I’ve heard from a number of people that have had trouble with the digest features in the current version of Twitter Tools. I’m guessing that there are a couple of bugs in there that are causing the problems.
At this time, the digest features of Twitter Tools should be considered experimental and should not be relied upon.
It was important to get the 1.5 version of Twitter Tools released because the 1.5 betas had a bug that was causing Twitter Tools to behave badly. Apparently that haste has resulted in the digest features being released before they were fully baked.
Unfortunately I’m not sure when I’m going to be able to attack these problems due to other current commitments1. I welcome patches from anyone who may have time to check this out and find solutions. The SVN repository is publicly accessible. Please send patches to me through the contact page.
The problems that I’ve heard:
- Digest posts created properly but not published.
- Duplicate digest posts being created.
- Digest posts not appearing at the correct time.
The way I think the digests should work, at a high level, is that digest activity should get kicked off after the plugin connects to Twitter to download tweets. It should check to see if anything needs to happen and do the right thing. There is already (working) code in place to make those checks one at a time and only once every 10 minutes. We just need to get the digests working properly.
Thanks in advance to anyone who is able to send in a patch, and to everyone for your patience while this gets squared away.
UPDATE 2008-11-17: A fix has been committed that may solve the duplicate digests. Thanks Greg! Download the latest to give it a try.
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Lloyd Budd adds this Comment:
“the digest features in the current version of Twitter Tools.” … ?
(deleteme)
November 16th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Niklas adds this Comment:
Thanks, Alex! I was kinda wondering why I had 16 new blog posts this morning, all duplicates…
November 17th, 2008 at 3:42 am
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November 17th, 2008 at 4:31 am
Yong Hwee adds this Comment:
I almost freaked when I had over 40 new duplicates this morning!
November 17th, 2008 at 6:01 am
DJ adds this Comment:
Ha! I only had 26 duplicates this morning.
Alex - Thanks again for putting the time in that you have.
November 17th, 2008 at 7:16 am
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November 17th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Jhay adds this Comment:
Bugs? I never encounter any of those problems mentioned.
Well, thanks for the great job on this plug-in!
JHAY
November 17th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Yong Hwee adds this Comment:
Downloading the fix right now! Thanks Greg and Alex!
November 18th, 2008 at 1:48 am
Jeff Rothe adds this Comment:
I just tried the fix….and right away it added two duplicate entries to my posts pending. It didn’t fix anything for me….
Previously, I had 20 duplicate entries for two different post digests on my site. I know every install is a little different with other plugins installed, so I am sure mileage will vary…
November 18th, 2008 at 9:00 am
drew adds this Comment:
Had the same problem: http://katadrew.com/[...]capture.jpg. Disabling digest in the meantime.
November 18th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Gary Ploski adds this Comment:
I uploaded the ‘fixed’ version yesterday in the afternoon. I am running WP2.6.3 and saw no change in the daily digest post this morning.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Gary Ploski adds this Comment:
Adding to my previous comment - Digest posts do not post.
I have not experienced duplicate posts, unpublished posts, etc.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:27 am
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November 22nd, 2008 at 1:30 am
Brendan adds this Comment:
I’m also experiencing multiple digest posts each day. Seems to be three daily. Will disable until news emerges.
Thanks for your continuing work on this plugin!
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm