Tag Archives: #mandarinmonday

Archive Tweets plugin for WordPress

The design of the #MandarinMonday website is centred around having an archive of all tweets tagged with the hashtag #MandarinMonday. Rather than write a stand-alone script to search Twitter and archive these tweets, I decided to package it all up as a self contained WordPress plugin. I am now sharing this plugin (my first ever public plugin for WordPress) with anyone who wishes to use it.

The plugin has two functions:

  • it maintains an archive of all tweets which contain a configurable search term, and
  • it displays a list of these tweets on a page in the blog.

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The Barrier of Free Flowing Conversation

#MandarinMonday was/is a nice idea and I hope it doesn’t die completely. Over on Tea Break, @1980_ examines why the concept has fizzled out in recent weeks. One particular point that I can associate with, and not just in relation to #MandarinMonday, is the difficulty of free conversation for those studying a second language.
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