Dedicated Twitter Button

[MapleOne]

Hello everyone

I have a test site I am thinking of switching over to Xenforo and one of the features is posting Twitter Tweets.
I have a button in the BB code bar and once pressed you simply insert the twitter share link and the tweet inserts into the post displaying in its entirety.

Now I know you have a media button but I am hoping there is a way of adding a dedicated twitter button and removing most of the other BB code buttons.

The site is pretty well targeted and will mostly be discussing tweets so I want the BB Bar code to be very clean.

No links, no quotes, no larger fonts etc.

Basically: Bold, Twitter, Smilies and that is it.

Is that possible to do in Xenforo?

 

[Paul B]

You can remove and reorganise the editor buttons to suit.

The media button can be reconfigured to only allow content from Twitter.

 

[MapleOne]

You can remove and reorganise the editor buttons to suit.

The media button can be reconfigured to only allow content from Twitter.

I am more looking for a button that has the twitter logo on it. What you are suggesting works but would not be intuitive to post a tweet because the icon is a picture/movie.

That said, I may eventually decide to leave that button active to post a video or something but a quick twitter button is what I am looking for.

 

[Paul B]

The icon can be changed.

 

[MapleOne]

There is no way to have a media button and a dedicated twitter button though right?
I was thinking just in case the odd person may want to post a different form of media.

I know it sounds weird but the site I am talking about is highly twitter oriented and I was hoping someone would have an extension or something available for a dedicated twitter button.

 

[Paul B]

The button isn't required to post media.

Simply pasting the URL into the editor will resolve it to the appropriate embed.

I've never used the media button.

 

[Kirby]

There is no way to have a media button and a dedicated twitter button though right?

I'ts definitly possible to build an Add-on to add a dedicated Twitter button, but really:
You are just complicating things.

Your users can just post URLs to tweets (or YouTube videos or whatever media you do configure); you do not need a dedicated Media or Tweet/Twitter button for this.

 

[MapleOne]

Yeah I see your point, it is hard to get over the twitter button once you've had it for a while.

 

[Kevin]

Yeah I see your point, it is hard to get over the twitter button once you've had it for a while.

It would actually be easier for you now with XF; instead of having members click a icon to insert the tweet link they can just paste straight into the editor.

View it as an enhancement as part of the migration rather than a feature loss.

 

[MapleOne]

Year, you are right on that