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Ultimately my goal is to give the commenter the option of sending their comment to twitter and allowing people to follow that blogs comments both in the blog and in twitter. The main reason for this is to generate a buzz and encourage commenting on peoples blogs. It will also improve the quality and value of people’s tweets revolving around blog posts.
Features
- Anyone can Tweet any comment
- Links back to comments are shortened with bit.ly
Installation
- Upload the “commentwitter” folder to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory
- Go into the WordPress admin interface and activate the plugin
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CommenTwitter, blogging and developing other blogging plugins and themes takes up a lot of my time. As much as I love doing it, development slows down when I start taking in side work to pay the bills. If you like CommenTwitter or anything else you see on JonBishop.org, please feel free to donate the amount of your choice to help keep me running.
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Doesn’t work :/
This seems slick…I wish it would work with the TwitConnect plugin so they would have to enter credentials every time.
Was not able to get the link to work. Also goes into a loop with Firefox. Any ideas?
cool..thanks a lot..=)
Tweets comment just fine but does not have a url back to the comment? Do I need to adjust something. I didn’t see anyplace to adjust settings.
Really useful for mobile users who commenting from twitter. Good plugin!
Man, it would really be cool if this worked. I even like the option for setting all comments to post to the blog owners Twitter account :cool:
I would love to see a version that uses OAuth I feel most people would be frighten of entering their password into a form other than twitters.
would be why only SOME of my recent wordpress blog posts seem to me making it thru to my twitter account… Any clue as to what it is that get some posts thru to twitter as opposed to others? (to help us troublehshoot in meantime? – I know coding for a new set of specs isn’t magic – so may take you awhile for a compliant version.)
Looks like the problem may be that Commentwitter is not OAuth compliant. Anything not so went dead August 31st 2010.
Will this be fixed Jon. I’ll pony up $20:)
I’ve been aware of this and just have not had the time to re-make the plugin with the new authorization methods. I’m hoping I can have a new version with all of this fixed soon.
Thanks Jon.
recent plugin updates changed some details about how twittertoold etc interacts with wordpress… had problems with comments on blog showing up on twitter ever since.
Yep, same here.
How can I make this work with Extra Comment Fields plugin? As is, it only tweets the last field.
Hey Jon,there’s a bug involving a tag in your plugin.
A closing tag is missing when the “What’s this?” link is turned off.
Testing this CommenTwitter plugin!
Hello,
I’m new to this plugin. Love the idea. Has oauth support been added allready?
Thanks for the plugin!
Hei!
Thanks for your nice plugin! Nice work! But there is one missing feature: if i send a comment to twitter, it will be great if a link to the post will be include my tweet. What your plans with this plugin? Maybe it will be a great feature?
This shouldn’t be a problem. My plugin is not responsible for creating the shortlinks … this is the buttons job. I’ve yet to be able to recreate this problem.
Thanks for the plugin!
I’m having a problem with the index page showing an error:
‘document.getElementById(…)’ is null o not an object
Trying out Commentwitter on jonbishop.com
Outstanding, saved me a ton of work on this… would be even better if we could use our own bit.ly API in order to track links clicked in the twitter posts created.
Also, the ability to tweet comments posted to your blog with a link to the post is what really makes this plugin shine, looked for hours without finding something comparable. If you plan on adding more features, then I would suggest keeping them modular.
Best and happy holidays!
wow. it worked. that is sweet!
testing this out… looks neat!
This is a really cool plugin for wp. Thanks
Any news on the OAuth functionality? With all the weird hacker link warnings all over Twitter this week, I think everyone’s a little more cautious about using their passwords. Would love this on my site, so I’m willing to wait for news. I’ve subscribed to follow up comments in hopes of an update. Great work on this!
Testing plugin
COOL PLUGINS!
thanks for the plugin mate
Any chance of adding support for su.pr. That would be a great way to combine Twitter and StumbleUpon power in one little link.
I thought I had made it out of your moderation queue.
Sorry about that. I checked my discussion settings and it is set so you should only need to be approved once. That’s very weird. I’ll see if I can;t get that fixed.
But you also just gave me a good idea. I’m thinking I might be able to include an option in CommenTwitter where people can automatically be approved if they input their data and send their comments to Twitter. I think people might feel more inclined to post if they knew it would get posted right away and links in Twitter to your blog from CommenTwitter would always work (where as sometimes comments get stuck in moderation and the links from Twitter won’t go directly to the comment).
I’ll start playing around with it but thought I would just throw it out there.
I ultimately want to create a little script I can use in both my plugins that will give people more URL shortening options. I’ll look more into what it would take to get su.pr in there.
Oh.. my code that I put does not show.. the header has something like:
if(is_singular()) do_action(‘ct_head’);
Your plugin breaks javascript for people’s homepages and let me tell you why and what I had to do to fix it on my website.
Line 4 of your commenttwitter.js searches for the element id = “twittername” but id=”twittername”does not exist on my homepage or any page where there are no comments, so it fails and ends up breaking other javascript on the page.
I had to change at the bottom of commenttwitter.php the wp_head to ct_head:
add_action(‘ct_head’, ‘Commentwitter_wp_head’);
And then I added the following to my header:
Which disables your commenttwitter.js on pages that are not single pages (which are usually the pages with comments).
So, if you could fix your javascript to not be called when on pages without comments that would be perfect as my solution is not perfect if someone has comments on pages your plugin will not work.
Thanks for giving me a heads up.
I’ll try and rework it this weekend.
You’re quick! I see the plugin’s been updated with bit.ly, good deal. Thanks!
thanks for the plugin mate
Looks like cl.gs is shutting down by the end of October:
http://mashable.com/2009/10/04/cli-gs-shut-down/
Hopefully you’re planning on an update to CommenTwitter, replacing cl.gs with bit.ly (or even selectable URL shorteners)?
Well that’s no good. Luckily I stay prepared for this sort of thing. I’ll need to go back and make sure everything is kosher but I should be able to get a new version of commentwitter soon with bit.ly support and possibly is.gd as well
I’m Testing…
This seems slick…I wish it would work with the TwitConnect plugin so they would have to enter credentials every time.
Installed it and activated it but it doesn’t show up. We have WordPress 2.8.4. Any help?
Thanks for building this, Jon. Nice built-in output to Twitter without having to export blogcommenting to Disqus.
A couple of minor suggested tweaks:
- add a border=”0″ in the help icon, as it shows up with an ugly hyperlink square border on some browsers now. (Also suggest including that img in the plugin package, versus hosting it on your site).
- plugin acts a little wonky on comment_popup, although still very functional. AJAX doesn’t work, and it double-tweets the comment: once with the specific comment permalink, and again with the post permalink. I realize almost nobody uses popup comments anymore — but I do :)
Finally, a question: How does CommenTwitter handle Twitter outages/fail whales? The service has been crapping out a lot lately, and I’m concerned that it doesn’t hang my site during Twitter outages.
Thank for your work this is exactly what i was looking for
Updated Commentwitter to 1.5.1 and lost my rotating header images in an installation using iThemes’ FlexxPro theme. Deactivated your plugin and now the rotating header images are back where they should be. Wonder what would cause them to disappear upon updating the plugin. Maybe a coincidence, but deactivating Commentwitter did bring back my header images.
Just letting you know in case others may have the same problem.
Thanks, it was a useful plugin.
Thanks for the feedback @tommylinsley … that’s an odd problem you’re having. I tried to recreate it but everything seemed to be working fine. Have you given it a second shot yet?
Jon, thanks for a quick reply.
No, I haven’t given it a second shot yet.
The header images are working now, so I hate to rock the boat, so to speak. I’ll post here if I do try it again.
Gotta love WordPress. So useful, but so easy to break.
I am testing your plug-in
Love this for my bridal shows!
Two things:
I am looking to remove the cli.gs link and link directly to the comment or post page using the name of the post at the end of each tweet. Or at least the text read more instead of a meaningless cli.gs URL.
Also can I not remove the posted notification that includes the API links and have that be the name of the commenter?
Unfortunately you can’t hyperlink text in Twitter so you can’t do the “more” thing. I can however make it so it uses your own custom URL.
I could explain to you how to hack the file but then you couldn’t do future updates. I’ll try and work in a feature where you can turn off shortened URLs in the next version. (however this is not wise for most people)
I’m not sure I understand the second part of your question.
I would appreciate if you could send over the updated code that includes a custom linking URL. Basically I just want it to be the exact URL from the rss feed, not tiny URL.
I do have one question with regards to the tiny URL though – is this a part of the character count? If so and I can update the second question instead I would not need to adjust the tiny URL.
With regards to the second question I noticed the following text being added after each post:
9:17 AM Jul 21st from API
Can I make the word API read and link to whatever I want?
This sounds like a cool plugin. I think I would give it a try if it didn’t require the user to type their password. I understand why you need them to do that but it just seems a bit creepy to the user (I don’t think your trying to be creepy. I understand Its just the only way it can work).
CommenTwitter is a wonderful plugin. Thank you so much for creating it!
Its WordPress 2.8