Posted by Jack on 4th April 2009

Tracked Tweets

Tracked Tweets is my first wordpress plugin. There are plenty of plugins that tweet each new post you make, but I think there are a few features in this one that are not provided anywhere else.

URL Shortening

Post URL’s are shortened before they are added to the tweet. Current shorteners are:

  • TinyURL
  • tr.im
  • bit.ly
  • the RevCanonical wordpress plugin

Google Analytics Tracking

As far as I know, no other plugins provide this. This component allows you to see Google Analytics data which is specific to Twitter. Without building a custom link, twitter will not be tracked correctly. You are able to segment by all twitter visits, or a single campaign. I haven’t fully explored the tracking possibilities yet :)

  • On the main settings screen, you can define the Google source and medium fields
  • The post title is used as the campaign name

Hashtag/Tweet customisation support

  • On the post level, you are able to specify hashtags (or any other custom text you need)

Screenshots

Options Page

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New Post page, showing Tracked Tweets section

screenshot-2

Version History

v 0.2.9

  • Added support for bit.ly, tr.im and RevCanonical Plugin

v 0.2.8

  • Small code update to use wordpress functionality to set campaign title (rather than my own code)

v 0.2.7

  • Added settings link to plugin management page
  • Added warning when settings are not set
  • Choose between curl and filegetcontents depending on security
  • Added Error message when server security will break plugin
  • Fixed “Headers Already Sent” Issue

v 0.2.6

  • Fixed svn commit issue

v 0.2.5

  • Added title shortening to fit into 140 character limit
  • Fixed bug – tweets now work if a post was a draft
  • Added default setting for “tweet this post” checkbox
  • Password does not have to be entered each time options are updated

v 0.2.4

  • Donate link opens in new window
  • Added CSS, removed inline styles
  • Cleaned code
  • Fixed issue that was preventing some users from posting urls

v 0.2.3

  • Added donate link
  • Added “Tweet this” checkbox

v 0.2.1

  • Updated some descriptive text within plugin options screen

Download Tracked Tweets from Wordpress. I hope you find it useful. Feedback would be appreciated.
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  1. Jack says:

    Hi All, sorry to hear issue with 2.8.3

    I am travelling overseas at the moment, so am not coding.

    I will update it in late October when I get back. If anyone fixes the problem, post it hear please :)

  2. Shawn says:

    This must have been twitter’s issue over the last few days because the plugin is now working again after no changes to my configuration.

  3. DryRiver says:

    Just an idea. I just got my hands on this plug. Really like it but I have so many posts that I want to share. I’m willing to go back though them and force it to update so it adds to twitter. But it seems like it is looking for the “post” on the db and will not submit “revisions”.

    I am happy with it as is, but a small option to tweet past posts would be nice as a one time use, or even if I have to go back though and it grabs revisions that it never posted. I noticed another plug like this added a column to the db (not cool BTW) but something like that might be needed (sigh) for my idea to work. I only do basic stuff but any advice would rock.

  4. Shawn says:

    Looks like it’s not working again… possibly 2.8.4 or maybe just Twitter failing (?)

  5. [...] Tracked Tweets – Customizable WordPress plug-in for automatically tweeting the URL of new WordPress entries. [...]

  6. Be great to have the option to use ow.ly as a shortener, to fix to make scheduled posts tweet, and to be able to include/exclude categories for defaut tweeting.

    Cheers,

    David

  7. Shawn says:

    Actually it is working. It looks as though adding too much text to the “Extra text for the tweet (such as hashtags) can be entered here.” line may prevent the tweet from happening (?)

  8. [...] it here:  http://www.jackmcintyre.net/projects/tracked-tweets/ No TweetBacks yet. (Be the first to Tweet this [...]

  9. @jmillerjr says:

    Something happened with one of the latest updates. When using a Wordpress compatible desktop client Tracked Tweets doesn’t post to twitter. If I post in WordPress itself, the plugin works fine. I like the plugin, its’ small and sufficient, but my wife and I use clients to do most of our posting now and would like the plugin to post these to twitter as well instead of having to use the native Wordpress web client

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