I am making a small improvement on TwitterPress to make it support Microformats hCard.

I tested with the Operator toolbar and Microformats bookmarklet, it looks good:

I will release an upgraded version of TwitterPress later.  Sorry, I was too busy to upgrade TwitterPress, so it was still remain on preview version 0.1

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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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I have installed an unfinished TwitterPress in my Chinese blog (in Chinese) for test, because most of my twitter friends speak Chinese…

Hopefully I will finish it in 1 or 2 days and release the first version.

Here is a progress from an idea to the real thing…

idea: Twitter+wordpress = SNS enabled wordpress

prototye: A twitter based social network inside wordpress

0.1 (alpha) : this post…

0.1 (beta) : maybe tomorrow…

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I am now working on an experiment: a wordpress plugin to turn wordpress into a social network, you can have friends lists, the latest updates of friends, the lastest posts of friends in your wordpress page.

This social network is based on Twitter, and it was inspired by AlexKing’s TwitterTools.

I will tweak it these days, when it’s ready I will release it so every one can play with it.

The original idea was here: Twitter+wordpress = SNS enabled wordpress

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 AlexKing’s Twitter tools is a great wordpress-twitter mashup plugin:

Twitter Tools

This plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.

Download | README | SVN Repository

Latest Release: Version 1.0, 2007-05-07.

However this version TwitterTools have some problem in my Chinese blog, all Chinese characters are displayed as “???”, that should be an encoding problem.

After I investigate this problem, I found it because my MySQL database’s character set is not UTF-8 unicode, so TwitterTools created a table as default charset,  that cause the problem.  Why wordpress’s posts show correct encoding? I looked through wordpress’s code, and found that they will force create tables in correct encoding and won’t just use default one.

After I pull some code from wordpress’s wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php and plugin TwitterTools.php, problem gone! (All previous data in the table remained problem, I just delete that table and re-activate Twitter tool again. NOTE: Deactivate TwitterTools seemed not delete that table, so you need to delete yourself. )

I will email Alexking the update and he may put this changes to his next version, but before he change it, I release an non-official version here:

Download Twitter Tools with better internationalization support.

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