I deleted all my old Twitter archives the other day, which meant I was hardly using any of Twitter Tools1. Then, I launched the new version of joshbetz.com and I can do all kinds of fun stuff with post formats, but Twitter Tools still says “New blog post:” when I publish anything. So I threw together something that does exactly what I want and nothing that I don’t.

https://twitter.com/joshbetz/status/236145418709372928

It’s not super customizable. There’s some logic to tweet a bit differently depending on what the post format is, but it’s all hard-coded. For a new quote, for example, it will say something like “New quote: http://wp.me/123456”.

One goal I have is to rewrite the Twitter OAuth API helper to use more of the WordPress HTTP functions instead of relying on cURL directly. I’m always happy to accept pull requests on GitHub. The plugin is also available in the WordPress.org repository.

  1. I would normally link to the plugin, but I see that it hasn’t been updated in over two years and you get a nice big yellow warning when you visit the page. ↩