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thanks for this plugin!
One feature request: I would like to set a minimum length of an excerpt (#post#) in order to be used at all. I recently had a tweet where the excerpt was reduced to 4 characters: “At a”. It would be useful to tell the plugin that an excerpt of less than x character doesn’t make much sense.
Alls working well except that twitter is not displying the url of my post.
In the basic settings I have New post: #title# #url# for Update when new post is published.
Am I missing something ?
WordPress 3.0.2
New installation.
I get a parse error when I click on “Connect to Twitter” after entering all the keys and tokens. It looks like this:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ’}’
The FAQ mentions that this is a PHP4 issue, but I’m running PHP5.
Please help,
Cesar
WP-version: 3.0.2 - WP-> Twitter version: 2.2.3
New installation of the Plugin
Created Twitter account and registered Twitter developer app. Got this done and got all required keys, however when specifying these in WP in the plugin setting in the Connect to Twitter section and hit the Connect to Twitter button the following message keeps returning:
“Twitter now requires authentication by OAuth. You will need you to update your settings in order to continue to use WP to Twitter.”
I already once deleted my application details in Twitter and re-created them, updated WP with new keys, but the message is the same and keeps returning.
Also when posting a new article and supplying info to go to Twitter, Twitter is not updated and following message appears:
“One or more of your last posts has failed to send it’s status update to Twitter. Your Tweet has been saved in your post custom fields, and you can re-Tweet it at your leisure.
Sorry! I couldn’t get in touch with the Twitter servers to post your new blog post. Your tweet has been stored in a custom field attached to the post, so you can Tweet it manually if you wish!”
What could be wrong here? Any ideas?
Thanks!
Hi, all - first, thanks for your comments. This has been a very busy month for me, but I’m promising you that WP to Twitter will get some significant attention in December.
Best,
Joe
Hi there.
Using WP 3.0.1 and WP to Twitter 2.2.3 on a CentOS server, which I don’t manage at all. I’ve got the error “OAuth Authentication Failed. Check your credentials and verify that Twitter is running.”, just like José from October 15th 2010 post.
I’ve also checked all the data from the application, including erasing the older and creating a new one, but this issue remains. Twitter is active and working at this very moment I’m writing this message.
Anybody help?
Application inactive in Twitter App area.
It looks like Twitter does not like this application and they are suspending the apps as they find them.
I’ve had to go into numerous accounts and make new applications.
Not sure what they have against this plugin?
Current WordPress Version: 3.0.1
A detailed description of your problem: When a article us edited it tweets even though I don’t have that option checked under settings
Joe,
perhaps some of the issues (especially with Multisite, but not only there) could be solved if the plugin has the option to “DELAY” a tweet after the post is published for 5 minutes. Even better is the option to enter the delay in the plugin by hand or choose 1 - 2 - 5 - 10 minutes delay or so.
We had this in a different older twitter plugin and it was the best feature they had
This is the only feature missing right now (for us).
Would be awesome if you can include that Joe.
If I remember correctly it was a function call to delay the cronjob somehow, but you know this probably much better
Thanks in advance
I think I figured out the “Twitter now requires authentication by OAuth”, at least for me. I deleted my original app settings at Twitter and setup a new application. With the new keys and secrets everything works perfectly. Not sure it’s not an issue of a incorrect copy of the pw’s/keys, but regardless, it now works. So, in summary, insure the php5-curl package (or equiv on non-debian/ubuntu systems) is installed and then reset all the settings. And by the way, I’m using WP3.0.1 and WP->Twitter 2.2.3 on Ubuntu 10.10 server.
WP version - 3.0.1
New install (Version 2.2.3)
Since updating WP version, it seems as if the #url# #blog# values are not being passed to Twitter anymore. The #title# value is.
Is this a know issue or something new ?
Looking through my apache error log on my fresh Ubuntu install, it appears that the saving settings issue I was having (like Stacie, Kn3pp and Steve below) is reporting a curl_init() function missing. I fixed it by ‘sudo apt-get install php5-curl’, and now my settings are saving. I’m now getting a 401 error when trying to post, but it’s further along than I was…
Help! I have the app installed but i am getting these two messages.
Twitter now requires authentication by OAuth. You will need you to update your settings in order to continue to use WP to Twitter.
There’s been an error posting your Twitter status! Visit your WP to Twitter settings page to get more information and to clear this error message.
I’ve gone in and done what it says to do numerous times and it won’t fix.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Hi ive added a custom field to my posts and im using the name of the field inbetween [[ ]] however it does not appear in my tweet, is there a problem with this functionality? Other than that, great plugin!!
Heelloww All…
How are you today ?
Im just want to ask something here,
i was success to integrated wp to twitter. but when i click “check support” button, there is a report like this “WP to Twitter failed to submit an update to Twitter.” so what happened ?
Can anyone tell me what should i do please ?
Thanks All
@Big City Informer You know, I haven’t done extensive testing with WP in multisite mode; it may be that these issues are in some related to that. I’ll check it out when I get a chance.
@tastewar I’ve heard about it, but I don’t really know what’s going on - perhaps it’s a change in the shortener’s API; but I’ll have to find out.
@Nige Yes:
#title# #url#We also just realized that tweets go out twice for the same new post? They have two different bit.ly urls in it, but both tweets link to the same post? Settings are set to “only post for new post”. We use the latest version of the plugin. Any idea why this is???
WP 3.0.1, WP2T 2.2.3 Don’t recall what version I had previously. I had cli.gs as my shortener, and when I publish a post, I get a tweet with the text New Post: #title# but no URL! And yes, the #url# reference is in there. I see others have reported this issue as well. I worked around it by using the WP shortening “service” Any thoughtrs?
WordPress 3.0.1, new installation
Hi,
Simple question, I just want the Twitter post to read the title of the WP post plus a link to the post. Is this possible?
cheers
Hi Joe,
thanks for the plugin, it finally one that is working quite well so far.
We run a WPMU (WP 3.01 Multisite) installation with a central blog that gathers new posts from all other sites.
Now we have two problems, maybe you can help or fix it?
1. Permalinks are generated on post creation as canonical URL back to the original post. Now WP-to-Twitter is so fast with tweeting that the URL is not yet generated as canonical URL, so the tweet goes out with the wrong permalink (to the collecting blog instead of the original post). The option to delay a tweet lets say 5 minutes after publishing time would fix that
2. Sometimes the plugin sends out tweets for old 2 months old posts which might or might not be updated. The settings are set to “only” tweet for new posts, not for changes or anything else. Any idea how this can be solved?
Thanks again for the great plugin, appreciate the help for those two problems
Jens
Fair enough.. Thanks for the answer ^^
@Kn3pp, Steve, et al
If I had an answer for you, I’d provide it - but, to be honest, I don’t know why that’s happening to you. My guess is that it has something to do with the configuration of your server, but I haven’t had an opportunity to actually explore it, since none of the servers that I use for testing exhibit this behavior.
It seems our problem is beeing ignored since me,bruce and steve and numerous others have this same problem.. Been waiting a week for some kind of answer…
Hi,
I seem to share the same issue that Bruce noted on October 27th.
I’m running WP 3.0.1 with WP to Twitter 2.2.3.
I’ve provided the consumer key/secret & access token/token secret and upon pressing “Connect to Twitter” receive an error message (red background) that reads “Twitter now requires authentication by OAuth. You will need you to update your settings in order to continue to use WP to Twitter.” This persists across all config screens while I’m logged in.
Am I missing something on my box, is this a known issue, or am I just going crazy?
Thanks in advance,
Steve
Hi, Gaz - Yes, I’ll do that. In fact, if time allows, I may release a plugin update which would delete the deprecated options. The plugin is past due for an options overhaul, anyhow. Thanks!
Hi Joe
I’ve been going through a long and tedious exercise cleaning the wp_options table on all my WordPress sites due to table bloat Via Magpie RSS which is still functioning in wp-admin/rss.php for inbound feeds.
One of the tools I’ve been using is the Clean Options plugin to find orphaned settings in wp_options from upgraded or deleted plugins and themes. WP-to-Twitter has a bunch of settings that seem to be deprecated in the later versions, but they’re still sitting in the database adding to the bloat.
Any chance you could run a check on one of your installs and post a list of deprecated functions somewhere, so I know which ones are safe to clean out?
Many thanks
Gaz
If this is something you’d like to tackle, Edward, feel free — but I think that you’ll find it’s not quite that simple.
@Edward Webb: You can’t do that because Twitter holds applications responsible for their users. If someone publishes illegal tweets through your application, they will ban the application which will ruin the plugin for everyone. That is why everyone has to create their own application.
Question: Why are you making every single user create developer accounts? That is _not_ the intention of OAuth, which is used by most major sites that expose web services (netflix, google, etc).
1) You, the developer of application get a consumer key and secret.
2) You write or implement a OAuthconsumer class that does the following
a) you redirect user to twitter sign in page for web services (prolly sumin like: http://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize or login)
b) twitter callback your url with a request token you can then save for that user.
3) You use that Oauth class to the sign any GET/POST/PUT/DELETE requests to the api.
And i know there already php classes written to handle oauth that you can fully leverage.
wp 3.0.1
new installation
When I click “connect to twitter” I get a blank screen (but menu bar still on the left “Dashboard Posts Media …”) with just the words:
“Twitter now requires authentication by OAuth. You will need you to update your settings in order to continue to use WP to Twitter.”
When I’m on the posts page, the message stays at the top of the screen.
I’ve entered and doublechecked the consumer key/secret and access token/secret.
Any hints would be appreciated.
Yo! just noticed that this doesn’t work on quick press would ya fix that?
Wp 3.0.1
Wp->twitter 2.2.3
Im stumped
Keep getting this:
One or more of your last posts has failed to send it’s status update to Twitter. Your Tweet has been saved in your post custom fields, and you can re-Tweet it at your leisure.
401 Unauthorized: Authentication credentials were missing or incorrect.
Sorry! I couldn’t get in touch with the Twitter servers to post your new blog post. Your tweet has been stored in a custom field attached to the post, so you can Tweet it manually if you wish!
Really dobt understand why.. Ive quadrouplechecked all keys and tokens and i have gazilliontested various posting methods with the same result..
I should add that I’m using 3.0.1 and the latest WP-Twitter version too. Check support also works fine for me. My main problem is I can’t keep testing and sending test and/or mal-formed tweets out - it’s a little embarrassing and probably annoying to my followers. My feeling is the Twitter APIs must be changing around, and so for me for now at least WP-Twitter is broken, I’ve turned it off. I can’t complain though, it was a great plug-in while it lasted (an I have to admit I haven’t contributed yet).
I’m using WP 3.0.1 and it is a new installation. I’ve connected everything correctly, have tried both cli.gs and bit.ly for my url shortening. I did a test with the check support button and everything worked perfectly. So now, when I try to post a real blogpost, the tweet goes through, but there is no link to the blogpost. It posts like it’s supposed to, but the wording that’s supposed to be a url is not a link at all.
AmberWallace Amber Wallace Photo
Blog of Cheese: Welcome to the new Blog!
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Amber
Hi
The Oauth beta was working great for me; then about a week ago it started not shortening urls - instead, they showe up on twitter as:
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalmissive.com%2Fsonys-big-chance%2F
I hadn’t changed any settings when this started happening. I’ve since tried it with Bit.ly ,Cli.gs, and wordpress - it doesn’t change anything. I’ve even tried a bogus key, same thing. The problem with testing it further is I don’t want to be barraging followers with broken tweets… any idea?
WordPress 3.0.1
wp-to-twitter 2.2.3 fresh install after completely removing previous update attempt.
After install and editing settings according to Twitter App settings the message “Twitter now requires authentication by OAuth. You will need you to update your settings in order to continue to use WP to Twitter.” keeps showing up. And the “Connect to Twitter”-button on the settings screen returns an empty page.
Is there something else that should be done?
My posts used to not get fully through to Twitter.
I had set Bit.ly as url shortener, but the url was not inserted in the twitter post. So there seems to be a problem with bit.ly.
Cli.gs is not working, either.
So now I have turned off url shortening.
Twitter gets updated.
Unfortunately, I still get the 403 error messages in WordPress, which is annoying.
This plugin needs to be updated and bug-fixed.
I am getting the same error message that other people are getting. “403 Forbidden”.
Running WordPress 3.0.1, upgraded from 2.8.
I am not getting twitter updates when I create new posts. I’m sure that I have entered all the correct information, and when I hit the Check Support button everything comes back good. I am not using individual author settings and I have tried limiting categories and removing category limits. Here are the export settings:
Raw Settings Output: Version 2.2.3
1. newpost-published-update:1
2. newpost-published-text:New KGHS post: #title# #url#
3. oldpost-edited-update:1
4. oldpost-edited-text:KGHS Post Edited: #title# #url#
5. jd_twit_pages:
6. jd_twit_edited_pages:
7. oldpage-edited-text:Page edited: #title# #url#
8. newpage-published-text:New page: #title# #url#
9. jd_twit_blogroll:1
10. newlink-published-text:New KGHS link: #title# #url#
11. twitterlogin:
12. twitterpw:Blank.
13. cligsapi:
14. bitlylogin:kgschools
15. bitlyapi:Saved.
16. jd_api_post_status:
17. yourlsapi:Blank.
18. yourlspath:
19. yourlsurl:
20. yourlslogin:
21. jd_keyword_format:1
22. jd-twitter-service-name:
23. jd-twitter-char-limit:
24. jd_use_both_services:
25. x-twitterlogin:
26. x-twitterpw:
27. use_tags_as_hashtags:
28. jd_replace_character:_
29. jd_max_tags:3
30. jd_max_characters:15
31. jd_post_excerpt:30
32. jd_date_format:F j, Y
33. jd_twit_prepend:KGHS Announcement
34. jd_twit_append:
35. jd_twit_custom_url:external_link
36. jd_tweet_default:
37. jd_twit_remote:
38. jd_twit_quickpress:1
39. twitter-analytics-campaign:twitter
40. use-twitter-analytics:
41. jd_dynamic_analytics:post_category
42. use_dynamic_analytics:
43. jd_individual_twitter_users:
44. jd_shortener:2
45. wp_twitter_failure:0
46. wp_url_failure:0
47. twitterInitialised:1
48. limit_categories:0
49. tweet_categories:
50. disable_url_failure:
51. disable_twitter_failure:
52. wp_bitly_error:MISSING_ARG_APIKEY
53. wp_cligs_error:
I understand that you don’t have a lot of time and I am probably in over my head here, but any suggestions or information that you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Im having the same problem as Popo below. My text for new posts is #title# #url#. Twitter is being updated with new posts, but no URLs are being published with the tweets.
When I use the “Check Support” button, it successfully sends a tweet with website URL just fine so I fail to see why my normal new post tweets do not contain a url?
Hello,
I recently installed your plugin but its not working. There is the error message:
OAuth Authentication Failed. Check your credentials and verify that Twitter is running.
I tried to register the application two times, but i still get the same error!
WordPress version: 3.0.1
Tks in advance
The tweets seem to be working, but I’m not getting any URL’s with the Tweets — regardless of which shortener I use.
* My “Text for New Post Updates” is: Article: #title# #url#
* I’ve got a fully updated version of WP 3.01
* This is a new installation (just now) of WP->Twitter
Any ideas? TIA.
-Popo
I publish about once a week, but am getting this error:
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
One or more of your last posts has failed to send it’s status update to Twitter. Your Tweet has been saved in your post custom fields, and you can re-Tweet it at your leisure.
403 Forbidden: The request is understood, but it has been refused. This code is used when requests are being denied due to update limits.
Sorry! I couldn’t get in touch with the Twitter servers to post your new blog post. Your tweet has been stored in a custom field attached to the post, so you can Tweet it manually if you wish!
Hi Support,
WP Ver: 3.0.1
New install of WP to Twitter
using bit.ly to shorten URLs
Getting frequent tweeting failure notifications. Despite failure messages, some such tweets do get published. Other failures are 500 errors so that’s problems at Twitter itself.
The main problem is that the failed tweets are not being added to the Custom Twitter Post box on the affected post (the box is always empty). There’s also no button I can see that would re-send the tweet even if it did appear in the box.
Hi
Thanks for the great plugin WP to Twitter!
I’ve been using it in another website without any problem. It was my preferred choice then for a new website. I installed it and configured Oauth.
When I saved the Oauth settings, the rest of the configuration menu became unacessible. I try to click to configure the Basic Settings, URL Shortener…they will not open their windows. I tried to acess under Chrome and IE7.0, no way.
Please, is there any way to solve this?
Many thanks
Sobota
WordPress 3.0.1
Wordpress to Twitter
New Installation
Theme Suffusion
hi,
wordpress 2.9.2
wordpress to twitter 2.2.3
new installation
Choose your short URL service (account settings below)
option: No shortener URLS
— — — — — — ->>>>>>> URL: subdomain.mydomain.CO
http://subdomain.mydomain.co/consejos-para-tu-solicitud-de-presupuesto/
Choose your short URL service (account settings below)
option: Use WordPress as a shortener URLS
(OK)
my language is Spanish, sorry
thanks
v2.2.3 (new install)
I keep getting the following error, but, aside from having to clear the error message every time, the posting seems to be working great:
One or more of your last posts has failed to send it’s status update to Twitter. Your Tweet has been saved in your post custom fields, and you can re-Tweet it at your leisure.
403 Forbidden: The request is understood, but it has been refused. This code is used when requests are being denied due to status update character limits.
Sorry! I couldn’t get in touch with the Twitter servers to post your new blog post. Your tweet has been stored in a custom field attached to the post, so you can Tweet it manually if you wish!
je ne comprends rien à toutes vos remarques.
De plus c’est en anglais !
Je n’ai aucun problème avec facebook !!!
Hi Support,
I don’t know if you can help me with this but, I am having a very hard time getting my WP to Twitter plugin registered with Twitter. I get to the point where it ask me to accept or deny and when I go to accept and get the API number, it goes to the “we have a problem” page at Twitter. Is there anything that you can suggest that I can tell Twitter. I have asked them twice now and still have not heard back from them yet.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your reply..
James Anderson
fridge2305@yahoo.ca
Hi Joe,
Thanks for fixing some bugs.
However, I still found one problem: In the “Basic Settings”, I selected all the options and saved them. When I UPDATED a PAGE, the Twitter did not display the updating information.
Please check this. Thank you very much.