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Automatically Post to Twitter in WordPress?

Downloading and installing the plugin

1. Login to your WordPress Administration panel

2. On the sidebar located at the left side, click on Plugins

3. Then on top you will find a button called Add new, click on it.

4. In the search field, type in WP to Twitter

5. Click on Install

6. Then installation will proceed. Once it is completed, click on Activate Plugin

7. Click on Settings

8. Under Settings, select the newly installed plugin: WP -> Twitter.

Setup the plugin

Now, we will start configuring the plugin. Let us focus on section 1 of the Connect to Twitter table.

9. In order to use WP -> Twitter, you will need to register with Twitter: http://dev.twitter.com/apps/new

10. After you logged in, start filling the form.

Fill out the Application Name, Description, Application Website and Organization.

11. Keep on filling the following information: Application Type (Select Browser), in Callback URL, put your url (for us http://thinktutorial.com), in Default Access type (Select Read-only) and upload your application icon (if you have any), finally, enter the captcha code.

12. Click on Register application

13. Now we need to Copy/paste the consumer key, and consumer secret into the plugin

14. Then, click on My Access Token

15. Copy/Paste the Access Token (oauth_token) and the Access Token Secret (oauth_token_secret)

16. That is all you need. Make sure to paste the information you obtained from Twitter Developer site into your plugin settings and click on Connect to Twitter.

17. You are done!

Configuration Options

18. You can also manage the way your new posts will appear on Twitter.

19. When you are done configuring your options, just click on Save WP->Twitter Options and all your new posts will automatically be send to your twitter so your twitter followers can get your updates through twitter too.

Result:

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Added Friday, October 22nd, 2010. Category WordPress Keywords automatically post twitter

11 Responses and Counting

Laurence 10.22.2010

This is pretty enough information. I can now fully enjoy posting in twitter. It wouldn’t be hard for me how it can be share in wordpress. Good thing that you can just install a plug in and it will automatically be done.

Ian	This is a great topic considering that lot of people are hooked up on twitting. I think lot of them will scamper to do this. Thank you for the information. It would be convenient for the twitters now that there is an available plug in like this.

Lawrence

I use Twitter very often and am going to implement this. Thank you.

Guest

Great post! Thanks!!

Joel	Is there a WP to Twitter plugin or option that lets you select which blog posts you want to auto-tweet and which you don’t? I like the idea of automatically tweeting my posts, but don’t want to do it for EVERY post. Thanks!

admin

@Joel: Yes absolutely. Go to your Settings, click on “WP to Twitter”. Under the “Basic Settings” tag, just uncheck “Update when a post is published” and all the other “[ ] Update when ..” options available.

Whenever you would like to “Post to Twitter”, just go at the bottom of the Post section you are currently working on. You will find a section entitled “WP to Twitter”, simply type your custom post using #title#, #post#, #category#, #url# or #blog# to insert the shortened URL.