twitter plugin - asking for password???

[msp_erv]

I added the twitter plug in....

and...

on initial blog page load - public

every person is prompted for a twitter user name and password

???

not all persons using my blog are 'twitterers'

this is not good....

how do we prevent this horrible popup?

thank you

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Did you properly setup your twitter username nad password in the config of the plugin? I can't imagine why a popup should be shown, what's your URL?

Regards,
Garvin

[msp_erv]

hi guys....

looking at this again...

seems i had my twitter page set to some sort of restricted access requiring log in...

i changed this, now twitterings will display in safari, ff but not in ie 6.5

thoughts on this?

can we put in a browser sniffer and advise people to upgrade browsers if this simply will not load into older exploder browsers???

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

oughts on this?

Yeah, my thought still is "what's your URL"

Regards,
Garvin

[msp_erv]

http://www.mspflorist.com/florist-blog/

sorry...

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Hm, that should also work in IE. Do you have javascript enabled in IE? The twitter-method you are using requires javascript to show any tweets...

HTH,
Garvin

[msp_erv]

ye js in on...

i am on crappy ie 6.5 we use it for dev work as many are still using this

does it work for you?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Hm, I found that IE6 creates a javascript error for me. Sadly you page contains more javascript than just twitter, and IE is absolutely not helping to tell WHICH error is happening, so I can't really tell where the error lies without decronsttructing the whole page step by step, for which I don't have the time right now.

It might be the SWF player that's causing the trouble even before the twitter plugin gets called...

Regards,
Garvin

[mattsches]

Could be a problem with the innerHTML() method. The statusHTML variable contains unescaped backslashes, and IIRC the IE6 browser has some problems with that. You could try to change line 28 in serendipity_plugin_twitter/blogger.js to

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statusHTML += ('<span>'+posttext+'<\/span> <a style="font-size:85%" href="'+serviceURL+twitters[i].id+'">'+relative_time(twitters[i].created_at)+'</a><hr>')

Please tell us if this changes anything.

Anyway, I'm currently not really happy with the twitter plugin, and I'll propose some changes and fixes to the JS and the PHP code soon. I'll provide an alternative file with better link detection and conversion of @username to links, too. Still struggling with some regex stuff, though. Stay tuned

- Mattsches

[Woe Is You]

Safari (and IE7, I'm guessing) has a problem with rendering the tweets as well. With Safari the error I get is...

13: var username = twitters[0].user.screen_name;
TypeError: Result of expression 'twitters[0]' [undefined] is not an object.

The puzzling thing is that it works in Chrome and Firefox... but not in Safari and/or IE7/8.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

The twitterplugin is currently being rebuilt, so the mechanism will change in the near future. This will hopefully than also fix this rendering issue.

Regards,
Garvin

[jdwarren]

Hey... just a small feature suggestion since I saw that this plugin's getting some rework done to it. A friend of mine uses one of those *other* blogging tools and a plugin for twitter by alex king (google for "twitter tools alex king" and you'll find it) that (not sure if it's automatic or manual) allows him to post a weekly summary of his tweets as a blog post. Something along those lines might be fun to have... if'n ya got the time. lol Not sure how long it'd take to do -- or even what it'd require -- but I do know it'd be easier to do when in the code already than trying to go back in later.

just my 2-cents worth

now... um... is the twitter plugin you guys are discussing available via Spartacus? I've looked but can't find it listed, so I'm using the html nugget and some code from the twitter site for now, which kinda feels like a kludge -- and doesn't look the greatest -- but it works for the time being.

Thanks!

Jon
myhumbleabode.com

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Thanks for the idea...the twitter plugin currently only deals with sidebar and backup stuff, there's no blog-posting functionality available. It's not a bad idea, but I'm not sure if the current developer is interested in it. I'll check it out though

now... um... is the twitter plugin you guys are discussing available via Spartacus? I've looked but can't find it listed, so I'm using the html nugget and some code from the twitter site for now, which kinda feels like a kludge -- and doesn't look the greatest -- but it works for the time being.

Yeah, it is available as serendipity_plugin_twitter! (sidebar, not event)

Regards,
Garvin

[Dr. Love]

Hi, I developed the new Twitter Plugin, which I call Microblog as it also works with every TwitterApi compatible service like identi.ca/laconi.ca. I contributed this feature also to the Twitter plugin before, but decided to write a completely new plugin to add some features like @!#URL-parsing, 'via' and 'in reply to' links, templating and a nicer timestamp, all both available in the JavaScript and PHP output.

It is, at the moment, not available via Spartacus because it is completely rewritten and has to be tested and there is still some work todo to ensure backwards compatibility to the twitter-PlugIn. The Discussion is in german (sorry guys, my silly decision of lazyness a few days ago) and can (together with a testing version) be found here: http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?t=15034 Attention: Do not use the 0.2RC1 in a production environment as some aspects are still subject to change! But you can test the 0.2RC1 without breaking your Twitter PlugIn, as long as you do not use the backup feature. So you can give it a try.

The Idea with a weekly Digest is nice, but I really don't see it in this Sidebar PlugIn, but perhaps as a new PlugIn. Is this feature of your friend's blog really automatted? How does it work? I write quite alot of Dents in one Week, so how should the assortment be done? Just copy all tweets into a new post and I delete the ones, I don't want?

[jdwarren]

Is this feature of your friend's blog really automatted? How does it work? I write quite alot of Dents in one Week, so how should the assortment be done? Just copy all tweets into a new post and I delete the ones, I don't want?

To be perfectly honest, I don't really know. I'll ask as I'm unsure from reading the info the author of that plugin wrote. It does look as if it does a whole lot more than I was initially discerning from simply reading my friend's blog. I've quoted the applicable feature list from that plugin's readme and have made comments in blue italics.

Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that allows you to do a two-way integration between your WordPress powered blog and Twitter. It has the following features: (2-way integration really seems like overkill to me)
# Download and archive your tweets from Twitter. (already existed in the sidebar plugin, something non-experimental would be good... but I figure ya already are planning that)
# Show your recent tweets in a sidebar widget (got it already, and really the main feature I'd want).
# Create a blog post from each of your tweets (you can set the category, author, tags, etc.) (this is where it gets intriguing... not sure as if I'd want to have to take the time to categorize my tweets -- there'd be too many of 'em).
# Create a daily digest from your tweets. (a daily...)
# Create a weekly digest from your tweets. (... or weekly digest of tweets would be a good nice-to-have, and was the feature that caught my eye. whether it's automated or not is what I'm not sure of... my pref would be to have it automated via the Cronjob scheduler event plugin, but manual would allow pre-posting editing of the tweets)
# Create a tweet on Twitter when you post to your blog (optional on a per-post basis). (eh... not needed. I know my friend used this and said it was re-tweeting when he edited posts so I don't know if I'd want this... unless it did it only on the initial posting -- like checking for trackbacks does)
# Create tweets on Twitter from your blog sidebar and/or admin interface. (I wouldn't want this, but others might)
# Auto-link @replies and provide “in reply to” links. (interesting idea and could possibly be nice to have, but it seems like it'd be a crapload of code... I'm guessing this is in the digest posts, but he's got the @replies excluded [feature listed below])
# Auto-link hashtags. (same with the @replies, it's an interesting idea, but not sure how it'd be done or what level coding it'd require)
# Ability to exclude @replies from sidebars, blog posts and digests. (good... something that probably should be implemented if ya do decide to do the digest thingie...)
# Supports URL shortening services via standard WordPress filter (read the README). (this only comes into play if you're doing tweets via the plugin -- since I'm not suggesting doing that, this is kinda moot... but if ya did, I'd rather it be a configurable option as to which service was used)
# Supports WP Chunk for URL shortening URLs in tweets when they are shown in your blog posts and/or sidebar. (I'm not a WP fan, that's why I'm using S9Y so I really have no clue what this "wp chunk" thing is or what it'd look like implemented)

Hope that sheds some better light on what that plugin does... I'll reiterate that I'm not looking for an exact replica of it -- that should be clear from my above comments. The digest idea was neat, and so going from there... if I had to simply take that idea and list out some features I'd want, here's what those would be:

• configurable frequency of digest (e.g., daily, weekly, or every X days... this could be done the same way as the POPfetcher event plugin [just with the shorter options removed] or leave it up to us to manually stick into our cronjobs to control frequency)
• option to exclude certain types of tweets (e.g., @replies, tweets w/ links... not really sure here other than the @replies bit)
• option to auto-publish or save as draft
• configuration of time of day to run (enter time on server to execute [e.g., 5:00am])
• hrefs in the posts for these: original tweet location, @reply username, embedded links in tweets
• user configurable pre- and post- tweet digest text (below)
• inclusion of tweeter username after tweets
• inclusion of time of tweets after tweets -- if it's even available
• configuration of sort order (newest first or newest last)

[Weekly|Daily] tweets by USER for [DATE]
[pre-text goes here]

• tweet [TIME]
• tweet [TIME]

[post-text goes here]