I’m still a Design Engineer, but now I’m also a WordPress plugin Developer!

Twitter will stop accepting basic authentication (username+password) for its API fully on 31st August 2010, with reduced service from 16th August. The TwitterUpdater plugin I altered to automatically tweet about new posts uses basic authenication, and will stop working by the end of August. Because it’s the only plugin that is suitable for me at the moment (see Auto-tweet from Wordpress with Petite URLs) I’m updating the plugin again to access Twitter via OAuth; and releasing the code open source.

Because Twitter will not allow applications to use the word “twitter” as part of their name, I’ve renamed the updated plugin to “TweetUpdater” to get Twitter API keys.

TwitterUpdater has a long history of being updated by whomever needed it to do something more, and I’d like to add to that. Already confirmed to be helping with this update is Jordan Trask (@comm). If anyone else would like to help too, please get in touch: contact [at] def-proc.co.uk.

The project homepage is at def-proc.co.uk/Projects/TweetUpdater. The code is hosted on Github at github.com/DefProc/TweetUpdater. Github code commits can be followed by checking @wp_TweetUpdater. And the plugin has been accepted to the WordPress.org extensions directory.

History:

Edited by Patrick Fenner (22nd July 2010) - http://www.deferredprocrastination.co.uk (v2.11) - Added support for la_petite_url plugin - Add #url# placeholder instead of “Link title to blog?” checkbox - Added option to use full WordPress permalink as url

Edited by Jordan Trask “@comm” (April 19th 2010) - http://geektank.net (v2.10) - Added support for Bit.ly

Edited by Jordan Trask “@comm” (April 17th 2010) - http://geektank.net (v2.09) - ZZ.gd broke with 403 forbidden error, fixed with setting different user agent. - Move menu to “Settings”. - Added option under configuration to choose ZZ.gd or TinyURL. Added 1 function. - Re-worked the code for url shortening services, change in one place instead of three. Created a function instead. which makes it easier to add more services if necessary. Bit.ly support in the future?

Edited by Eric Austin Lee (January 9th 2009) - http://www.ericaustinlee.com/ (v2.08) Edit: corrected to fit new needs of Wordpress 2.7

Edited by Ingo “Ingoal” Hildebrandt (v2.07.1) Edit: - corrected tinyurl-api-url…

Edited by Marco Luthe (October 17th. 2008) - http://www.saphod.net (v2.07) - Changed “save_post” hook to “publish_post” - Added “future_to_publish” hook and vc_twit2

Edited by Ingo “Ingoal” Hildebrandt (v2.06) Edit: - added cascading short-url generation (if zz.gd is down, it’ll cascade to tinyurl.com)

Edited by Ingo “Ingoal” Hildebrandt (v2.05) Edit: - added alternative method to get shorturl (using curl instead of fopen)

Edited by Ingo “Ingoal” Hildebrandt (v2.04) http://www.ingoal.info/archives/2008/07/08/twitter-updater/ Edit: - fixed character escaping in post-title ( ‘ and & ) - fixed empty post-title when scheduled post appears

Edited by Ingo “Ingoal” Hildebrandt (v2.03) http://www.ingoal.info/archives/2008/07/08/twitter-updater/ Edit: - fixed the multi-tweet issue in WP2.6 (due to post revisions the same post was twittered multiple times before) - streamlined the options…only new posts and edited old-posts from now on out…

Edited by Ingo “Ingoal” Hildebrandt (v2.02) http://www.ingoal.info/archives/2008/07/08/twitter-updater/ Edit: added twitter source parameter to replace “from web”

Edited by Ingo “Ingoal” Hildebrandt (v2.01) http://www.ingoal.info/archives/2008/07/08/twitter-updater/ Edit: replaced tinyurl-support with zz.gd-support even shorter short-url

Edited by Jonathan Dingman (v2.0) http://www.firesidemedia.net/dev/software/wordpress/twitter-updater/ Edit: added tinyurl-support

Based on Version 1.0 TwitterUpdater Victoria Chan http://blog.victoriac.net/?p=87