To Twitter includes the following functionality;
- Automatic tweeting of posts and pages to Twitter as they are published.
- Automatic retweeting of posts and pages a user specified period of time after publication.
- Scheduled tweeting of posts and pages on a randomly selected basis at a user specified date and time (each day separately configurable).
- Automatic adding of hashtags to posts and pages (save draft before manually adding any required hashtags).
- Automatic replacement of word or phrases with hashtags (for example, switch the word
ClassicPressfor@GetClassicPress). - Sending of manual tweets (including tweet threads).
- Sending of scheduled tweets (including tweet threads) at a user specified date and time.
- Support for four media images attached to a tweet from posts, pages, manual and scheduled tweets.
- Integrates with Short URLs from [azurecurve](https://development.azurecurve.co.uk/classicpress-plugins/ for post and page addresses in tweets.
- Retain and view tweet history.
- Links to tweets on Twitter in tweet history.
As scheduled tweets rely on cron for processing, large images can cause timeouts. This can be mitigated by switching off the wp-cron and setting up a cron job on your web host control panel.
This plugin is multisite compatible with each site having its own settings.
- Download the latest release of the plugin from GitHub.
- Upload the entire zip file using the Plugins upload function in your ClassicPress admin panel.
- Activate the plugin.
- Apply for a Twitter Developer account.
- Create your Twitter application here.
- Configure settings (including your Consumer API Keys and Access Token and Secret) via the configuration page in the admin control panel.
azurecurve was one of the first plugin developers to start developing for ClassicPress; all plugins are available from azurecurve Development and are integrated with the Update Manager plugin for fully integrated, no hassle, updates.
Some of the other plugins available from azurecurve are:
- Add Open Graph Tags - details / download
- Add Twitter Cards - details / download
- Avatars - details / download
- BBCode - details / download
- Breadcrumbs - details / download
- Call-out Boxes - details / download
- Check Plugin Status - details / download
- Code - details / download
- Comment Validator - details / download
- Conditional Links - details / download
- Contact Forms - details / download
- Disable FLoC - details / download
- Display After Post Content - details / download
- Estimated Read Time - details / download
- Events - details / download
- Filtered Categories - details / download
- Flags - details / download
- Floating Featured Image - details / download
- From Twitter - details / download
- Gallery From Folder - details / download
- Get GitHub File - details / download
- Icons - details / download
- Images - details / download
- Insult Generator - details / download
- Load Admin CSS - details / download
- Loop Injection - details / download
- Maintenance Mode - details / download
- Markdown - details / download
- Mobile Detection - details / download
- Multisite Favicon - details / download
- Nearby - details / download
- Page Index - details / download
- Post Archive - details / download
- Redirect - details / download
- Remove Revisions - details / download
- RSS Feed - details / download
- RSS Suffix - details / download
- Series Index - details / download
- Shortcodes in Comments - details / download
- Shortcodes in Widgets - details / download
- Sidebar Login - details / download
- SMTP - details / download
- Snippets - details / download
- Strong Password Generator - details / download
- Tag Cloud - details / download
- Taxonomy Index - details / download
- Taxonomy Order - details / download
- Theme Switcher - details / download
- Timelines - details / download
- To Twitter - details / download
- Toggle Show/Hide - details / download
- URL Shortener - details / download
- Username Protection - details / download
- Widget Announcements - details / download