Dan-Lucian Stefancu

Twitter SP2 is a simple WordPress plugin developed for bloggers who have Twitter accounts. The plugin posts on Twitter a link to your post shorten via a romanian service sp2.ro when you publish a new blog post.
When a post is published the plugin makes a shorter link for the permalink using sp2.ro API, stores it in a custom field called <code>sp2_link</code>, then sends it on Twitter in a way chosen in Options.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>the shorter link is stored in a custom field</li>
<li>predefined and custom formats of text to send</li>
<li>twitter notificantion can be turned off for individual posts</li>
<li>errors are messages stored in custom fields</li>
<li>NEW! readers can now send the posts on Twitter</li>
<li>NEW! the plugins tries for 5 time to send the text on Twitter before giving up, if Twitter gives a timeout response</li>
</ul>
<h4>Changelog</h4>
<ul>
<li>v0.6 – fixed minor error</li>
<li>v0.5 – added the “send on twitter” link on older posts too</li>
<li>v0.4 – fixed a bug with future posts</li>
<li>v0.4 – added posibility to add a “send on twitter” link on the page to be used by the blog readers</li>
<li>v0.4 – tries for 5 times to send the text on twitter before giving up, if timeout response</li>
<li>v0.4 – added error and succes messages</li>
<li>v0.3 – trimmed out shortcodes and bad chars from post excerpt</li>
<li>v0.3 – switched on a new 2.8 action hook</li>
<li>v0.2 – changed old posts twitter notificantion option to off by default</li>
<li>v0.2 – added <code>%titlu%</code>, <code>%fragment%</code>, and <code>%link%</code> as tags for custom texts to send</li>
<li>v0.1.1 – fixed minor input error in Options</li>
<li>v0.1 – initial release</li>
</ul>

Twitter SP2

A Wordpress plugin that posts on Twitter a link to your post shorten via sp2.ro when you publish a blog post.

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Offers a widget that enables visitors to subscribe for receiving by email a weekly digest 
of newly added posts. This keeps the users closer to your site and doesn’t force them to 
“poll” for updates.
The widget only shows an input field for the email address and a ‘Subscribe’ button. 
Then a short procedure is started to confirm the subscription:
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No validation is performed on the entered email address.
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After clicking on ‘Subscribe’, the user is presented a virtual page in which she is 
asked to re-enter the email address and click again on a ‘Subscribe’ button. 
This is a simple measure against robots placing subscription requests.
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<li>
Again, no validation is performed on the entered email address except it is matched with 
the one previously entered. In case of a match, an email message is sent to the user 
containing a link with a unique code, on which the user has to click to confirm her 
request. The user is informed by this in a new virtual page.
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After the user clicks on the link in the email, the email address is considered 
subscribed and it will receive weekly messages containing a digest of new posts from the 
previous week, with direct links to the respective pages. In each message there is also 
a link to allow the user to unsubscribe.
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</ul>
Unsubscribing follows a similar pattern in which the user will first receive an email to 
confirm the request, with a link containing a unique code.
To keep it simple, no check is performed as to whether a user is already registered or 
not. Any request can be performed in any phase of the process.
Weekly emails are sent using wp_mail(), on a configurable weekday at a configurable time. 
Even when no posts have been added, the user will still receive and email to inform her of 
that.
The emails will all contain the heading image of the theme at the top.
Until support is provided for selecting subscriptions, all subscribers will be subscribed 
for the weekly digest and the newsletter.
Warning!
Only tested with the permalink format set as 
“/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/” on a Windows server. Don’t know if it 
works with other formats, although the implementation is quite generic.
Options page
The plugin registers an option page that enables admins to:
<ul>
<li>configure the weekday and time-of-day when the digests are sent</li>
<li>(re)send the digest(s) to subscribers or to given email addresses</li>
<li>send a newsletter to subscribers or to given email addresses</li>
</ul>
Wishlist
Some features to be added in some future version:
<ul>
<li>Daily and maybe monthly digest.</li>
<li>Timed removal of unconfirmed requests.</li>
<li>Configurable messages and format(s) of digest(s)</li>
<li>Support for selecting subscription options (digest, newsletter)</li>
</ul>

Keep in Touch

Nice effort for making your first plugin.



Regards for your first plugin

Allows visitors to register for receiving a weekly digest of the newly added posts.

Twitter SP2 vs Keep in Touch