Flavio Martins
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Thanks! I’ll install that in my dev environment and take a look at the issue.
Any update on that? It looks like it’s posting, but I don’t know what settings you have set.
If it’s not posting right, I’d like to look at the database on that test site to see the settings it has in there and see what I need to change in the code to make sure that it correctly updates the settings.
No, it shouldn’t. But the easiest way to test is to look at what’s in the WP_OPTIONS table for the plugin settings.
Can you check and see what’s listed for the variable next_tweet_time? It should have a long number for the time which it converts. If that’s being cached some way (I thought it wasn’t) it would cause the plugin to keep tweeting.
What’s your Twitter account?
Also, what plugins are you using?
Do you have access to your WordPress database through PHPMyAdmin? I may need to look in there to see what values it has stored for the tweet time.
Also, are you running version 2.3.1?
New code is now available on the WordPress code site and tested on multiple blogs! It should now be fixed.
No worries, I actually like taking care of these AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!
I just submitted the fix so you can now download version 2.3.1 of the plugin and get the fix. My Dream host test account was caching the automatic update, so I had to delete the plugin and then install it again for the new version to appear.
Anyway, here’s the fix:
Click plugins > Editor > select the file top-core.php
Search for:
$last = $wpdb->get_var(“select option_value from wp_options where option_name = ‘top_opt_last_update’;”);
Replace line with:
$last = $wpdb->get_var(“select option_value from $wpdb->options where option_name = ‘top_opt_last_update’;”);
Save and you should be set.
I contacted the plugin author Ajay and but he stopped working on the fix.
Because of this I have created a new plugin that fixes several bugs and add new features:
Tweetily – Tweet WordPress Posts Automatically!
-Problem with lots of posts at the same time. Spamming Twitter.
-Problem authenticating for some users.
-Problem with caching plugins.
-Problem with 1and1 and Dreamhost databases.-Added feature to show countdown.
-Added feature to select the number of posts to share at one time (up to 10).
-Reworked the way Twitter authentication is done.
-Tweet PAGE, POST, or BOTH.Looks like my fix worked. I’ll let it run just a couple more times to make sure everything cool and submit a fix to the WordPress repo.
@mahodder if you email me ([email protected]) I can send you the manual fix so you can edit the plugin and get it working right away. Otherwise, as soon as WordPress has the update, your blog can check for updates and update it automatically that way.
Thanks for your patience. I found the issue and am testing a workaround on my own test account with Dreamhost.
I will let you know once I’ve confirmed that it’s working.
Thanks! I just sent you an email.
Are you able to check the error logs on your server/hosting account? See if there’s anything in there related to the plugin?
I’m wondering if your server configuration prevents one of the functions from running which keeps the auto tweet from working.
If that’s the case, I can write up an alternate way that it also tries to get around that and let the plugin work.
What web hosting company are you using?
I’m looking at the code now to see what could cause that to hang there, it may be the function it runs to post is getting blocked, so I’ll work out an alternate way too just in case which should fix it for you guys.
If you could let me know the hosting provider that would be great!
I worked out a 1and1 issue a couple of days ago so there are still some hosting providers with custom setups that I need to create some workarounds.
Thanks for letting me know about the issue.
I rebuilt the plugin because I use caching on my site and needed it to work with it.
So yes, Tweetily does FIX the caching issue. It also fixes the Twitter authentication issue.
There is no flood of posts because it can’t cache any settings.
I also added a couple of nice notification features and also cleaned up the text for the plugin since it wasn’t always really clear on the options.
Plus, I’m online and available to provide any support you need with it. So if you ever run into any issues, let me know and I’ll jump in and help!
Yes, that’s ONE of the MAJOR issues with the Tweet Old Posts plugin and some more are due to the way the Twitter authentication is done which causes TONS of people to have problems logging in.
I rebuilt the plugin because I use caching on my site and needed it to work with it.
So yes, Tweetily does solve the caching issue. It also fixes the Twitter authentication issue.
I also added a couple of nice notification features and also cleaned up the text for the plugin since it wasn’t always really clear on the options.
Plus, I’m online and available to provide any support you need with it. So if you ever run into any issues, let me know and I’ll jump in and help!
I hope you’ll give it a shot!
I have this scheduled on a future version of the plugin so for now it’ll have to be one or the other.
Version 2.0 clears out any previous setting that would conflict so as long as you’ve deactivated the old plugin, then install and activate version 2.0 of Tweetily, you should be set.