I’ve released version 1.0 of Twitter Tools, my WordPress plugin that does a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
Features include:
- Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 15 minutes)
- Create a blog post from each of your tweets
- Create a daily digest post of your tweets
- Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
- Post a tweet from your sidebar
- Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
- Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)
Changes from the last beta release include:
- Lots more error handling
- A “Test Login” button
- @username is now clickable in tweets
- A template tag for just the latest tweet
- Make sure not to tweet when editing a tweet digest post
- Make sure not to show duplicate tweets in sidebar
- Twitter Tools now gets credit on tweets created from Twitter Tools
- Lots more that I can’t think of right now
UPDATE: Yes, I urge everyone using the previous beta releases to upgrade to this version.
UPDATE #2: For those that asked, my Twitter account is here. Feel free to add me.
Enjoy!
The download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and send me the link.
This post is part of the project: Twitter Tools. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
Instead of posting a tweet for every blog post, what about designing the feature so it ads a sidebar item to the post editing window that allows us to flip a post/don’t post option (ideally with the option to set either as the default)? Not every post is tweet-able, and I think this would help cut down on the amount of blog-to-tweet spam.
I just added Twitter Tools to the sidebar of my site, it’s working great. Thanks for another excellent plugin!
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Great plugin! We have made a Simplified Chinese language pack for your plugin here:
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I also modified a few lines of code to fix the problem that a blank page will be shown if manually updating tweets in the option page failed.
Nice Work on Twitter Tools 1.0!
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Thanks a lot, Alex; the plugin works nicely, and the sweet options available on the admin-page are icing on the cake.
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Hey great! Looks like a cool plugin, gonna be useful when the site is done.
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Congrats on the 1.0 release Alex, we will post your release on the Twitter Community Blog and Forums.
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thanks alex! been waiting for this!
it would be nice however if the facebook pinging can be built in (i’ve read the readme file but i have no idea how to code the “do your action here” bit)… may i know if you have the codes for this?
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How about a “weekly digest” for twitter posts? Daily was too much for me. Or maybe let the user assign the frequency of digests?… some of us don’t Tweet that much, yet.
Nice work on the plugin, congrats!
Patches are welcome.
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Some suggestions for the next version:
-When a new post is listed, instead of having the title of the post, and then a written out link to it, just hyperlink the post title
-List new comments the way you list new posts
-List post edits
-Have an option not to link the first item in the list to the RSS feed (I have an RSS link in the title of the section)
-Make TinyURL’s optional
Of course having an option to turn each of these on and off would be best.
Thanks again for the awesome plugin!!
Joe, I think you need to learn a little more about how Twitter works.
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This tool has actually made Twitter useful for me and convinced me to join. I’ve been looking for a good sideblog tool, and here it is.
Must agree with the folks here, nice tool.
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Thankyou! I’ve just integrated this into my blog http://davie.ath.cx great stuff!
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This of course, rocks. I use it on 5 different WP sites to send tweets to 2 different twitter accounts.
It would be, just swell, if it could be set to only send to twitter when the post is first published. Every time I have to make an edit to a blog post (quite common, I am typo prone) or update an old post, it re-tweets.
I’m inclined to dump my jug of spare change into the tip jar.
Pretty please?
thanks!
Twitter Tools will only post to Twitter once per blog post – if an old post was never “tweeted”, an edit can cause the post to be sent to Twitter. I hope this helps.
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Just wanted to add that Twitter had an upgrade today and I noticed my login for Twitter Tools no longer would work.
I determined that if you use your username, the login will fail. Use your email address and it will work!
Hi, Alex,
Very nice plugin. Thank you for your development effort. Combined with the Google Talk protocol, a good Jabber client (the Windows GTalk client, or, on Linux, Psi), and IMified, your plugin allows for a very slim desktop profile for a lot of flexibility in communication.
I have one question for you:
In the plugin, in your aktt_sidebar_tweet() function, I notice that you wrap the tweets with , and then drop the link to the tweet’s home on Twitter.com inside the content of the list item. If I wanted to wrap the content with the link instead (for a nice :hover color shift), is it sufficient to change only the order of those elements in this function?
Thank you,
Daniel
Hi Alex,
Thanks a lot for your amazing plugin.
Is it possible to include an author-name to the daily summary blog post?
Cheers
Alfons
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“Is it possible to include an author-name to the daily summary blog post?”
would love to see this feature as well.. thanks for the awesome work
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I have but one suggestion. Is there any way to have a Weekly digest post instead of daily? I like the idea of have a digest to the blog but for those days that I Twitter only once seems unnecessary to generate a daily digest.
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@Blake Brannon are you sure it works? I’ve tried both my email address and my Twitter username, and neither seem to be working (I know the password is correct, I changed it to a different password just to be sure).
Still no luck
Awesome tool! I really like the digest capability, but if you could add me into the camp that would appreciate a “weekly” digest instead of a daily one that would be great. I’m finding the daily posts to be a little clogging on my blog. Love the side bar though and love the ease of it all. Very cool indeed!
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This is brilliant if I’m using WordPress, but does anyone know of some open source so that I can add custom Twitter functionality to my own website and own blogging script?
Preferably I’d like something like Twitter Remote, but I want to modify it slightly and so am after the source code instead of the ready built application.
If anyone could help and point me in the right direction that would be great.
Thanks.
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