Make your own twitter.

July 27th, 2008 by Che

Yo! Today, I’m gonna tell you how to make your own wordpress powered twitter-like microblog.

twitterpress Make your own twitter.

Automattic guys did a great job and created a theme that can turn your wordpress into a nifty group microblog.

Basically It’s your own group twitter! Why the hell would anyone want that functionality? Well, think about it, the possibilities are endless. The coolest thing is that you can post any media you want. The second great feature is that It is a cute minimalistic group blog. So what does it give us? Imagine, you and your friends working on a website or anything else. Everyone posts updates on the work in the microblog. Work collaboration. or you and your mates decide to make a quote, video, audio, link collection. Simple, fast, minimalistic, categorized and most importantly - your own, customizable in any way microblog.

And hey, It’s so simple to set up! Just install the worpress theme and a few plugins and you’re ready to go!

Download the theme. Here’s the theme preview It’s kind of bugged, a better preview can be found here.

Download the logreg plugin so that users can register from the frontpage. Or you can just make it a closed blog, so only you and your friends can post updates.

And download simple gravatars plugin so that users can use avatars.

That’s It! your mini-twitter is set up!

If you have any ideas, thoughts or need help managin your microblog, comment or contact me. ;) Happy blogging.