A replacement for TwitPic, yFrog, etc, for hosting your tweeted images on your WordPress blog - as used by Stephen Fry for uploading his Twitter images to his blog! Creates a post per image. I've got instructions for Twitter for iPhone, and for Twitterific for iPhone/iPad.
Each post created by this plugin contains the image (resized) and the text of the tweet (with hashtags linked to Twitter Search, and URLs linked)
Hashtags from the tweet are converted into WordPress tags. Posts are set to the "Image" post format (requires WP 3.1+).
Includes the option to set a specific
Bit.ly account for shortening the URLs of the Tweet Image posts. So if you want to have your tweeted pics on a specific and separate short URL domain from tweeted links, you can do.
Read the Installation instructions for how to set this up on your handheld telephone.
Developers! Developers! Developers! There's lots of handy filters and actions for you to extend this plugin, use a custom post type rather than regular ol' posts, customise the post content, and lots, lots more! Development for this plugin is
hosted on GitHub, feel free to raise bugs and submit pull requests.
Translators: Check out the file in the locale folder, translations welcome! Thanks!
WordPress plugin installation
- Upload
plugin-name.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Make sure you set the Admin > Settings > Permalinks to something other than "default"
Optionally: install
WP Touch, free, or
WP Touch Pro, paid, or a similar WordPress mobile theme to ensure a nice mobile friendly layout for your images.
Instructions below for a couple of Twitter apps I've tested this on. There may be other apps this works with, on platforms I'm not familiar with (e.g. Android, WebOS, etc), feel free to Give It A Go™ and
let me know how you get on, please!
Settings for Twitter for iPhone
- Launch Twitter for iPhone
- Tap on the three dots bottom right ("•••")
- Tap on "Accounts & Settings"
- Tap on "Settings" (bottom left)
- Tap on "Services" (you might need to swipe down the screen to find it)
- Tap on "Image Service"
- Tap on "Custom…"
- Still with me?
- Clear any value in the form field, and copy/paste the value from your "Endpoint" field in your WordPress user profile into the "Image Service API Endpoint" field... you might find it easier to copy the text into an email on your iPhone, copy it from the iPhone Mail app and paste into the field (here's a cheesy man showing you how to copy/paste)
- Tap "Save"
- You're done… Phew!
Settings for Twitterific on iPhone/iPad
- Launch Twitterific
- Go to create a new Tweet
- Tap on the Camera icon on the right
- Choose "Change Upload Service"
- Tap "Other" at the bottom
- Nearly there…
- Clear any value in the form field, and copy/paste the value from your "Endpoint" field in your WordPress user profile into the "Image Service API Endpoint" field... you might find it easier to copy the text into an email on your iPhone, copy it from the iPhone Mail app and paste into the field (here's a cheesy man showing you how to copy/paste)
- Tap the "Upload Service" back button top left
- Tap "Done" top right
- Yep, you're done now… tweet away!
Settings for Tweetbot for iPhone
- Launch Tweetbot for iPhone
- Navigate to the "Accounts" screen (keep tapping top left button), if you aren't already there
- Tap on the "Settings" button
- Under "Account Settings", tap on the account you want to set up
- Tap on "Image Upload"
- Tap on "Custom" (towards the bottom of the list)
- Clear any value in the form field, and copy/paste the value from your "Endpoint" field in your WordPress user profile into the "Image Service API Endpoint" field... you might find it easier to copy the text into an email on your iPhone, copy it from the iPhone Mail app and paste into the field (here's a cheesy man showing you how to copy/paste)
- Tap "Done"
- Tap the top left back button a few times to get back to the "Accounts" screen
- You're done… Phew!