WordTwit Feature Requests
We’ve had our nose to the grindstone for a few months here, and haven’t had much time to update any of our plugins. But rest assured we’re still committed to them, and will be updating most of them shortly.
With that in mind, we wanted to see if there were any feature requests for WordTwit. We’ll probably add official WPMU support to it shortly, as well as per-user Twitter information, so each person’s Tweets can go to a different stream. Another feature we might add is the ability to Tweet to multiple accounts at the same time, for sites with multiple streams.
If you have any great ideas for features, just drop a comment here. Thanks.
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Something in the admin to allow manual pushes to Twitter for when it doesn’t happen automatically.
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Maybe a simple character “countdown” in the title field form so we can know if the title will show up full on twitter. (Might be a bit hard with custom text…nevertheless.)
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BNC Design Guru
5 months
Good idea- we’ve also talked about having a check in place to see if the tweet actual got through, since Twitter is so ‘flighty’ ;p
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I love this plugin.
I have my WordTwit plugin configured to use my own domain. It would be great if there were a way to create a browser bookmark that would allow me to use the plugin to shorten other URLs I want to shorten so that I don’t have to copy the URL and go back to the admin page to shorten an external URL.
I love the stats, but it would also be great if you could somehow show a time and date when each of those clicks were done.
Thanks,
Del
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Integration with Statpress… so traffic through Twitter is shown with all other hits. Can’t really tell if it is today, and if so, it is not very clear. If this is not “possible”, it would be nice to have a dashboard presentation of the existing stats, making them more available.
In addition to WordTwit I also use TweetThis.
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I’d like the option of having the URL shortener just be the post id from Wordpress. For example, “http://sterlinganderson.net/?p=483″. This way you don’t have anything to maintain or outside service to worry about. That link will always work.
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Would be nice to specify my bitly API key to use on url shortening.
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I think it would be very useful to be able add hash tags to specific blog post categories.
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BNC Development Guru
4 months, 3 weeks
Thanks for all the great suggestions!
@Coderanger – You can do that today already I believe.
@David – hash tags are definitely coming.
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How about the option to schedule a delay before a new post is tweeted?
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Not sire if this is supported or not but can the plugin tweet the post on the publishing time not the posting time for scheduled posts?
say I write a pot and set it to be published after 3 days I don’t want to tweet it now but after 3 days when it’s actually published.
It is possible?
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I’d like the option to track tweets in the manner of auto creation of appended query string like:
?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=The+Invisible+Browser
The Tracked Tweets plugin does this, but it doesnt use ow.ly
Cheers,
David
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This plugin would be perfect if it had tr.im support.
Of all the URL shorteners I’ve used, tr.im is my favourite as it just has the most features.
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Would be nice to have a little more transparency and/or tools for custom URLs. This would include:
• preview – “your short URL looks like”
• work with unique folder structures – /blog/ or /wp/2009/10/
• custom strings – like bit.ly offers (http://bit.ly/u2live)
• custom code prefixes – add “~” to all short URL codes: http://me.com/~je5 instead of http://me.com/je5thnx =)
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@Ahmed – WordTwit already does that (post a tweet when article is published, not when it’s created).
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Some kind of simple log would be nice, especially for when errors are encountered. If a post didn’t get tweeted, is it because Twitter was overloaded or because the URL shortener didn’t respond? Right now there’s no way to tell. If there is a log, though, it should also record successful posts.
And I definitely second the “button for manual tweeting” request, exactly for circumstances where either Twitter or the shortener failed.
I’ll also put in a plug for adding is.gd to the list of shorteners. I already hacked my copy of WordTwit to add it, so it’s not as huge a deal for me, but it’ll be annoying to re-add it every time the plugin updates. (Let me know if you want my is.gd routine, not that it was that complicated.)
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I’d like to be able to have it retweet a specified number of times at a specified interval. For example, it could post 3 tweets with 2 hours between tweets.
Thanks for all your hard work on this plugin.
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Set Hashtags per category would be clutch, example Category “News” can have #news appended to it or whatever I set in the admin for the cat.
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I second all above requests, especially the too-long-title preview/warning and scheduling. I’d also want some more url shorteners to be included, and especially the m0e.me one. I manually hardcode it into my plugin files but of course every plugin update resets my changes. So, m0e.me works as simple as tinyurl.com: http://m0e.me/yourls-api.php?action=shorturl&format=simple&url=URL_HERE would result a plain text response.
Thank you in advance! :)
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Currently, if I schedule an embargoed press release to appear two hours from now, WordTwit goes ahead and tweet it anyway, thus breaking the embargo…
Great if it could support scheduled posts.
Thanks!
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I would like to see a way of auto Re-Tweeting.
Its all well and good sending the blog to my twitter account, but unless I can then auto forward that to my followers, then whats the point.
Apologees if I sound abit off, I have spent 3 days trying to get WordTwit, wp-o-matic, Yahoo pipes and twitterfeed working together.
Thanks
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Also would like to see “Edited” blogs tweeted / re-tweeted.
Thanks again
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I just sent a WordTwit tech support question to inquiry@BraveNewCode.com. Is that the best place, since your forums are down?
Sorry to be (partially) off-topic.
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BNC Design Guru
3 months, 2 weeks
Scamper, the best place is no-place : ) We’re not fielding support requests at this time. It has to be done in order for us to accomplish what’s on our plate. Rest assured though that we will indeed have them up again, and they’ll be a heckuva lot better : )
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Oh yes, please also strip HTML tags in post titles before tweeting. Thanks in advance!
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I appreciate on this great plug-in!
Recently I upgraded WordTwit and got an error to plug in it.
Error messages showed up “Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in……….”Can you help me fix this? I could not use this again.
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1) Support for le petite url.
2) Allow for custom tweet text when creating posts. Basically a blank text box except a [title] or [link] tag. That way I can put whatever customized and personalized text I want in the tweet.Great plugin. Thanks
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thanks for such a wonderful plugin.
Something feature so that we can couple twitter hits in Google Analytics and Google Analytics Campaign work together like here
http://blog.bit.ly/post/128103040/bit-ly-google-analytics-campaign-builder-tool
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Hello, I’m speaking on behalf of http://miud.in , a popular Brazilian url shortener. We’ve been distributing a modified version of your plugin with added support to miud.in but we’d love to have it merged officially. We have a simple API that mimics the tinyurl API, so it’s just a matter of copy&paste to make it work.
We also have some unique features like URL thumbnails which we’re going to expose in a more sofisticated API we’re yet to make public, but for now just adding simple miud.in shortening would be great!
Where should we post/send the diff file to? :)
Regards
Eduardo, in the name of the miud.in team.
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Hi,
Please my WordTwit plugin is not sending posts automatically as it should. Any idea why ?
Stephane
