Simple Twitter Connect
( Hey, if you like STC, why not check out Simple Facebook Connect too? )
Plugin: Simple Twitter Connect
Version: 0.10
Last updated: 48 days ago.
Downloaded: 8,768 times.
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Overview
Following the same pattern as the Simple Facebook Connect plugin, this is a plugin to make connecting a WordPress blog to Twitter easy.
Unlike Twitter Tools and other systems, this plugin uses Twitter’s latest authentication mechanisms. No putting in Twitter names or passwords. Clicking the Connect with Twitter button will redirect a user to Twitter for approval, then bring them back to where they came from, only now with their Twitter credentials available for use. Sub-plugins can then make any use of this they like.
Note: This is fully compatible with Simple Facebook Connect, and can even run at the same time as it. Naturally. 
Requirements
Currently, WordPress 2.9 or higher and PHP 5. I don’t write code for older versions of WordPress, or obsolete versions of PHP. Sorry.
Features
- Easy to install and use.
- Modular. Only use the pieces you want to use.
- Integrates easily into any theme.
- Simple control panel, only has the options you need for the pieces you activate.
- Secure. Uses the latest WordPress coding techniques to eliminate tricky security problems.
Current sub-modules
- Login using Twitter Credentials
- Comment using Twitter credentials
- Users can auto-tweet their comments
- Tweetmeme button
- Auto-tweet new posts to an account
- Full @anywhere support
- Auto-link all twitter names on the site
Future sub-modules
- Pull tweets back in as posts
- Manual post tweeting
- More direct retweet button (instead of using Tweetmeme)
- (whatever you like, send me suggestions!)
Installation Instructions
- Upload the files to the `/wp-content/plugins/simple-twitter-connect/` directory.
- Activate the base plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Configure Twitter for your site by following the instructions on the Settings screen.
- Activate the sub plugins you want to use through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress and configure them appropriately. Some require no configuration at all, some require minor theme changes.
Shortlink note
There’s too darned many shortlink systems out in the world. So, this plugin does not implement shortlinks at all.
Instead, it relies on the new Shortlinks API in WordPress 3.0. Unfortunately, this means that if you’re not running WP 3.0, you won’t see shortlinks appear in your tweets (although Twitter might turn some normal links into bit.ly ones for you).
My advice: Be patient. 3.0 will be released eventually.
Licensing
This plugin is licensed under the GPL Version 2 only.
Method to get support
You can email me directly, however I am also a moderator at the WordPress.org support forums, so you’ll find me there as well.
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Hi, thanks for this cool plugin
Is that possible to include the %excerpt% of an article in the auto-tweet function?
Thaks for that awesome plugin
Hi Otto,
Thanks for this other plugins
It’s possible to set stc-tweetmeme plugin in the title article (not in content) ?
thanks
There is a way to put the hovercard in other language as english?
No. Twitter is English, they don’t do other languages.
Well for user interface, they 5 other languages…
Not with @anywhere, they don’t.
The hovercard stuff is straight from Twitter’s code. All the plugin does is to inject their code into the page.
Can we remove the calling javascript “platform.twitter.com”? I don’t see why it’s loading this if we don’t set the hovercard option.
It’s used for the linkify plugin. It’s what does all the linking.
Wow i’m sorry, if linkfy is disabled it won’t be loaded?
That platform.twitter.com is the @anywhere code. Without it, none of the @anywhere based plugins would work.
If you don’t use those, then sure, you could remove it. But why? It doesn’t make any difference whether it’s there or not.
I meant: If I don’t use the @anywhere, is the plugin remove the plateform.twitter.com call automatically from code?
It just takes 2sec. to load…
I’m trying to optimize & remove all useless exterior call.
No, the code is put there by the base plugin regardless, so that you can use your own @anywhere based javascript in your theme, if you like.
I think you’re over-optimizing. It doesn’t take 2 seconds to load except one time. After that, it’s already loaded.
I’m using firebug, It’s pretty accurate. I also have “https://twitter.com/scribe?log=…………” each time and it takes 1sec to load.
But we can’t do nothing for that… I know
Hello Otto,
I am using you plugin in my blog, and activate the widget follower box for show the my twitter follo in my sidebar blog.
For example, the code in my sidebar is
and shows the box, which is already configured with the css in my style, but does not display the number of followers or their pictures.
Only shows de box with head and basic estructure…
all are activated correctly pluguins… which will be the error.
Thanks
the code in my sidebar is stc_follower_box(mrlnl);
Did you activate the STC-Publish plugin and link the plugin to an account? The Follower box uses that to know what account to get the information from.
Ok yes, all plugin all active. see here http://www.relaxrelax.com.ve/Nuevaimagen.jpg.
and settings plugin here: http://www.relaxrelax.com.ve/Nuevaimagen2.jpg
now show me that http://www.relaxrelax.com.ve/Nuevaimagen3.jpg
the code in my sidebar is stc_follower_box(mrlnl);
thanks
It’s possible that your server cannot communicate with the Twitter servers at all. Could be security settings on your server, somehow.
thanks for the help, stop using the plugin. grateful