New Wordpress Plugin: Twitter Status

November 16th, 2008

Twitter Status is a very simple no-fuzz plugin that gets the current Twitter message from the Twitter ID specified, when someone visits your website there will be an ajax script running in the background doing a GET request every 30 seconds.
This request will trigger the Plugin to get all Author profiles with a twitter ID, and update their Twitter status, given that they haven’t been updated in at least 30 minutes and with a limit of 5 twitter profiles per request.

You can change these settings by editing the plugin file (before activating it).. the settings are easily accessible, no knowledge of PHP required.. I will incorporate a configuration page in future versions, for now I wanted to make an initial release that’s down to the complete basics.

I am also working on a couple more usefull plugins which should be coming along soon..

Post Filters
Gives you the ability to have posts ..
- Skip the Frontpage
- Act as a sticky on Category pages (and -only- on Category pages)
Raw Posts
Will process posts EXACTLY the way you edit them in the wysiwyg editor, it bypasses the wordpress filters completely.
This will quite definitely create conflict with plugins that rely on Wordpress’ filtering.
Raw Syntaxhighlighter
Source code highlighter that works with the Raw Posts plugin

I’m also working on a PDO wrapper to make it’s functionality more accessible, though this is of course not related to Wordpress in any way.

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Twitter Status Wordpress Plugin

November 16th, 2008

Description

Twitter Status is a very simple no-fuzz plugin that gets the current Twitter message from the Twitter ID specified, when someone visits your website there will be an ajax script running in the background doing a GET request every 30 seconds, this request will trigger the Plugin to get all Author profiles with a twitter ID, and update their Twitter status, given that they haven’t been updated in at least 30 minutes and with a limit of 5 twitter profiles per request.

Features

Ajax powered
Get Twitter status by;
- Twitter ID
- User ID
- Username

Installation

Unzip the twitter-status folder into your plugins folder and activate the plugin in your admin cp.

Usage

After installing, edit the author profiles in wp-admin that you would like to assign a Twitter profile to.

You can use the following tags in your templates:


<?php twitter('Username') ?>


<?php twitter('twitter_id=xxxx') ?>


<?php twitter('user_id=xxxx') ?>

These functions will all echo the current status stored in the Database for the given user.

You can use the following function to get the twitter status DIRECTLY from twitter, but keep in mind that using this will cause a delay in the loadtime of the page;


<?php echo twitter_status_get('xxx') ?>

For “xxx” enter the twitter ID.

Download


Twitter Status v1.0 (405)
Twitter Status v1.0.1 (412)
Twitter Status v1.0.2 (571)
Twitter Status v1.0.3 (573)
Twitter Status v1.0.3b (454)

Changelog

Version 1.0.3 – November 18, 2008
- Modified folder structure
Version 1.0.2 – November 18, 2008
- Fixed bug for layouts that don’t have jquery enabled by default
Version 1.0.1 – November 17, 2008
- Made WP 2.6 Compatible
Version 1.0 – November 13, 2008
- Initial Release

Support

For bugs, general support and feature requests please refer to the bug tracker.

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