Contributors: benbalter
Donate link: https://ben.balter.com/donate/?utm_source=wp&utm_medium=org_plugin_page&utm_campaign=tmac
Tags: comments, twitter, mentions, social, social media
Requires at least: 3.0
Tested up to: 3.2
Stable tag: 1.5
Twitter Mentions as Comments scours Twitter for people talking about your site & silently inserts their Tweets alongside your existing comments.
Twitter Mentions as Comments does exactly what it promises to do - scours Twitter for people talking about your blog posts and silently inserts their Tweets alongside your existing comments. The plugin leverages the power of WordPress's built-in commenting system - notification, comment moderation, author white/black listing - making Twitter an extension of your blog.
- Searches for Tweets linking to your blog posts, regardless of the URL shortener used (using Twitter's Search API)
- Pushes Tweets into WordPress's existing comment workflow - notifications, comment moderation, and author whitelists/blacklists work just like any other comment
- Fetches user's real name and profile picture and links directly to the original Tweet
- Checks automatically - no need to do a thing
- Option to automatically exclude ReTweets
- Option to store tweets as trackbacks/pingbacks
- Option to specify which posts to check (e.g., 10 most recent posts, all posts, front page only)
- Smart Caching of Tweets and user data - retrieves only what it needs to save on API calls and server load
- Dynamic resizing of Twitter profile images to fit WordPress theme
- Prioritization of newer posts
- Oauth Authentication to raise API limit (currently unlimited Tweets, but limited to 150 new comment authors per hour)
- Smarter API throttling
You can see it in action on the WP Resume Plugin page.
Questions? Comments? Feature Requests? Any feedback you can provide in the comments section of the Twitter Mentions as Comments Plugin Page to improve the plugin is greatly appreciated.
Developers, have a killer feature you'd love to see included? Feel free to fork the project on GitHub and submit your contributions via pull request.
Enjoy using Twitter Mentions as Comments? Feel free to make a small donation to support the software's continued development.
[Photo via joshsemans]
- Download and install the plugin
- Activate
It probably would be. Please let me know on the Twitter Mentions as Comments Plugin Page.
Yes. Because Tweets go through WordPress's built-in comment moderation system, if you navigate to Settings -> Discussions and add "[your Twitter username]@twitter.com" to the blacklist, your Tweets should not appear (or anyone else's you want for that matter).
- Added Spanish translation support, special thanks to Eduardo Larequi.
- Better translation support.
- Fix for
invalid argument supplied foreach()error on some installs. - Fix for hourly cron not always firing on some installs.
- Codebase completely rewritten with performance, stability, customizability, and documentation improvements
- Additional API hooks added for developers to further customize plugin's functionality
- Plugin now hosted on GitHub if developers would like to fork and contribute.
- Better internationalization support
- GPL license now distributed with plugin
*** NOTE: you must manually reactivate the plugin after upgrading to this version**
- Fix for bug where the name of authors with previous tweets would display the twitter username multiple times
- Changed name of primary plugin file to conform to traditional plugin format
- Fix for including RTs option toggling opposite behavior of what should be expected (Special thanks Joel Knight for the patch)
- Corrected bug that would prevent scheduled checks from properly firing.
- Improved scheduling of automatic checks
- Codebase completely re-written from the ground up
- Significant performance improvements by integrating with native WordPress caching class
- Extensive API hooks added for plugin developers to expand and customize functionality
- Debug information removed for performance considerations
- Added support for translations
- Added hideable donate button to the options page
- Moved javascript to a standalone file
- Fixed bug where TMAC debug info would appear on ALL duplicate comment errors
- Added support to check ?p=### formats for some shortened URLs
- Fixed bug where update check would fail if plugin had been upgraded from pre-0.4 version
- Fixed duplicate comment bug
- Fixed bug where Tweet ID was not being properly stored
- Added ability to run check manually based on cron job
- Better API throttling with feedback when limit reached
- Now relies solely on the public Twitter API, no API keys needed
- Ability to specify type of comment (Pingback/Trackback/Comment)
- Ability to specify which posts to check (e.g., 10 most recent posts, all posts, front page)
- Better caching of Twitter user's real names
- Better caching of last checked ID (when no mentions were found)
- More descriptive feedback on options page for manual refreshes (# of Mentions found)
- API call throttling
- Fallback capability to use only Twitter handle as name if Twitter API limit is reached
- Initial release