better than I do Twitter. I’m sure there are services out there nowadays that make searching your own tweets much easier, but I haven’t found them. I prefer having all of my tweets safely tucked away here. And when I want to find something, I just use that handy-dandy search bar over there to the right.
BUTTTT. . .Twitter updates have been taking over this site weed-like for quite some time. I’ve complained about it for a while, but only today actually took the time to do something about it.
First, I had to refresh myself on creating a page template. Then, I filtered my “twitter” category to that page. And finally, I excluded my “twitter” category from my front page.
Now, if you click on “Home” in the menu above, you won’t see any “Daily Tweets” posts. And if you click on “Twitter,” you’ll see only “Daily Tweets” posts.
I had to do a little tweaking between all of my googling, copying, and pasting. And I still have some more to do. (Notice on the “Twitter” page that the individual post titles aren’t formatted like on my other pages. It’s not following the theme style, and I’ll have to find out why to fix it.)
Now, I may change my twitter plugin to make a separate post for each tweet, so they’ll be easier to search out by topic.
Oh, and I’m not tagging this post “twitter” because I want it on the front page. ;)
UPDATE: And then, I must do it again because I update the theme without saving my changes. Oh, joy.
UPDATE: Well, the second time around is much easier than the first! Research and all, it took me 3-4 hours to figure this out this morning, but it only took me about 15 minutes to redo it. Yay!
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