TweetPress 2.5.5
TweetPress 2.5.5 is the newest revision of TweetPress. Now supporting WPMU! Simply fill in your Twitter & Feedburner information in the Twitter Admin Console under Appearance in your Wordpress admin console.
TweetPress has been downloaded 3,200+ times! Good times!
TweetPress 2.5 has cleaner code and is better for the environment (Twitter’s environment) with far fewer service calls, as much of the data is cached on your server.
Requirements
Install Instructions
- Upload Tweetpress to themes directory & activate
- Go to ‘TweetPress Admin’ under Appearance
- Fill in your information and save. Viola!
Download Current Release
Update Mar 6, 2010: Now supporting WPMU! Updated comments display, now shows most recent comments first, max 10, will display a Show all comments link if more than 10 comments. Added View all to followers sidebar section. Thoroughly cleaned up code.
My bad, I didn’t saw tham cause I was logged in
So sry!
Hmm…feedburner name not passed to url … also name, location and bio are passed from twitter, no? They don’t show
Ok, demo on http://marius.blogul.net 2 quick things : 1. Profile tab sends to Twitter and not on twitter profile, second (wich is my fault i didn;t suggest it earlier) is that the logo should be also in admin, personaly I would love “link to logo” in admin, not upload logo, since on WPMU it would have problems.
Gonna look today in code and also give you my review (positive of course) on my SEO blog. Thank you very much!
Testing and feedback is on the way! If you ever need advices or ideeas for development pls don’t hesitate to gimme a mail, I’m very inventive
But I don’t speak english very we’ll 
@muriel – I will look into BuddyPress, Im sure I will have some sort of support for it. Try downloading the latest version of TweetPress you should be able to see tiled backgrounds. I got rid of the download button, should just be a link now.
how come tweetpress’ latest version is not copying twitter’s tile background feature (under its design section for image background)? when i go to my site, i don’t see a tile background but just that single photo on the upper left-hand side of the page.
where’s the download link to tweetpress 2.5?
will i be able to use buddypress with your cool theme?
@martin – thanks for the feedback martin, actually since 2.5.5 TweetPress needs to look in the wp-content folder ( wp-content/files ), this way, it can support both single instance installations and WPMU installations..
bug – on installation, the script looks for files under wordpress – content folder instead of themes folder.
the other thing is, I use a plugin for twitter connect and it doesnt matter who is signing up, it receives admin privileges, but that might be just with this installation of wordpress. i will check it up and let you know
Do not know what you did in the “background” BUT – After several tears and an extra long stack of “whine” words. All of a sudden the GIFT – The Wondrous Gift you presented the world is working again. All I have to do is go to the “head” file and remove “Feedburner” again. The “bitch” apologizes and thanks you for what ever you did to “fix” my new world! Just played looking for a suitable replacement and it isn´t even needed! Beautious Gabriel!! Thanks . . .
You have already broken my heart!! I worked really hard to get rid of the “feedburner” – (Now part of Google – Google that I do not want to be part of my TWITTER experience) I worked really hard to take away the “subcribe” feature that uses “Feedburner” – EVERYTHING looked great. Added my sidebar info. NOW – As has been the problem with WordPress – destroying and discouraging my life – my internet play time!! Used to be in the top 500 at Technorati in fact. Just a joke now!! HERE – I thought I had found a SAINT blessing the rest of the internet population with the NEXT BEST THING! NOW – I feel betrayed – Just spent a large chunk time creating something – drop it in and see the mess you have left me while I haven´t the nerve, patience OR time (since I just spent it creating!!!) to figure out what you have dumped in my VERY NEWLY – WELL LOVED – INSPIRATIONAL GIFT!!! Just to be NO MORE!!! WISH you geniouses would leave well enough alone for more than a day at a time. I DO NOT need Buddy Press – I JUST want a blog that matches my Twitter Account. THOUGHT I HAD THAT. WE NEED you to go back and allow the one you had for a BLOG to work. IF you are up for “punishment” and over work – It´s YOUR life!! Have a wondrous time making WU/MU or Buddy Press work for THAT side of the world. IMPRESSIVE to say the least. BUT – DO NOT the inspiration you have given me away! NOW – I find out my NEW visitors have been seeing “JUNK!”"”"”"
@BenZeR — Yes, I will likely update when WP3 is released.
@Just another dude & Marius – The theme now supports WPMU!
@Gabriel, sorry for my bad english.
Do you make update this theme when wordpress 3.0 will be relased?
@Just another dude – We can’t control the followers order at this point, the service gives me the people in numeric order rather than chronological
I will have to look into the color problems, I’m not sure what’s going on there..
You’re right, I made a big booboo with the WPMU support, I need to add that data to the dashboard. I will start working on that tomorrow. In the meantime I will need to retract that it supports WPMU. Thanks for pointing that out!
@Gabriel How should i use it in wpmu? There are no options in the wp dashboard to enter twitter account data. Every user use the same theme directory, so u cant write the account data in the functions.php file. There should be a option in the dashboard to enter the account data, and saving it in the wp database for each user.
And i have still problems with the color of the followers/following/readers count.
And if Im logged in,also the color of the twitter username and the tweetcounts are not the same color as on twitter.com.
And it would be nice, if the “following” icons would be in the same order as on twitter.com
Keep going, nice work ;-D
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for all of your work and generosity with your clever invention! I have been discouraged for months – not wanting to blog or even really play on “Twitter” – I’ve been building web sites since 1997 (not tech qualified – graphic play ground with minimal CSS, html – NO php!!!) I moved my internet “world” as blogs came into play – leaning on “fantastico” to give me a playground.
THEN – Social internet basically swallowed up 70% of a blogs value. No need for forums or even comments. Your “Theme” with it’s incorporated magic will bring my “drive” to share back to the “Babble Field” – Here and on my “blog!”
THANKS for being there for us. Will be waiting for changes while I figure out how to add sidebar functions – Pages are a “snap!” Be Well – Be Blessed! (from a boring old lady who would rather play on line than bake, knit or talk to other OLD ladies! LOL)
@Just another dude & Marius – I should have a fix for WPMU pretty soon, I would expect it in the next few days. Thanks for the interest.
@Gabriel A new release, with settings being stored in the database, would be awesome !
Maybe we could work together to fix it for wpmu 
I wanna use it also in WPMU ;-D
@Marius how could i contact you ? Do you got gtalk, irc or twitter ?
Should we expect a new release soon, or I should go ahead and make the changes myself? I would prefer the first, since it should be faster, as I’m mostly into seo and not php, but wordpress coding is not very complicated.
Since I saw this theme, I canoot stop thinking about using it
这个 Wordpress 主题之设计可谓是匠心独特啊！佩服，佩服~~
@Babriel My Following list does not show .
Excelente trabajo, felicitaciones
Interesting.. Thank you!
prueba
Wow Looking good themes!!
I like it, thanks
@Marius – That’s a good idea. I will look into that for the next release. Thanks for the input.
Hello! Any chance to move the setting in the admin panel so that I could make this theme available for a my community writers? I use MuWP and without thouse setting being stored in the database, I cannot use this cute theme.
@Gabriel
I’t work! http://www.webplus.me/
@Leinside – The link doesn’t help, it just says Under Construction. And I’m not sure why you would see <pre> tags… I’ll shoot you an email.
My blog : http://www.leinside.com
@Gabriel
I’m use PHP Version 5.2.12
cUrl enabled
My twitter : http://twitter.com/phacach
and config :
$screen_name = “phacach”;
$passwrd = “mypass”;
When i viewsource , endline is :
Plz help!
hi Leinside – I would guess you did not include your Twitter account name or may have typed it in wrong. Otherwise you may want to check what version of php your webhost is running.
When you use the symbol “&”…all the words that come after it disappears on your Twitter page and on Wordpress too.
ex. You & I must make a…
You will only see “You” and the rest are gone.
Nice theme, bot i’m got blankpage
How to fix that ?
Thank
wow nice
I like it.. it’s so Tweets
Thank God for Twitter Tools. It has solved my problem.
Now, what about the backslash bug that needs to be fixed. Any news?
Thanks for sharing the download!
The thing is–I don’t just want to tweet my posts. I want to post my tweets on my blog and not have them disappear after a while. What if I want to edit them? Or have others add their comments?
That is my dilemma. Because I’d like to archive my tweets. In this case, the individual tweets (that I tweeted not from the Twitter page text area but from the Wordpress text area provided by TweetPress). The only solution I could foresee is to avoid using the TweetPress text area on the homepage and just go directly to the New Post provided by Wordpress. That way, all my posts/tweets won’t disappear for good.
wow great job
Hi muriel – I’m not sure I will include it any time soon. There are several plugins that let you Tweet your posts, which in theory is the same thing. If enough people email or comment about having it, I might put it in the next ‘major’ release. It takes a fair amount of time to code that properly, and right now, Im just trying to take care of detail bugs.
Thanks, Gabriel!
Any news on adding that feature wherein tweets can turn into blog posts too?
muriel – re: comments on pages — I must have accidentally removed that from the page.php, I will make a fix release and include that.
is it possible for you to add the option to enable comments to the pages as well and not just the posts? thanks.
Gabriel, I had to read again your other reply to me. About adding a feature where the tweet has the option to become a blog post. Yes, yes! That’s exactly what I’ve been talking about all along. Sorry, I’m kinda slow these days. Been trying to finish this paper and my deadline is so near! So stressed out. Is all.
I’d love for you to add that option very, very soon.
I don’t know if it’s any help but I saw this one claiming to have solved the backslash problem: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/303601
Gabriel, I checked your Wordpress blog and Twitter and it’s also happening to you. Not all your tweets stay on your blog. These tweets that came from your blog home page text area and landed on Twitter REMAIN as tweets and not as blog posts. I get it now.
What I wanted was that the tweets that I posted on the Wordpress home page should remain there as blog posts too. But I guess that’s not how you envisioned TweetPress to be. Maybe you can have this as an option in a future version.
the following images are not loading in my site… Any tips?
Yea, I have to figure out a fix for the backslash bug. But as for the post problem, do you have a link to your site so I can see the problem you having?
Every time I use an apostrophe, this symbol appears right before it: \ …
Anyway, making a tweet into a blog post is interesting.
That’s not what I meant though in my previous post. The Twitter-like text area on my Wordpress home page is very nice and convenient. But every time I write there, the post that appears on the home page is missing the “read” link. So, that means the reader can’t even leave a comment.
Also, the 140-character post does disappear from the home page when you make a new post or two. It just disappears. And the only proof that you did write that post is the tweet that mirrors it and can only be found on your Twitter page.
Sorry if I’m not making any sense. I’m sure I do to those who want to comment but can’t because there is no READ link one can go to. And this only applies to the posts that you write using the home page text area.
Muriel – Are you asking if it’s possible to make a Tweet into a blog post? As in, when you create a Tweet that it also creates the same as a blog post? If so, thats a cool idea, and maybe I should include that in my next revision. Maybe have a checkbox or something below the Submit button….
I’m not sure I understand the problem. Making and showing blog posts and Tweeting to Twitter are two separate things.
When you are logged in, on the home page, you will see the status form with your latest Tweets in small print. When you are logged out, on the home page, you will see only your latest Tweet in large print.
Below that, logged in or not, on the home page, you should see your latest (x) posts, where x = the number you set in your admin settings.
You will add blog posts like you normally would. The only advantage with Tweetpress is that you can Tweet from your blog, and non-logged in users can see your Twitter information ( latest Tweet, stats, followers, etc )
It is true however, that on the home, search and archive pages, users will only see the excerpt (and only 140 chars) of each listed blog post. They will of course have to click on the Read link or blog post title to view the single page.
Hope this helps!
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The tweets are showing up on my Twitter. It’s the posts that I post on the home page that are not showing up on the published posts list. I’d love to get comments for these missing posts. People can’t comment because they can only see it on the page but it remains faded right below the text area.
The only posts that appear on the published posts list are, of course, the ones that I post straight from the Add New Post page.
The probable reason for them not showing up on the published post list on Wordpress is because they only have 140 characters. Which means the first line won’t appear as a link, unlike the longer posts.
Hope you can do something about it. My site uses the BT-Active Discussions plugin as a forum. In short, getting comments are important in order for my site’s forum to survive.
This is the best theme for people like me who love Twitter. So, thank you so much for making TweetPress!
Hi Muriel – The Twitter box on the home page is only for posting Tweets to Twitter. If the Tweet was successful, you should see the Tweet you just wrote fade in just below the textarea. You will not see that Tweet on the homepage until you have logged out.
If you are saying that your Tweets are not showing up on Twitter or your homepage, then that is a problem I will need to address. If that is the case, please let me know what browser you used, along with version and OS. Thanks.
Oh, you’ve released 2.0.2! Hope that does it! Thanks again!
Gabriel, your TweetPress is really amazing! I love it so much.
My only question is–how come whenever I post on the home page using the 140-character box, the post disappears on the blog but is there as a tweet on my Twitter page? I’ve been searching for the missing post in the Post section of my Wordpress but it’s not there. Where did it go?
I like getting comments on my posts, so this problem ruins it for me. Hope you can fix it. Thanks and God bless.
Hi Muriel – the ability to post Tweets from your blog is seen on the home page of your site when you are logged in. Auto Tweeting posts I have left up to plug-ins. There are several out there, I like Auto-Tweet, but I’m sure Status Updater works just fine.
Maybe in the next release I will make that part of the theme, but for now, I figure why reinvent the wheel.
Thanks for your interest!
so does this mean we don’t need the status updater plugin anymore? because once we post on our site, the twitter acct attached to our site gets the post too (as a tweet) AUTOMATICALLY?
Great! Thanks for sharing. I will check it out later today.