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Twitt-Twoo 1.1

Twitt-Twoo is a simple little plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. AJAX takes cares of the hard work, and means that your page doens’t even have to reload, allowing for quick and easy status updates.

Features

• Displays your latest Twitter status, and when it was last updated.
• Displays your Twitter icon/avatar next your status.
• Allows for easy updating of your status from the sidebar.
• Updates using AJAX, so no page reload is required.
• Provides a link to your personal Twitter page. eg. http://twitter.com/deanjrobinson
• Provides a link to your Twitter RSS feed.
• Simple options page located in admin Options->Twitt-Twoo
• Provides a ready-to-use widget/module.
• Comes with a new Twitt-Twoo icon, inspired by the Feed and Share Icon projects.
• NEW – Caches your last ‘Tweet’, to improve page load times.
• NEW – Option to hide your Twitter image if you want to.

Twitt-Twoo in action

You can see it at work at the top of my sidebar on the right hand side. The images below outline the simple task of updating your Twitter status.

	This is how your status will be displayed in your sidebar, as you can see it shows your status, your icon/avatar and when your status was last updated.
	After clicking on the ‘edit’ button you will be shown the field to enter your new status into, when your done click the ‘update’ button.
	You will be shown a little ’spinner’ to indicate that your status is being updated.
	Once your status has been successfully updated, you new status will be shown.

Installation

1. Download the zip file and extract the contents.
2. Upload to your wp-content/plugins directory.
3. Activate Twitt-Twoo from plugins page in Wordpress admin.
4. Go to options->Twitt-Twoo in your Wordpress admin and enter your settings so that Twitt-Twoo know whos Twitter to show, and update.
5. If you use the sidebar widget plugin then you should now have a Twitt-Twoo widget available for you to add to your sidebar. This also applies to users of k2-based themes such as K2, Reodable and Unwakable.
6. If you prefer to manually edit your sidebar.php then this is the code that you will need to add:

   <?php if (function_exists(’twitttwoo_display’)) { $twitt_twoo_user_name = get_option(’twitt_twoo_user_name’); ?>
   <div class=’sb_twitttwoo’>
   <h2><a href=’http://twitter.com/<?php echo $twitt_twoo_user_name; ?>’ target=’_blank’>Twitt-Twoo</a></h2>
   <div>
   <?php twitttwoo_display(); ?>
   </div>
   </div>
   <?php } ?>

   – OR –

7. If you wish to insert your own structure around the Twitt-Twoo output, you can just use this:

   <?php twitttwoo_display(); ?>

8. Enjoy.

Download

Please note that this plugin uses the json_decode function which is only found in PHP5, so if you aren’t running PHP5, then you won’t be able to use this plugin. Sorry for this restriction, I am working to find a way around it at the moment.

You can grab the download over at the current official Twitt-Twoo page at http://www.deanjrobinson.com/wordpress/twitt-twoo