Twitter Digest

January 16, 2014

Twitter Digest Plugin

Creates a daily or weekly post containing tweets from a twitter account.

This plugin uses the pseudo-cron facility available in WordPress to publish a
daily or weekly post of tweets from the previous day.

Notes:

  • Versions >= 2.0 have contributions from Paul Wlodarczyk
    (http://thecontentguy.net/). Much thanks goes out to him.
  • This plugin has not been tested on anything other than WordPress 2.7 and
    above (If anyone wants to try an old version, let me know.)

Configuration

There are a number of configuration options for Twitter Digest. You can find these in Options > Twitter Digest.

Contact

If you have questions or comments, please visit http://whalespine.org.

Thanks
Tim Beck

Installation

  1. Download the plugin archive and expand it (you’ve likely already done this).
  2. Put the ‘twitter-digest.php’ file into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  3. Go to the Plugins page in your WordPress Administration area and click ‘Activate’ for Twitter Digest.
  4. Go to the Twitter Digest Options page (Options > Twitter Digest) to set your Twitter account information and preferences.

Changelog

v2.9

  • Updated to use https for all twitter.com links
  • Fixed hashtag link bug
  • Fixed PHP bugs pointed out by Eric Celeste

v2.8

  • Updated to use Twitter OAuth and Twitter API v1.1. See
    http://www.webdevdoor.com/php/authenticating-twitter-feed-timeline-oauth/
    for how to create a Twitter App and the four tokens of the apocalypse.

v2.7

  • Updated to the latest version of the Twitter API
  • Added option to create the digest post in draft mode
  • Added option to include retweets in digest post
  • Fixed some bugs with publishing time

v2.6

  • Fixed bug with Twitter’s tweet ids

v2.5

  • Changed binary options to checkboxes
  • Separated tweet date and time display options

v2.4

  • Removed password requirement. Can no longer access private Twitter accounts
    via TD. This was less work than going to oAuth.

v2.3

  • Fixed some stupid errors.

v2.2

  • Fixed date visibility option

v2.1

  • Fixed bug in default date format

v2.0

  • Added support for weekly digest. This is a beta feature. Any
    feedback is welcome.
  • Post limit is now 200
  • Added ability to specify an excerpt for each post
  • Added ability to format the date in the post title/excerpt

v1.8.3

  • Fixed timezone issues
  • Added button to reset plugin database

v1.8.2

  • Fixed bug that caused HTML entities to be broken links
  • Fixed issue with publishing in timezone that is not the same as the server timezone

v1.8.1

  • Fixed bug that caused broken status link if @ message was not in reply to
    another message.

v1.8

  • Added check for username/password on installation
  • Added ability to ping the service from the options page.
  • Added ability to specify the time of day the tweet post will be published

v1.7.2

  • Added support for custom title

v1.7.1

  • Fixed possible race condition issue
  • Tweaked code layout
  • Made min tweets always be at least 1
  • Fixed bug with url in brackets not being made clickable.
  • Fixed bug with ‘in reply to’ links not working

v1.7

  • Fixed bug that caused badness if minimum tweets was set to 0
  • Added option to reverse the order of tweet display

v1.5

  • Fixed bug with min tweets restriction
  • Fixed bug with hashtag linkification

v1.4

  • Fixed bug showing options error

v1.3

  • Added options page
  • Added minimum tweets required to post
  • Fixed @twitter detection

v1.2

  • Added ability to ignore @replies

v1.1

  • Tweaked posting procedure so the post goes from the draft state to
    published state, in order to trigger any hooks that would get triggered on a
    ‘normal’ post.
  • Cleaned up post output

v1.0
– Basic tweet polling and posting.

Details

  • Version: 2.9
  • Active installations: 100
  • WordPress Version: 2.7
  • Tested up to: 3.7.41

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