=== Plugin Name === Contributors: Indeedle Donate link: http://www.indeedle.com/ Tags: twitter Requires at least: 2.7 Tested up to: 2.7 Stable tag: 0.1 A plugin that posts a short blurb on your Twitter page linking to a post you've recently published. == Description == A plugin that posts a short blurb on your Twitter page linking to a post you've recently published. The message can be customized, and you can chose to notify twitter of all new posts (and exclude them on a post-by-post basis) or notify twitter manually on a post-by-post basis. This was written overnight, so it may have some bugs. I wrote this as while there are other Twitter tools out there that do neat things, they didn't really do exactly what I was after, so in the end I did it myself. == Installation == 1. Upload folder `twitbar` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress 3. Navigate to Tools->Twitpost 4. Enter your username & password for twitter and save them. 5. Edit the settings to customize how twitbar works == Frequently Asked Questions == = What's the different between Automatic method and Manual method? = The methods are how the plugin goes about deciding whether or not to contact Twitter about your update. With Automatic ever post published will be added to twitter, unless a custom field called `twitpost_action` with a value of `skip` is added to the post. This means users can exclude certain posts from being published, or publish them later. Manual means nothing is sent to twitter unless you specifically add a custom field called `twitpost_action` to the post with a value of `post`. With both situations, once a post has been published the `twitpost_action` will be updated (or added if it doesn't exist) with the value `added`. This is so in the future if you update the post it will not be added to twitter. However, if you change the value to `post` and then update the post, it will be sent to twitter. You can come back at any time and change the value of `twitpost_action` to `post` which will cause the post to be added to twitter again. = How do I write my message? = The keywords USER, TITLE and URL inside the message will be replaced with their actual values. Eg: USER has written a post called TITLE -> URL. Due to twitter being short, you should keep the message short. = Why don't you shorten the URLs? = That's planned for an update. = Will there be more tags for the message field? = Yes, more are planned to be added so the message can be customized further. == Screenshots == Coming as soon as I can work out how to display them, since I've no idea.