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Integrating WordPress and Twitter

Sometimes you just can't say it in 140 characters. And sometimes, a blog post is just plain overkill. Luckily you can manage your blog and microblog with one interface, at least as long as you're using WordPress and Twitter Tools.

The Twitter Tools plugin is written by Alex King and allows you to cross-post from your WordPress blog directly to Twitter. You can also configure Twitter Tools to create Tweets out of your posts on WordPress, and to create WordPress posts out of a collection of Tweets. So if you'd like to save your Twitter stream for posterity, you can create daily digest posts out of your Tweets.

Installing Twitter Tools is dead easy and should only take a minute or two if you're using recent releases of WordPress. From your "Install Plugins" page on the WordPress dashboard, just search for "Twitter," and Twitter Tools should be the top result or one of the top results. You can automatically install Twitter Tools through the Install Plugins page.

Once the tools are installed, you actually wind up with several plugins. A main Twitter Tools plugin that handles posting to Twitter and a few extra related plugins that handle Bit.ly links, excluding categories from posting to Twitter, and creating hashtags to be used when sending links to Twitter.

Everything is pretty much self-explanatory and you can have the whole shebang configured and running in less than ten minutes. If you do a lot of blogging and not quite so much Tweeting, the Twitter Tools are perfect. The only complaint I really have with Twitter Tools is that it doesn't interface with Identi.ca. It'd be great to be able to send posts or Tweets/Dents to Identi.ca using the WordPress interface all at once.

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier is a longtime FLOSS advocate, and currently works for Novell as the community manager for openSUSE. Prior to joining Novell, Brockmeier worked as a technology journalist covering the open source beat for a number of publications, including Linux Magazine, Linux Weekly News, Linux.com, UnixReview.com, IBM developerWorks, and many others.

• wordpress
• twitter
• identi.ca
• microblog

by hineliyaa on Jan. 18, 2010

Is it possible for me to integrate my Wordpress blog onto a single page of my website, just like Cutenews? I don't want my whole site to run in Wordpress, but I'd just want my Wordpress blog to show up on the main page. HELP!

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by Joe Brockmeier on Jan. 18, 2010

"Is it possible for me to integrate my Wordpress blog onto a single page of my website, just like Cutenews?"

I can't speak to Cutenews, but it's certainly possible to restrict WordPress to a portion of your site. Might take a little effort with Apache and setting it up correctly, it's entirely possible to use WordPress on only a section of a site.

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