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 field issue for people running WordPress 2.6+.
Hopefully this will be ready for a full release shortly, with only minor changes (if any). I guess we’ll find out soon. 🙂
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.
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EXCELLENT! Thanks so much for your hard work!
Should WP alert us of these new versions and let it do the upgrade via the administration panel?
WordPress checks against the version that is marked as the stable version. I’ve not marked these betas as the stable version yet.
WOW! Nice Plugin!!! Thank you.
Illy
Great plugin thanks 🙂
Ooh, looks handy! I wanna try this out. I’m a fan of some of your other work, Alex. =D
Hi,
Great plugin, thanks! I had trouble this evening due to the quirk below.
If you capitalise the twitter username differently in Twitter tools to the way that twitter has it stored (eg AlexKingOrg in Twitter, but Alexkingorg in twitter) then:
i) If you click the Test Login Info then there are no problems, you get the message
“Login succeeded, you’re good to go.”
ii) But you do not get any tweets because of the way the plugin validates them. I think the validation code that causes this is below the comment:
// make sure we haven’t downloaded someone else’s tweets – happens sometimes due to Twitter hiccups
Everything is working fine now, but I thought I’d post incase someone else makes the same mistake. Great plugin, keep up the good work!
Nice catch – I’ll adjust the code to be more forgiving.
Hi Alex
Is there a localized version of this tool available? In particular, I would like to translate the text which is used when advocating new blog posts on Twitter. Is there any localization/workaround for this?
Thanks for the great tool!
Twitter Tools has always been internationalized.
Alex, Any chance this can be extended to work with more than one twitter account? So if a blog is say a family blog that everyone’s twitters will be displayed and archived, etc.?
Thanks.
It would take a bit of work. Probably 2-5 days with testing. I’d need someone to fund the project.
Hmmm. I am a little bit lost in finding the internationalized versions. Any hints?
Someone edited my comment above. I wrote (and saw it afterwards!) something completely different.
How could that be?
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I love this plugin however, I was wondering why is it that it is showing my old account with my new account name. I deleted the table in phpmyadmin then try again its not showing up, what am i doing wrong?
@Alasdair: I noticed this problem too.
That’s your browser “auto-filling” the username for you into the field.
Great plugin indeed.
One small buy am not sure if it is only hapenning with me. When I delete a tweet from my twitter account it still appears in my twitter-tools widget. Any idea why that is happening?
Thnx.
Quick question: Does the daily scheduled time use the WP install’s timezone, the server’s timezone (if different), or UTC?
I’ve got TT pulling tweets into the database, but it won’t publish, and I’m not yet sure why. Thought maybe there was a TZ discrepancy.
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I have the same question as B!x, when does Twitter Tools decide to post the aggregated post? I’m not seeing one.
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b!X, Mike,
I was wondering the same thing, and I just noticed my first tweet blog post being generated as I read through this page.
it seems that the time you set is considered as UTC.
Is there any way to make a Weekly Twitter update post?
Every day is too much, but I would like to do an Update once a week, maybe strip out all replies, just get the last 15 actual Tweets to post once a week, or every few days etc…
I’m having the same issue as b!X, Mike and Marko regarding the daily update blogs being scheduled, but never posting. Also, they populate with tweets that are from a different day because of the time zone discrepancy. I’d post this in the support forum at WordPress.org, but I’m unable to sign into the forums there.
I know you’re a busy guy, but I appreciate all the time you’ve put into this project. PS – I found out about it via Leo Laporte.
Any plans for the plug-in to embed the URL as a tinyurl.com or piurl.com URL so that the tweets look prettier on longer hostnames?
I’d be greatly appreciative, though I don’t know that it’s a high priority.
Its great, but it shows every time: “No tweets available at the moment.” 🙁 i don´t install a secount plugin. Pls help me
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