WordPress Plugin

About

The sitetweet wordpress plugin was created to easily allow blog owners to post user behaviors on their site using sitetweet to Twitter.

Installation

The plugin can be installed in 5 simple steps:

1. Login or create a new sitetweet account and retrieve your API key from your profile
2. Download and unzip the plugin
3. Upload the sitetweet plugin directory, along with its contents, to your WordPress plugins directory: /wp-content/plugins/.
4. Activate the plugin.
5. Select the sitetweet option from the Settings menu and input your API key from step 1

Tweeting your posts

Once you have installed the plugin, simple add a Custom Field to your posts and/or pages named sitetweet. You can then specify what you want your Twitter message to display in the Value box. For example, we configured a custom message for a post:



Which will post the following on your Twitter account:



sitetweet allows two variables to be used in the Value box:

• url this will post the a tweet with "User just visited [URL VISITED]" replacing the [URL VISITED] with the actual URL (do notice that Twitter shortens long URLs with the Tinyurl service - so your URL may not be displayed):

• directory because of Twitter's automatic URL shortening system, this option tweets "User just visited [DIRECTORY VISITED] on [YOUR WEB DOMAIN]" with the actual URL and web domain address:

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