Richard Thripp

Where do the short URLs appear in your Twitter account when created through the API? I’m doing testing on it and I can’t find them in my bit.ly account anywhere.

I haven’t tested Tweet This with multiple loops, but try removing update_post_caches first.

I couldn’t find any solution. Sorry. You’ll have to try continue clicking upgrade three times or upload the plugin by FTP yourself.

I gave up on automatic updating a long time ago because WordPress could never log into my FTP account. I tried it again after reading your post using a non-root account, and it was successful. However, I got the same error messages you did when trying to upgrade from Tweet This 1.5.2 to 1.5.3, and it didn’t work on the third try either. I had to wait five minutes before the error message would show up each time I tried upgrading.

I have no idea how the auto-upgrade works or what is causing this. I’ll do some research on it tomorrow, and I’ll try using FTP instead of FTPS. If anyone else can shed some light on this, please post.

Tweet This has been downloaded 32,000 times and no one has reported this before. I hope it doesn’t affect everyone.

You cannot just remove the text from the “Link:” box in the options because it cannot be left blank. You have to enter “[BLANK]” in it (including the brackets). This used to be indicated more prominently, but in my efforts to simplify the options menu in 1.5 I made it harder to find. It only tells you that when you hover over “Link” (notice it is underlined).

The [BLANK] tag also works for the other social networking services. Make sure that is all that is in the link text box.

You should be able to able to accomplish this by checking “Hide Tweet This on pages” only. Tweet This links should appear everywhere except pages.

I just released v1.4 which is more stable, so this is a great time to upgrade.

A dumb inefficient MySQL query on the https://th8.us home page cooked my server, and since Th8.us is the default URL shortener everything was timing out. I stripped Th8.us of URL lists and hit counters so it’s more like is.gd / TinyURL and less like bit.ly. I also released version 1.4 of the plugin a few minutes ago which improves the speed a lot. Tweet This has been getting more negative than positive feedback because of these glaring issues, but I’m hoping to turn this around now.

ALSO: latest version adds open in new window option.

A dumb inefficient MySQL query on the https://th8.us home page cooked my server, and since Th8.us is the default URL shortener everything was timing out. I stripped Th8.us of URL lists and hit counters so it’s more like is.gd / TinyURL and less like bit.ly. I also released version 1.4 of the plugin a few minutes ago which improves the speed a lot. Tweet This has been getting more negative than positive feedback because of these glaring issues, but I’m hoping to turn this around now.

A dumb inefficient MySQL query on the https://th8.us home page cooked my server, and since Th8.us is the default URL shortener everything was timing out. I stripped Th8.us of URL lists and hit counters so it’s more like is.gd / TinyURL and less like bit.ly. I also released version 1.4 of the plugin a few minutes ago which improves the speed a lot. Tweet This has been getting more negative than positive feedback because of these glaring issues, but I’m hoping to turn this around now.

@katebb That happens if allow_url_fopen is disabled; try out version 1.3.9 which switches to curl if so, or uses local URLs if both are disabled. You shouldn’t get that error message anymore.

@tixrus I added that in the new version 1.2. You can specify whatever text you want before or after the URL or title.

This plugin is at version 1.1.1 now, and it’s a lot more efficient (caches URLs) and has good configuration options. Get it here:

https://richardxthripp.thripp.com/tweet-this

or here:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/tweet-this/

Tarballs (tar.gz format) are more efficient because the files are compressed as a whole. The cost is that to extract one file (i.e. wp-config.php), your computer has to read through every file in the archive. The benefit is that the compression is more efficient, which is why the file size is smaller than ZIP.

The file sizes listed on the WordPress download page are just plain wrong. They should be 1.5MB and 1.3MB or 1.4MiB and 1.2MiB, not 1.2MB and 1.0MB. 1 kilobyte == 1000 bytes, 1 kibibyte == 1024 bytes, even though Windows says a kibibyte is a kilobyte.

I figured it out; just put the period outside the tags code. This does exactly what I wanted:

By <?php the_author_link(); ?> at <?php the_time('Y-m-d\TH:i:s') ?> in <?php the_category(',') ?><?php the_tags((', with these tags: '), ', ', ''); ?>.

If there are no tags, it just shows the period, and if there are tags, there are the tags, then the period. Didn’t think of that earlier for some reason.

Here’s the subpage analysis; I mixed up the URIs above.