I’ve worked a bit to tweak the Twitter tweets integration in this site’s sidebar.

I’m using the WordPress feedList Plugin which allows me to funnel in content from RSS feeds. Originally I was piping in the content from my @lightwerk account, but since I decided the @soundnoir feed was pertinent as well, I turned to Yahoo Pipes to combine the two.

I’ve got the Pipe I created for the task grabbing the two RSS feeds from the accounts, but initially the content was doubled up — each tweet was displayed in plain text and as a link at the same time. To fix that I removed the description from the feed.

To edit the RSS feed, I first had a look at the raw contents of the feed using Feed Proxy. With it I was able to pinpoint the “item’s” “description.” Knowing how to address it, I used the Regex module in Yahoo Pipes to find that bit of data and replace it with nothing, essentially deleting it.

Next, I grabbed the newly combined feed’s RSS addy and pasted it into the sidebar.php file of my WordPress theme. It worked correctly, displaying the combination of both feeds in one place.

To highlight the fact that the tweets are coming from two separate accounts, I again turned to the Regex module and searched for the usernames preceding the tweets themselves. By matching ^(lightwerk:) and replacing it with <div>lightwerk:</div> I was able to focus on the usernames and highlight them through their CSS property.

You can see the end result in the image above, and, of course, in the sidebar to the left. I’m pretty happy with it.

One note, since it seems this could be useful for someone else, I’ve published the Yahoo Pipe that drives this functionality. A cool thing about Pipes is that when a given Pipe is published, others can clone and edit it for their own purposes. Feel free to help yourself.