Ben
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Digest posts in Twitter Tools 3.0Glad to know I wasn’t the only one who had the multiple post issue, but I figured that was the price of an “experimental” feature.
Thanks for the links to that other plugin, I think I’ll try it too (although that tweet number limitation isn’t great, still that can probably be changed). Couple that with Simple Twitter Connect and we’ll have most of the features previously supplied by Twitter Tools.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-twitter-connect/
It may not get the widget displaying recent tweets, but there should be other ways around that.
To be honest, I’d prefer to get Twitter Tools working (possibly coupled with the Twitter Digest plugin), but I’m not sure how long it will take for Twitter Tools to become functional again.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] [Plugin: Twitter Tools] Social dependenceIt’s been working exactly as designed and expected on my site for about a year now. 🙂
Maybe so, but 2.x has been working perfectly on my site and it only stopped working following the upgrade. In fact, the only thing it did successfully was convert the 5,000+ tweets already stored by my site to the current form.
The last tweet from that point is here:
http://www.adversary.org/wp/?aktt_tweet=256008758667382784
There are 3 more tweet-like entries following that created through the Dashboard, but it turned out that they weren’t actually sent to twitter.com. You can see from my actual twitter stream that there have been tweets since the upgrade which have not been accessed via Twitter Tools, including one addressed to you.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Digest posts in Twitter Tools 3.0The digest feature never worked right and has been removed in 3.0. Another developer could create a plugin for Twitter Tools to add a digest feature (leveraging the data Twitter Tools makes available).
Alright, I can probably cope without the digest for now. So let’s start with something a little easier: getting Twitter Tools to actually download tweets from twitter.com and adding them to the local store of tweets/entries. I figure that’s the essential first step for a local archive (as well as getting the widget to start working again).
Yes, all the configuration options have been activated (including the not so obvious ones) and it does have write access to the directory.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Digest posts in Twitter Tools 3.0Yeah, ideally I’d like both; the archive and the digest.
The problem is it no longer appears to be pulling down the tweets I’ve sent through other clients at all, so even if it can generate a digest it’s got nothing to work with because it won’t get the content.
Combine that with the fact that others have reported the broadcast feature doesn’t work and it’s pretty much useless.
It now adds a feature to tweet from the dashboard, but all that does is add an entry to the archives, it doesn’t actually send that data to Twitter. So that’s just ridiculously stupid.
Apparently there is a way to get data from Twitter using cron instead of the built-in default (non-working) function, but there’s no documentation on how to configure that in a way that will work.
If we’re very lucky the author might stop by, but if not we’ll probably have to find something else.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Digest posts in Twitter Tools 3.0I might be able to live with the archive view if two conditions are met:
1) I can add that archive view as a page up the top.
and 2) It is actually able to download and archive tweets made by other Twitter clients (e.g. my phone).
So far neither of these conditions have been met. It can store tweets written in the dashboard, but that’s kind of pointless when so much tweeting is not done in the context of updating my server.
EDIT: It doesn’t actually tweet from the dashboard, it just adds something to the local site that looks like a tweet. Not cool, not cool at all.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] [Plugin: Twitter Tools] Social dependenceIgnore my previous entry, instead read this:
http://alexking.org/blog/2012/10/11/twitter-tools-3-0
Then scroll down through the comments to the one by @joanpla which reveals one of the undocumented settings that needs to be activated. That comment is here:
http://alexking.org/blog/2012/10/11/twitter-tools-3-0#comment-289447
It says: “Thanks a lot! But just in case it helps somebody: I upgrade Twitter Tools (600 tweets were upgraded succesfully) but then I realized my tweets didn’t get posted. Finally I found out I had to enable Twitter Tools clicking in my twitter username (inside Twitter Tools wordpress settings page). I think it’s hard to find it… Actually I found it out after seeing the screencast in the plugin directory.
As I said, thanks a lot, man, truly.”I’m now trying another update and we’ll see what happens.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] [Plugin: Twitter Tools] Social dependenceI can now confirm that the digest option is definitely absent too. So the plugin has gone from functional to useless. 🙁
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] [Plugin: Twitter Tools] Social dependenceNot only does it not appear to broadcast (I haven’t written a new post since “upgrading” this afternoon to check that), but it doesn’t seem to download tweets to display in the widget or anywhere else.
This upgrade is essentially just beta software, it should’ve been tested a little more before release.
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t do anything it claims it does and it’s definitely stopped doing things it did before. I’ll be looking around for another Twitter plugin if this isn’t fixed soon. Which is a shame, because Twitter Tools has real potential.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Tools for Twitter] Twitter Tools 3.0 widget issuesOh, and …
3) It is no longer possible for me to tweet from the widget.