Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
Twitter Weekly Updates
A while ago we were asked if we could import a client’s twitter feed into their WordPress website. A bit of research showed that there are many tools that could do this. We wanted to gather all of the tweets into a weekly digest that automatically posted to the blog as a digest update.
There are a number of tools and plugins that profess to do this. As is the way with open source the results are varied in both practical usability and results. After three different plugin tests we settled on Twitter Tools. The fantastic plugin by Alex King. Simple to install and configure, this is a great plugin that doesn’t try and do too much. It delivers one task really well and is clearly documented (in English) and consequentially we have no concerns over recommending it to all.
Here is the official offering:
Twitter Tools integrates with Twitter by giving you the following functionality:
- Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 10 minutes)
- Create a blog post from each of your tweets
- Create a daily or weekly digest post of your tweets
- Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
- Post a tweet from your sidebar
- Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
- Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)