Archive for March 18th, 2007

Twitt-Twoo 1.0 plugin for Wordpress 15

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Twitt-Twoo Released

Twitt-Twoo v1.1 has now been released, it is recommened that you download the latest version which you can find here: Twitt-Twoo v1.1 Released

As I’ve talked about in the past couple of weeks, I have been working on my latest Wordpress plugin. Twitt-Twoo is essentially a very simple little plugin to allow you to do a very simple thing, update your Twitter status directly from your blog’s sidebar.

There was already at least one plugin available which added similar functionality to the Wordpress admin. While this was good I wanted to be able to change my status without having to go into the admin area first. Plus I wanted to add a couple of other things. There was also a plugin available that would place a widget with your current status in you sidebar. It displays your status and when it was last updated. Again I liked this, but I wanted more.

Twitt-Twoo brings together both these functions into one easy to use plugin. AJAX is used to update your status so that no page load is required. Just click the ‘edit’ link, enter your new status and click ‘update’. Easy as that. And don’t worry about that little edit button, because it will only be available when you are logged in, just like a normal post edit link. Users of Facebook will be very familiar with this style of status updating. I guess Facebook’s status was the true inspiration for this plugin.

You even get three ways to add Twitt-Twoo to your blog. If you are using Wordpress Widgets, once you activate the plugin you will have new Twitt-Twoo widget available to you. If you are using K2, or a K2-derivative such as my own Redoable, then there is a sidebar module available. Or if you prefer to manually change the code of your sidebar, then you can do that too.

So what does it do? Twitt-Twoo is pretty simple.

  • Displays your latest Twitter status, and when it was last updated.
  • Displays your Twitter icon/avatar next your status.
  • Allows for easy updating of your status from the sidebar.
  • Updates using AJAX, so no page reload is required.
  • Provides a link to your personal Twitter page. eg. http://twitter.com/deanjrobinson
  • Provides a link to your Twitter RSS feed.
  • Simple options page located in admin Options->Twitt-Twoo
  • Provides a ready-to-use widget/module.
  • Comes with a new Twitt-Twoo icon, inspired by the Feed and Share Icon projects.

For more details, and installation tips visit the Twitt-Twoo homepage.

Twitt-Twoo v1.1 has now been released, it is recommened that you download the latest version which you can find here: Twitt-Twoo v1.1 Released

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Wordpress Download Monitor is go! 1

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Ok, so it wasn’t exactly a week of testing, but I tested it yesterday afternoon and last night, and figured that it couldn’t be any worse than what I currently had. So I’ve just finished changing all the download links over to the use the different ‘tags’ that Wordpress Download Manager uses to display its links.

I have made a few small changes to the plugin as wll, mainly where it stores the files on my server, and some of the text it displays with the downoad links, nothing major just a few tweaks to suit my needs.

It also gave me a chance to fix up the download counts that have been messed up by the not-so-reliable nature of the last plugin, and the numbers were somewhat surprising.

As of now the main download counts are:

  • Redoable 1.1 - 7389 downloads (since 29/1/2007)
  • Redoable 1.0 - 1483 downloads (since 31/12/2006)
  • RedoRecentLinks 1.0-beta - 955 downloads (since 4/2/2007)
  • Ultimate Category Cloud 2.0 - 885 downloads (since 29/1/2007)

The numbers for Redoable 1.1 alone work out at roughly 150 downloads everyday since it was released. Not bad at all.

Please let me know if you come across any issue with this new download plugin.

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