WP to Twitter is now XPoster WP to Twitter and WP Tweets Pro are things of the past, along with their namesake, Twitter. But the site formerly known as Twitter still survives, and is gradually rebranding itself as X.com. And so here we go. Although I didn’t intend to go this direction, the pressures of the marketplace have changed my mind: WP to Twitter is now XPoster, and WP Tweets Pro is now XPoster Pro. But this is more than […]
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WP to Twitter, WP Tweets Pro, and Twitter’s new API policies
As you may have already heard, Twitter has announced that they will cease support for free access to the Twitter API. The sole information published about this to this point is a short Twitter thread; if you’ve read that, you know about as much as I do about what’s going to happen. Anything else is probably rumors. There are existing published costs for access to the Twitter Search API, but those are very separate from the rest of the API […]
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WP to Twitter was my first plugin. I released it in 2008, as a project originally paired with a Pierre Far’s custom URL shortener, Cli.gs. (Now long gone.) I’ve maintained it steadily for 15 years. In 2012, I added the premium add-on WP Tweets Pro, so that I could afford to continue to update the plug-in. At it’s height, it had about 130,000 installations. That user base has since fallen to about 30,000. The decrease has a few sound reasons. […]
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It’s taken way too long, and was completed in what I might consider the most frustrating way. I’ve been working on and off towards getting support for Twitter’s API to add alternative text to Twitter images for years – literally since they first published the API. At first, the documentation was just broken. Later, it was no longer broken, but woefully incomplete. I tried numerous variations to get it to work, and each time I’d eventually be frustrated and put […]
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WordPress 5.0 is currently scheduled for release on Thursday, December 6th. This date has changed several times already, but I believe that this date will actually happen. The new content editor, Gutenberg, will be included in the release. The user interface has been considered stable for all of 8 days. I’ve talked a fair amount recently about the accessibility of Gutenberg and what the user experience will be like for users of assistive technology – but this post isn’t about […]
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