One of my favorite mediums into the Sitecore community is Twitter. It's a place where you can interact with other Sitecore enthusiasts, promote your blog content / events, and have meaningful discussions about our favorite CMS. It reveals how tight-knit our community really is. If you're not already part of it, it's never too late to join! 😎
If you are active on Twitter, you've probably seen them. Those little images that are embedded after specific hashtags are used. Those are 'hashflags' and they've been around for almost a decade.
According to Wikipedia:
In 2010, Twitter introduced "hashflags" during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. They reintroduced the feature on June 10, 2014, in time for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and then again on April 10, 2015, with UK political party logos for the 2015 UK General Election.Since the first hashflag in 2010, 1,300+ active hasflags are available for use (1,309 at the time of this post - an unofficial running list can be found here)
Given that none of the Twitter-provided hashflags have anything available for Sitecore-related hastags (#Sitecore for example), I figured there is certainly a way we can include.
And thus, the Sitecore Twitter Hashflag Google Chrome Extension was born!
The extension runs only on specified Twitter domains (https://twitter.com, https://mobile.twitter.com, and https://tweetdeck.twitter.com).
A loop is configured to discover hashtags in a defined array of strings and replaces some HTML to include embedded images. If you have the extension installed, it will inject any applicable hashtag to also include a hashflag.
The extension currently supports the following:
- #Sitecore
- #SitecoreMVP
- #SitecoreJSS
- #SCHackathon
- #WomenOfSitecore
- #SPE
- #Coveo
- #SUGCON
- #SitecoreSYM
- #SXA
The repository is open source and open to contributions here.
This project is just for fun with a hope to encourage the use of Sitecore hashtags.
It's okay to have fun! 😁
It's okay to have fun! 😁
Enjoy!
