Twitter Settings
The settings for the Twitter Auto Publish are given below.
Click on the Twitter Auto Publish plugin menu in the left menu bar to get the settings page.
The twitter settings are given below.
You have to create a Twitter application before filling the Twitter settings fields.
To create a new Twitter application follow the link
1. Enable auto publish posts to my Twitter account – If you want to publish your blog posts on Twitter automatically, enable this option.
2. API Key – Here enter the API key from the Twitter application.
3. API secret – Enter the API secret here.
4. Twitter username – Enter your Twitter username here.
5. Access token – Here you can enter the Twitter application access token.
6. Access token secret – Enter the access token secret here.
7. Message format for posting – This is the message format for posting on Twitter. You can add your message with the post title, blog title, etc. here. The codes are given below.
- {BLOG_TITLE} – This is the title of the blog (WordPress site name)
- {POST_TITLE} – Title of your post
- {PERMALINK} – This is the URL of the post.
- {POST_EXCERPT} – This is the summary of your post.
- {POST_CONTENT} – This is the description of the post.
- {USER_NICENAME} – This is the nice name of the author.
- {POST_ID} – This is the ID of the post
- {POST_PUBLISH_DATE} – This is the post publish date.
- {USER_DISPLAY_NAME} – This is the user display name.
8. Attach image to Twitter post – If you want to attach images with the Twitter post, use this option. A sample image is given below.
9. Twitter character limit – We can set the Twitter character limit here. The limit is 280. For some languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean, the character limit is 140.
After entering the details, please save them.
Steps for using smapsolutions app
Please select the approved app option(SMAPsolution.com’s App (ready to publish)) and click on the connect to xyzscripts account button.
Now it will display a popup to login to xyzscripts or register to xyzscripts.
If you are creating a new account, it will send a confirmation mail to the registered email, and click on the confirmation link.
After confirming the email, please save it and click on the “authorize” button.
Now it will ask you to select the package.
After purchasing the package and successful payment it will redirect to the Twitter authorization flow.
Now click on the Authorize app button.
After authorization is completed, the connected Twitter account username will be listed.
Click the continue button, it will redirect to the Twitter settings page.
Manage Authorization
Note: This section is applicable only if you are using the smapsolutions app and the account once authorized.
In this section, we can see all the authorizations done for the smapsolutions app.
We can see all the authorizations or the wp installation authorization.
We can delete the authorization if you want.