=== Strictly Tweetbot ===
Contributors: Strictly Software
Donate link: http://www.strictly-software.com/donate
Plugin Home: http://www.strictly-software.com/plugins/strictly-tweetbot
Tags: tags, twitter, tweet, post
Requires at least: 2.0.2
Tested up to: 3.4.2
Stable tag: 1.1.2

Strictly Tweetbot is aplugin that automatically posts status updates to multple Twitter accounts whenever new articles are added to the site.


== Description ==

Strictly Tweetbot is designed to allow site owners to post automatic twitter messages to one or more accounts whenever an article is added to a site.

This plugin is ideal for people who regularly import content into their sites and want to make sure that one or more twitter accounts have their statuses updated with details of the account.

Features


* Post to multiple accounts OR post multiple messages to the same account
* Easy to authenticate using the new OAuth method. No need to register your plugin as a consumer application
* Format your messages with easy to use placeholders e.g %title% %url% %hashtags%
* Use your categories or post tags as the source for your hash tags
* Dashboard report keeps you informed of status updates or failures


== Installation ==

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Download the plugin.
2. Unzip the strictly-tweetbot compressed file.
3. Upload the directory strictly-tweetbot to the /wp-content/plugins directory on your WordPress blog.
4. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
5. Use the newly created Admin option within Wordpress titled Strictly Tweetbot to set the configuration for the plugin.
6. Add each Twitter account you want to post to and complete the options for formatting the status.
7. Verify your accounts by clicking the link that is provided. Once you have authenticated the Twitter account you will be given a PIN which
   you must enter into the appropriate input box. On saving the account will check the PIN and verify the account.
8. If you have an error messages installing the plugin then please try the following to rule out conflicts with other plugins
	-disable all other plugins and then try to re-activate the Strictly TweetBot plugin - some caching plugins cause issues and other Twitter plugins
	 may also cause problems if they are using the same objects.
	-if that worked, re-enable the plugins one by one to find the plugin causing the problem. Decide which plugin you want to use.
	-if that didn't work check you have the latest version of the plugin software (from Wordpress) and the latest version of Wordpress installed
	-Check you have Javascript and Cookies enabled.
	-If you can code turn on the DEBUG constant and debug the code to find the problem otherwise contact me and offer me some money to fix the issue :)
	-Please remember that you get what you pay for so you cannot expect 24 hour support for a free product. Please bear that in mind if you decide to email me. A donation button
	 is on my site and in the plugin admin page.
	-If you must email me and haven't chosen to donate even the smallest amount of money please read this >> http://blog.strictly-software.com/2011/10/naming-and-shaming-of-programming.html

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.2 =
* Added option to Delete all existing accounts in one go.
* Fixed Javascript remove account option that was leaving the wrapper DIV in the DOM.
* Added option to Test Configuration and check account status.
* Modified the Delete account functions so that Twitter messages are not purged.

= 1.0.3 =
* Added Bit.ly URL option so that you can now choose to show j.mp or bit.ly URLs.
* Added installation date
* Updated the configuration check process to test for correct URL shortening and response from bit.ly.
* Added links to help users show their support for Strictly Software.

= 1.0.4 =
* Added the ability to add Google tracking codes and other parameters to the post URL before being shortened.
* Added the ability to ignore certain categories or tags when using them for hash tags.

= 1.0.5 =
* Added the ability to use the TweetShrink API to shrink a tweet message.
* Added an option to use my own Strictly Text Shrink function to shrink a tweet message using text speak.

= 1.0.6 =
* Added some more words to the TweetShrink API function.
* Added a new section for certain endings to be shortened to the TweetShrink API function.
* Added length check to the Test Accounts function.
* Added extra tests to the Test Accounts function.
* Replaced duplicate code by addeng a new FormatHashTag function which formats a hash tag. Also removed apostrophes from HashTags.

= 1.0.7 =
* Changed the name of OAuth and Twitter classes to stop name conflicts with other plugins.
* Change all calls to those objects to new naming conventions.

= 1.0.8 =
* Re-updated as problems with Wordpress SVN not taking changed filenames into consideration.

= 1.0.9 =
* Removed the sponsorship message as per the issue outlined in http://gregsplugins.com/lib/2011/11/26/automattic-bullies/

= 1.1.1 =
* Added the option to ignore content if any words are contained within it.

= 1.1.2 =
* Fixed bug with some words in TweetShrink function.
* Added new short versions of words for the TweetShrink function.
* Improved performance of tweet loop by only getting the permalink once.
* Added option to make an HTTP request to the new post before tweeting so that if caching plugins are installed and options are enabled correctly the page will get cached before any Twitter rush from BOTS
* Added option to use a different user-agent when making this cache post HTTP request.
* Added new configuration test to test the HTTP Cache test by posting the last article and returning a status code.