Adding twitterlink field to a Studiopress theme

I’ve added the field to this Studiopress theme for your twitter username to the actual comment form now so it should be a smoother entry for those who haven’t added their twitter username to a comment here.

Luv StudioPress!

You just gotta luv the flexibility of the Genesis Framework by StudioPress. It just takes a tiny bit of code in my child themes functions.php file and it’s added!.

Studiopress specific code

// add twitter field
//adds extra fields to the comment form.
add_filter('genesis_comment_form_args','add_twitter_field');
function add_twitter_field($args) {
	$args['fields']['twitter'] = '<p class="comment-form-twitter-id"><input size="30" id="atf_twitter_id" type="text" name="atf_twitter_id" tabindex="3" /> <label for="atf_twitter_id">' . __( 'Twitter ID', 'child' ) . '</label> <br /><small>(ID only. No links or @ symbols)</small></p>';
	return $args;
}

I did need to update my child theme style.css to add to the styling of the other fields but that was as easy as adding #atf_twitter_id to the existing style statement.

#author, #email, #url , #atf_twitter_id{
	background: #F9F9F9 url(images/no-repeat.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
	color: #333333;
	font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Verdana;
	font-size: 11px;
	margin: 5px 5px 0 0;
	padding: 5px 0 5px 10px;
	border: 1px solid #B2B2B2;
	border-radius: 6px;
    -moz-border-radius: 6px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 6px;
	-webkit-background-clip: padding-box;
	-webkit-background-origin: padding-box;
	}

Next, I visited the twitterlink settings page and set it to not show the field automatically. Easy peasy!!

Update coming (eventually)

I can see that new wordpress functions can be taken advantage of to make the adding of the extra field a snap for the next version of Twitterlink Comments. It’s not something I can do in a few minutes because I really want to do a bigger update to that plugin that will bring it in to the 3.01st century (in WP terms).

How about a way to tweet someone if they get a reply to their comment? that’s what I’m planning on adding to the plugin and it makes sense to do the easy addition of the field to the comment form along with that.

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Get Twitterlink Comments

If you want to add an extra field to your comment form for the user to add their twitter username and then display it along with their comment, just visit the download page. If you haven’t got a Studiopress theme, don’t worry! it’s got an automatic function that adds the field to below your comment form.