Twitter Tools 1.5

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Twitter Tools, my WordPress plugin that creates a two-way integration between your blog and your Twitter account, has been updated to version 1.5.

This version has an important bug fix for a problem in earlier betas of 1.5 that didn’t properly throttle requests to Twitter.

If you are using a 1.5 beta - this is a must upgrade situation.

There are also a bunch of new features:

  • Weekly digests.
  • Updates to match Twitter API changes so that “in reply to” links are properly created
  • Ability to exclude @replies from daily and weekly digests and blog posts
  • added support for hashtags (linked to search.twitter.com)
  • Made URLs in blog posts clickable (using the tweet to blog post feature).
  • abstracted all API endpoints and URLs so that it can theoretically support any service that implements the Twitter API
  • Fixed the duplicate custom field issue for people running WordPress 2.6+.
  • Numerous other tweaks and fixes.

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 e-mail me a link to the thread.

Enjoy!

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Posted November 12th, 2008 @ 10:33 PM

15 Replies

  1. Tapeleg adds this Comment:

    Any special upgrade instructions, or just overwrite the old version?

    November 12th, 2008 at 11:48 pm

  2. Ingo Vogelmann adds this Comment:

    Awesomeness!

    November 13th, 2008 at 6:30 am

  3. Rööö adds this Comment:

    Thanks for the update!

    Do you plan to integreate to change tweet_prefix through the options-page?

    November 13th, 2008 at 8:57 am

  4. Tom Markiewicz adds this Comment:

    Thanks, was hoping to see a weekly digest option!

    November 13th, 2008 at 10:31 am

  5. Malcolm Bastien adds this Comment:

    Awesome, this is a must have plug-in for any Wordpress & Twitter fan.

    November 13th, 2008 at 11:48 am

  6. Mark Evans adds this Comment:

    Alex,

    I’ll definitely check it out - always looking for new Twitter tools.

    Mark

    November 13th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

  7. Jhay adds this Comment:

    Hey there,

    Thanks for sharing! Keep it up!

    JHAY

    November 13th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

  8. Cody Marx Bailey adds this Comment:

    Having the option for hashtags.org would be nice to link the hashtags.

    November 13th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

  9. Alex adds this Comment:

    You can change it in the code - the URL is abstracted.

    November 13th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

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    November 13th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

  11. Aziz Poonawalla adds this Comment:

    Hello Alex,

    great plugin. Can I make a feature request, however? I am looking for a solution to backup all my tweets (given that there is a 3200 tweet limit on your archives). Is it possible to have the plugin create a Page that archives all your tweets (with pagination as needed)?

    November 13th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

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    […] I’m pushing out another new version of Twitter Tools to address some problems people are having. This version has only three changes from yesterday’s release: […]

    November 14th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

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    November 16th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

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    […] Before recommending this to PodWorx customers (which I have since done), this weekend was all about making the Living in Las Vegas Podcast website Twitter-friendly.  My primary goal was to create a “tweet” (a new Twitter message) whenever a new blog post or podcast episode presented itself.  Because I use WordPress as the underlying platform for all our podcasts, I did a search for WordPress and Twitter and found several possible solutions.  The solution I eventually went with is a plugin called Twitter Tools. […]

    November 24th, 2008 at 10:29 am

  15. Keral Patel adds this Comment:

    All I can say is WOW Nice. My twitter and blog both will be connected now. Thanks again for great plugins that you make.

    November 27th, 2008 at 9:45 pm

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