Tweet This, a WordPress Plugin for Twitter [1.7.3]

Download Tweet This 1.7.3 [0.5MB .zip]

Adds a “Tweet This Post” link to every post, shortens URLs, and can automatically tweet new, scheduled, and old blog posts and pages using OAuth. Includes support for the Bit.ly API. Also includes Plurk, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, MySpace, Ping.fm, Reddit, and StumbleUpon options.

1.7.3: 2010-09-06: Added a “Write Tweet” submenu under the Posts menu if you have provided your Twitter OAuth keys. You can write a tweet directly from this page, or schedule one to be posted at a future date (will create a MySQL table wp_tweet_this_scheduled). Your latest scheduled tweets will be displayed here (up to 100), but it is currently not possible to edit or delete them so you will have to use phpMyAdmin (or delete the tweets from your Twitter account after they are published). 1.7.3 also includes miscellaneous refinements.

Upgrading from 1.7.2 to 1.7.3

Upload the new tweet-this folder over the old tweet-this folder. No need to deactivate.

General Information

Normally, posting a link to Twitter takes up a lot of space. Though they shorten URLs with Bit.ly, it doesn’t happen till after you post your tweet, so the length of the original URL takes away from your 140 characters.

While your readers might go to Bit.ly, copy and paste the blog post’s permalink, shorten the URL, copy that new URL, go to Twitter, and paste it into the box, this plugin merges all that into one step.

This plugin makes short URLs like http://yourblog.com/?p=1234, then displays a link to Twitter for each post, with an optional icon (twelve choices). This is done automatically for each post as needed. You can choose a URL shortener including Adjix.com, Bit.ly, Is.gd, Metamark.net, Snurl.com, Th8.us, TinyURL.com, and Tweetburner.com. Each shortened URL is cached as a custom field in the postmeta table to keep load times fast. The cached records are updated or deleted as needed when you edit a post’s permalink, delete a post, change your site’s permalink structure, or change URL services.

This plugin can also tweet new blog posts automatically, if you provide your Twitter credentials in the options. Then a “Send to Twitter” checkbox appears when writing a new post, along with a text box so you can change the tweet text for that specific blog post. As of 1.7, OAuth is used.

Copyright 2008 - 2010 Richard X. Thripp (email: richardxthripp@thripp.com)
Released under Version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, or, at your option, any later version.

Tweet This borrows code from these WordPress plugins: Twitter Tools by Alex King and WP to Twitter by Joe Dolson. Tweet This uses these external libraries: JSON-PHP by Michal Migurski, OAuth.php by Andy Smith, twitteroauth.php by Abraham Williams, and ext-conv-links by Muhammad Arfeen. Sascha Assbach created all the icons saying “Tweet This” or “Twitter Das,” and I used his icons as templates for the extended services. Graham Smith created tt-twitter4.png and tt-twitter-micro2.png.

Tweet This Version History

Tweet This Blogs

Tweet This Icons

Tweet This on WordPress.org

Tweet This Installation

Before you begin, please make sure your server has PHP 5 and Curl enabled.

1. Upload the `tweet-this` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`.
2. If you’re using WordPress MU and want this plugin active for all blogs, move `tweet-this.php` to `/wp-content/mu-plugins/` at this point.
3. Else, activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
4. Tweet This icons should automatically appear on every post and page! Go to Settings > Tweet This to set up auto-tweeting or change stuff.
5. Optionally, delete readme.txt and the screenshots folder to save space.