Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites.
Upload the plugin into
/wp-content/plugins/. You should end up with
/wp-content/plugins/lifestream/.
Activate the plugin under the "Plugins" menu.
Visit "Lifestream" -> "Settings" to configure the basic options, and add feeds.
There are severals methods in which you can use Lifestream in a WordPress page.
The easiest way is to use the normal context handler (works in pages and posts):
[lifestream]
Another method requires a
custom WordPress page, or the use of a template, and is a simple function call:
<?php lifestream(); ?>
You may also specify several parameters in the
lifestream method (useful for sidebar display). These should be in the standard key=>value format for PHP calls.
(int) offset: defaults to 0(int) limit: defaults to '50'(string) date_interval: defaults to '1 month'(boolean) break_events: defaults to false - forces grouped events to be single(array) user_ids: defaults to all users -- specify the ids of users to show(array) feed_types: defaults to all feeds -- specify the feed keys (e.g. twitter) to show(array) feed_ids: defaults to all feeds -- specify the ids of feeds to show, also overrides feed_types setting
For example:
[lifestream limit="10"]
For more advanced uses, you may directly use
get_events() which will return an array of
Event instances. This is the same syntax as the
lifestream() method.
Example:
`
50);
$events = $lifestream->get_events($options);
foreach ($events as $event)
{
echo '- '.$event->render($options).'
';
}
?>
`
Another popular example, would to be show your current Twitter, or Facebook status somewhere in your templates:
`$events = $lifestream->get_events(array('feed_types'=>array('twitter'), 'number_of_results'=>1, 'break_groups'=>true);
$event = $events[0];
// to render it with links
echo $event->feed->render_item($event, $event->data);
// or render just the text
echo $event->data['title'];`
Or, use our handy shortcuts:
<?php lifestream_twitter_status(); ?>
And
<?php lifestream_facebook_status(); ?>