TheContentGuy » twitter digest http://thecontentguy.net all things unstructured Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 New WordPress Plugin for a Twitter Weekly Digest http://thecontentguy.net/blog/2009/12/31/new-wordpress-plugin-for-a-twitter-weekly-digest/ http://thecontentguy.net/blog/2009/12/31/new-wordpress-plugin-for-a-twitter-weekly-digest/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:40:49 +0000 paulwlodarczyk http://thecontentguy.net/?p=845 Follow us on TwitterAfter searching high and low for a simple and reliable WordPress plug-in to create a weekly digest of my tweets, I resorted to customizing Tim Beck's Twitter Digest to support either daily or weekly digests of up to 200 tweets. It's up and running on the blog and should be generally available soon as an update to Twitter Digest.[Read more...]]]> Follow us on TwitterFor those of you new to this thread, I was a very happy user of Alex King’s Twitter Tools WordPress plug-in – until it stopped working for my weekly digest posts. I tried several fixes but never got it working again. In my search for a simple and reliable replacement, I found Twitter Digest from Tim Beck (whalespine.org). TD borrows a lot from earlier versions of Twitter Tools for formatting tweets into the list items that make up the post, but it uses a much simpler method for compiling the digest, so it’s more reliable. The only disappointment was that TD only did daily posts and only handled 20 tweets. I had read about someone hacking TD to do weekly posts, but couldn’t find a fork and Tim hadn’t heard of it either, so I coded one myself. The code is still in a shakeout period on my blog, and Tim is reviewing it to roll into Twitter Digest. 

 Here are the key features (bold are changes to TD):

  •  Your choice of a daily or weekly digest of up to 200 tweets:
    • Custom title, tags, and excerpt for the digest post
    • Specify the digest category (e.g. Digest)
    • Post tweets in chronological or reverse order
    • Select post author from all authorized users
    • Specify the time (and day of week for weekly posts) to publish the digest
    • Start right away – publish a weekly digest today of the past week’s tweets (no waiting for a database to cache a week)
  • Simple, lightweight, reliable implementation:
    • Just a daily or weekly digest
    • No tweet sidebar, no tweeting from your blog
    • No automatic tweets when you post a blog entry
    • Support for just one Twitter account
    • Does not maintain a database of your tweets

You can see the output of the plug-in on my weekly Digest posts since 12/26/2009. I’ll post and tweet when the plug-in is generally available. If you have other ideas for features that do not increase the complexity of the plug-in please leave a comment here or at whalespine.org.

Happy New Year!

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