mnw

mnw is a wordpress plugin which adds openmicroblogging support to wordpress. See README file in the package for more informations.

Installation

• Copy the plugin to your wordpress‘ plugin directory.
• Copy one of the themepage.LANG.php files as mnw.php to the directory of your current theme.
• Adjust the mnw.php to fit to your theme (archives.php is a good start to see how your theme looks like on custom pages).
• Create a new page in wordpress. This page is the main frontend of your OMB instance. Give it a sensible name, keep the content empty and select 'mnw' as template. Publish this page.
• Activate the plugin.
• Configure the plugin in the corresponding admin menu.
• (Optional) Copy omb.png to the directory of your current theme. Enable the sidebar widget displaying a count of your omb subscribers.
• (Optional) Add a sidebar widget showing received messages.

Note that mnw is published under the GNU Affero General Public License. You have to publish the source code for mnw. If you change nothing, just link to the mnw website.

Current features

mnw gives users of an OMB service the possibility to subscribe to your blog directly. Your blog will automatically send OMB notices to subscribers when you publish a new post, page or attachment (configurable). You may as well post arbitrary OMB notices from the wordpress admin interface.

Moreover, mnw allows your blog to subscribe to a remote user and later on receive his messages. To subscribe to a user, enter your blog‘s URL as your profile URL on the remote user‘s remote subscribe form.

Versions

• 22. February 2009: 0.1. First public release. Complete profile settings, profile updating through omb, consistent frontend, notice sending on publish.
• 24. February 2009: 0.1b. Service release, fixes a serious fault in the description of the microblog notice template.
• 03. March 2009: 0.1c. Adds an optional sidebar widget which displays the count of OMB subscribers and a link to the subscribe page.
• 13. March 2009: 0.2. Adds receiving & displaying of notices. mnw now uses libomb for the OMB handling.
• 25. April 2009: 0.3. Adds the possibility to send arbitrary notices, an admin page listing all notices and a dashboard widget showing stats.

Download

You can obtain mnw through git or from the wordpress plugin directory; for browsing source and history and getting tarballs take a look at git-view.adrianlang.de/?p=mnw (For example a tarball of the newest or the latest stable version).

If you want to clone the repository, you can use my public git repository:

git clone http://git.adrianlang.de/mnw/