A new version release for TweetUpdater, adding a new option to limit message sending based on post category and meta information. Thanks to BjornW for taking the time to add to the project. The new rcmbnt.com URL shortener gave me the impetus to add the generic YOURLS support. Although I’ve been toying with the idea [...]

Not to worry Velomobilers, I’ve got a post about design influences of the Atomic Duck ready for next week and designing continues. This week just finishes off a set of posts about the upgrades I’ve been making to TweetUpdater. OAuth is really not as simple as basic authentication. No more “save username and password and [...]

I’m still a Design Engineer, but now I’m also a WordPress plugin Developer! Twitter will stop accepting basic authentication (username+password) for its API fully on 31st August 2010, with reduced service from 16th August. The TwitterUpdater plugin I altered to automatically tweet about new posts uses basic authenication, and will stop working by the end [...]

I wanted to automatically update the @DefProc twitter feed whenever I publish a post from this blog, and I suddenly found I was a WordPress plugin developer! A quick search at WordPress.org’s plugins found a fair few that would send a tweet when a post was published or updated, and would add a short url [...]