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Details

Twitter Tools integrates with Twitter by giving you the following functionality:

• Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 10 minutes)
• Create a blog post from each of your tweets
• Create a daily or weekly digest post of your tweets
• Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
• Post a tweet from your sidebar
• Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
• Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)

Configuration

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

Showing Your Tweets

Widget Friendly

If you are using widgets, you can drag Twitter Tools to your sidebar to display your latest tweets.

Template Tags

If you are not using widgest, you can use a template tag to add your latest tweets to your sidebar.

<?php aktt_sidebar_tweets(); ?>

If you just want your latest tweet, use this template tag.

<?php aktt_latest_tweet(); ?>

Hooks/API

Twitter Tools contains a hook that can be used to pass along your tweet data to another service (for example, some folks have wanted to be able to update their Facebook status). To use this hook, create a plugin and add an action to:

aktt_add_tweet

Your plugin function will receive an aktt_tweet object as the first parameter.

Example psuedo-code:

function my_status_update($tweet) { // do something here }
add_action('aktt_add_tweet', 'my_status_update')

Twitter Tools also provides a filter on the URL sent to Twitter so that you can run it through an URL-shortening service if you like.

tweet_blog_post_url

Your plugin function will receive the URL as the first parameter.

Example psuedo-code:

function my_short_url($long_url) { // do something here - return the shortened URL }
add_filter('tweet_blog_post_url', 'my_short_url')

Known Issues

• Only one Twitter account is supported (not one account per author).
• Tweets are not deleted from the tweet table in your WordPress database when they are deleted from Twitter. To delete from your WordPress database, use a database admin tool like phpMyAdmin.
• The relative date function isn't fully localized.