Richard Thripp

No, there’s definitely supposed to be a checkbox there. Did you create an OAuth application on Twitter and enter the four keys in the Tweet This options? Go to Settings > Tweet This, and open the “Automatic Tweeting” section if not.

Yes, it should appear on the right side of the Write Post/Page screens in WP 3.0+. In WP 2.7-2.9.2 it appears at the bottom of the advanced section instead of the sidebar.

Here’s an example in WP 3.0.1 (the box at the top should appear in the right sidebar below the other boxes):

https://richardxthripp.thripp.com/files/plugins/tweet-this/screenshots/screenshot-5.png

Try using define('TT_PREFIX', '<p><strong>Share this news:</strong></p><p align="' . tt_option('tt_alignment') . '">'); if you did not resolve this problem.

I have added checkboxes to display the links at the top or bottom of posts (or both) in Tweet This 1.8.1. Also, the <?php tweet_This_manual(); ?> template tag is now available.

I have decided not to make this a user option. Tweet This 1.8.1 removes www. automatically from local URLs. Hopefully, everyone who uses www has the non-www versions forwarding by HTTP 301.

I have tested /%category%/%postname%/ with local URLs and it worked fine in Tweet This 1.8 on WP 3.0.1 running PHP 5.2.14. Perhaps it will not happen when you are running in a production (online) environment?

I haven’t actually tested Tweet This with anything but /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/, so maybe /%category%/%postname%/ makes the post ID harder to access? I will make a note of this.

As for the Facebook problem, the description will be auto-populated if your website is publicly accessible. Since you are running on localhost, it is not, so Facebook has nothing to work with.

Try inserting <?php tweet_this_manual(); ?> in your theme to get the icons before the posts. Vertical alignment is more complicated, but can be accomplished by defining TT_SEPARATOR in the tt-config.php file plus using CSS. I wrote some more information in this thread.

Alright, good luck!

Try <?php tweet_this_manual(); ?> which displays the Tweet This link and all the enabled extended services in a p tag in a div just like automatic insertion. If you see the Tweet This block twice, add <?php remove_filter('the_content', 'insert_tweet_this'); ?> to the top of the theme file. You don’t have to edit the Tweet This options and your specified options will continue to affect the Tweet This links.

If you don’t want the p tag or div, you can use <?php echo str_replace(array('<div class="tweetthis" style="text-align:left;"><p>', '</p></div>'), array('', ''), get_tweet_this_manual()); ?> or edit the TT_PREFIX and TT_SUFFIX constants defined in tt-config-sample.php file and rename it tt-config.php. Make sure to not use WordPress automatic plugin update afterward to avoid overwriting the file.

You can also use <?php tweet_this($service); ?> to display the icon and link for only one service, i.e. <?php tweet_this('twitter'); ?>, <?php tweet_this('facebook'); ?>, <?php tweet_this('myspace'); ?>, etc. If you use these functions, you should disable auto-insertion for Twitter and each extended services in the options to avoid duplicate links. tweet_this(); accepts the parameters $service, $tweet_text, $link_text, $title_text, $icon_file, $a_class, $img_class, $img_alt in that order, but all of them are optional.

There is more information in the FAQ and source code. Use Ctrl + F as both are very lengthy…

Wow, thanks for the quick response! I found your plugin is just what I needed and implemented it on my site: https://richardxthripp.thripp.com/contact/.

Please elaborate.

Hey, you’re welcome.

He wants to use the www prefix elsewhere but not use it on short URLs.

Also, make sure to flush the Tweet This URL cache after making the above changes. That’s something else I need to fix—Tweet This should not cache local URLs to the wp_postmeta table—only external short URLs.