Periscope-On-Air-Button.rest

The Twitter plugin for WordPress supports adding a Periscope On Air button to your site through a WordPress widget, pasting a Periscope profile URL into post content, or through the periscope_on_air WordPress shortcode. Add a Follow button to a WordPress post by including the shortcode in your post content area or by evaluating a shortcode in PHP using the do_shortcode WordPress function.

@TwitterDev

Display a Periscope On Air button for a Periscope profile URL

Add a Periscope On Air button to a WordPress post by copy-and-pasting a Periscope profile URL on its own line in the post content area.

I broadcast on Periscope.

https://www.periscope.tv/TwitterDev

Follow my account to view new broadcasts.

Customize a Periscope On Air button using a shortcode

Example:

I broadcast on Periscope.

[periscope_on_air username="TwitterDev" size="large"]

Follow my account to view new broadcasts.

Supported shortcode parameters

Attribute	Description	Example
username	Periscope username of the account to display. The plugin will automatically set an omitted username parameter to the stored Periscope username of the current post author when the shortcode is called inside the loop.	TwitterDev
size	Set to large to display a larger version of the Periscope On Air button.	large

Site-wide customization using a filter

A website may set site-wide preferences for Periscope On Air buttons by acting on the associative array passed to the shortcode_atts_periscope_on_air WordPress filter.

Example:

/**
 * Always show large button
 *
 * @param array $options parsed options with defaults applied
 * @param array $defaults default values of a Periscope On Air button
 * @param array $attributes user-defined shortcode attributes
 *
 * @return array options array with our customization applied
 */
function periscope_on_air_custom_options( $options, $defaults, $attributes )
{
  $options['size'] = 'large';
  return $options;
}
add_filter( 'shortcode_atts_periscope_on_air', 'periscope_on_air_custom_options', 10, 3 );