Live Blogging Plus

Live Blogging is a plugin that allows you to insert micro/live blogs into posts with automatic updating of the content.

Note: I am not really a good coder. More like a copy-paste hacker. I keep this plugin updated, but adding functionality and such may not be so prompt – if at all it happens. I am mostly updating this to include bugfixes.

Special thanks to Will Woodward for bugfixes offered in the support section.

This plugin is based on the Live Blogging plugin by Chris Northwood. Fixes some outdated code and allows adding links to the live blog in Twitter updates.

To see this plugin in use, it’s probably easiest to watch this screencast.

Live Blogging is a plugin developed to support blogs that are doing live micro blogging of running events.

Using WordPress 3.0’s custom post types, the plugin allows you to create these micro blog entries in a stripped down version of the normal post edit screen. These micro blog entries then get included in a post which has been activated as the microblog.

By default, the plugin uses AJAX polling to allow your readers to instantly update what they are viewing, including any new comments posted on the post. For professional bloggers, Meteor is supported, which gives the smoothest updating experience for your viewers and also significantly reduces the load on your server. (Note: This meteor part of the code has not been updated since the original. I don’t know how well it will work now.)

Additionally, the plugin also supports integration with Twitter – if activated, the first 239 characters of each live blog entry (including permalink to live blog page) will be posted to Twitter when they are made.

Using this plugin will give you an advantage over your competitors if you’re blogging from live events – your readers will get updates quicker, and it will integrate into your blog better than competing systems, such as CoverItLive.

Credits

Original Plugin

• Live Blogging plugin by Chris Northwood
• Update for Twitter OAuth contributed by cheche

Internationalisation

• Chinese language: Haoxian Zeng
• Persian language: Rasoul Moshrefizadeh
• Lithuanian language: Vincent G from http://www.host1free.com/