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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37 Responses to “TwitCategory (Plugin for WordPress)”

  1. October 9th, 2009 at 2:26pm
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  2. October 11th, 2009 at 2:29am
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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:

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  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
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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

  19. March 10th, 2010 at 3:56pm
    Tracy Lee Says:

    K, nevermind.. found another tool that works like selective tweets called RSS Graffiti.. Pulls from my RSS instead of my twitter and uses a bitly URL.. Everything works great! Still want to donate… :)

  20. March 10th, 2010 at 5:41pm
    gabrielm Says:

    Tracy,
    Glad that you found something that works for you. Just to be clear, TwitCategory can be used to format your tweets in any way you want. For instance: New Post: [title] [tinyurl] #fb would tweet the following for this post:

    New Post: TwitCategory (Plugin for WordPress) http://tinyurl.com/yfdcfae #fb

  21. March 19th, 2010 at 10:21am
    Tracy Lee Says:

    hey gabriel! Been testing out the new version of twit category and there’s a slight bug.. check out my twitter: http://twitter.com/mstracylee

    it’s filling the rest of the tweet with part of the post, but if there’s no more post, it’s pulling the html into it too…

    the #fb works great… Thank you for all your help on this!

  22. March 20th, 2010 at 5:58pm
    gabrielm Says:

    Tracy,
    Yeah – I didn’t set it to strip out the HTML, so it just spits out whatever the database holds. I will do some striping in the next release.

    ++ Thanks for sending this in to let me know!

  23. March 20th, 2010 at 11:28pm
    Tracy Lee Says:

    another thing- if I put an ampersand in the post, it stops posting anything after it..

  24. April 21st, 2010 at 5:43am
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  25. May 22nd, 2010 at 9:30pm
    Thomas Purnell Says:

    Nice work! And thanks for mentioning the original twitpress! Really happy to see the old crusty plugin evolve and grow :)

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  27. August 9th, 2010 at 3:10am
    Linuxari Says:

    Thank for this nice plugin, i’ve found a small work around for people using qtranslate: http://www.linuxaria.com/pills/wordpress-twitter-e-qtranslate?lang=en

    I think it should be safe to consier that a good patch for your future version (maybe using gettext not only for the title but also for tags and post).

    Hope this can help others.

    Bye

  28. August 18th, 2010 at 5:09pm
    Dag Says:

    I am trying to use your plugin but the [post] option is not working its only sends “[post] shortened url” and not the real text from the post any ideas on whats wrong?

  29. September 8th, 2010 at 5:05pm
    Drew Says:

    Can anyone confirm that this works with WP3.0.1?

    My TwitCategory just stopped working on September 2nd, and I think it’s due to the 3.0.1 update I did. I love this plugin, I hope it still works.

  30. September 13th, 2010 at 6:53am
    Steve Says:

    Same as Drew.
    The plugin stopped working on September 1st for me. This is what I get for being on top of my WP updates.

    Please release a patch asap. I use this for several sites. Thanks in advance.

  31. September 15th, 2010 at 9:53am
    Dluzional Says:

    Tried this with several WP from 3.01 back to 2.8
    ( I have several sites running these versions)

    Seems that this plugin isn’t the only twitter type plugin having this same connectivity problem.

    Installed this…didn’t work
    disabled all plugins, and enabled just this one.
    editted the post, updated and nothing.
    (This was a workaround described above that worked for them).

    There’s several WP to twitter plugins that have all of a sudden failed,…I’ve also noticed that twitter has changed their security settings as of the 3rd, as a business that post’s regularly to our twitter has noticed and is working on a mod workaround.

    Wonder if these are related…

  32. September 16th, 2010 at 10:41am
    Bryan Harley Says:

    Pretty sure it stopped working because Twitter changed the way it authenticates 3rd party apps.

  33. September 21st, 2010 at 2:12pm
    gabrielm Says:

    Sorry everybody – my day job has been keeping way too busy. However, I will take a look at the plugin as soon as I can.

    I suspect that Bryan and others are correct – it probably has to do with changes that twitter made.

  34. February 3rd, 2011 at 10:04pm
    Jon Says:

    Hi, thank you for the plug in. I am having a hard time getting it to work. I installed it, activated it and gave it my credentials and I have since made 3 posts and none of them updated to Twitter. Does it take a bit of time or is it pretty much instant? I am not sure if it makes a difference but my blog is installed in a subdirectory of my website. The blog is located at http://handcraftedcaraudio.com/blog/

    Thank you for your help.

  35. July 16th, 2011 at 5:15pm
    Shelly Says:

    I’d love to use this plugin as well but can’t seem to get it to work either. Any updates?

  36. July 18th, 2011 at 9:29am
    nagmay Says:

    Shelly and everyone,
    The plugin is broken due to the changes twitter made. It will have to be completely rewritten from scratch – which may take a while.

    Please look for alternatives in the meantime.

  37. July 12th, 2016 at 2:29am
    http://www./ Says:

    I’m impressed. You’ve really raised the bar with that.

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