Tweet only a certain category from wordpress entries…

  • I am currently using a the Tweetable plugin to auto-tweet my blog posts to my Twitter account as updates – my question is can I somehow tweak Tweetable so that it will take new posts only from categories I specify and tweet them and and not just any new post from my blog? I checked several other plugins including Twitter Tools, and seems like there’s no such option… Is it possible to tweak the plugin or any suggestions?

    Thank you in advance.

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  • Thank you for the suggestion. It might make it into one of the next couple Tweetable releases as an option…

    Thread Starter popokolok

    (@popokolok)

    Anything on that please? Is that a problem to tweak it?

    It’s on my to-do list… I’m quite busy, so I haven’t had the time to work on things I don’t really get paid to do. ??

    I think I might be able to have it into the plugin in a couple weeks or so.

    You can use a service like TwitterFeed and feed in a category’s RSS feed in the time being.

    Thread Starter popokolok

    (@popokolok)

    Alright, thanks redwallhp, your work is great. mainecampus, yeah I know about twitterfeed, thanks for reminding.

    A small hack, until the next version comes out..

    Around line 260, add this line…

    if (in_category (XX, $post) ){

    before

    if ($post->post_status == 'private' || $post->post_type == 'page')
{return;}

    and then, around line 290,
    add an extra

    }

    after

    $update = $twitter->update_status($tweet, $user_key, $user_key_secret);

    Replace XX with the category id, name or slug. Read this for more details.

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