WordPress Shortcodes - How to Create a Custom Twitter Shortcode

This is part 2 of the Shortcode Seminar. In this session we take an HTML link to twitter and make it into a shortcode that can be entered into any post or page. This is a different style of shortcode than we looked at in the first part of the seminar. This is a relatively simple process that will give you the ability to create your own custom shortcodes for a variety of uses. I also demonstrate how I troubleshoot my own errors when writing code.
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Transcript
Okay so... since we still have more time and we don't have any more questions, I'm going to take this whole short code question another step further. And the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to create a Twitter short code and this Twitter short code is going to be the kind of link that encourages or that posts the post to Twitter. And so I'm borrowing the code here from let's see... from WP recipes. They've got this little piece of... well, I guess it's HTML code. They've got this bit of WordPress code, it's an HTML link really that I'm going to turn into a short code.
And so we're going to start back to custom functions php. This is... yeah, that's mine. It's the one I'm working on. And so I guess first off, I'll just get full copy... this function defines our... Twitter short code. And function byob Twitter... and again that... let's see. Is that going to require content? You know, that doesn't require content so I don't need those... I don't need this atts another content = no. I can leave that blank. And so I'm going to... opening and closing brackets and then I gotta go back and capture that code again. Okay, get full copy comes back over here and I want to say byob... oh I don't want to assign. Byob_twitter... twit. Byob_twit = and then I'm going to paste that code. So let's see if that works actually.
So we've got this... currently reading and then there's the permalink so I'm going to stop it there actually and drop back down and again say, byob_twit = whoops... it's dot equals. Dot equals and then quotes. Actually, not a quote. Actually, I'm going to rid of that php and I'm going to get rid of this and I want to drop it down again and say $byob_twit.= and then a single quote. Title click to send this page to Twitter, target = blank show on Twitter a and then that. Okay let's see this suggests we have a problem here. AH ref =. What is the problem? I'm missing something. Oh yeah, I'm missing the semi-colon. Okay so this is concatenation symbols so byob_twit = this plus this plus this and then create a short code so add short code... and then opening and closing parenthesis and I think I'll just say twit. And then opening and closing quotes again and byob twitter, the name of the function, and then a semi-colon at the end of that. Okay and then we are going to go ahead and save this.
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