Twitter Plugins for Wordpress
As I’ve recently become sucked into the world of Twitter, I’ve found myself searching for the best Twitter plugin for Wordpress. Here is what I’ve found
Twitter Tools
By Alex King - This plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
- Advanced options page.
- Widgetized.
- Post to twitter directly from your sidebar!
- Blog entries can become Tweets.
- Tweets can become blog entries.
Twitter For Wordpress
By Ricardo González - Displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog. Much simpler than Twitter Tools.
- No options page.
- Widgetized.
Twitter Widget Pro
By Aaron D. Campbell - A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including @username and link parsing. It supports displaying profiles images, and even lets you control whether to display the time and date of a tweet or how log ago it happened. Requires PHP5.
I decided to go with Twitter Tools as it was the most advanced. I like being able to send out a quick tweet from my sidebar at any moment.
About Chad Coleman
Chad has been building websites for friends, family and small businesses for the past 8 years. He currently lives and works in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Feel free to contact him regarding any design, web or development work.
September 13th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Consider adding Tweet This to the list. It lets you add an icon or link to each of your posts that lets your readers share it on Twitter if they’re logged in. The cool thing is that it shortens URLs in advance (pick Th8.us, is.gd, TinyURL, or others), and includes the title in the tweet text.
I find it useful (I created it and use it on my own blog), and I haven’t seen any other plugin like it.