When I first started posting to Twitter I soon realized that I wanted to keep a copy of that content. Twitter Tools was born shortly thereafter. Since that time Twitter has evolved, WordPress has evolved, and my vision of how best to integrate the two has evolved with them. Twitter Tools 3.0 is a complete rewrite which realizes that vision in a way I’m quite pleased with.
- Supports multiple Twitter accounts.
- Broadcast different “new post” messages to different Twitter accounts (via Social).
- Set-up and configuration is painless (no registering a developer app, copying keys, etc.) via integration with Social.
- Tweets are stored as a custom post type and with custom taxonomies for accounts, @mentions and #hashtags.
- Local copies of tweets can be easily edited and deleted via the standard WordPress admin screens.
- Tweets can be displayed on your site via archive view, individual tweet view and via shortcodes and sidebar widget.
- Full Twitter data is stored with each tweet.
- An image included in the “media” data of a tweet is downloaded and saved as the featured image for the tweet.
- Create blog posts (as status updates) from each tweet (optional).
- Compatible with the latest Twitter API changes (as of today’s writing).
The previous versions of Twitter Tools used an additional database table to store your tweets. These are upgraded to the new format (and more data about each is downloaded from Twitter) as part of the upgrade process. If appropriate, you’ll be prompted to upgrade on the Settings screen.
I’ve been working on this release of Twitter Tools for way too long. The first beta was pushed out back in December of last year and it’s been making glacial progress since then. The good news is, I’ve been running it on my site for nearly a year now and I’m quite confident it’s stable and functions as expected – at least in my usage and environment.
Want to see it in action? Browse my tweets here (check out examples by @mention and #hashtag).
Download it from WordPress.org (where you can see screenshots, etc.), contribute on GitHub, and use it in good health!
UPDATE: check out the FAQ for more details.
This post is part of the following projects: Social, Twitter Tools. View the project timelines for more context on this post.
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Did Twitter do something with its API? noticing a lot of WordPress-based plugins with dead feeds…
@blackheron non-versioned API endpoints were decommissioned today. See https://t.co/B0OaflAG Twitter Tools was updated: http://t.co/dC21HtPy
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Congrats. Tweets archive doesn’t auto-link links? RT @alexkingorg: Twitter Tools 3.0 is now available! http://t.co/JKUH9mRH
Thanks a lot! But just in case it helps somebody: I upgrade Twitter Tools (600 tweets were upgraded succesfully) but then I realized my tweets didn’t get posted. Finally I found out I had to enable Twitter Tools clicking in my twitter username (inside Twitter Tools wordpress settings page). I think it’s hard to find it… Actually I found it out after seeing the screencast in the plugin directory.
As I said, thanks a lot, man, truly.
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@alexkingorg woot! Wow Twitter Tools is now 3.0? Awesome!
@alexkingorg Congrats on Twitter Tools 3. I hope it’s a worthy replacement for the now sadly defunct Wickett Twitter widget.
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Confused by the new WP Twitter Tools update. I have to use the Social plugin now? But I don’t want to switch to FB/Twitter comments…
@sinosplice So you’re going to turn that feature off? http://wordpress.org[...]other_notes/
@alexkingorg If that’s all there is to it, then yes. Haven’t had time to really figure out what happened yet.
@alexkingorg Do you have a blog post where you explain the new dependency on Social? I am curious why.
Was it absolutely necessary to upgrade all 20,000 tweets in order to continue using the plugin?
I can’t tell, are you joking or “slow”?
Do try and be civil, Jeff.
If the 20k tweet upgrade was necessary wasn’t there a way to do it to avoid showing the old tweets? My feed is showing tweets from 5 years ago.
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@curlyhost http://t.co/S8aOPNEZ this is good too.
Is there something special I need to do to enable the /tweets/ archive page that you demo above? The /tweets/xyztweetid is working fine, but I’m not seeing the option to allow access to an archive…
duh. I found the relevant information now! Sorry to waste any of your time. And thanks for making an essential plugin even better!
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It’s nice not to have to explain to people all the gymnastics of creating a Twitter app for authentication, but I miss the automatic tweeting of blog posts and the easy of adding hash tags. Will I remember to click “broadcast” every time or am I missing something?
I’ve been a huge fan since the first version
Nevermind. User error. Found the option for auto broadcasting. Still would like option of adding hash tags to TT tweets.