Plugin info

Total downloads: 6,542
Active installs: 90
Total reviews: 2
Average rating: 4.5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 2
Last updated: 7/25/2019 (2351 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 8/25/2012 (13 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.1
Tested up to WordPress version: 5.2.21
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 2351 days ago • 2 reviews

22/100

Is DsgnWrks Twitter Importer abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 2351 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.1
Tested up to: 5.2.21
Requires PHP: f

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Description

In the spirit of WordPress and “owning your data,” this plugin will allow you to import and backup your tweets to your WordPress site. Includes robust options to allow you to control the imported posts formatting including built-in support for WordPress custom post-types, custom taxonomies, post-formats. Add an unlimited number of user accounts for backup and importing.

Plugin is built with developers in mind and has many filters to manipulate the imported posts.

1.1.0: Updated to work with the Twitter 1.1 API. Uses the TwitterWP library.

Like this plugin? Checkout the DsgnWrks Instagram Importer. Feel free to fork this plugin on github.

Installation

  1. Upload the dsgnwrks-twitter-importer directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Visit the plugin settings page (/wp-admin/tools.php?page=dw-twitter-importer-settings) to add your twitter usernames and import your tweets.

Frequently Asked Questions

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If you run into a problem or have a question, contact me (contact form or @jtsternberg on twitter). I’ll add them here.

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Screenshots

  1. Welcome Panel.

    Welcome Panel.

  2. After adding a user, this is the options panel you'll be presented with. If you select a custom post-type in the post-type selector, the options may change based on the post-type's supports, as well as any custom taxonomies.

    After adding a user, this is the options panel you'll be presented with. If you select a custom post-type in the post-type selector, the options may change based on the post-type's supports, as well as any custom taxonomies.

Changelog

1.1.4

  • Import full tweet text by default. Props oddevan, #2.
  • Update TwitterText dependency.
  • Fix photo/tweet typo

1.1.3

  • Add cron/auto-import feature.
  • Use TwitterText lib to parse tweent text and add links, replace urls with tweet entities etc.
  • Use twitter text for post-title/slug instead of just timestamp.
  • Allow setting to post-format even if theme doesn’t support.
  • Only set timezone during import if we have one set in WP settings

1.1.2

  • Update the TwitterWP library to fix url encoding issues.

1.1.1

  • Add dw_twitter_api_get_tweets filter for overriding the TwitterWP method for getting tweets. This enables importing from favorites/lists, etc.

1.1.0

  • Updated to work with the Twitter 1.1 API. Uses the TwitterWP library.

1.0.2

  • Fixed incorrectly named function

1.0.1

  • Fixed a bug where imported tweet times could be set to the future

1.0

  • Launch.