Technically, this plugin has been available from the WordPress plugin directory since last Monday, but today is it’s official launch. This is for two reasons: first, it gave the plugin a week to “shake out the bugs,” so that the official launch could be as stable as is reasonably possible.
Second, it’s my birthday, so I’ll be able to remember when the plugin launched. Isn’t that sweet?
The plug-in is pretty straightforward: it posts a status update about your new WP post to Twitter, passing by Pierre Far’s Cli.gs URL shortening service on the way. If you have a Cli.gs API key, you’ll get the added bonus that your Cli.gs will automatically show up in your Cli.gs account, so you can track the statistics of that Clig right from the beginning.
By default, the plugin will take a chunk of text you’ve defined and your post title and truncate them to an acceptable length (including your Cli.gs post URL) to send over to Twitter. However, you don’t have to just accept this stock text: you can custom author your Tweet for every post, using the WP to Twitter custom field in your post authoring interface.
Jason
; February 13, 2009 at 7:14 pmI started uploading useful WordPress plugins on my blog, and I think this could be a default plugin along with the all-in-one-seo and akismet I am using.
By the way, Steffie – I did not understand if your comment was for any other post here or something missing as it mentioned money making than wordpress. May be I missed something.
Abhijeet
; February 11, 2009 at 11:05 amJust exactly what I thought after I commented earlier. But probably I did not want to admit it too quickly, unless you laugh at me not to understand such simple thing :-).
Joe Dolson
; February 11, 2009 at 10:59 amWell, the easiest way (and this is a bit of a cheat, I guess) would be to simply change the text of your ‘update post’ tweets to match your new post tweet text. That’s the only real difference between the two methods.
Abhijeet
; February 11, 2009 at 10:39 amThanks for taking time out to reply Joe, I was just wondering if there is any option to twitt my old posts without editing them. I am finding it awkward to edit those posts which I always wanted to tweet but without saying that those are updated.
Joe Dolson
; February 11, 2009 at 10:33 amThat’s great, Abhijeet! Glad that this is the right plugin for you — and thanks for letting me know!
Abhijeet
; February 11, 2009 at 2:47 amI am certainly happy with WP->Twitter plugin, and I was wondering about shortened URLs on Cli.gs and figured out here that it’s yours as well. Good job Joe! Thanks for making my WP and Twitter thing work.
Joe Dolson
; February 8, 2009 at 10:03 amThank, Dheeru! I appreciate the compliment.
dheeru
; February 7, 2009 at 11:59 pmI would rate this plug in higher than twitterfeed. A great plug in, wish you success for this
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; January 1, 2009 at 3:19 pmWhat a great plugin Joe!. I will surely try it.
Binny V A
; November 10, 2008 at 1:03 pmAnother option is using http://twitterfeed.com/
And, happy birthday – for you and your plugin 😉