Richard Thripp

CSS is now 223 KB (“min” version with whitespace removed) which is an improvement… Thanks.

You’re welcome! There are some readers who may instinctively scroll up to the top of the article after reading it, but I think more people are used to having sharing links at the bottom… you could also put them in both places, but then people may get confused and think the buttons do different things.

Another option is to have a static JavaScript bar at the bottom of the page allowing the user to share the current page, and I’ve seen this implemented with other plugins, but it seems too intrusive. Having the same bar at the top of the page would be more like the StumbleUpon browser add-on.

There is a setting for this under the Advanced Options section: “Insert Tweet This block before content” checkbox and “Insert Tweet This block after content” checkbox. However, there is no setting to put the links on the same line as the title, so you would have to use the tweet_this() function or another method to do this.

However, most people would probably want to tweet/share an article after reading it, or during reading it, rather than before reading it.

Make sure your cPanel or webhost has actually set you to PHP 5 rather than PHP 4. The PHP version check I use to display that message is simply <?php if(version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.0.0', '<')); ?> so this means the problem is probably on your end.

Try this and get back to me:

<?php echo insert_tweet_this('', true); ?>

It sounds like you made a syntax error or declared a global in the wrong place. Check your code carefully!

This is actually a very common bug, and it’s not my fault at all. Do you have HostGator? Contact them and tell them to disable the OAuthSignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1 class that is being auto-initalized on your account so the Tweet This 1.8.1 WordPress plugin can run.

Do you mean you want the first 137 characters of the post content and then “…”? There is no option in Tweet This for that, but you could add it if you know what you are doing. I will consider it for next version.

That’s weird… it could be the plugin is loading after that portion of single.php is executed, but I’ve never seen this before. Are you using Tweet This 1.8.1? Try using this instead:

<?php remove_filter('the_content', 'insert_tweet_this');
echo insert_tweet_this(); ?>

This is something I need to look into, because Tweet This is not yet set up for custom post types. But “tweet_this_url” is definitely not the function you are looking for… it’s “tt_post_options_init”.

Thanks, I’m going to release a new version this month some time.

Good news! ??

Oh, that’s a different plugin from my plugin. The links at the bottom “Compartir en Twitter” and “Compartir en Facebook” are the ones inserted by my Tweet This plugin and they don’t have the problem with + signs.

I understand. It’s partly a Twitter issue since Twitter should not give up on malformed Unicode characters so easily.

Yes, I see it now… it works fine on the Write Tweet page, except the text isn’t displayed properly in the preview. But it fails everywhere else.

I will try to get a bugfix out around Jan. 6. I wouldn’t call this a show-stopper though, since 90% of Tweet This users don’t use Chinese characters and this was the first time I encountered or even heard of this bug. There were problems with Unicode characters in old Tweet This versions, but I thought I had fixed them all.

In the mean time, you can use WP to Twitter or Twitter Tools, or if you know PHP, search through tweet-this.php and /lib/tt-options.php, patch the files, and send me the bugfix… I love when people do that.