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Twitter Tools and OAuth Continued

Posted 2010-06-13 in Development, WordPress

I didn't post many details in my previous update, and I'd like to visit some of them now. At the time that post was written, it looked like the user experience for Twitter Tools was going to look something like this: Download, install and ac...

Twitter Tools OAuth Update

Posted 2010-06-10 in Software, WordPress

I've finished researching the changes needed to integrate OAuth into Twitter Tools. The code changes are pretty straightforward and there is plenty of prior art and examples out there to reference. The technical implementation isn't a problem. ...

You’re Welcome

Posted 2010-05-31 in Rants, WordPress

This sort of thing frustrates me to no end: Ms. Bates, your carefully chosen words say volumes. Not to confuse people with the facts, but not only does Twitter Tools give you fine grain control over your decision to send (or not send) ea...

Twitter Tools 2.3

Posted 2010-04-28 in Crowd Favorite, News, WordPress

I've updated my Twitter Tools plugin to version 2.3. This version has several security enhancements (thanks Mark Jaquith) as well as a change that may help some folks that have been seeing doubled digest posts. I recommend upgrading ASAP. The T...

WordPress 2.9 and PHP Libraries

Posted 2010-01-13 in Crowd Favorite, Development, WordPress

I recently put new releases of my Twitter Tools plugin - basically patches so that it would work in WordPress 2.9 on versions of PHP prior to 5.2. This is an interesting situation, where I hadn't really done anything wrong in the plugin and the WP...

Twitter Tools 2.1

Posted 2010-01-09 in Crowd Favorite, News, WordPress

Version 2.1 of my Twitter Tools plugin is now available. Twitter Tools creates a two-way integration between your Twitter account and your WordPress blog. You can send your blog posts to Twitter and bring your tweets back to your blog for display,...

Twitter Tools and WordPress 2.9 Testing Needed

Posted 2010-01-08 in News, WordPress

Based on the feedback from my previous post, I think I know what the issue may be between Twitter Tools 2.0 and WordPress 2.9. I have a new version available that may address the issue that some people were having saving posts with Twitter Tool...

Twitter Tools and WordPress 2.9 – Working or Not?

Posted 2010-01-04 in WordPress

A bunch of folks in the WordPress support forums appear to be having trouble with Twitter Tools with WordPress 2.9. It works as expected in my testing, the WordPress HelpCenter hasn't been able to reproduce this either, and the works/broken voting...

Twitter Tools 2.0rc1

Posted 2009-07-31 in WordPress

I've got a new version of Twitter Tools ready to go, but wanted to do a quick release candidate to get some wider testing before doing the general 2.0 release. This has some new features, including bit.ly support, option to exclude tweeting blo...

New Twitter Tools Features – Testers Requested

Posted 2009-06-22 in WordPress

I've made some changes to my Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress - hopefully that will enable some pretty cool stuff in the future. I get a lot of requests for features/changes that are specific to someone's needs. Since (unfortunately) I can't ...

Around the web

Posted 2009-02-22 in Links

Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever." What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned | FactoryCity blackrimglasses - Retweeting is Killing Twitter, and More Histrionics Home | Rec...

Twitter Tools 1.6

Posted 2009-02-18 in Crowd Favorite, News, WordPress

Yay, Twitter Tools has reached version 1.6! Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that allows you to do a two-way integration between your WordPress powered blog and Twitter. It has the following features: Download and archive your tweets f...

Twitter Tools 1.6b2

Posted 2009-02-16 in News, WordPress

After a couple of bug reports about scheduled posts still not working, we were able to identify and fix a nasty little bug that was causing the "notify Twitter about this post or not" setting to get stomped on a bit. We've fixed this, along wit...

Twitter Tools Exclude Replies Feature “Not Working”

Posted 2009-02-14 in WordPress

I've seen a few reports of the "exclude replies" feature not working in the 1.6b1 release. This appears to be due to a change in the data returned by the Twitter API. The tweet data used to always include a message being "replied to" if the tweet ...

Twitter Tools Digest Problems

Posted 2008-11-16 in WordPress

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 1.5.1

Posted 2008-11-13 in News, WordPress

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: Added autocomplete="off" to the username and password fields on the Settings page....

Twitter Tools 1.5b3

Posted 2008-09-06 in News, WordPress

I've got a new beta version of Twitter Tools ready for testing. Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates an integration between your blog and your Twitter account. This release is just the same as 1.5b2, but fixes the duplicate custom f...

WordPress 2.6.x “Duplicate Custom Field” Issue

Posted 2008-09-06 in Development, WordPress

This is an explanation of a solution to a specific problem with one of my plugins, but the issue is larger and should be understood by all WordPress plugin developers. Posting the write-up here with the hope it will be useful. The issue is a ch...

Twitter Tools 1.5b2

Posted 2008-08-27 in News, WordPress

I've got a new beta version of Twitter Tools ready for testing. Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates an integration between your blog and your Twitter account. This release has a couple of bug fixes (from version 1.5b1) and a couple...

WordPress 2.3 Plugin Compatibility

Posted 2007-09-25 in WordPress

Yes, I realize a lot of my plugins need some adjustment before they are WordPress 2.3 compatible. Unfortunately, I have a lot of plugins to update and it will take a little time to get through them all. I'll update this post with the status of ...

Twitter Tools 1.0b2

Posted 2007-03-18 in News, WordPress

The second beta of Twitter Tools is now available for download. This fixes pretty much all known issues in the first beta and includes digest posting. It's still beta because there are a couple of Twitter API changes coming (hopefully soon) that w...

Twitter Tools 1.0b1

Posted 2007-03-12 in Development, News, WordPress

I've made good progress on my Twitter Tools plugin, enough that I'm putting it out there as a beta release so people can play with it. Here is a progress report from the roadmap I posted: Tweets will be stored in a separate table because ...

Twitter Tools Roadmap

Posted 2007-03-07 in Development, Technology, WordPress

Many thanks to everyone who stopped by and shared an opinion on how they think a Twitter integration WordPress plugin should work. I've started coding on the project and here are some of the decisions I've made and features it will have: ...

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var WPHC_AFF_ID = '14303'; My company provides WordPress development and consulting services - feel free to let us know if you have a project you'd like to discuss. Twitter Tools This plugin that creates an integration between your WordPr...

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