Let’s face it, the Twitter search sucks and you’ll be lucky to find tweets over a week old with it even though they still exist.
Twitter has been plagued with service issues and the fail whale (which someone coded in pure CSS) is a regular occurrence once again.
I came across a tutorial the other day on how to create a browsable, searchable archive of tweets which you can use to host your own tweets. And the best part is? It’s powered by WordPress.
In this article, I’ll go over my experience with how I set up my own @themelab tweet archive powered by WordPress, including:
- Backing up my tweets with a third-party service
- Importing those older tweets into WordPress
- Setting it up so new tweets get imported automatically
- Installing the theme to display them nicely
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If you’ve visited ThemeGarden.com or seen some of Jason Schuller’s tweets recently, you’ll notice that ThemeGarden will be moving in a new direction as a community WordPress theme marketplace.
I got a chance to catch up with Jason to get the skinny on this upcoming marketplace in an interview. For those not familiar with him, here’s a brief intro:
Jason Schuller is a digital creative professional living and working in Seattle, WA. Jason has been developing themes and plugins for WordPress since 2007 and launched his commercial theme store (Press75.com) in June of 2008.
The interview is after the jump.
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I received word a few days ago that the paid WordPress themes from RichWP will be available for free download for a limited time. All you have to do is fill out your first name and email in an optin form and the download links will be emailed to you.
Keep in mind this offer is available directly from the source, no shady sites involved here. More information on the various themes and when the offer will end are below.
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