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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This is great - any plans on making on for Facebook?
[quote comment=”856”]I just tested it with mine and it all seems ok, the form appeared, and updated perfectly fine. I’ve also had a look at your site, and its displaying ok here (obviously I can’t test the updating function on your site though.).
Which part isn’t viewing correclty? I hope I can help you out with this.[/quote]
From a functional point of view it works just perfect. I’m having strange problems with the layout. The text appears on top of the image. After a while it’s perfectly situated right from the image. Strange behavior…
[quote comment=”855”]Dean, just found out that the plugin doesn’t layout correct on IE7. It does work on Firefox[/quote]
I just tested it with mine and it all seems ok, the form appeared, and updated perfectly fine. I’ve also had a look at your site, and its displaying ok here (obviously I can’t test the updating function on your site though.).
Which part isn’t viewing correclty? I hope I can help you out with this.
Dean, just found out that the plugin doesn’t layout correct on IE7. It does work on Firefox
Great plug-in Dean, keep up the good work! I’m realy enjoying your theme and plugins!
[quote comment=”850”]Incidently, I found a bug. If you update from the plugin with something like “I’m…” (ie. the apostrophe), it gets printed out as “I'm”.[/quote]
Damn, I knew I forgot to fix something. Ok, I’ve got to go to a meeting for a couple of hours, when I get back I’ll post a fix.
Using it on my blog as well. Thanks so much for releasing this plugin.
Incidently, I found a bug. If you update from the plugin with something like “I’m…” (ie. the apostrophe), it gets printed out as “I'm”.
Thanks, Dean! It’s already up on my site … especially since Twitter’s own Flash badge quit working for some reason.
Congratulations and thanks for your hard work! :)