I just came across Google’s new design. I was wondering I have seen this design somewhere so I just opened Bing to compare the design and what I saw was shocking. Google has mimicked Bing’s design.

Here is Google’s New Design

Google's New Design

And here is the Bing’s Design

Bing's Design

Google didn’t checked the Bing’s design? or Google liked the Bing’s design so much? What’s your say on this?

This is small tutorial showing you how to integrate new URL shortner to Tweet Old Post wordpress plugin

Make the following changes in top-admin.php file

1 – Look for the URL shortner drop down list, find the code that looks like below

'.__('URL Shortener Service', 'TweetOldPost').':

'.__('is.gd', 'TweetOldPost').'
'.__('su.pr', 'TweetOldPost').'
'.__('bit.ly', 'TweetOldPost').'
'.__('tr.im', 'TweetOldPost').'
'.__('3.ly', 'TweetOldPost').'
'.__('u.nu', 'TweetOldPost').'
'.__('tinyurl', 'TweetOldPost').'

2 – Once you get there, add another option tag to the list like below,

'.__('urlshortner', 'TweetOldPost').'

Note – In the above option replace ‘urlshortner’ with new shortner name.

Make the below changes in top-core.php file,

1 – find the function shorten_url(), and add an elseif block of new shortner api like below code,

elseif ($shortener=="urlshortner") {
		$url = "http://u.nu/unu-api-simple?url={$the_url}";
		$response = send_request($url, 'GET');
	}

Note – replace urlshortner with new shortner name, it should be same as in point 2 of top-admin.php changes. In the URL section change the API URL with your shortner API URL and pass the required parameters the above just have the URL parameter.

2 -Some API may require additional parameters like API key. So it will look somewhat like this,

elseif ($shortener=="urlshortner") {
		$url = "http://yourshortnerapiurl/api?url={$the_url}&api=xxxxxx";
		$response = send_request($url, 'GET');
	}

Note – replace urlshortner with new shortner name, it should be same as in point 2 of top-admin.php changes. In the URL section change the API URL with your shortner API URL and pass the required parameters. The above have the URL parameter and API key replace xxxxxx with your API Key value.

That’s it and you are ready to go. In case you find it difficult to implement the above code feel free to drop by a comment I’ll add it for everyone and you can always drop me a mail.