Comments on: Change how Twitter Tools Formats Your WordPress Blog Post Tweet

By: Carol Shepherd

Carol Shepherd — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:32:32 +0000

I’m looking for a solution the other way around: I’d like WordPress to take the tweet and add a prefix to it. Does anyone know if there’s a way to do that?

Carol Shepherd
arborlaw.biz

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:33:01 +0000

Thanks for the tip about $_post(’category’). I was wondering if you could elucidate a little about how to implement that. I want to modify my tweets so that they are formatted like so:

New PARENTCATEGORY: TITLE (LINK)

I fiddled around with the code a little, but I’m not too savvy with all this and I had to undo my changes. Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

By: Woth

Woth — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:44:38 +0000

to victor… check the ID Key of the short URL you are using in the plugin. It has a weird blanck space at the end!!

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:29:38 +0000

I’ve a problem with the twitter tool. When I publish a post it appear on twitter but there’s no link to the post.
Please help me,
Victor

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:56:01 +0000

Thanks for the tip, and the warning. That makes more sense. I’ll play around with it, and hope my site doesn’t enter the ‘spinning fireball of death’ Alex warns of.

By: Jason Burns

Jason Burns — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:54:03 +0000

You could probably easily change the prefix to display the $_post(‘category’) which holds the information you seek, but there is one huge flaw in that plan. Alex’s TwitterTools uses the prefix to find tweets and filter them out all over the plugin, also to make sure it doesn’t retweet something you have already sent when you update or edit a post. So my suggestion might be leave the prefix alone, then post the category AFTER the prefix or the post itself, something like “PK: New Blog Post in Technology”

My 2 cents

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:13:47 +0000

Jason, I like using Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin as well, and I’ve already customized the Tweet prefix to something more appropriate for my use than “New Blog Post:” but what I’ve been trying to figure out how to do is for the prefix to be the name of the category that the new blog post resides in.

For example, when you added this blog post, it would tweet the prefix “Web Authoring: “. My PHP isn’t great and I’m struggling with it. Got any ideas?