TwitCategory (Plugin for Wordpress)

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

TwitCategoryAnnounces new posts (from a selected category) on twitter.

Download

Download the file from wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitcategory/

Updated 2010-03-02

The plugin has been updated based on requests from the comments below. It now supports [post] and URL shortening from Tinyurl, IsGd and Bitly!

How to install:

Download and unzip the folder twitcategory.

Upload twitcategory to the /wp-content/plugins directory.

Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in Wordpress Admin (you may need to be using a wordpress administrator)

Please note that TwitCategory will create a table in your wordpress database called ‘twitcategory’. It will clobber any previous table with that name.

Fill in your twitter account information in the twitcategory configuration menu found in the Manage menu in Wordpress Admin.

Where credit is due:

This plugin is a updated/modified version of Twitpress by Thomas Purnell  (email : tom@thomaspurnell.com)
Twitpress v0.3.2 – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitpress/
We should all thank Thomas fro creating the great plugin and releasing it under a GPLlicense!

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18 Responses to “TwitCategory (Plugin for Wordpress)”

  1. October 9th, 2009 at 2:26pm
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  2. October 11th, 2009 at 2:29am
    TwitCategory für WordPress Says:

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  4. December 9th, 2009 at 11:25pm
    Drew Says:

    Amazing plugin. One of the only auto-tweets still working with 2.8+. I have a feature request for you. Have it convert the URLs to TinyURLs.

  5. December 9th, 2009 at 11:42pm
    Drew Says:

    I just found you can’t use ” in the tweet. It converts it to \” which then shows up in the tweet.

  6. December 10th, 2009 at 2:06pm
    20 Twitter Plugins für WordPress #2 Says:

    [...] TwitCategory für WordPress von Gabriel Nagmay ermöglicht es einen Tweet aus einer bestimmten Blog Kategorie an Twitter zu senden und alle Follower und Freunde automatisch darüber zu zu informieren. [...]

  7. December 21st, 2009 at 5:42am
    DaveP Says:

    Thanks! Great plugin.

    +1 for Drew’s ides – this would be perfect if it reformed the Permalink as a bit.ly link or similar shortener.

  8. December 21st, 2009 at 11:12am
    gabrielm Says:

    Drew and DaveP,
    Thanks for the great feedback. I will be updating the plugin soon (after testing in WP 2.9). While I am at is, I will also take a look into adding bit.ly and other url shorteners.

  9. February 28th, 2010 at 3:11pm
    Tracy Lee Says:

    what about part of the post as an option in the formatting? I’m looking for something that does [title][post][permalink or url]

    thank you!

    tracy

  10. March 1st, 2010 at 6:16pm
    gabrielm Says:

    Tracy,
    Adding [post] is easy enough – the problem is that it will need to be limited to 150 characters…

    I will make sure to add it when I get the chance.

  11. March 1st, 2010 at 7:13pm
    Tracy Lee Says:

    I know that wp to twitter does this, and twitterfeed.com does this. but wp to twitter doesn’t work when emailing in updates. The way twitterfeed does it is fills in whatever space is left in the 140 characters with part of the post and then … to show it continues.. Check my twitter: http://twitter.com/mstracylee and you can see it in action!

    thanks so much for responding…

  12. March 2nd, 2010 at 12:27pm
    gabrielm Says:

    Everyone,
    The plugin has been updated to meet your requests.

    Please let others know that it works by rating it on wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitcategory/

    Thanks!

  13. March 2nd, 2010 at 12:34pm
    gabriel nagmay (dot com) | Archive » TwitCategory – Updated to 0.1.9 Says:

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  14. March 3rd, 2010 at 12:12am
    Predrag Supurovic Says:

    Nice plugin. There is one problem I noticed. If I edit post, it is retweeted again. It would be good to have an option to prevent it – I ame looking like spammer with posts that I frequently update.

  15. March 3rd, 2010 at 9:55am
    gabrielm Says:

    Predrag Supurovic,
    That would be a good addition – I will look into adding it for the next release.

  16. March 8th, 2010 at 1:51pm
    Tracy Lee Says:

    am I retarded? I can’t find the twitcategory admin page once it’s installed… :(

  17. March 8th, 2010 at 2:36pm
    gabrielm Says:

    Tracy,
    It should be listed under “Tools”. This may not be the most intuitive place, but it was where Twitpress (which TwitCategory is based upon) put the admin.

  18. March 9th, 2010 at 10:18am
    Tracy Lee Says:

    I had a little bit of PHP errors for some reason so I deactivated the plugin. When I went to reactivate it, it came up with a fatal error. I deactivated all my plugins, activated that one first and then the rest and now the plugin works absolutely fantastic!! One last request? I need to be able to add in #fb to get selective tweets working (so it will auto post to facebook fan pages). Any way to have a pre or post (after is best for selective tweets) field? Also, do you take donations?

    thank you… Tracy

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