05 Aug

Feature Release to WP-TwitterSearch

This is a long overdue update to WP-TwitterSearch. However, I believe this version is worth it and has lots of new features. I’ve gotten some amazing feedback and emails the past several weeks with lots of suggestions and this release includes several of them. I’m actually wanting to put together a little list of sites using the plugin so if your using it please let me know.

You can see the new version in action on the Jerky.com Jerky Spotlight site. That is actually one of our sites at DigiMedia that I’m working on thats powered by WordPress.

and now the changes…

This release features one of the most requested which is avatar (profile pic) support. This is actually something I should have included in the first release and didn’t. You now have the option to display a persons profile pic with their tweet.

You now have several options when adding the plugin to your theme. You could use a widget before but it had no options. Now with the widget you can set the title, search terms and limit to vary from the main settings. All other options (avatar, date format, etc) are pulled from the main settings. You can also use the new short code to add the search to any post or page passing through search terms, limit, and language. The short code looks like: [wpts terms=twittersearch limit=5 lang=en]. Of course you can still use the template tag as before.

Another requested option was to be able to control the date format. Now you can using php date() params to have whatever format you want. If a date is shown it will now be linked to the tweets permalink as well. Language support was added to let you limit what language it searches for tweets in.

The last new option lets you control whether the twitter username or display name is shown. Before it was always the display name and some didn’t like this. Display name is still the default but now you can change it to username if you want.

what are you waiting for?

v1.5.1 was been pushed to the WP Plugin Repo and is available for download now. For those who already have it installed can do an automatic update from the WordPress Admin. Of course if you find any bugs please let me know here or in the wordpress forums.

blago

hi James, interested in a little code addition I made to have the plugin fit my needs? See the website for twittersearch in the wild. Let me know -- cheers, Hanneke

admin

Hanneke, I would love to see any changes you made for it to fit your needs. The better I get an idea of how others are using it or want to use it the changes I can make. You can email me at james.fleeting@gmail.com.

Dan

Thanks for creating WP-TwitterSearch. I love it!

Is there a way to show the tweets after the post? Even if I insert the short code at the end of the post, tweets show up in top of the post. I am trying to use tweets as comments so I want them to show up at the end. :-)

Thanks,
Dan

James Fleeting

To be honest I haven't tested using the shortcode as much as I should have. At the moment I'm only using the widget or template code on other sites. I will take a look at it and let you know or release a new version if I need to. Thanks for the comments.