TwitterPress is a wordpress plugin which mashup Twitter and your Wordpress blog. TwitterPress was inspired by AlexKing’s Twitter Tools.

 This is a 0.1 preview version, I was suposed to implement more features and enable more options inside it, however some plan changed and I suddenly become very busy these days.(Life is random, isn’t it?) So I have to release this preview version out just in case I was sucked in some works so TwitterPress may be delaied too long.

Features:

TwitterPress 0.1 have following features:

• Display your twitter friends on your blog, like any other Social Network did
• Display your friends (on twitters)’s latest update, so you and your reader can easily discover some topics inside your friends network
• Automatically send twitter when you post new blogs, so your friends will get notified and come to read

I plan to add more in the near future:

• More widgets, so you have more flexibilities to add twitter friends, latest updates on your blog
• Lightbox style display of twitter friends on the blog
• Friend of friends browser in Ajax
• Add twitter friends directly from blog
• Integrate twitter account with blog comment users
• and more…

How it look like:

This is a screen shot from my Chinese blog, I put TwitterPress in my right side bar. (see the red arrow pointed part)

How to install:

• Download TwitterPress (current version 0.1 preview)
• Decompress into your wordpress’s “wp-content/plugins” directory, make sure the “cache’ directory inside ‘TwitterPress’ directory is writable by your web server (simplest way is set to 777 or ‘a+w’)
• unzip TwitterPress-x.x.zip
• chmod 777 TwitterPress/cache
• In your wordpress admin page’s “plugins” tab, activate TwitterPress plugin
• Then you will have a new Option tab named “TwitterPress”, setup your Twitter account there
• Navigate to wordpress admin’s “presentation/widgets” tab, and you will find a “Twitter Press” widget ready to use, drag it to your sidebar.

Download

• Download Version 0.1 preview

Thanks

• Twitter’s Alex Payne who setup the source “TwitterPress” for me
• Alex King and his Twitter Tools, it’s a great Twitter Wordpress plugin, I am just following what Alex did and improved a little bit. http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress
• twitterPHP lib
  // version 0.1
  // By David Billingham
  // david [at] slawcup [dot] com
  // http://twitter.slawcup.com/twitter.class.phps
• Caching Libraries for PHP5 by Richard Heyes http://www.phpguru.org/static/Caching.html

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