Tweet This, a WordPress Plugin for Twitter [1.7.1]

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-02T00:20:09Z in Pages, with these tags: internet, networking, php, wordpress, jump to comment form. 518 words.

Click here to download Tweet This 1.7.1

Adds a “Tweet This Post” link to every post and page, shortens URLs, and can automatically tweet new, scheduled, and previous blog posts using OAuth.

1.7.1: 2010-09-01: A small update.
* The Twitter API policy team has warned me that directing Tweet This users to title their Twitter application “Tweet This” with a link to the download page is not allowed. The suggested name, description, and website in the options is now your own.
* Options menu redesigned with horizontal rules and Automatic Tweeting section.
* Whitespace is now automatically trimmed from OAuth and bit.ly keys.
* Bugfix: Hashtags fixed for real in Tweet This links and automatic tweets.

Upgrading from 1.7 to 1.7.1

Upload the new tweet-this folder over the old tweet-this folder, or use WordPress automatic update. No need to deactivate.

Long Description

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

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.

Thanks to Sascha Assbach for the Tweet This buttons, added in v1.2.1:

I modified the above buttons for the other nine social networking services, which you can see here: Tweet This Icons.

Post only actionable comments below. Do not say “thank you” or “your plugin is broken” with no details.

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danny at 2010-09-01T15:08:30.
Let me start by saying that I am not a coder by any stretch of the imagination so I do not even truly understand what I am about to post. I installed the plugin and it seems to work fine however when I click the tweet this button, this is what shows up in my twitter….
<html> <head> <meta content=”text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1″ http-equiv=”content-type”> <title></titl… http://dailysextoys.com/blog/?p=240
That is exactly how I see my tweets as well as all my followers. Please help! Thanks again for the fantastic plugin
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-01T15:35:57.
That’s weird, never seen that before. Can you go to Settings > Tweet This and make sure “Tweet Text” says “[TITLE] [URL]“? If it doesn’t, change it to that and click “Save Options” at the bottom.
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danny at 2010-09-01T16:31:05.
it definitely says that, I checked already , any other suggestions?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-01T17:03:53.
Tweet This uses whatever the WordPress function get_the_title() returns for that post. Your installation must be returning all the HTML code. I think it must be an issue with your theme or another plugin.
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Ken G. at 2010-09-01T14:07:39.
I’ve been using this plugin for ages, despite the appearance that it would not be updated. I greatly appreciate your dedication to this project! Thank you for these latest versions.
Upgrading from 1.7 to 1.7.1: Upload the new tweet-this folder over the old tweet-this folder
This would overwrite the tt-config.php file. Be sure to make backups!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-01T15:30:34.
You’re welcome, thanks for the comment. The file is named tt-config-sample.php by default so your tt-config.php will not be deleted if you upload the new tweet-this folder without deleting the old folder.
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Brock Peter at 2010-09-01T06:12:32.
Hey, I was hoping if you could explain how exactly to use the program without using the widget. I saw the area in the source code where it says, use this is you do not wish to use the widget but until where do the codes go for that ? and what am I suppose to do with it ? Thanks again!
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medical equipment
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-01T12:01:03.
Check the question in the FAQ titled “Can I use the Tweet This functions in my theme?” and let me know if it helps you.
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Altabear at 2010-08-31T21:22:23.
Hello,
I enjoy your plugin. Was surprised today when upgrading and couldn’t use it. Performed the “register this application” stuff, and while entering “consumer key” etc, your config requires “Twitter Authorize Secret”.
There isn’t such an item on the “Application Details” while creating it in Twitter. Only:
Consumer key
Consumer secret
Request token URL
Access token URL
Authorize URL
Tried the extra ones above but doesn’t work. Is there a special way to get the “Authorize Secret”?
Thanks
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T21:59:09.
Click “My Access Token” on the right of the Twitter application detail page, and then, copy and paste “Access Token” and “Access Token Secret” to the Tweet This settings. Let me know if that works.
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Altabear at 2010-08-31T22:26:24.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply!
I’m afraid that there isn’t a “My Access Token” on the Twitter application detail page. Only the headings in the post above, and the text boxes with their values.
- thanks for helping too btw.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T22:37:37.
You mean your Twitter application page does not have a link like the one circled in red in this image?
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Altabear at 2010-09-01T15:38:56.
Hi again,
No our twitter app doesn’t. It looks like this:
http://www.thespamcryer.com/images/tweet-this.gif
I’m sure it’ll get working soon though with all your kind help : )
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-01T15:44:28.
Make sure you set “Default Access type:” to “Read & Write” in the Twitter application settings (Read only is the default). Do this by clicking “Edit Application Settings.” If it does not work then, “click Reset Consumer Key/Secret.”
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Altabear at 2010-09-01T15:46:31.
Actually the instructions in the Tweet This admin interface in Wordpress were very nice and quite detailed. They mentioned choosing “Read & Write” so I had already chosen that. Also, I actually did the Reset Consumer Key yesterday.
However, I just checked to confirm I had Read & Write, and it was correct. Also reset the Consumer Key/Secret anyway (just in case).
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Altabear at 2010-09-01T15:50:08.
On a seperate note, looking at the .gif I linked for you, I realize that the appearance of the website (twitter) looks different.
To register my application, I used the normal twitter login, chose settings, and connections.
The link in your Tweet This settings actually leads to http://dev.twitter.com/apps/new, instead of http://twitter.com/oauth_clients/details/XXXXXX which I used.
Maybe my mistake - I will try with the dev link and let you know. (at least if it’s a mistake I made, you’ll know in case anyone else makes it.
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Altabear at 2010-09-01T15:56:46.
It worked! Using the url you specified in the Wordpress “Tweet This” settings: http://dev.twitter.com/apps/new
In case anyone else runs into it (when I first went there, I thought “gee, I’m not a Twitter developer” and instead went to the normal Twitter interface, which also allowed me to do it. Just not with the same buttons on the right.
Looks like it’s working now, so thanks for all your help!
David
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-01T15:59:54.
That’s great! I will make a note of that for the future.
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John at 2010-08-31T15:06:16.
Hi dude,
I did ALL the things in the new plug in. The problem is the #fb tag. I use this tag to automatically post my tweets into my FB page. But instead of showing #fb tag in the end of the tweets is shows %23 see http://twitter.com/CureMySnoring/status/22623562586
Its very time consuming to post the FB page. You know what I mean, specially if you manage massive blog networks.

Thanks
-John
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T21:48:45.
Okay, I think I figured this out. I was supposed to change # to %23 in the normal Tweet This links, not the auto-tweet text. I will have an update released tomorrow.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-01T03:47:00.
Okay, I released version 1.7.1 today which finally fixes this.
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John at 2010-09-01T06:05:59.
Thanks Richard. I appreciate all you hard work.
-John
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-01T12:01:28.
You’re welcome!
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Jack Skellington Costume at 2010-08-28T21:55:16.
Thanks Richard for the extensive list of do follow blogs, I have already started posting. I also like your Tweet this plugin and have already downloaded it. I’m new to this do follow and no follow stuff, and the more that I read, do follow makes a lot more sense. It will encourage more comments, and hopefully, not too much spam. Thanks again, appreciate all of your hard work maintaining these sites for newbies like me.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-29T09:26:02.
You’re welcome. You will get all sorts of comments saying things like “Thank you for your great material” followed by links like “Search engine optimization” or some other garbage. Akismet doesn’t catch them because they’re written by real people as opposed to being sent to your server by an automated script. It’s frustrating.
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Laptop Drivers at 2010-08-28T11:31:37.
The first I need said greeting for you about this good job Richard.
I was tried your plugin and make my blog become nice looking after combination with your plugin Richard. Actually when I found your plugin and trying the first very easy to use but I wondering how to placed manually. thanks for the tweet
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-29T09:40:44.
If you want to move the whole Tweet This block to a different place but still want to control everything from the settings, you can add this at the top of your theme file(s):
<?php remove_filter(’the_content’, ‘insert_tweet_this’); ?>
And this in the section you want the links in in your theme file(s):
<?php echo insert_tweet_this(”); ?>
If you don’t care about using the settings page and you just want to insert Tweet This manually, use the tweet_this($service, $tweet_text, $link_text, $title_text, $icon_file, $a_class, $img_class, $img_alt) function. All of the arguments are optional and it will default to a Twitter link with the text from your settings. Here is an example using the arguments: tweet_this(’twitter’, ‘@richardxthripp [TITLE] [URL]‘, ‘[BLANK]‘, ‘Share on Twitter [[URL]]’,
‘de/tt-twitter-big3-de.png’, ‘tweet-this’, ‘tt-image’, ‘Post to Twitter’)
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realpropertycheck.com at 2010-08-26T23:14:08.
Richard, you have over 80,000 users and they all love your work. Congratulations!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-29T09:33:44.
Thanks, but that’s just downloads. Probably only 1000 people are currently using it.
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british gas homecare at 2010-08-26T13:26:46.
I read the many recent comments about others having a problem with WP3 version.
One poster mentioned - I have wordpress 3 … I have found that the auto-tweet doesn’t work on first posting. I always have to go back in and change one of the fields to FALSE, then UPDATE to get the tweet to work.
I was wondering whether there were going to be any plans to make this great plug in work. Used it on several of my sites and now I’ve upgraded its stopped.
Seems like it should be a quick fix as the plugin works on second pass.
Fingers crossed and thanks.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T09:23:33.
This was a bug in the way tt_auto_tweet() went through tt_display_limits(), but as the post is being published it’s still private so the second function would block the tweet. I released a new version yesterday (1.7) to resolve that. You’ll also have to switch to OAuth by 8 A.M. PDT today.
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kuduTalk at 2010-08-13T10:50:57.
Hi, great plugin. I am experimenting, looks good. Would it be possible to include #author hashtag in the tweet text?
thanks!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T09:25:26.
Okay, I’ll add this some time next month.
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Kieron Atkinson at 2010-08-02T10:51:48.
I have wordpress 3 with Thesis installed. I have found that the auto-tweet doesn’t work on first posting. I always have to go back in and change one of the fields to FALSE, then UPDATE to get the tweet to work. Is this because of the URL Shorten function? I noticed that field says GETNEW after I post for the first time.
Otherwise GREAT plugin! Thank you!
Kieron
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T09:30:24.
This was a bug in the way tt_auto_tweet() went through tt_display_limits(), but as the post is being published it’s still private so the second function would block the tweet. I released a new version yesterday (1.7) to resolve that. You’ll also have to switch to OAuth by 8 A.M. PDT today.
It didn’t have anything to do with the URL shortening since automatic tweeting does not use the URL cache.
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oistylin at 2010-07-16T06:10:30.
Great plugin, and looks like even better support.
I am having an issue where my site uses ajax for navigation so .com/test-post/#blog. When hitting any of the social links including twitter it strips the “#blog” so tried adding to the permalink to “/%postname%/#blog” but of course it strips the “#”.
Any suggestions on what would be the best method to rectify this would be greatly appreciated, do I need to do some .htaccess rewrite or is there something I can tweak in tweet-this?
-Thanks, oi
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T09:31:57.
No, there’s no way to do this included in Tweet This. Why would you want to have #blog appended to all your URLs? Try redesigning your site to not require that.
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Ulysses at 2010-06-29T20:06:11.
Hi Richard,
I know you no longer support this plugin. Is there any reason why this plugin no longer works in WordPress 3.0? If you can lead me to right direction, I can figure it out and make the changes myself. I’m also a PHP developer. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Brett at 2010-06-30T12:38:20.
I too am having issues after 3.0 upgrade. I loved this plugin, but now it no longer sends the tweet when I publish my post.
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Ulysses at 2010-06-30T18:29:52.
Hi Brett,
Love this plugin as well. I read somewhere the other day that the Snoopy class is no longer supported by WordPress 3.0. This plugin uses snoopy class to update status on Twitter. I’ll play around and see if I can use a different Twitter class. I’ll let you know.
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shai at 2010-07-01T07:49:40.
@Ulysses did you ever figure out how to get this plugin to work with WP v3? New posts don’t get twitted
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Ulysses at 2010-07-02T21:46:16.
@Shai No luck. I can’t figure out why this plugin stopped sending tweets. I ended up writing a really simple plugin that sends out a tweet. Maybe, I’ll release it. It needs to be cleaned up a bit for general use.
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shai at 2010-07-03T04:42:03.
@Ulysses I ended using TweetOnPost which works great.
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jcpe at 2010-07-08T14:14:29.
Please make your plugin available! I’m really looking for some way to get a tweet out with my blog at the same time, and for authors to have the option to re-write them.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T09:35:51.
I’m developing Tweet This again and released version 1.7 yesterday. Automatic tweeting works again and it’s compatible up to WP 3.0.1. I’m not sure what the issue was exactly, but since Twitter is ending support for basic authentication today I moved to OAuth which works fine. It’s just a lot of steps to implement (you have to register a lengthy application and copy a lot of keys).
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David at 2010-06-18T17:09:21.
Hi Richard, I am having a problem with how the titles are propagated. I use Platinum SEO to setup a custom title for my posts. But when I try and tweet the post it only uses the post title.
I am unsure how to correct this problem, have you come across this before?
Cheers.
D.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T09:38:11.
You can change the Tweet Text in the settings to something like [TITLE] | yoursite.com | [URL]. But there’s no way to directly copy the page title.
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Daniel at 2010-05-11T00:11:05.
Great plugin. I vahe only one doubt: how do I insert it manually on my template, in a place other than the end of the posts? Is there some tag? Please, give me the tag via e-mail
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T09:39:10.
I added this in Tweet This 1.7 released yesterday:
tweet_this_manual() : Echoes all the Tweet This links and disables regular output. Useful for moving the Tweet This links above each post. If you want to insert Tweet This below where it is normally inserted, you must add the line “remove_filter(’the_content’, ‘insert_tweet_this’);” before this function.
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Jayce Nugent at 2010-05-04T21:14:18.
I think it best twitter plugins that I ever meet. I think I love the plug-in. I will put this at my blog : http://www.masrur.web.id but, one suggestion would be to allow for you to enter hash tags like Twitter Tools does. If you integrate that I would have no need for Twitter Tools and Tweet This.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T09:41:09.
You can do that by changing the Tweet Text in the settings. There’s no way to add dynamic hashtags by post category, though.
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bastisRIKE at 2010-05-02T11:23:34.
hello, how do i change the text which is displayed on facebook? is it possible to show the post text? (in my case, it shows up an info-text i placed in my sidebar)
thank you
rike
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T09:42:19.
No, I think Facebook just grabs the first words of your post.
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Karl-Heinz at 2010-02-19T13:55:28.
Hi,
thanks for the great Plugin! An implementation of Google Buzz whould be great.
Best,
Karl
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T10:24:23.
Okay, I will look into Google Buzz.
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Shirkit at 2010-01-14T22:02:19.
Hello Richard,
You plugin just Rocks, I wonder if some day I could make a plugin like yours dude! It’s amazing, even the famous ‘Add to Any’ (in my concept) lost to your plugin! But I miss click statistics. You have any ideia when some statistics is coming out?
Thanks!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T10:32:30.
Okay, I will consider click statistics in future versions.
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Ulysses at 2009-12-11T22:10:05.
Hi Richard,
I just want to thank you for making this plugin. I started using your plugin on my site. I essentially got rid of two plugins and replaced it with yours, sort of killing two birds with one stone. I’m so glad you placed a custom option for others who run their own URL shortener scripts. Works great on mine! The icons look great, too. I’m with you for no more updates. Why change if its not broken. I added a few to your Google funds.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-12-11T22:14:03.
Thanks Ulysses! There are other things you can do such as the tweet_this() function if you want to put the links in different places. I detailed a lot of that in the FAQ. It works fine for me also; when I make a new post Send to Twitter is checked and it goes on my Twitter.
Of course there are other features that could be added, but my concentration for coding seems to have gone… I’m glad you found it useful and I made a few cents from your clicks.
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FionaFell at 2009-12-02T01:20:11.
I was wondering if the inclusion of hashtags into the tweet was possible?
I am having trouble parsing the # itself. Any suggestions?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T10:38:41.
Try using %23. I fixed this in version 1.7 released yesterday.
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Jay Jones at 2009-12-01T21:08:20.
Richard,
I love this, but unfortunately, the “Send to twitter” portion does not work for me.
I am running version 2.8.6 of Wordpress, and the latest Tweet This plugin. Hosting on Dreamhost.com
I have tried Twitter Tools, and it does work, but your plugin does not. When I click, “test twitter login” it completes successfully, so I know the details are right.
Thanks for any assistance you can provide… I’d much rather use your plugin than Twitter Tools.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T10:04:39.
Okay, I am developing Tweet This again and released version 1.7 to fix this.
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fondalashay at 2009-11-24T22:21:52.
Hello!
Is there a way for me to add a line above the links.. so they are more distinguished from my post?
Thanks!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T10:45:12.
Rename tt-config-sample.php to tt-config.php and edit TT_PREFIX to add an <hr /> tag before the paragraph tag.
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Bill Stoddard at 2009-11-16T14:25:32.
Hello,
Thanks for the nice plugin! I have a couple of feature requests:
1) An option for a tweet to be made only when a post is published, NOT when it is edited;
2) I use bitl.y as my URL shortener, can you make it so that the plugin accesses Bit.ly through my bit.ly account using my API Key so that I can have Bit.ly’s statistics on clicks on my URLs.
Thanks!
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JeffMiller at 2009-11-19T12:30:32.
Hi,
Hopefully Richard will jump in. Are you talking about editing pre-published? or editing post-published?
If already published, I’m under the impression that by default, tweets are _not_ posted upon re-edits. And that it takes a bit of effort to accomplish tweets for re-edits. Here’s what I see on my “write post” screen, after a post has been tweeted:
“This post has been tweeted. To allow a retweet, set the tt_auto_tweet and tt_tweeted custom fields to false, then save.”
Hope this is of help and not adding to the confusion.
Jeff
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Bill Stoddard at 2009-11-19T13:06:49.
Jeff, you are correct. I was referring to editing post-published. What had happened, is that I switched from using WordTwit to Tweet This. Then when I edited some already-published posts, Tweet This tweeted them, since it had not tweeted them before. Tweet This has no way of knowing that WordTwit had already tweeted the posts.
Thanks!
Bill
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Bill Stoddard at 2009-11-19T13:12:12.
Still, I wonder if there is a way to stop this behavior - so that Tweet This will not tweet a previously published post, even if it has not already tweeted it.
Bill
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JeffMiller at 2009-11-19T16:15:43.
Bill, I think there is a way. If you go to a post previously published, you should see a “Tweet This” section partway down the page. Just make sure that “Send to Twitter” is UNchecked. If you leave it UNchecked, edit and post, and it sends a tweet, I would consider this to be a bug.
BTW, reading your other message I see that like me, you have been trying the various Twitter plugins.
Jeff
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T10:47:07.
Okay, this should be fixed in version 1.7. I am developing Tweet This again. I also added Bit.ly API support.
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Steve Wilson at 2009-11-02T03:03:08.
Hi,
Great plugin - have you thought about adding LinkedIn support too - as more and more people are sharing info on Linkedin now also?
thanks
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Steve at 2009-11-04T08:45:36.
Please do add support for LinkedIn! We’re getting many requests to be able to share there (3rd after Facebook and Twitter)
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T10:59:31.
LinkedIn, huh? I did not know you could share links there.
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Larisa - Classic Muscle Cars at 2009-10-31T15:07:27.
Hello Richard,
I installed the Tweet This plugin since a week after I launched my blog (linked with name) but I am having problem to automatically tweet my new posts. My wordpress version os 2.8.5 and my Tweet this plugin is 1.6.1 but whenever I publish a new post is not being automatically tweeted even tho I have added my credentials in the tweet this plugins admin panel. Everything else works just nice tho.
Any ideas, suggestions please?
Thank you.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T09:51:12.
I am developing Tweet This again and released version 1.7 yesterday which addresses this. You now have to register an OAuth application to auto-tweet.
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Justin Marlow at 2009-10-24T18:53:58.
Hello,
I’m trying to get the “Tweet this post” into the footer of my post. I tried the various methods you mentioned above but I can’t get the link to show up. I’m not sure if I have the right tags inserted tweet_this()
Do I have to modify that?
Thanks!
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Justin Marlow at 2009-10-24T19:03:23.
oops, I meant I added this code:
And nothing shows up. Trying to get “Tweet this post” into the footer.
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Justin Marlow at 2009-10-24T19:10:15.
Ok, sorry I fixed this myself! Great plugin, I love it.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-26T00:05:00.
Glad you figured it out! HTML gets stripped here… You have to use < and > to get brackets like < and >.
If you want to move the whole Tweet This block to a different place but still want to control everything from the settings, you can add this at the top of your theme file(s):
<?php remove_filter(’the_content’, ‘insert_tweet_this’); ?>
And this in the section you want the links in in your theme file(s):
<?php echo insert_tweet_this(”); ?>
Tweet This creates its own <p> tag (but NOT a div).
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Sam at 2009-11-16T10:00:33.
So, I’m trying to do this, but having a little trouble. I tried the solution you have here, but then I end up with 2 blocks per post and above the 2nd one is a “
Not sure what the problem is. Mostly I’m using this one theme and I’m trying to move the block to under the “Read Full Article”
Thanks in advance!
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Kelly at 2010-03-20T20:56:15.
Hi Sam: (And whoever is reading…)
It took me a little while, but I figured out the problem. There is a typo in this first php line:
Re-do the quotes around the word “content”. This will remove the Tweet This links. Then, use his second php line to place them elsewhere. The little quote you saw is showing you where you can write something between the parentheses so it will appear above your Tweet this buttons. I deleted it and added my own HTML before the php.
Richard: It is great! Thanks.
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DeX Healthy at 2009-10-16T12:35:51.
I liked the abandoned car crashes. Very symbolic. When something ceases to be the right people throw it on the arbitrariness. Thanks for the gallery, took me 3 photos on the memory
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-18T00:40:20.
You’re welcome DeX.
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Ben Morrow at 2009-10-13T18:00:12.
I’m having trouble using hashtags. For example, if I include #personalfinance, when I click the button on my blog I am taken to the personal finance user’s page — http://twitter.com/personalfinance. Any ideas?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-18T01:00:01.
That shouldn’t happen. I just tested it at http://twitter.com/tweetthisplugin using Tweet This and the hashtag is a link to Twitter search, not the user. Make sure you are not putting any spaces in the hashtag or after the pound sign.
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Bex White at 2009-10-10T21:06:14.
Brilliant, simple, loads of useful options and worked perfectly first time. Thanks for taking the time to write it, it is definately the best of this sort of plugin I have seen so far. It is up on my blog and the two I am helping friends make as well.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-18T00:42:15.
You’re welcome BeX! Some of the other plugins are fancier but Tweet This adds a direct link to Twitter using no JavaScript. People who use the status bar to check URLs will be more likely to click Tweet This links.
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Ruslan at 2009-10-10T08:52:03.
This is a very nice plugin. It works well except that in Internet Explorer I get the JavaScript error message when opening the plugin settings page:
Message: Object required
Line: 179
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: http://mydomain.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=tweet-this/tweet-this.php
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-18T00:47:31.
There’s a lot of JavaScript on the options page for the drop-down Advanced Options and Extended Services menus and the log-in check. I got some of it from Alex King’s Twitter Tools and another website… maybe I made a mistake when I was re-formatting the JavaScript. I haven’t had any functional problems in either Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 3, so you should be fine… those errors shouldn’t appear on public pages.
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Dan at 2009-10-06T18:46:02.
Richard, love the plugin. 2 questions:
1. I notice where it used to give a short url starting with my domain, now it uses something like http://bmxrm.th8.us. Am I remembering correctly that it used to use my domain?
2. Any plans for letting us change the short url to display the text we want? This would be great for SEO.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-07T00:56:42.
1. Th8.us is the default URL shortening service (created/managed by me). Your settings may have been reset when you upgraded. Go to Settings > Tweet This, choose “Local” in the drop-down list, click Save.
2. I’m considering integrating with Pretty Link or allowing a custom field to override the short URL in Tweet This 1.7, but that’s a few weeks away and it would work on a per-post basis. The default will always be non-descriptive URLs. It doesn’t matter for SEO because the URL shortening services use HTTP 301 redirects including the Local links.
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wayne at 2009-10-05T04:50:17.
This plugin puts an extra at the end of each tweet this.
I changed this line and it’s fixed:
define(’TT_SUFFIX’, ”);
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-07T00:52:34.
I think that you mean an extra space. Tweet This does that in case you add one of the other social networking services… then there will be a space between the Twitter link and the Facebook link or whatever service(s) you’re using (enabled under Settings > Tweet This > Extended Services).
It’s just one space… I could have came up with code to check if the link being displayed is the last in the list, but it isn’t worth it.
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CONNOR Wayne and Jill at 2009-10-07T10:40:52.
Sorry I didn’t mean an extra space,
I meant an extra close paragraph tag, but the was stripped from my post!
Wayne
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-07T10:44:44.
That makes more sense… You have to use < and > for brackets (< and >).
Tweet This inserts an opening paragraph and a closing paragraph tag on my blog. That’s what it’s supposed to do. If you don’t like that behavior, rename tt-config-sample.php to tt-config.php. Open the file and change these lines:
define(’TT_PREFIX’, ‘<p align=”‘ . tt_option(’tt_alignment’) . ‘”>’);
define(’TT_SUFFIX’, ‘</p>’);
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Khai M at 2009-10-03T10:35:13.
Hello Richard. your plug in are awesome. I a little question here. How to include category post in tweeter text. Example like if i want my tweeter text display in this format, (category)(title)(url), so what the keyword that i have to put in ‘Insert Tweet This’ option?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-04T01:19:44.
It can’t be done… I haven’t added that feature at all. It’s a good idea though! I’ll remember it when I start working on the next version… I will probably add the variable [CAT] and it will be the category with the lowest ID counter just like when you use the category in your WordPress permalink structure. Unless I can come up with a better system…
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Anon at 2009-09-30T19:36:43.
hello I am having trouble using the plugin it works fine when I want to send a message to twitter but when I try to add the other services they do not display correctly they display vertically and not horizontally any ideas what I should do?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-04T01:17:05.
Tweet This and all the other links (Plurk This, Delicious, Digg This, etc.) are inserted in a single paragraph tag. Each icon + link text group is separated by one space. No ul and li tags, nothing special. It must be something with your CSS or theme.
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Keltoi at 2009-09-30T09:45:43.
I have the tweet this plugin installed on my family blog. One feature I would like is the ability to Tweet out to different accounts for different authors (Don’t really want my daughters blogs going out to all my followers)
I would also like to use the Excerpt text as the tweet text…
Any clues/plans etc…
Love the auto tweet functionality… May have more suggestions/questions later
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-04T01:15:20.
Thanks Keltoi! The auto tweet functionality is really basic now… but different accounts for different authors and the ability to include the excerpt in the tweet text, the category, and other variables would be good additions. I’ll keep those in mind. I don’t know how to add those features but when I start coding again I’ll look at what other plugins do.
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keltoi at 2009-10-04T05:30:32.
I hacked the get_tweet_this_trim_title to use the excerpt in the link but I haven’t gotten round to doing the auto tweet part of it yet.
if(has_excerpt())
$title = get_the_excerpt();
You have to check for the excerpt as it’s optional and I kept breaking my cache.
I’m not a php expert so haven’t made further progress on this. I am certainly not going to make breaking changes to the db schema for the authors stuff.
Kepp up the good work
Cheers
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-04T20:39:42.
Cool, you found the right function. The auto tweet function uses get_tweet_this_trim_title too… it passes the title as an argument to the function. Put your code at the very top of the get_tweet_this_trim_title function, right after the opening brace, and it should replace the title with the excerpt in both the Tweet This links and automatic tweets.
As for multiple authors, you wouldn’t touch the WordPress database schema… at worst Tweet This would have to make a new table to store mappings, but I could probably get by with new fields in the wp_options table.
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Franco at 2009-09-30T06:32:51.
First, nice plugin. I’m having an issue with a highly customized wordpress version (so with alot of different plugins etc), when the plugin is ativated, there is some stuff missing on the create a post section. Any ideas what could cause that? Just thought I’d ask in case you came across something similar with it in the past
Thanks again and keep up the good work.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-04T01:13:13.
Tweet This 1.6+ adds a box to the write post screen for the auto-tweet feature… see screenshot 7. The code that adds the box is on line 1604 in tweet-this.php 1.6.1:
add_action(’edit_form_advanced’, ‘tt_post_options’);
And the tt_post_options() function is on line 709. It’s just a form… it displays the “Send to Twitter” checkbox, the tweet box, and a JavaScript character counter. I copied the template from Alex King’s Twitter Tools, so the problem should be on your end… maybe a conflict with another plugin that doesn’t add to the edit form properly? I don’t know what it could be.
Try disabling all plugins except Tweet This. Check the write post form then. If it’s fine, enable plugins one by one until the write post form breaks. Then tell me which plugin conflicts with Tweet This. I know it’s tedious…
If the form is broken with only Tweet This enabled, it’s either my plugin’s problem or something you’ve done to WordPress.
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Franco at 2009-10-07T01:40:05.
Thanks, that makes sense and it does seem to cut-off around where one of our custom plugin is usually inserting an entry box so that’s probably a good place to start looking. Keep up the good work
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-07T01:43:12.
Thanks Franco! Let me know if you find the answer.
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chewzer at 2009-09-27T14:50:56.
Hi!
Great plugin but… there is a qTranslate support?
Thanks a lot
marco
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-27T14:58:55.
Do you mean this? Nope. But there is normal translation support, just no translations yet. If you know a foreign language you can translate for me. DON’T translate to Russian because I have a translation for Russian that will be added in v1.6.2. Instructions:
1. Download, install, and learn how to use Poedit.
2. Open /tweet-this/languages/tweet-this.po. There are 111 text strings. Translate them into your language.
3. Save the file as tweet-this-en_US.po, replacing “en” (English) with the language and US (United States) with the country. Look up a standards page on naming.
4. Email it to me at richardxthripp@thripp.com.
Parts of some strings like “tt_auto_tweet” and “[BLANK]” should not be translated because they are hard-coded. You may want to put the translation for “blank” in parentheses. Ask me if you have questions.
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chewzer at 2009-09-27T23:13:03.
Hi
Yes, this is qTranslate plugin, the best language plugin for wordpress
But i don’t speak about translation (sorry, my english is very limited ) rather about the auto post feature.
With qTranslate (a very good plugin) for each entry you can specify the title for each language: for a site in 3 languages, there is 3 titles for each post.
The problem is: “tweet this” post all the titles with corresponding qTranslate language tag. The ideal will be that “tweet this” post the default language of a website.
Thanks!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-28T01:57:15.
I just use the WordPress get_the_title() function to get the title… so qTranslate must change the title at a later stage which Tweet This doesn’t know about. Sounds like qTranslate’s problem, but I’ll look into it later.
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chewzer at 2009-09-28T09:52:36.
Thanks
(I know that twitter tools had the same problem.)
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-28T22:48:32.
Did Alex King fix that problem? If he did, I can probably just copy his code.
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chewzer at 2009-09-28T22:59:52.
Alex fixed that problem in a previous version of Twitter Tools but the upgraded versions of all his plugins recreate the same problem.

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Simon Wells at 2009-09-19T13:40:38.
Hey Richard,
Stumbled across your great plugin and have it on a tutorial site that I am running.
The one question I have, is that the “Tweet Text” field does not seem to function correctly.
For example, I enter “New Blog Post: [TITLE] based on @chriswallace #Wordpresstheme [URL]“, Save, and then visit one of the sites pages, F5 and then click on the Tweet This icon, it takes me to twitter and posts up “[TITLE] [URL]” only.
I am running WP2.8.3 and Tweet This 1.6.
Once I get this working, I shall be producing a guide for the Theme users on the site.
thanks
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-19T14:48:22.
Make sure to clear your WP Cache or WP Super Cache if you use those plugins. I should make a note of that in the readme.
If that fails, try Shift + F5 instead of F5. If it works, your browser is showing a cached copy of the page even with F5. This means your server is putting out the wrong HTTP headers.
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Simon Wells at 2009-09-19T16:41:51.
Hi Richard,
WP Super Cache is OFF.
Shift + F5 to clear browser cache.
Still no joy. Have even tested on another PC too.
Thanks.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-27T00:15:03.
Sorry for no reply. I couldn’t think of anything else.
I just thought of something. In Tweet This 1.6 I added a second “Tweet Text” field next to the Twitter username / password fields. DON’T enter “New Blog Post: [TITLE] based on @chriswallace #Wordpresstheme [URL]” there. Enter it up higher where it says: “Insert Tweet This | Tweet Text:”.
If you were entering it in the correct place, I’m out of ideas.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-27T00:16:57.
Make sure you are changing the Tweet Text field saying “Insert Tweet This | Tweet Text:” and NOT the one next to the Twitter username / password fields.
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Kevin Barrett at 2009-09-11T23:52:27.
Hey Richard,
First off, great job on the plug in… I seem to be having a problem viewing the options list as outlined… I have Wordpress 2.8.4 running as a self hosted unit.. I wanted to change the Icon for Tweet this… but with out access to the options list I have no way of doing this…. I have used both Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer but I am still unable to find the options menu for 1.6 any suggestions would be greatly appreciated…
Thank you.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-19T14:49:20.
It’s under Settings > Tweet This. Is it not showing up there for you?
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Rcast at 2009-09-07T07:15:10.
Hi!
I can’t get it to tweet my new posts automatically. The account is properly configured and the box is checked. Am I doing something wrong? My wordpress version is 2.8.4.
Great plugin btw.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-07T19:11:34.
It will only work if the post is set to “publish immediately.” Scheduled posts (past or future) will not tweet.
I need to fix this.
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Rcast at 2009-09-08T00:29:33.
Actually this is not the problem I am experiencing, but maybe this fix you are planning will also fix this.
What happens is it doesn’t post to twitter even when the box is checked and the post is “publish immediately”. After I clear the variables and update a couple of times it posts, maybe it’s the connection to twitter?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-09T21:39:54.
That could be. Tweet This 1.6 has no fail-safes for automatic tweeting. I don’t even check if the tweet went through. I must add contingency code in version 1.7. I wanted to get 1.6 out quickly and I didn’t have a lot of time to refine it.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-27T03:31:55.
I finally coded and released Tweet This 1.6.1. Upgrade and let me know if you still have the problem. This is a bugfix release that should fix the problem you’re having.
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maxxomedia at 2009-09-04T16:34:48.
Hey Richard:
Great plug-in! I have one issue though. When I schedule a post in advance, when it posts it does not Send To my Twitter Account. I know when I set the scheduled post, the tt-auto-tweet was set to true and the checkbox below was checked. When the post was scheduled it was posted to my blog and not to Twitter. The tt-auto-tweet was now set to false and the checkbox was unchecked.
Am I doing something wrong?
Mark
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-04T20:25:34.
No it’s a bug in the plugin. I know about it now. I’ll try to get a fix out this weekend.
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maxxomedia at 2009-09-14T03:04:00.
Hey Richard: How’s the bug fix coming along?
best,
Mark
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-19T14:52:31.
Sorry I haven’t done it yet. I’m behind schedule. I got a new job and I’m in college and I was displaced from my trailer when my Grandfather was visiting last week. Also I haven’t been managing my time well. And I have a cold. I got it three days ago and I’m still tired and sick.
I’ll get the fix out by the end of the month.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-27T03:33:23.
It’s done! Tweet This 1.6.1 should fix the scheduled posts issue. I tested it. Try it out.
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maxxomedia at 2009-10-03T07:10:16.
Thanks Richard. Works great. I just downloaded the plug-in for another blog I run and none of the images show up on the options page or the blog..
The images are on the server…any thoughts why that is happening?
Mark
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-04T02:00:16.
That’s weird… did the images show up in the last version (1.6)? I didn’t change any of that code in 1.6.1.
Are the images in /wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/ ? It should work fine then… can you check the source code on Tweet This Options page to see where the img src tags are pointing to? For my options page my icon is:
http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-twitter-micro2.png
If you don’t know how to search through the HTML source code of a page let me know and I will explain.
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maxxomedia at 2009-10-05T16:59:42.
Thanks Richard. I see all the icons on my server in /blog/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/
However for some reason when I go to http://www.maxxomedia.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-twitter-micro2.png it doesn’t show…
Checked the options also and couldn’t find any code pointing to the icon folder..?
All that shows up when the plug in is activated are the words: Tweet This…
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-10-07T01:40:11.
Well if you’re in Firefox you should go to Settings > Tweet This, press Ctrl + U (view source shortcut), press Ctrl + F, copy and paste “http://maxxomedia.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/” in the find box, and click “Next.” If the box turns red, we have a problem with Tweet This.
If you see that URL fragment many times in the HTML source code of the settings page, Tweet This is fine. It’s something with your Apache directory permissions… try chmod’ing to 755 on these directories: /blog/, /wp-content/, /plugins/, /tweet-this/, /icons/. It should be safe to leave it at 755… 777, however, is dangerous.
Non-PHP files in the Tweet This directory should be accessible by direct URL input… i.e. on my server this is accessible:
http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/readme.txt
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Michael at 2009-09-02T23:50:50.
Hey there! I’ve recently been in the process of setting up a new WP site and tested a bunch of twitter related plugins. This one was BY FAR the best one that I found, so firstly I would like to offer my thanks for the time spent creating it for us all to use!
Now to my problem.
I have so-called “pretty” permalinks enabled on my blog. This doesn’t seem to pose any problems when posting to Twitter, but the post to facebook link seems to get confused and is inserting my index page “index.php” into the URL.
In case that doesn’t make sense I’ll show an example:
http://www.mywebsite.com/2009/09/category/updatename
This is how the links should look, and this is where the “Tweet this” link goes. So all is good there. When I add a facebook link though, it’s turning the link into this:
http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php/2009/09/category/updatename
Which “doesn’t works”.
This isn’t really a huge concern for me, as I vastly prefer Twitter to Facebook anyway, but since I found so many good comments and replies on this page I thought I may as well mention it.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks again for creating such a great plugin, Mister Thripp!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-04T20:39:44.
See if this happens with MySpace, delicious, etc. I just use the WordPress get_permalink() function to get each blog post’s URL. It’s an issue with your WordPress installation. Were you using the PATHINFO permalinks on your blog before? People use that when their host doesn’t provide the mod_rewrite PHP module. Try going to Settings > Permalinks and saving your permalink structure again. That may fix the issue.
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Geo at 2009-09-02T21:00:01.
Hi,
Tweet this doesn’t work for me :
Fatal error: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /mnt/167/sdb/c/a/productivebydesign/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/tweet-this.php on line 297
I’ve this error with 1.6 and 1.5.3 version (don’t try older one)
Any idea ? (your plugin is great btw )
Geo
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-03T19:32:04.
Are you using an old version of PHP? I’ve never heard of this error before, but I looked it up and it is common. I use the character set UTF-8 with the html_entity_decode PHP function. I just found out that older PHP versions have a bug with that.
Alex King’s Twitter Tools does this also, so I thought it would be safe.
Try adding this line to your .htaccess file:
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php
Blog post about that.
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Tom at 2009-09-02T03:31:23.
This is a great plugin, thanks.
My blog has one featured post on the home page, but I just cant figure out how to get the “Tweet This” button to appear with the excerpt. Is there a snippet of code I can put in index.php to make the call? I’m clueless.
Thanks
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-03T19:28:36.
Sure, you can use <?php tweet_this(’twitter’); ?> to get just the Twitter link. If you want the other services (Facebook, Plurk, etc.) to appear, let me know and I will explain. It’s a bit more complicated.
That code has to be used within the loop. That could be in index.php, single,php, or wherever else there is a WordPress post loop.
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Fabricio at 2009-09-01T05:36:17.
Dear Richard,
I’d like to drop one more comment here, but I will do it separetelly from my last one as it aims for a entirelly new subject.
Setting TweetThis plugin with the new automated-sending feature, I was wondering if would it be too much to ask from you for extending this feature also to other services, not only Twitter.
Additionally, and that is my real interest on it, I ask you if is there any chance of including the (rapidly growing in popularity) Tumblr.com among the extend services.
I know, I know, you listened me once and now here I am bothering you with such requests. But maybe for a further release?

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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-01T17:43:32.
Tumblr is nothing like Twitter; it’s a full blogging service. So I’d be sending your whole posts over there. That would need to be done in a new plugin, not Tweet This. Tweet This is too much of a kitchen sink already; a lot of people don’t like that there are nine other social networks included.
If you’re looking to cross-post to a whole bunch of services, use Ping.fm.
I’d like to make a plugin that cross-posts your blog posts to Tumblr, LiveJournal, Facebook, MySpace, and other sites, updates those posts when you edit them, deletes when you delete, and has solid error handling and filtering rules. Sounds like a project that would take a few months of 8-hour days and would be over 10,000 lines of code. Ain’t gonna happen in this decade. Ping.fm is good enough.
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Fabricio at 2009-09-01T22:36:16.

I agree. Such a project would spend just like a 8-hours-a-day job. And unfortuntelly, I am not rich enough to hire you at this time!
Actually, I inform to those ho may be interested, that there is a plugin that allows for crosse-posting between WP and Tumblr: it is clled WP2Tumblr, but is compatible just up to WP 2.5.1 because it is not maintened anymore.
And for you, another thanks!

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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-04T20:26:13.
Hmm, the thing to do would be to fix that plugin. Starting from scratch is harder.
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FReNeTiC at 2009-08-31T13:40:14.
Today using the “tweet this” i got an idea.
Actually 2 ideas.
The first one is: since its really hard for me to update my blog during the day, i schedule the posts at night before going to bed. Tweet this doesnt “tweet” on scheduled posts. Is there a way of making it work?
The second one is: Since scheduled posts doesnt seems to be working i have 2 solutions to “tweet” my post. Or I go to my website and i click on my “tweet this” icon, or i just press the button “update post” on my post edit panel.
At this panel i have the “tweet this” box, where i have a check box saying “tweet this” and a text box saying “[TITLE]: [URL]“. Is there a way of putting a submit button on that box?
So, making this, i could “tweet” my post without updating it or going to my website to click the tweet this button.
Thank you for the puglin, its really usefull!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-31T20:59:49.
Those are both good ideas. I think the hook publish_future_post may work for the first idea. 90% chance I’ll code and release Tweet This 1.6.1 with both features by Saturday.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-27T03:35:19.
It’s a month late. I’m sorry… But I just released Tweet This 1.6.1 which should fix the scheduled posts issue. Now, if you have “Send to Twitter” checked, Tweet This should make a tweet on your Twitter account when the scheduled post is published.
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Hein Maas at 2009-08-22T11:52:12.
Hi, great plugin and it works only one question, i’ve got my own URL Shortening service, how do i ad them to it, i’ve tried to copy some of the current ones and then replaced it with my API but it wont work, could you please tell me which files i need to edit to make this work.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-23T10:16:28.
Tweet This 1.5.3 isn’t designed for users to add URL shortening services, so it’s actually quite complicated. Assuming your API is HTTP GET…
Go to line 147 in tweet-this.php and add your URL shortening service right above bit.ly in the following format ($purl is the permanlink):
case 'myshorturlservice': $url = tt_read_file('http://myshorturlservice.com/api?url=' . $purl); break;
Go to line 160 (it will now be line 163 with your addition) and add the length of your service’s short URLs above qr.cx in the following format (replace 25 with the number of characters in your short URLs including the http prefix):
case 'myshorturlservice': $url_len = '25'; break;
Open /lib/tt-options.php. Go to line 204 and add your URL service in the list. You can put it at the top or insert it where it is in the right alphabetical position.
tt_url_service('myshorturlservice', 'MyShortURLService', 25);
The first parameter must be the same name you used in the “case” statements in the first two code snippets. The second parameter is the name to display on the options page (can be anything). The third parameter is the length of your short URLs (again).
That should do it.
Tweet This 1.6 will change all this… You’ll be able to do this right from the options menu by selecting “Custom” in the URL services list. It will look something like this. And of course the line numbers will have changed.
I’m hoping to get 1.6 out on August 25th.
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Hein at 2009-08-24T08:14:13.
Hi Richard,
Thanks for the quick reply, will try this solution and i’m looking forward to the new version.
Kind Regards.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-24T18:27:19.
New version out! Let me know how it goes.
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akanichiyoubi at 2009-08-18T17:25:21.
Hey, I just downloaded this plugin and I think it is great, but it won’t let me change any of the settings. When I go in, choose what display and settings I want and click save, it doesn’t actually make the changes on my page, but still shows the default. Any ideas why this may be happening?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-19T00:32:34.
If your blog is not being updated, clear your WP-Cache or WP Super Cache if you use those plugins. If you are not using those plugins or the problem is on the options page itself, I don’t know what the problem is. What version of WordPress are you using? Try the new version of Tweet This I posted today (1.5.3). Though it has no code for your problem, maybe we’ll get lucky.
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Fabricio at 2009-08-17T08:47:32.
Dear Richard,
Once again I come to ask about your great plugin!
I was wondering if it is possible to use the quotation mark character in the Tweet Text in the plugin settings. I would like my tweets to show literatlly “[TITLE]“, with quotes.
But when I try that, it does not work because doing that the tag [TITLE] is gone after saving the setting changes.
Thank you in advance!!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-18T14:04:21.
No. You cannot use double or single quotes in any of the text fields. I tried it just now and it doesn’t work.
WordPress escapes quotes with backslashes and Tweet This does not remove them. I’ll fix this in the next version and keep you posted.
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Fabricio at 2009-08-18T22:45:49.
Great!
Your plugin is very well done and usefull, but your support is just the best.
Congratulations!

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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-19T00:29:44.
Thanks Fabricio! Just posted v1.5.3 which fixes that and eight other bugs. Let me know if you have any trouble.
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Peter Shallard at 2009-08-17T07:40:02.
Hi Richard,
Thanks for this great plugin!
I’m trying to install the button manually into some text (and other links) at the bottom of every post. I actually use a plugin called “Add-Post-Footer” for this.
It includes an option to insert text or code. How can I manually insert Tweet This there?
If this is impossible, how to I manually insert it into my theme? Can I paste some code into the single.php
Pete
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-18T14:03:15.
Try this: <?php insert_tweet_this(); ?>
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Fabricio at 2009-08-15T09:08:23.
Dear Richard,
I was wondering if is there a way trough which I could modify the main php file of the plugin so it automatically loggs me into Twitter with my username and password.
I want that because I do not let visitors to see Twitter This in my posts, I use the plugin just myself as admin so I can tweet some posts to my Twitter (I do not use other solutions that automatically tweet posts because I want so select which post to show in my Twitter).
So, what I am trying to do is to set up my username and my password so when I click the plugin link, I go to Twiiter website already logged in.
Can you help on that?
I would be very glad if you could, as I am spending too much time on such a bureaucratic task!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-15T14:39:13.
I use Tweet This for that too. Twitter has an option to keep you logged in. If you check that, you won’t have to log in each time you click the Tweet This link, provided you don’t log in on another computer. But if you have to log in, Twitter will direct you to the home page with the Tweet This text in the post box afterward. That’s the best I can do.
Version 1.6 will let you automatically tweet your posts to Twitter (off by default), which will use the Twitter API. You’ll be required to enter your username and password in the options (I don’t think I’ll be using OAuth yet), so I might be able to add your feature then.
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Fabricio at 2009-08-15T17:06:58.
Thank you for the fast reply!
Oh, I understand and for now, your tip will do very well. But you are right, for me it would be very usefull to have that function you mentioned about to implement in the version 1.6.
There are a lot of plugins that let us enter username and password in the options and so tweet our posts automatically. But no one stores our username and password and also let us choose the posts we want to tweet.
So, if you can do that in the next version, I really think it could be very usefull!!

Thank you!! Best regards!!
FABRICIO
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-18T13:59:52.
You’re welcome! I’m going to start working on v1.6 this week.
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The Fool at 2009-08-14T22:13:02.
Hey Richard,
I really have to commend you on your little tool here… It’s by far the most effective and most easily-customizable widget I’ve seen. That said, I do have a question. I know you answered something similar to this earlier, but I don’t seem to be making any progress:
Basically, I want the borders around the various images (For Twitter, Facebook, etc.) to be gone. I’ve tried all of the steps you’ve already mentioned, and I can’t seem to get any results. Part of the issue is that I’m not entirely sure how to code (from within your widget) so that it recognizes the fact that I do not want borders.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-15T00:33:37.
Thanks for your kind comments. The CSS code in the old version was wrong. I just uploaded v1.5.2 which SHOULD fix the CSS, however if your theme’s stylesheet is adding the borders itself, you may have to change “CSS to insert” under Settings > Tweet This > Advanced Options to “img.[IMG_CLASS]{border:0 !important;}”. I’m not sure how important “!important” actually is, though… Let me know if it works.
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The Fool at 2009-08-15T01:13:44.
That’s done the trick nicely, actually, and the !important tag doesn’t seem to live up to its name. I got the same results both with an without it. Thanks again!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-15T08:18:55.
Glad that fixed it! I was trying Tweet This out with the Kubrick (default) theme, and I couldn’t get it to show a border. Even if I put “img.[IMG_CLASS]{border:2px !important;}” as the CSS, no border would appear. No one has complained, though… Most people don’t want borders.
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Gareth at 2009-08-14T20:41:47.
When TweetThis uses [TITLE], it can include characters that Twitter (and others) complain are invalid. e.g. create a WordPress posting with the title “Sudoku 6×6″, for which Wordpress converts the ‘x’ in to a cross-product symbol. Then try to TweetThis to Twitter and you’ll get an error (from Twitter). So you can’t use TweetThis to tweet these without deleting the [TITLE] link, which makes it much less useful.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-14T21:02:54.
Never seen anyone use the cross-product, but it’s true. I’ll have to find a way to bypass the WordPress filtering altogether… I have a replacement list in place but it’s unwieldy and can’t cover all the nonsense WordPress does.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-15T00:25:15.
Okay, HTML decoding is fixed once and for all in v1.5.2, including this error.
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Gareth at 2009-09-07T01:05:24.
Great news - thanks!
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Chris at 2009-08-11T09:09:41.
Thanks for this. I’m going to experiment with this on a wordpress blog I run. Any suggestions for blogger?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-12T16:18:05.
Do you mean Blogspot? Nothing I can do for them unless they allow custom plugins. They are a hosted solution. WordPress is self-hosted.
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Charlie Pratt at 2009-08-10T18:17:32.
I am inserting tweet_this() manually. I also need to insert Facebook in a similar fashion—what’s the code for FB?
Thanks! Great plugin.
Charlie
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-11T04:58:00.
tweet_this(’facebook’);
For the other services, replace facebook with: ‘twitter’, ‘plurk’, ‘buzz’, ‘delicious’, ‘digg’, ‘facebook’, ‘myspace’, ‘ping’, ‘reddit’, ’su’.
If you use no argument it defaults to Twitter. “Su” is StumbleUpon.
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odilon at 2009-08-06T22:18:12.
use the plugin Twitter tools to send my last posts to Twitter. I saw her looking for a plugin to the plugin plurk to do the same Twitter tools. Your plugin is that?
I just want a plugin that when I create an article, a post on my wordpress blog to send him straight to the post Twitter, plurk, facebook and others. Your plugin does this?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-07T06:32:32.
No, this just lets you and your readers post your blog entries to those sites with links at the bottom of your posts. Social bookmarking, if you will. There is no automated posting.
Ping.fm is a good way to do that. There is a plugin for WordPress somewhere on their site.
[2010-08-31 Update: Automatic tweeting is available in Tweet This 1.7.]
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Pete at 2009-08-05T05:51:46.
Hello,
I have a situation that I would appreciate your help in resolving. I’m using your plugin on my wordpress 2.8.2 site. Now, what is happening is that the following is showing on the bottom left corner of my theme:
Tweet This Post links powered by Tweet This v1.4.1, a WordPress plugin for Twitter.
brought by WordPress Themes
Please private message me with a way to prevent this from showing on my site.
Thanks
Pete
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-05T17:11:22.
Before v1.5, that message was inserted by default. You can remove it by going to Settings > Tweet This and unchecking the box “Insert Tweet This message in footer.” Make sure to save the settings after that.
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Dihusky at 2009-08-05T03:27:12.
You are an absolute genius Richard. I have just used the automated wordpress plugin system and this plugin has loaded like a dream. The only thing is the other buttons don’t appear to be loading, digg, delicious and the rest I have selected, have I missed something?
Reading a few other blogs about ‘tweeting’ some of the codes that are provided allow the blogger to add their twitter identity @dihusky for example, I believe this is to assist in building followers.. is this in your system, and/or is it planned for the future?
Once all the buttons are loaded, should I de-activate ’sociable’ or keep it for archived articles.
Can we have a button with the bird? It is such a well recognised symbol, probably more than the ‘T’ now-a-days.
Suberb job, and from someone who is going grey and cant code to save myself… thanks heaps.
Hugh
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-05T20:31:00.
Thank you! We used to have the bird from Twitterrific, but the creator told me to remove it. Main reason I don’t have a bird icon now is that it would be too tall compared to the other icons, but it would work if every service had an alternate tall icon. If you can come up with a logo, send me an email (richardxthripp@thripp.com).
It’s in there. You just have to change “Tweet Text” in the options to “@dihusky [TITLE] [URL]“.
Make sure you also click “Insert Digg This,” etc… choosing the icon is not enough.
I haven’t used Sociable but it offers more social networking services so it’s up to you. Tweet This links (and all the other services you have enabled) will appear on your old articles too.
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My Alias at 2009-08-03T00:12:58.
Cool plug-in. Wondering how to remove the ‘text’ that shows up after the icon? Would like to have just the icons showing without the actual text ‘Tweet This Post’ after it and not sure how to do that.
Thanks!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-03T04:45:21.
Just replace “Tweet This Post” with “[BLANK]” for the link text in the options. There used to be a note about this, but to make the options page smaller in v1.5 I moved it so the text pops up when you hover over “Link.” This didn’t work as many people overlooked it, so in the new v1.5.1 I added the explanation back.
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PES patch download at 2009-08-01T09:35:47.
Hi Rich,
This is fantastic manual as always. Before I start with twitter though what are pros and cons. Twitter is nofollow right, so there is absolutely no value for seO purposes. In terms of traffic generation by twitter directly is it at all significant?
Thanks a lot!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-03T04:43:24.
Yeah, Twitter adds nofollow tags to all links so this plugin will not help your SERPs directly. If someone makes a blog post having seen your tweet, that will help. I don’t know how much Twitter traffic this plugin generates, but look at this Twitter search. Almost all of those tweets were made through Tweet This.
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Ian at 2009-08-01T08:49:18.
Hi Richard…
Is there a way to add “tweet this” to pages that are php-based but not run on Wordpress or Blogger?
Thanks.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-03T05:02:18.
No, Tweet This does not provide for that. You could set something up with a custom PHP function, but caching the shortened URLs is always an issue.
One service I will add to Th8.us in the future is an API that allows you to pass the page URL and title on to my server, which will then shorten your URL and send the user to Twitter in one click. This way you wouldn’t need to pre-fetch and cache the URLs. No other URL shorteners offer this (is.gd, TinyURL, bit.ly, etc.).
You could encourage people to get the “Tweet any page” bookmarklet. Just go to Th8.us and drag that link at the bottom of the page to your bookmarks toolbar. Then click it when you want to tweet a page.
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Grace at 2009-07-31T09:01:02.
This sounds like an awesome twitter plugin that will address a few of my issues. Can’t wait to give it a try.
Thanks
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-03T04:35:17.
You’re welcome. New version today; some minor upgrades.
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Ben Bonilla at 2009-07-24T05:06:24.
As a top Twitter business user, I was sent an advance copy of the Tweet Adder System for my review. This is by far the best Networking Tool I have used for Twitter!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-07-27T13:38:18.
Thank you!
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Terrell at 2009-07-24T02:11:12.
hey i don’t want the twit this under my post how can i change where the tweet this link is located.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-07-27T13:45:50.
Go to Settings > Tweet This and uncheck “Insert Tweet This links.” Then add the tweet_this() function in your theme in the loop wherever you want the link to be added. Your settings for the link text and images will be taken into account.
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Mitul at 2009-07-19T07:36:33.
Hi Richard,
Great plugin. I wanted to ask you if it was possible to remove the border parameter within image attribute?
For example (see the border=”0″):
Thanks again,
Mitul
P.s. I am using the PHP function:
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-07-19T09:53:16.
v1.5 will let you customize the CSS, but for now you’ll have to remove it from the code. I added that because I get many complaints that the Tweet This icon has a border around it which is usually unwanted.
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Mitul at 2009-07-19T10:05:30.
Thanks for the quick reply
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Mitul at 2009-08-02T05:23:31.
Hi Richard,
I’m currently using Tweet This 1.5. Can you please confirm how you can remove the border parameter?
I’ve checked the tt-config.php file and the Menu and can see no option.
Thanks,
Mitul
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-03T04:35:58.
Oops, I forgot to add it. Didn’t put it on my list. I just posted v1.5.1; now you can customize the CSS from the options menu (under “Advanced Options”). Let me know how it goes.
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Mitul at 2009-08-03T07:07:45.
Thanks Richard.
It seems as though the border parameter is still present, even when the CSS to insert is:
a.[LINK_CLASS]{text-decoration:none;}
Also, I noted that the tt-config.php page is deleted when I upgraded to Version 1.5.1. All I can see now is tt-config-sample.php
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-03T23:03:10.
If you use WP-Cache or WP Super Cache, make sure to clear the cache after changing the CSS settings. It works fine for me (though I’m not using a cache presently).
It could be that your FTP client deletes the old folder before uploading, instead of only overwriting the files that are present. I use WinSCP and upon uploading the new tweet-this folder over the old one, both tt-config.php (my customized file) and tt-config-sample.php (included in Tweet This v1.5.1) are in the directory. The only change to tt-config-sample.php is the version header, so you don’t have to worry about merging the changes.
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Mitul at 2009-08-08T05:32:25.
Hi Richard,
I’ve cleared the cache, and also tried accessing the page from another browser, but the border=0 is still there.
Therefore, I checked the code on tweet-this.php, and it’s coming from line 709:
$img_alt . ‘” border=”0″ />‘;
Re: File Overwrite tt-config.php
I think this could be related to file permissions. As I upgraded the plugin using the Wordpress Plugin Upgrade link.
Kind regards,
Mitul
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-09T02:21:03.
Oh, wait, I forgot I put border=0 there too. My fault. Next version will fix that.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-15T00:28:37.
Okay, I removed that code in v1.5.2. The CSS that is inserted by default has been revised so it actually removes borders from the images (before it was flawed and did not). Since you want borders on your images, go to Settings > Tweet This > Advanced Options and change the CSS there.
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Mikeok at 2009-07-17T00:48:44.
Hi Richard
I have an alignment problem. The small twitter link is in the middle of the paragraph and the other 7 icons are on the bottom. Sort of like this
T
X X X X X X X X
How can I change this??
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-07-17T08:23:32.
I don’t know about that. If there are too many icons to fit on one line, and the alignment is set to left in the options (the default), as many icons as possible should be displayed on the first line, with the remaining going to the second line justified to the left. Try the different alignment options under Settings > Tweet This. Try removing the least important service to see if you can fit the icons all on one line.
If you can give me a screenshot or put it back up on your blog to see, that would help.
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Mikeok at 2009-07-17T14:58:27.
Thank you for your quick response. I have duplicated this error by unchecking the twitter option. When I do that, the plurk icon appears where the twitter icon was. Here are the screen shots.
http://www.acorg.com/top_tweet_this.jpg
http://www.acorg.com/bottom_tweet_this.jpg
http://www.acorg.com/blog_icons.jpg
I included a screen shot of the incorrectly formated icons as well as the tweet this settings page. I hope this helps. Mike
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Mikeok at 2009-07-23T02:42:21.
Hi Richard
I did a bit of digging myself. It seems that a “ ”, a space, placed at the start of the that holds the icons does the trick. After adding it, the icons are on the same line. It still doesn’t make sense to me but it works. Could you let me know where in your code to add this space??
thanks Mike
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-07-27T13:42:59.
Well that is strange. Many others have reported this problem, and I could never get to the bottom of it or reproduce it. You should be to add that space by changing line 683 in Tweet This v1.4.1 to this:
$content .= ‘  ‘ . get_tweet_this(’twitter’) . ‘  ‘;
The bolded part is the new code.
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caranan at 2009-08-04T10:26:42.
Might this also work in 1.5.1? The problem I have is more the spacing above and below the image when I use the tweet_this() option.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-05T17:09:15.
I still haven’t figured that out. You can change the CSS under Advanced Options in the options page, but there’s nothing there that causes the spacing. It could be because of the links being enclosed in a paragraph tab. You can change that by renaming the tt-config-sample.php file to tt-config.php and changing TT_PREFIX and TT_SUFFIX in it. Good luck.
The code I referenced above is on line 797 in Tweet This v1.5.1, but it has changed so the bolded part is removed (there is no non-breaking space before the Twitter link now).
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-15T00:55:52.
I added this in v.1.5.2, before the paragraph block that holds the Tweet This icons. Since I am unable to reproduce the problem myself (I think it affects certain themes only), I am unable to test the fix, but it does no harm even if it doesn’t work.
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rt1970 at 2009-07-16T19:08:10.
Thank you so much for writing this plug in. It’s wonderful! Quick question though: Is there a “Share on Facebook” option in the works?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-07-16T22:02:36.
It’s on the way. I did the coding today. Just have to make the images.
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Graham Reeves at 2009-07-16T13:18:37.
Hi, I tried to email you with some suggestions to tweet this, but the email bounced back. Can you confirm what your address is?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-07-16T13:28:43.
Ok, email to richardxthripp@gmail.com or post here then. My email is having problems…
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-07-16T16:35:30.
For my readers I will post your email below:
Hi,
I’ve recently added tweet this to a wordpress theme I’m doing, and it works brilliantly, but I have a couple of suggetions (or rather, things that I’ve changed which you might want to consider…)
a) I didn’t want the Tweet this in the actual contents of the post. Instead I wanted them in a seperate section (visually) in the same place I have my X comments link. To acheive this without changing the tweet this code, I’ve disabled the tweetthis displaying using the post meta data, output my content, and then below where I do want the tweet this links I enable it again and manually call insert_tweet_this().
Could there be a setting where the tweet system all works as it currently does, (hidden on pages etc where the options specify) but has to be manually inserted? (using the Insert_tweet_this function)
b) manual display of the Tweets about this post. Like above, I want to place it somewhere else and call it manually in my theme.
c) html… To enable me to arrange the links, icons etc all in line with other things on my page, I’ve had to change the tweet this code to remove nbsp;’s,
’s and spaces between links and text. Instead I’ve converted it to an unordered list (UL) and have each icon and text in a list item (LI). This makes it much easier to display them next to each other, underneath each other, align them, align them with other objects, manually space the icons etc etc with CSS.
d) facebook integration perhaps? I’m aware thats quite a bit different format to sharing the posts though…
I’m just a little aware of hacking the code and then having to spend a bit of time putting my changes back in (thankfully SVN makes that a little easier whenever you release a new version.
Just some suggestions on an otherwise fine plugin, with some good customisation int he settings already
Thank you for writing the plugin!
- Graham
- http://www.grahamreeves.com/
- http://www.tootlegames.com/
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-07-16T16:37:15.
And my reply:
a) You can do this already; just uncheck “Insert Tweet This links” in settings (and all the other services).
b) This can be done too, by unchecking “Display “Tweets about this post” list below Tweet This links (buggy)” and echoing the tt_twitter_rss function. Unfortunately, you’re stuck with line breaks instead of an unordered list.
c) This is a good idea, may be a bit hard to implement, but I’ve put it on the list for v1.5. For now, you could disable auto-insertion in settings and add something like this to your theme:
<?php
echo ‘<ul><li> ‘;
tweet_this(’twitter’);
echo ‘</li><li> ‘;
tweet_this(’plurk’);
echo ‘</li><li> ‘;
tweet_this(’buzz’);
echo ‘</li><li> ‘;
tweet_this(’delicious’);
echo ‘</li><li> ‘;
tweet_this(’digg)’;
echo ‘</li><li> ‘;
tweet_this(’ping’);
echo ‘</li><li> ‘;
tweet_this(’reddit’);
echo ‘</li><li> ‘;
tweet_this(’su’);
echo ‘</li></ul>’;
?>
Of course, you do not need to include all the services.
d) On this list for v1.4.1… this is fine to add, but by v1.5 I want all the non-Twitter services in add-on module.
I hope I’ve helped.
Richard
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ITech & Gadget Diary at 2010-01-29T23:07:59.
The first I need said greeting for you about this good job Richard.
I was tried your plugin and make my blog become nice looking after combination with your plugin Richard. Actually when I found your plugin and trying the first very easy to use but I wondering how to placed manually.
I searched how to do it and finally found your comment discussed about what I need here http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/tweet-this#comment-49586.
Then I tried code above at two my blog are http://www.dtechgadget.com/ and http://www.ucellphonez.com/ it work, I’m happy my problem finally resolved.
Many thanks Richard and hope you have nice, God bless you.
My Best Regards,
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Joni Solis at 2009-07-15T20:01:40.
Richard, I just reinstalled your wordpress plugin Tweet-This and I am wondering how do you get all the different little icons to show up at the bottom of a post? I just have the one Tweet-This Icon now showing.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-07-16T03:54:52.
It’s under Settings > Tweet This… check the boxes for the different services.
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Joni Solis at 2009-07-16T14:42:18.
Thanks Richard for the quick reply to help needed. I went back yesterday and looked again and figured it out. Just didn’t see the little check boxes the first time I was too focused on looking at the check boxes next to the icon images.
By the way, love the moss draped oak above. I used to see more oaks like this in Louisiana but now seeing moss on oaks is a rare treat. I do have some moss growing on a couple of my small yard trees now. Picked it off the ground from under an old oak tree down the road from me. Love oaks and moss!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-07-16T22:02:18.
Thanks! That was at DeLeon springs which is thirty miles from Daytona Beach… we have a lot of trees like that around though.
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