Alex King

Crowd Favorite

<p>Tools for Twitter integrates with Twitter by giving you the following functionality:</p>
<ul>
<li>Connect multiple Twitter accounts (via Social)</li>
<li>Archive the tweets from your Twitter accounts (downloaded every 10 minutes)</li>
<li>Create a blog post from each of your tweets</li>
<li>Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post (via Social)</li>
<li>Browse your tweets locally by @mention, #hashtag or user account (optionally display these publicly)</li>
</ul>
<p>Tools for Twitter leverages Social’s connection to Twitter so that you don’t have to create an app and copy keys around. It supports multiple accounts (must be authorized as “global” accounts in Social) with settings on a per-account basis.</p>
<p><strong>Support Level:</strong> Product Support (we want to fix bugs and make the product great, but do not provide individual support).</p>
<p><strong>Developers:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/crowdfavorite/wp-twitter-tools" rel="nofollow ugc">Fork and contribute on GitHub</a>.</p>
<h3>Upgrading</h3>
<p>If you have upgraded from an older version of Tools for Twitter, your data will need to be converted to the new Tools for Twitter format. On the Tools for Twitter Options page you will see a prompt to upgrade if appropriate. Follow the steps to convert your data.</p>
<p>Tools for Twitter now stores complete Twitter data along with your basic tweet content. Over time, Tools for Twitter will request this data for upgraded tweets. This process make take a few days, as only 10 tweets are requested per hour (to avoid egatively impacting your rate limit).</p>
<h3>Connecting Accounts</h3>
<p>Any Twitter accounts connected on the Social settings page are available for Tools for Twitter. You can enable them on a per-account account basis, as well as specifying per-account preferences for creating blog posts, etc. (on the Tools for Twitter options screen).</p>
<h3>Managing your Tweets</h3>
<p>You can view, edit and delete (or unpublish) the local copy of your Tweets right in your WordPress admin. Navigate the tweets from the “Tweets” menu item and manage them just as you would any other post type. Tools for Twitter does not know if you’ve deleted a tweet on Twitter, so you’ll need to also delete the copy of the tweet from the admin to remove it from your WordPress site.</p>
<h3>Displaying your Tweets</h3>
<p>Tools for Twitter include options to create URLs for your local tweets using the following scheme:</p>
<ul>
<li>single tweet: http://alexking.org/tweets/253580615113400321</li>
<li>account archive: http://alexking.org/tweet-accounts/alexkingorg</li>
<li>@mention archive: http://alexking.org/tweet-mentions/sogrady</li>
<li>#hashtag archive: http://alexking.org/tweet-hashtags/monktoberfest</li>
</ul>
<p>You can enable public URLs for your tweets in your Tools for Twitter settings. If you choose not to enable public URLs for your tweets, you can still vuew and manage them from within the admin screens.</p>
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
<p>You can use a shortcode to display a list of tweets.</p>
<pre><code>[aktt_tweets account="alexkingorg"]
</code></pre>
<p>If you want, you can specify some additional parameters to control how many tweets are displayed:</p>
<pre><code>[aktt_tweets account="alexkingorg" count="5" offset="0"]
</code></pre>
<p>You can also choose to explicitly include or exclude replies and retweets:</p>
<pre><code>[aktt_tweets account="alexkingorg" include_rts="0" include_replies="1"]
</code></pre>
<p>If you want to limit the tweets to specific @mentions or #hashtags, you can to that as well:</p>
<pre><code>[aktt_tweets account="alexkingorg" mentions="crowdfavorite,twittertools" hashtags="wordpress,plugin,twittertools"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Widget</h4>
<p>The options for the shortcode are also available for the Tools for Twitter widget via a few settings.</p>
<h4>Create Blog Posts</h4>
<p>Tools for Twitter can create a blog post from each of your Tweets. This feature can be enabled on a per-account basis. If there is an image included in the media data of the tweet Tools for Twitter will try to save that image as the featured image for the post and append it to the blog post content.</p>
<p>Please note that this will take effect for all future tweets, it does not retroactively create posts for older tweets (though you could pretty easily script it to do so if you desired).</p>
<h3>Customization</h3>
<p>Tools for Twitter is designed to be customizable via the standard hook/filter API. If you find you need additional hooks (or to suggest other bug fixes and enhancements) please create a pull request on GitHub.</p>
<p>https://github.com/crowdfavorite/wp-twitter-tools</p>
<p>Get creative! Here are some examples of ways to use more of the full Twitter data to create links back into Twitter where appropriate:</p>
<ul>
<li>linking to the original tweet on Twitter</li>
<li>linking to “in reply to” tweets</li>
</ul>


Tools for Twitter

Tools for Twitter is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

webheadcoder

<p><strong>What happens if WP-Cron stops working?</strong></p>
<p>WordPress, Themes, and Plugins would never know if a new version is out.  You could login to your website everyday for months, and never see any notices about updates. If you’re not careful you’ll soon have an out of date WordPress installation susceptible to hackers.  Scheduled posts would never get published, auto drafts never deleted… you get the picture.  Your website would crumble up and die.</p>
<p>Use Woocommerce?  Subscriptions?  Customers would never get billed again!  Sessions would never be deleted.  Scheduled sales would never appear.  Your website would become bloated while giving away subscriptions for one time payments.</p>
<p><strong>WP-Cron is important.  So make sure it keeps working.</strong></p>
<p>Think of this plugin as insurance, but free.  WordPress, plugins, themes, and servers are all moving parts that can be updated at anytime.  You can’t guarantee any of these changes won’t break your website in some way.  While it’s not likely WP-Cron will stop working, if it does, you better know about it.</p>
<p>Every 24 hours this plugin automatically checks to see if WP-Cron is still able to run.  Obviously, it does not depend on WP-Cron.  Instead it sets its own transients that expire over 24 hours.  Whenever the transient expires it checks to make sure WordPress can run WP-Cron.  If an unexpected error occurs the you’ll get an email.</p>
<p>In addition to checking if WP-Cron CAN run, this plugin now logs all hooks running with WP-Cron and if they fail or complete.  You’ll be able to see what ran, when it ran, how long it took, and if it completed.</p>
<p>For your convenience The WP-Cron Status Checker is displayed on your WordPress admin dashboard.  The status page is accessible through the Tools -> WP Cron Status side menu.</p>
<p><strong>Know when WP-Cron doesn’t complete</strong></p>
<p>When a WP-Cron hook fails you’ll get notified soon after.  A hook “fails” when it takes longer than 5 minutes to complete.  You’ll get an email within 24 hours (or based on the plugin’s settings) to notify you of any failures.</p>
<p>Sometimes a plugin runs some code that abruptly exits the process and there is no way of knowing when it stopped.  WP-Cron Status Checker does it’s best to detect this type of code.  If it’s caught, the elapsed time is not recorded and you’ll see “N/A” with an “Incomplete” status.  Other times when it’s caught you’ll see an “Exit” status which is considered complete.  <a href="https://webheadcoder.com/wp-cron-status-checker/" rel="nofollow ugc">Please see the plugin page for more on completion statuses.</a></p>
<p><strong>PRO Version</strong><br />
The PRO version removes the 3 log limit and lets you choose to keep logs longer and email more frequently.  Please see more on the plugin page:  <a href="https://webheadcoder.com/wp-cron-status-checker/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://webheadcoder.com/wp-cron-status-checker/</a></p>


WP-Cron Status Checker

I know I created this plugin, but I am also using it and it has warned me WP Cron stopped working.  I'm not sure what the error was.  WP Cron just stopped working for a short while and then started working the next day right before I contacted the web host.

Caught an error

I debug WordPress websites for a living and a stopped, paused or failed cron is often a problem. I use this plugin to help in the process. Thanks to the dev!

One request. At first, it was very hard to find where to find the status (it's a widget on the dashboard btw). It would be helpful if this was mentioned somewhere in the description of the plugin (unless its there already and I missed it). 

Cheers!

Very handy tool in my debug tool kit

This is an easy way to check if WP-cron is enabled and jobs are actually running. Don't let the relatively low number of active installations mislead you, I suspect many people may use this plugin just like I did - install it just to check WP-cron is doing ok, then remove the plugin again.

My only criticism is that I had expected to be able to view the WP-cron status on this plugin's settings page, instead I had to look for it in the Dashboard.

Good tool to check WP-cron


I installed by mistake, intending to use a simple tool to monitor and log WP-Cron activity. It appears, this is now another freemius plugin which seems to me to be a bait, because description and screenshots are not accurate and up to date.



To use this plugin is now required to give all your personnal data or to register/subscribe. This shouldn't be required for such limited functionality plugin. An unnecessary and intrusive step for something as simple as viewing cron logs



Thankfully, better alternatives exist. Installed by mistake, uninstalling by will.


Almost a bait because it requires personnal data

If WP-Cron runs important things for you, you better make sure WP-Cron always runs!

Tools for Twitter vs WP-Cron Status Checker