My TweetBacks WordPress Plugin

Jan 8th 2009 View Comments





You should use TweetSuite rather than a TweetBacks plugin.

I’ve just put together a WordPress Plugin that take advantage of the new features I built into TweetBacks. This is still beta stuff and you should expect updates to it soon and frequently. For the most part v.2 of the JS version works the easiest.

Download the beta to test.

I’ve gotten a few questions about this, after you activate the plugin, you have to go to Settings>TweetBacks and enable it.

And that’s the new logo by the amazing GoMedia above.



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  • http://www.howtospoter.com Alex Sysoef

    A quick suggestion – this plugin idea is very cool and I think it has a HUGE potential to make a blog post go viral, at least on twitter.

    No imagine that if you display not only TweetBack but hyperlink (even no follow) the people’s handle to the actual twitter account. I think it can have a log more interest!

    Alex

  • http://blogforprofit.com Grant Griffiths

    This is awesome. Is it java script?

  • http://srcasm.com Jesse Middleton

    Trying out the plugin now. So far, I didn’t see the Tweetback show up but I would imagine it could be a little delayed? Either way, excellent idea and plugin.

  • http://www.howtomakemyblog.com Marko Saric

    Great plugin! Just installed it on my Thesis themed blog at http://www.howtomakemyblog.com. I have two questions: how can I stop tweets of my blog main page showing on my main page? And how do I move the tweets under the comments? Thanks for your time.

  • http://agentwill.com Will

    I installed it but the stats option won’t stay enabled. Also, is there a way you make an option for the tweetbacks to be posted after the comments?

  • http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/ Seth

    I love the Tweetback concept and I’m anxious to make it work on my new site. I installed the plugin but tweets aren’t showing up. The plugin code shows up in the page source but there’s no content. I made 3 test tweets (1 with the un-shortened URL, 2 with shortened URLs using different services) a few hours ago.

  • http://www.dryerbuzz.com DryerBuzz

    I downloaded, installed and activated. I saw on another post that something needs to be added to the theme in order for tweets to show up. Do I need to add something else to get the “tweet this” button?

  • http://socialmediavision.com JustinSMV

    Hey Dan great tool here. I downloaded this and like everyone else it takes a long time to load when transferring data from Digg and Yoursite. I am looking forward to your new versions and hopefully this will be cleared up soon! Great job!

  • http://site.realbigbuy.com/blog/ Anthony

    Really neat plugin, will check it out..

  • http://gomediazine.com Jeff Finley

    Yay! Glad to see the new logo up already Dan. I am going to install the new plugin version tonight.

  • http://www.insidedesign.info/blog/ id_eric

    This looks tremendous! Makes perfect sense :)
    Looking forward to following this plug-in for a long time to come!

  • http://www.nichec.com/ Zarek

    Really looking forward to trying this plugin out.

    To me, Tweetbacks are as important as trackbacks. I was hoping someone would come up with something like this!

    Thanks,

  • PhilGus

    Nice work Dan. This is a great tool.

  • http://randythomas.org Randy

    I put this on the pro-blogger site where I heard about it …

    That is an amazingly brilliant idea. As someone who is getting a little numbed out with all the “tweakage” of web 2.0 … this actually makes sense AND is out of the box.

    I will be installing it post haste! :)

  • http://nicolasrosental.com Nic Rosental

    Very cool, I’ll definitely give it a try. Btw I also liked the logo a lot.

  • http://legalresearchandwritingpro.com Lisa Solomon

    Like Seth (#13), I installed and activated the plugin, and enabled Tweetbacks under settings. I test-tweeted a post twice (once with the full URL and once with the URL shortened with twurl), but the tweets aren’t showing up; after the post, it says “No TweetBacks yet.”

    Also, in my admin panel, I checked the box to enable Tweetstats, but when I click “Save Changes” the checkmark disappears.

  • http://atmac.org/ Ricky Buchanan

    I’ve installed and enabled this but I’d rather be able to leave it globally disabled and then manually add something to single.php so I can get everything arranged and styled the way I want it to. At the moment it’s showing up on pages with trackbacks/comments disabled, and in other inappropriate places such as my archives page where the page “content” is actually null (content comes from the page template) so the tweetbacks are showing up at the top, and some other non-optimal stuff.

    Fantastic idea though, and much needed! I understand it’s only a beta release and that’s cool :) Thanks for the hard work you’re putting into it.

  • http://www.fredmckinnon.com Fred F. McKinnon

    Just installed at:
    http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/

    Like @tim above, I can’t make the stats option stay selected, as soon as I check it to enable it and click save, it goes away.

    So far, I’m not seeing anything – should it be instant? (yeah, I shamelessly tweeted my latest blog’s URL just to see if it would show up).

    On a side note I’m using IntenseDebate for comments, so it could be that this won’t work if I’m using IntenseDebate?

  • http://www.matweeps.com Sarah Bray

    Very cool. I put it on MaTweeps.com, but it doesn’t seem to be picking up very many of the tweetbacks. Does it only pick up specific ones?

  • http://www.matweeps.com Sarah Bray

    My email was screwed up on that last post btw.

  • http://techpp.com Raju

    amazing concept but it completely slows down my website :(

  • http://techmata.blogspot.com TechMata

    Just wondering if this is compatible with blogger…

  • http://www.jean.ghalo.com Jean Ghalo

    interesting plugin,,,, will keep an eye on it.

    cheers!
    Jean

  • http://www.basbasbas.com/blog/ Bas – Serial Expat

    How great!

    Is it just a WordPress plugin? Would it be easy to build it for Drupal?

  • http://www.scamtypes.com Lee

    When is the plugin likely to be out of beta?

  • http://www.booshonline.com David Hobson

    Great plugin Dan just what i have been waiting for.

  • http://www.thewayoftheweb.net Dan Thornton

    Great idea – plugin installed and enabled….

    Nothing showing up yet, so will leave it a while and see if it’s lag, a template issue, or something else…

  • http://SocialMediaCore.com Cosmin Ghiurau

    awesome wordpress plugin Dan!

    would be great if it had COLLAPSIBLE comments similar to Facebook comments on your wall after it reach 5+ comments/tweetbacks. This way if the blog post goes super viral you dont have to scroll for 5 minutes to get to the comments of a post.

  • http://www.apriltara.com April

    LOVE this idea, glad someone thought of it.

    I tried the plug in as well as just entering the script (beneath my author box and above comments), nothing shows up.

    I keep seeing that you have to go to “Settings –> Tweetbacks” to enable it but the only option I have there is to clean up the Twitter DB. I don’t see anything that says “Enable”.

  • http://confidentwriting.com Joanna Young

    I managed to get the tweetbacks showing on my site, but they’re just bundled in with other comments, rather than separated as you’ve got them here.

    Any suggestions on what additional formatting I might need to do?

    Also would it be possible to edit out your own tweets (I don’t normally tweet myself but was trying to get contributions for something today which meant I had to)

  • http://www.yeraze.com Yeraze

    Loving this.. Is is possible to modify the JS version so that we can specify a Div to fill? Right now, putting the JS inline on the page really slows down pageload.. I’ld rather put an empty container on the page & put the JS at the bottom of the page.. That way the whole content loads, and then the TweetBacks/TweetStats fill in later.

  • http://mediligence.com PDriscoll

    Installed the tweetbacks WP plugin, then see an option to appy an upgrade, which turns out to be the WP plugin from Yoast. Huh?

  • http://shakethesalt.com Christy

    I installed, activated, and enabled Tweetbacks. Each post nows shows 100 random tweets, not at all relevant to the post, much less linked to it.

    Also installed it on another blog, with a more updated WP but not the current version, and there was an option to upgrade, which I did before seeing that the “other” didn’t have that option. Once I upgraded, there was no option to enable and it looked different from the “other” one.

    Blog 1: shakethesalt.com
    Blog 2: sensationaldivasreview.com

    HALP??!!!!??? :)

  • http://shakethesalt.com Christy

    So, there are TWO different WP Tweetback Plug-ins, created by TWO different people? And installing one gives a mssg that it (meaning the other) is available for an update? My head is spinning, LOL. Again.. HALP? :)

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  • Stu Hodgson

    Hi, I have installed your plugin for wordpress and I have set it up but I dont't think it works correctly. I have posted the link to the blog post with it on. Thanks

    http://news.ukvehiclelease.co.uk/2009/08/leasin…

  • http://magic-jack.me/ MagicJack

    Love your site, it is really neat, you must have a lot of Twitter friends trying to find out all your secrets. Well if you ever need any advice on MagicJack just let me know.

  • http://dtvconverterboxes.blogspot.com/2009/06/magic-jack-usb-phone-jack-review-legit.html magic Jack

    Your site is great. I really like it. I'll be coming back to get more tips from you in the future.

  • http://dtvconverterboxes.blogspot.com/2009/06/magic-jack-usb-phone-jack-review-legit.html magic Jack

    Your site is great. I really like it. I'll be coming back to get more tips from you in the future.

  • http://www.potty-patch.org/ Potty Patch

    I really like your TweetBack plugin, I will definitely try out your new Tweet­Suite. Thanks for the great plugins.

  • http://www.compliancebuilding.com Doug Cornelius

    I loved the plugin, but found that it bloated my WP_Option table. It's full of Tweetbacks_mutex entries. Its gotten so big that it is affecting performance and upgrade issues. I uninstalled and cleaned up, but it did not clear out the SQL table.

    How do I flush out these entries?

  • rickdouglas85

    Awesome plug-in man! I've installed it on my sprained ankle blog. Quality craftsmanship on this baby man, hope you keep updating it!

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