Wordpress

Setting up Twinkylinks on WordPress couldn’t be easier.
Just copy and paste 1 piece of code and you’re good to go.

In your Wordpress theme’s comments.php file, you already have a block of code that looks like this:

<?php comment_author_link() ?>

Just replace it with the following code. You don’t have to change anything else — just copy, paste, and save!

<?php comment_author_link() ?><iframe class="twinkylinks" frameborder="0" src="http://twinkylinks.com/l/<?php echo md5(strtolower($comment->comment_author_email)); ?>.html" style="border:0;display:inline-block;height:18px;margin:0;overflow:hidden;padding:0; vertical-align:middle;width:18px;margin-left:5px;margin-top:-5px"></iframe>

That’s all you need to do! You’re done!
If you want to tweak the icon’s position on your blog’s comments page, just adjust those last two values (margin-top and margin-left).

Other PHP-Based Blogs

It’s a smidge tougher than WordPress,
but really shouldn’t be difficult.

Just follow the WordPress instructions above, but instead of the “comment_author_link()” and the “$comment->comment_author_email” bits, you’ll need to see what your blog template uses to reference the commenter’s name, and what your template uses to reference the commenter’s e-mail address. But apart from that, it’s exactly the same.

Copy and paste that block of code (replacing the “comment_author_link()” and the “$comment-> comment_author_email” with your blog software’s version of it), and you’re all done. Not too bad, right?

If you e-mail us with your blogging software’s name and the code you ended up using, we’ll post it here for other folks to use.

Ruby/Rails-Based Blogs

It’s super-easy for you, too.

There are two bits to this. For starters, you need to make sure that your primary controller (probably application_controller.rb) includes the following line:

require 'digest/md5'

Then, in your comments partial (or comments section), you’ll want to include the following:

<iframe class="twinkylinks" frameborder="0" src="http://twinkylinks.com/l/<%= Digest::MD5.hexdigest(commenter.email.downcase.strip).to_s %>.html" style="border:0;display:inline-block;height:16px;margin:0;overflow:hidden;padding:0; vertical-align:middle;width:16px;">

And be sure that you replace “commenter.email” with whatever your blogging software uses to reference the commenter’s e-mail.

That’s all you need to do! You’re done!