Ben
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Good to know it’s not cron.
If you’re sure the problem is with Social rather than Twitter Tools, how do you explain Social’s broadcast feature working? That requires successful authentication too.
As for the other plugin, I’d really rather not turn every single tweet into a separate post on the main site, a daily digest is good enough for that. I’ve switched to the Twitter Digest plugin from Whalespine/Tim Beck for that purpose. For the widget I’m using Rotating Tweets by Martin Tod.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-digest/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rotatingtweets/At the moment all Twitter Tools 3.0.1 is doing is tweeting my real posts and storing that in the tweet db. Which seems to be roughly what it’s doing for everyone else with the sole exception of Alex King, who swears it works.
Which is a problem that still affects me too. I only mentioned the broadcast aspect because:
a) It shows that Social is connected to the Twitter account and can post.
b) It was something that had been mentioned as not working in other threads since the release of ver. 3.0.
c) It shows that the tweet sent through the broadcast is entered into the database on the WordPress end (although it hasn’t recorded @ mentions or hashtags in the tweets db/posts).I still haven’t found a solution to the tweet downloading issue, but my best guess is that it either relates to the code that is supposed to do it or the cron execution that is suposed to trigger it.
Note: That’s WordPress cron, not a creal cronjob.
Unfortunately I’m not a PHP coder, so my ability to analyse the source is limited. Python is more my thing, but that doesn’t really help us here.
I’ve got all those configured, the bit I pasted was the confirmation that Social was authenticated with Twitter from the settings at that end.
As of this evening I can confirm that the Social broadcast function works through to my Twitter account:
http://www.adversary.org/wp/?aktt_tweet=259576405837365248
Which is great, but Twitter Tools still won’t download tweets sent through other Twitter clients (most of my tweeting is done with Twittering Mode for Emacs). That’s supported by TTYtter, TweetDeck, my phone and occasionally the website.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Twitter Tools 3.0 widget issuesUntil Twitter Tools starts working I have added these plugins:
* Twitter Digest (will be keeping this because the digest function has been removed from Twitter Tools).
* Rotating Tweets widget (which is really quite nifty and might become permanent).
* Twitter Widget Pro (a normal widget, but can be a little flaky and is currently inactive).
* Simple Twitter Connect (for tweeting new blog posts).As for getting Twitter Tools to work, I’m all out of ideas at the moment and Alex King, the plugin author, has only repeated that it works on his server. Some others here have had partial success with getting it to work and there are some reports of things to try in the other threads.
Ah, if only it were so simple. Unfortunately in my case I have:
Social Proxy by Mailchimp by
Social Proxy is a simple connector between social apps and websites. It’s brought to you by your pals at MailChimp.
Permissions: read and write
Approved: Friday, October 12, 2012 3:39:24 a.m.
So it’s not something as simple as that. 🙁
I’ve just installed 3.0.1 and there is some improvement. It now links to my specified account (the widget is at the bottom of the widget collection on my site while trouble-shooting). Still waiting to see if it manages to download any of my tweets from twitter.com.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Twitter Tools 3.0 widget issuesNot sure. I haven’t managed to get manually downloading tweets to work, which means the advanced cron method probably won’t work either. All I’ve got is the conversion of tweets from prior to the upgrade.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Twitter Tools 3.0 widget issuesThere’s actually three places that I’ve found to set it. One is in the Social settings, one is in the Twitter Tool settings and one is in the User profile settings. I’ve configured all three, I’m not sure if there’s anywhere else.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Digest posts in Twitter Tools 3.0I’ve noticed the same thing in the make up posts. I’m still waiting for midnight UTC to test the automated posts from yesterday.
I’m glad it works for you, but some of us aren’t so lucky:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-tools-30-widget-issues?replies=5#post-3253012
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] [Plugin: Twitter Tools] Social dependenceAh, but does it actually work for you once it is enabled? Does it actually download the tweets of the relevant account?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Twitter Tools 3.0 widget issuesBy the way, I have confirmed that MailChimp has app access in my Twitter account for Social. It would be nice to override this with a local API key at some point in the future, but let’s just get it working for now.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Digest posts in Twitter Tools 3.0It was an excellent find, thankyou. It only took about 5 minutes or less to configure too and automatically determined that a day’s worth of my tweets were missing and posted them (I assume it recognised the previous TT3 digests based on either the heading, category or tag).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Twitter Tools 3.0 widget issuesSounds like you need to enable Twitter Tools for your chosen accounts.
Oh, really? I just woke up, so a little caffeine is required, but let’s see …
1) In the Social settings I have the account set to my only Twitter account (set as default).
2) Broadcasting is on by default.
3) No API key is set because @anywhere will be disabled in a couple of months and I don’t want to get used to it.
4) Social’s comments display is disabled, I want comments to match my theme. When this is enabled I do see a jarringly different comment field.
5) Fetch new comments is set to automatic. This is one of the things that does not work.
6) Debug mode is on, but debug_log.txt is empty.
7) My WordPress User Profile is also configured to my only Twitter account (set as default).
8) In the Twitter Tools settings the show admin screens for tweets is set to yes.
9) Create URLs for tweets is set to yes. The actual URL is different from the example, at least with the tweets converted from prior to TT3.0.
10) TT3 credit link is active.
11) Debug logging is enabled.
12) Account configured in Social is no longer greyed out and the enable Twitter Tools option is checked.
13) Create blogposts from tweets is checked (I hope this only creates the special tweet pages and not a real post on the main page). Retweets are excluded.
14) Both the Social and Twitter Tools plugin directories are set with ownership of root.apache and permissions of 775.
15) SELinux has been switched from enforcing mode to permissive while I troubleshoot this, but this plugin shouldn’t be doing anything that Apache, PHP and MySQL can’t already do.
That’s everything that was set before I went to bed last night, so what have I overlooked?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Digest posts in Twitter Tools 3.0Just tried that Twitter Digest plugin, it’s perfectly fine and has some nice features. Also, you can raise the maximum number of tweets to 200. 🙂
Here’s an example of what it produces:
http://www.adversary.org/wp/?p=6645
I’m still debating whether or not to include retweets.