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Quick post to point out a tiny tool that I’ve found useful while hacking together various webby thing that use and expose open graph meta tags and microformats.

It’s a VERY simple tool, that when passed a URL, will mine the page for Open Graph and Microformat data (using my Open Graph library, and Barnaby Walter’s fantastic MF2 parser). You can even execute it from the command line if you have the CLI version on your path, which I find handy.

Anyway, code on github, and you can see it running on skunk.

» See it running on skunk…

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Further to my previous post on embedding Idno posts, I’ve written a WordPress plugin to make the process even easier!

Now, you can embed a post in your blog by placing the permalink of the blog inside the new [idno] shortcode, for example:

[idno]http://mysite.com/permalink[/idno]

or, to override the default size of the embed code:

[idno width="somesize" height="somesize"]http://mysite.com/permalink[/idno]

» Visit the project on Github…

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One of the things that I thought it’d be cool to be able to do with Idno, is to be able to embed a post into a blog post, rather like you can with a tweet or public Facebook posting.

Embedding posts mean that you can take a posting that you or someone else has written on their Idno site, and then build up a conversation around it.


So, I wrote a quick plugin that provides this functionality!

This current version uses an iframe to display an embed view of the selected object, using code inserted using the JSONP api, which gives you a live view of the object complete with latest comment count and using your site’s theme choices. Future versions of the plugin may make more use of the raw data returned via the JSONP endpoint.

All links will open in a new tab, so if you want to see the comments (or comment directly, if the site in question uses my in place comments plugin), then you can follow links without causing problems.

Have fun!

» Visit the project on Github…