Twitter Mentions As Comments

Twitter Mentions as Comments does exactly what it promises to do – scours Twitter for people talking about your blog posts and silently inserts their Tweets alongside your existing comments. The plugin leverages the power of WordPress’s built-in commenting system – notification, comment moderation, author white/black listing – making Twitter an extension of your blog.

Features

• Searches for Tweets linking to your blog posts, regardless of the URL shortener used (using Twitter’s Search API)
• Pushes Tweets into WordPress’s existing comment workflow – notifications, comment moderation, and author whitelists/blacklists work just like any other comment
• Fetches user’s real name and profile picture and links directly to the original Tweet
• Checks automatically – no need to do a thing
• Option to automatically exclude ReTweets
• Option to store tweets as trackbacks/pingbacks
• Option to specify which posts to check (e.g., 10 most recent posts, all posts, front page only)
• Smart Caching of Tweets and user data – retrieves only what it needs to save on API calls and server load

Planned Features

• Dynamic resizing of Twitter profile images to fit WordPress theme
• Prioritization of newer posts
• Oauth Authentication to raise API limit (currently unlimited Tweets, but limited to 150 new comment authors per hour)
• Smarter API throttling

You can see it in action on the WP Resume Plugin page.

Questions? Comments? Feature Requests? Have a great idea? Please see where to get support or report an issue and how to contribute.

Developers, have a killer feature you’d love to see included? Feel free to fork the project on GitHub and submit your contributions via pull request.

Enjoy using Twitter Mentions as Comments? Feel free to make a small donation to support the software’s continued development.

[Photo via joshsemans]

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Enjoy using Twitter Mentions as Comments? Please consider making a small donation to support the project’s continued development.

How To Contribute

Twitter Mentions as Comments is an open source project and is supported by the efforts of an entire community. We’d love for you to get involved. Whatever your level of skill or however much time you can give, your contribution is greatly appreciated.

• Everyone – help expand the projects documentation wiki to make it easier for other users to get started
• Users – download the latest development version of the plugin, and submit bug/feature requests.
• Non-English Speaking Users – Contribute a translation using the GlotPress web interface – no technical knowledge required (how to).
• Developers – Fork the development version and submit a pull request, especially for any known issues

Where To Get Support Or Report An Issue

There are various resources available, depending on the type of help you’re looking for:

• For getting started and general documentation, please browse, and feel free to contribute to the project wiki.

• For support questions (“How do I”, “I can’t seem to”, etc.) please search and if not already answered, open a thread in the Support Forums.

• For technical issues (e.g., to submit a bug or feature request) please search and if not already filed, open an issue on GitHub.

• For implementation, and all general questions (“Is it possible to..”, “Has anyone…”), please search, and if not already answered, post a topic to the general discussion list serve