WordPress Plugin: Feed Tweetifier
This is my seconds ever WordPress plugin and is totally different to the TwitterLeague plugin I made a while ago. So what does the Feed Tweetifier do? Well have you ever seen a Tweet similar to this from the likes of TechCrunch?
This is a customised application that they have built themselves into WordPress. But most of us who have Twitter accounts and RSS feeds use a third-party tool to post to Twitter for us. So we already know that part of the wheel has been invented with services like TwitterFeed, HootSuite and EasyTweets. These services can push your RSS feed into Twitter with a title and URL. But the tweet that gets sent looks a bit boring and doesn’t give much extra useful info, like the authors Twitter account.
So the Feed Tweetifier allows you to create your own template for how the feed items title looks. This can then be read by the feed readers that push the item into your Twitter feed (and put the URL on the end). So for instance I can have my RSS feed looking like this:
Which would then make a tweet look like this:
At the moment there are a few variables like {USERNAME} (for the authors twitter username) and {TITLE} for where the feed title goes. Other then that you can type in text as you like.
Who is it for?
It is great for blogs with multiple users who want to plublicise who wrote the aricle. Or anyone just wanting to add some extra information to the title in the tweetified feed and not the public RSS feed.
Screenshots
Below is a screenshot of the plugins option page.
Download
You can download the latest version of the plugin at the WordPress plugin page
Installation
To install the plugin follow these instructions:
- Unzip the contents
- Upload the feed-tweetifier-0.1 folder into the wp-content/plugins folder
- Go to the plugins page in the admin area
- Activate the plugin
- Go to the Options->Feed Tweetifier page
- Change the options and set authors Twitter Username if needed
- View the Tweetified feed using the link on the right of the page
- Go to a service like TwitterFeed, HootSuite or EasyTweets, sign in and make them post the tweetified RSS feed to your Twitter account.
Uninstallation
To uninstall the plugin just go to the plugins page in the admin area and click “deactivate”
Changelog:
- 0.1
- brand spanking new!
Know issues
- The plugin won’t work with the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin as it messes up the standard add_feed() method in WordPress