Description

Automatically tweets the post title or custom message and a link to the post.

Note: Posts and pages are supported by default. Developers can use the autoshare_for_twitter_default_post_types filter to change the default supported post types

Custom post types can now be opted into autoshare features like so:

function opt_my_cpt_into_autoshare() {
    add_post_type_support( 'my-cpt', 'autoshare-for-twitter' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'opt_my_cpt_into_autoshare' );

In addition, adding support while registering custom post types also works. Post types are automatically set to autoshare. Future versions of this plugin could allow this to be set manually.

While the autoshare feature can be opted into for post types using the above filter, by default the editor still has to manually enable autoshare during the post prepublish flow. The autoshare_for_twitter_enabled_default filter allows autoshare to be enabled by default for all posts of a given post type. Editors can still manually uncheck the option during the publishing flow.

Example:

function enable_autoshare_by_default_for_core_post_type( $enabled, $post_type ) {
    if ( 'post' === $post_type ) {
        return true;
    }

    return $enabled;
}
add_filter( 'autoshare_for_twitter_enabled_default', 'enable_autoshare_by_default_for_core_post_type', 10, 2 );

Additional technical details can be found in our GitHub repository.

Disclaimer: TWITTER, TWEET, RETWEET and the Twitter logo are trademarks of Twitter, Inc. or its affiliates.

Screenshots

Autoshare for Twitter Settings, found under Settings > Autoshare for Twitter.
Create post screen with Autoshare for Twitter options.
Published post screen with Autoshare for Twitter options.

Installation

Install the plugin via the plugin installer, either by searching for it or uploading a .ZIP file.
Activate the plugin.
Save Twitter connection settings, found under Settings > Autoshare for Twitter.

FAQ

Does this plugin work with Gutenberg?: Yes, yes it does! For more details on this, see #44.

Reviews

Kori Ashton ഏപ്രിൽ 26, 2020

Did a full review of this plugin on my YouTube channel. There are several steps to getting it securely linked to your Twitter account, but there are step-by-step instructions on how to do that successfully. Loved it and highly recommend it.

Read all 1 review

Contributors & Developers

“Autoshare for Twitter” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Translate “Autoshare for Twitter” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.3.0 – 2023-01-19

Added: “Tweet now” functionality (props @Sidsector9, @iamdharmesh, @cadic, @jeffpaul, @linawiezkowiak, @oszkarnagy via #188).
Added: Toggle for adding/removing featured image from the tweet (props @Sidsector9, @iamdharmesh, @cadic, @jeffpaul, @linawiezkowiak, @oszkarnagy via #188).
Added: Show Twitter status logs for the draft post if the post has been switched back to Draft from Published, and has already been Tweeted (props @iamdharmesh, @faisal-alvi, @jeffpaul, @linawiezkowiak, @oszkarnagy via #215).
Added: Plugin screenshots to readme files (props @iamdharmesh via #218).
Changed: UI Improvements in Tweet status (props @Sidsector9, @iamdharmesh, @cadic, @jeffpaul, @linawiezkowiak, @oszkarnagy via #188).
Changed: UI Improvements in tweet message character count (props @iamdharmesh, @Sidsector9, @ravinderk, @jeffpaul, @linawiezkowiak, @oszkarnagy via #214).
Changed: Run GitHub Action workflows only when it required (props @iamdharmesh, @peterwilsoncc via #204).
Changed: Migrated Cypress from 9.0.0 to 11.2.0 (props @iamdharmesh, @Sidsector9 via #205).
Changed: Run E2E tests on the zip generated by “Build release zip” action (props @iamdharmesh, @dkotter, @Sidsector9 via #206).
Fixed: E2E tests fail in the CI with warm cache (props @cadic, @iamdharmesh via #212).
Security: Bump decode-uri-component from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2 (props @dependabot, @iamdharmesh via #208).
Security: Bump simple-git from 3.14.1 to 3.15.1 (props @dependabot, @iamdharmesh via #210).

1.2.1 – 2022-12-07

Note that this release bumps the WordPress minimum from 5.3 to 5.7 and PHP minimum from 7.2 to 7.4.

Added: “PR Automator” GitHub Action (props @iamdharmesh, @Sidsector9, @jeffpaul via #194, #196).
Added: “Build release zip” GitHub Action (props @iamdharmesh, @dkotter via #201).
Changed: Bump minimum PHP version from 7.2 to 7.4 (props @Sidsector9, @iamdharmesh, @vikrampm1 via #197).
Changed: Bump minimum WordPress version from 5.3 to 5.7 (props @Sidsector9, @iamdharmesh, @vikrampm1 via #197).
Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.1 (props @iamdharmesh, @peterwilsoncc via #200).
Changed: Support Level from Active to Stable (props @jeffpaul, @dkotter via #195).
Security: Bump json-schema from 0.2.3 to 0.4.0 (props @dependabot, @peterwilsoncc via #189).
Security: Bump jsprim from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 (props @dependabot, @peterwilsoncc via #189).
Security: Bump simple-git from 2.47.0 to 3.14.1 (props @dependabot, @iamdharmesh via #192).
Security: Bump @wordpress/env from 4.1.3 to 5.3.0 (props @dependabot, @iamdharmesh, @faisal-alvi via #191, #192).
Security: Bump got from 10.7.0 to 11.8.5 (props @dependabot, @faisal-alvi via #191).

1.2.0 – 2022-09-28

Note that this release bumps the WordPress minimum from 4.9 to 5.3.

Added: AutoTweet panel in editor sidebar and pre-publish panel to manage enabling/disabling tweet on publish (props @iamdharmesh, @jeffpaul, @linawiezkowiak, @oszkarnagy, @cadic via #177).
Changed Bump minimum required WordPress version to 5.3 (props @iamdharmesh via #177).
Changed Updates in CONTRIBUTING.md file (props @iamdharmesh, @jeffpaul via #172).
Changed Update plugin icons (props @iamdharmesh, @jeffpaul via #174).
Security: Bump terser from 4.3.1 to 4.8.1 (props @dependabot via #184).

1.1.2 – 2022-06-24

Added: Cypress E2E tests (props @iamdharmesh, @jeffpaul, @Sidsector9).
Added: Handle tweeting from staging/testing/local environments to prevent accidental tweets (props @dinhtungdu, @iamdharmesh, @peterwilsoncc, @jeffpaul).
Added: Dependency security scanning (props @jeffpaul, @iamdharmesh).
Changed Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.0 (props @iamdharmesh, @vikrampm1, @jeffpaul, @Sidsector9).
Fixed: Incorrect Tweet this post checkbox behavior in the Classic Editor (props @iamdharmesh, @cadic).
Fixed: “Plugin asset/readme update” GitHub Action failure (props @iamdharmesh, @dkotter, @jeffpaul).

1.1.1 – 2022-04-13

Fixed: If Autoshare is enabled by default, it does not consider the post-level “Tweet this post” checkbox and always tweets (props @iamdharmesh, @Sidsector9).

1.1.0 – 2022-04-13

Added: Colored icons to represent autoshare status (props @linawiezkowiak, @oszkarnagy, @Sidsector9, @dinhtungdu).
Added: Sample copy for example responses (props @iamdharmesh, @Sidsector9, @jeffpaul).
Added: PHP 8 compatibility (props @Sidsector9, @faisal-alvi).
Added: E2E Tests with Cypress (props @thrijith, @iamdharmesh, @dinhtungdu, @jeffpaul).
Changed: Update dependency abraham/twitteroauth from 1.2.0 to 2.0.0 to ensure PHP 8.0 support (props @Sidsector9, @faisal-alvi).
Changed: App setup instructions for getting API keys and tokens (props @iamdharmesh, @Sidsector9, @jeffpaul).
Changed: Bump WordPress version “tested up to” 5.9 (props @iamdharmesh, @Sidsector9, @sudip-10up).
Fixed: Warning thrown on activating plugin for the first time (props @Sidsector9, @dinhtungdu).
Fixed: CI pipeline failures (props @dkotter, @iamdharmesh, @Sidsector9).
Security: Bump ajv from 6.10.2 to 6.12.6 (props @dependabot).
Security: Bump tar from 4.4.8 to 4.4.19 (props @dependabot).
Security: Bump ini from 1.3.5 to 1.3.8 (props @dependabot).

1.0.6 – 2020-09-19

Note: this was a hotfix release to fix an issue with deploys to WordPress.org.

1.0.5 – 2021-09-15

Added: Tweeted status column to All Posts table list view (props @thrijith, @dinhtungdu, @linawiezkowiak, @oszkarnagy, @jeffpaul).
Changed: Bump WordPress version “tested up to” 5.8 (props @thrijith, @barneyjeffries, @jeffpaul).
Changed: WP Snapshot for auotmated testing to WP 5.6 (props @dinhtungdu, @jeffpaul).
Changed: Update dependency abraham/twitteroauth from ^0.7.4 to 1.2.0 to ensure PHP 7.4 support and WordPress VIP Go compatability (props @thrijith, @dinhtungdu, @rickalee).
Changed: Update PHPUnit test cases to include new functions (props @thrijith).
Fixed: Ensure that special characters are properly encoded (props @dinhtungdu, @rickalee).
Security: Bump lodash from 4.17.15 to 4.17.21 (props @dependabot).
Security: Bump elliptic from 6.5.1 to 6.5.4 (props @dependabot).
Security: Bump yargs-parser from 13.1.1 to 13.1.2 (props @dependabot).
Security: Bump ini from 1.3.5 to 1.3.7 (props @dependabot).
Security: Bump y18n from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 (props @dependabot).
Security: Bump ssri from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2 (props @dependabot).
Security: Bump rmccue/requests from 1.7.0 to 1.8.0 (props @dependabot).
Security: Bump hosted-git-info from 2.8.4 to 2.8.9 (props @dependabot).
Security: Bump browserslist from 4.7.0 to 4.16.6 (props @dependabot).
Security: Bump path-parse from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 (props @dependabot).

1.0.4 – 2020-07-02

Note: this was a hotfix release to fix an issue with included libraries.

1.0.3 – 2020-07-01

Added: autoshare_for_twitter_disable_on_transition_post_status filter to disable tweeting based on post status change (props @rickalee)
Changed: Bumped WordPress version support to 5.4.2 (props @dinhtungdu, @jeffpaul)
Changed: Build, test, and release processes (props @johnwatkins0, @dinhtungdu)
**Fixed:*# Enable autoshare meta always set to 0 when saving draft (props @dinhtungdu, @rickalee)

1.0.2 – 2020-03-12

Added: WP Acceptance tests (props @johnwatkins0)
Changed: New and improved settings page UX (props @dinhtungdu, @jeffpaul, @johnwatkins0, @linawiezkowiak, @oszkarnagy)
Fixed: Bug that caused posts to be inadvertently tweeted when switching from draft to publish (props @johnwatkins0, @rickalee)
Fixed: Build script in release process (props @johnwatkins0)

1.0.1 – 2020-02-03

Added: autoshare_for_twitter_enabled_default filter to allow autoshare to be enabled by default for a post type (props @johnwatkins0, @rickalee, @dinhtungdu)
Changed: bypass character texturization when the post title is tweeted (props @johnwatkins0, @rickalee)
Removed: second instance of the autoshare_for_twitter_tweet filter (props @johnwatkins0)

1.0.0 – 2019-12-17

Added: Initial public release! 🎉
Added: Plugin renamed to “Autoshare for Twitter”
Added: Support Post and Page post types by default, provide Custom Post Type (props @johnwatkins0)
Added: Gutenberg support (props @johnwatkins0)
Added: REST API endpoint to replace AJAX callback (props @johnwatkins0)
Added: Build process, PHPCS linting, unit tests, and Travis CI (props @johnwatkins0, @adamsilverstein)
Added: Plugin banner and icon images (props Stephanie Campbell)
Changed: Refactor v0.1.0 significantly (props @adamsilverstein, @johnwatkins0, @jeffpaul)
Security: XSS prevention – switch from .innerHTML to text (props @adamsilverstein)

0.1.0 – 2018-05-11

Initial private release (props @scottlee)