Wordpress - Installation instructions#

Note: Thinglink currently works only with self-hosted Wordpress blogs as Wordpress.com doesn’t support third-party plugins.

1. Log in to Wordpress admin (usually yourblog.com/wp-admin)

2. Select Add New under Plugins in the left panel of your admin

3. Search for “Official Thinglink Plugin” and install it. After enabling the plugin, select Thinglink from Plugins menu and make sure your Thinglink ID is filled in. If it is not, copy and paste your ID manually from My Account page

4. Click Save (even if the ID was already there)

5. Go to your blog, hover over any image and start tagging your images by clicking the Edit tags icon. Make sure you are logged into Thinglink in order to tag images. When publishing new posts, you can also tag your images in the Wordpress Preview mode. Tagging from inside the Wordpress editor is not possible.

Troubleshooting#

My tags open partly outside images and get cut by site layout#

You can force tags to open inside of your images, however in Wordpress it is a bit more tricky:

1. Go to your Wordpress admin page (usually yourblog.com/wp-admin)

2. Select Plugins and find “Thinglink Official Plugin” from the list of installed plugins

3. Click Edit next to it

4. You should see the contents of thinglink/rjw-thinglink.php. Find the following lines of code

__tlid = '{$thinglink_id}';
setTimeout(function ...

5. After __tlid = '{$thinglink_id}'; add the following line:

__tlconfig = {vOverflow: false, hOverflow: false};

6. Click Update File. Now you should have your tags opening inside the images!