Title: Twitter Links
Author: Speedboxer
Published: <strong>November 14, 2008</strong>
Last modified: November 14, 2008

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Twitter Links

 By [Speedboxer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/speedboxer/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/twitter-links.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-links/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-links/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-links/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-links/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/twitter-links/)

## Description

This plugin will convert valid [Twitter](http://twitter.com/) usernames mentioned
in comments into a link to their Twitter profile page. For example, if somebody 
mentions “@mattfreedman” in their comment, this plugin will check with Twitter to
see if the user “mattfreedman” exists (which is does) and when it does, it will 
convert it into “[@mattfreedman](http://twitter.com/mattfreedman)“.

**Please note: As this plugin converts usernames on the fly (_whenever and everytime_
somebody views the comments), and checks Twitter for every username (to ensure it’s
valid), I _strongly_ recommend using a caching plugin such as [WP Super Cache](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/).
Which will not only lessen the load on Twitter’s servers, but also speed up page
loads.**

Although it says this plugin requires WordPress 2.6, I see no reason why it wouldn’t
work with earlier versions, I just haven’t tested it with earlier version.

_This plugin requires cURL to be installed on your server, and has only been tested
with PHP 5.2.x._

## Installation

To install this plugin, please follow these instructions:

 1. Download and extract the ZIP archive.
 2. Upload `twitter-links.php` to your `wp-content/plugins/` folder.
 3. In your WordPress administrative panel, go to Plugins, scroll down to **Twitter
    Links** and click _Activate_ to the right of it.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Twitter Links” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Speedboxer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/speedboxer/)

[Translate “Twitter Links” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/twitter-links)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/twitter-links/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/twitter-links/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/twitter-links/) 
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/twitter-links/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.7**
 * Tags
 * [comments](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[twitter](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/twitter/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-links/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Speedboxer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/speedboxer/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/twitter-links/)

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