I’ve got a new version of Twitter Tools ready to test. This version has a number of changes, including one that has been very frequently requested:
- Weekly digests! This needs a good deal of testing, help us find bugs
- Ability to exclude @replies from daily and weekly digests and blog posts
- Updates to match Twitter API changes so that “in reply to” links are properly created
- A bunch of little things I’m forgetting now 🙂
Weekly digests is a rather complicated feature to build, and took a good chunk of time. Luckily, we had a development sponsor for this feature, who I will thank properly in the final release (once I receive permission to give them credit).
I realize that version 1.2 never got to a final release version, but we had an opportunity to get these features built, so I took advantage of it.
Finding time to test, package and release plugins has been a bit challenging of late.1 Hopefully I’ll have more time to get things pushed out going forward.
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.
UPDATE: looks like some PHP 5 specific code (a try/catch) snuck in here. If your server uses PHP 4, I recommend waiting until the next beta release.
- My business has been growing which has brought a number of interesting and time consuming challenges. [back]
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any chance we could also have an option to exclude “New blog post:” tweets from appearing in the sidebar?
I find them a little superfluous seeing as if you’re already on my blog, chances are you already know there is a new blog post
Cool. Gonna try it out. will see if it also fixes the issue where the tweet is not sent out if the post is published from a desktop client using xml-rpc.
I do love the Twitter Tools plugin, I mainly use it to update twitter with my recent blog posts. The only thing I don’t like is that when I go in and edit an old post, to add tags or correct links, once I save it, it sends that to twitter as well.
Is there the chance for a date check in the plugin? Normally I just turn it off when I’m doing housekeeping, but I often forget to turn it back on.
Thanks!
Brian, it does exactly that as of version 1.2b1:
https://alexking.org/blog/2008/04/13/twitter-tools-12b1
I’ve been trying out several Twitter plugins/widgets for WP. So far I like yours the best. One feature I saw on a different plugin that I would love to see in yours is the ability to add custom text/html before each tweet and between each tweet. Additionally, it allowed you to customize the text between the tweet and the time it was posted (eg ‘ — ‘).
The main reason I like the ability to add custom text before a tweet is because many people post their tweets like “is doing something completely different.” By placing “TK” in the before tweet field, my blog then reports “TK is doing something completely different” just like it does on Facebook, MySpace, etc…
Thanks!
Seems like that could be done in the theme for “tweet to blog post” content, or in the widget title for the sidebar tweets.
I’m thinking about using this to integrate my tweets into my normal blog posts, but I’d like the tweet posts to display differently. No title, different background color, that sort of thing. Is there any easy way to differentiate a tweet-generated post from a normal post? Meta info, perhaps, or something? Basically just something I could stick in the loop to say “if (is_tweet())” or similar?
I’d recommend creating a category for your tweets and using that for your theme customization.
I get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{‘ in /home/hmworks2/public_html/bh/linkbox/wp-content/plugins/twitter-tools/twitter-tools.php on line 359
Any Ideas?
Read the update in the post.
+1 on francois’ request to not show my posts (that become tweets at twitter) in my sidebar of tweets…
Already done in SVN.
great plugin! i hope it is can improve more traffics at my blog 🙂
I love your plugin, but i have found one small errror. The daily digest is always written twice! Any idea why?
Neubi
LOVE this plugin!
however, i’d suggest custom text for post-tweets via the options.
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Real thanks, so far so good!
Just installed the plugin, lovin’ it so far!
Alex – the Twitter Tools plugin did just what I wanted it to do, but then I didn’t realize the blog posts were tying up my Feedburner feed.
Will there be a feature add that generates a post, but doesn’t publish (or keeps it private from the feed)?
Keep up the great work!
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Alex,
I love the twitter tools plugin! My host is still on PHP4 though and the new BETA version doesn’t work there because of the try/catch. Any chance you can release a BETA version that doesn’t use that so I can try it out?
Great plugin and great work! 🙂
Is it possible to create a permalink in the text of each post to the original tweet?
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