My Trending Post

Automatically searches the Trending Topic on Twitter and send a tweet with a link to an article related in your blog

Author:Jean-Marc BIANCA (tranchesdunet) (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.1
WordPress version tested:3.4.2
Plugin version:0.2
Added to WordPress repository:16-07-2012
Last updated:30-07-2012
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:http://www.tranchesdunet.com/my-trending-post
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My Trending Post is a plugin which search for Trending Topics on Twitter every hour. It then compare the Trending Topics with
your post’s blog and send a tweet with a link to your post if it match with the topic.

Features:

  • An automatic tweet from a user defined twitter account, with a link related to one of your blog’s post and the World trending topic (the plugin will check for Trending Topics every hours)
  • An hashtag will be added after the link, with the matched’s topic
  • A smart algorithm to separate concatenated camel words (e.g. #10FavouriteBands ==> 10 Favourite Bands) and so increase the matching between yours posts and the trending topics (often concatenated)
  • The post sent will be flagged and so won’t be sent again until 7 days
  • The possibility of excluding one or more categories of article to be tweeted (Now available in the Lite version)

Additionaly, if you get the Full Version, you will have:

  • The Zone choice between World and any other countries covered by Twitter Trending Topics
  • The possibility of enabling/disabling the sending of the tweets
  • The possibility of enabling/disabling the sending of an email for each tweet sent (with email address and title settings)
  • The possibility of adding a text before the link in the tweet (like hashtag or everything else)
  • The possibility of adding a text after the link in the tweet (like hashtag or everything else)
  • The possibility to use an url shortener in your tweets (tinyurl or Bit.ly) to prevent exceeding the 140char limit of Twitter
  • The choice of a delay before retweeting the same article
  • The possibility of excluding one or more categories of article to be tweeted

Note on the support:
For better support, I will only answer question/suggestion/etc through a dedicaced page on my website : www.tranchesdunet.com/my-trending-post
You can post either in english or french (preferably).

Disclaimer:
This plugin use the Twitter API as it is free. I will not be responsible if the Twitter API become unfree and so, bring to an end of working.

Feel free to test it and report any bugs/suggestions

Be sure to check out my other plugin:


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