Tweetpress now supports the hugely popular iPhone Twitter client Tweetie. Here are the steps to set up TweetPress and Tweetie.
Configure TweetPress
- Set you blog permissions. As of version 2.0.2, Tweetpress requires that your wp-content directory is 777 during install. This is because Tweetpress needs to make a folder to store your images in. Once this folder is made, you can set the wp-content permissions back to 755. Just make sure the Tweetpress directory remains 777 (as well as the sub directory). If you change it back, Tweetpress might yell at you but it will still work as long as wp-content/tweetpress is writable (777). I hope to change this in the future.
- Download and install the TweetPress plugin on your WordPress site.
- Configure TweetPress. In your WordPress admin, navigate to Settings -> Tweetpress.
- Select a page from the drop down for your gallery to appear on. If you don’t select a page, Tweetpress will try to use your homepage. You may want to create a separate “Gallery” page for the plugin to go on. Note, the “Posting Requires a WordPress account” checkbox is not applicable for Tweetie.
- Add your Twitter username
- Add your Twitter password
- Click “Save Twitter settings”
- Select a page from the drop down for your gallery to appear on. If you don’t select a page, Tweetpress will try to use your homepage. You may want to create a separate “Gallery” page for the plugin to go on. Note, the “Posting Requires a WordPress account” checkbox is not applicable for Tweetie.
Configure Tweetie
- Open your Tweetie settings
- Tap Image Service
- Tap Custom…
- In the Image Service API Endpoint type in the URL to the homepage of your blog. Note, this is NOT your gallery page. Also, and this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If WordPress is installed in a sub-directory (ie http://brandontreb.com/blog), you need to include the /index.php at the end. This is a weird WordPress issue. So, as an example, if wordpress is installed at http://brandontreb.com/blog, I would want to enter http://brandontreb.com/blog/index.php.
- Tap Save
- Upload photos as usual and forget about Twitpic!
Troubleshooting
1. The most common issues are related to file permissions. If you are having a problem, check to make sure that the tweetpress directory has been created inside your wp-content folder. If not, try manually creating a folder named tweetpress inside of wp-content. Set its file permissions to 777. Then, create a folder inside of the tweetpress folder. Name it thumbs. Make sure its file permissions are set to 777.
2. Another problem could be that WordPress is having trouble with the upload. Try adding /index.php to your web address in the Tweetie custom image settings. Again, this is very important if WordPress is installed in a directory that is not the root.
3. Uninstall and reinstall. Sounds dumb, but this is always a good step when troubleshooting plugin issues.
4. Make sure you are up-to-date on your Tweetpress and WordPress installations.
So, one thing I want to mention. Wordpress is a very large application with many different configuration options. I have tried to cover all types of installations with TweetPress. If Tweetpress is not working for you, don’t bug Loren, send me an email at brandontreb [at] gmail [dot] com. Include the following information:
- If WP is installed in the root directory or a sub-directory
- The URL rewrite settings your are using (if any). this is also known as your permalink structure.
- The location of your blog and gallery page (so I can check it out)
- Any other info you think might be helpful
You can also ping me on Twitter.
Thanks for checking out Tweetpress and please send me all of your suggestions for features. While I won’t get to all of them, I will certainly add the one’s that are most requested. So feel free to send me any and all suggestions.
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Tags: image service api endpoint, iphone, tweetie, tweetpress, twitpic, wordpress, wordpress plugin
Only thing I really miss Tweetpress is the fact that there is no actual tweet present beside the photo you publish. And the form for sending tweets at the top of the gallery looks ugly as hell.
Any hint on the format of the username/password in the Image Service API Endpoint field? I can’t seem to get it to work no matter what combination I use. It does work wonderfully in Twittelator Pro, but then they have fields for username/password in the settings…
I think Tweetpress has issues with using an upload directory that is not the WordPress default. Is this the case?
What if my ISP won’t allow 777 file permissions?
I’ve done all this and I still get “error could not post image” any other ideas? I really want to get this working.
Very nice plugin! I’m using it for a while now, but where are my old pictures going to? After setting the max thumbnails, I expected to get paging after the max thumbnails is reached on a page. But there is no paging
the older images/thumbnails don’t show up anymore. How can I fix this without setting the increasing the thumbnail option again.
@Tarmaa – It’s in the works. There are quite a few updates I have for Tweetpress (this being one of them), but I simply don’t have the time at the moment.
Be sure to check back on my blog (or just use the RSS feed) and I will post as soon as tweetpress gets an update.
@Brandontreb
Thanks for the fast reply, I’m gonna wait for it!!!
Greets
+1 for pagination!
Is it there? Or do you mean you would like the option also
Did I miss something?
Why am I getting a “Post To Twitter” box on my page?
How do I remove it?
http://www.evancourtney.com/twitter-photos/
I love the concept…it’ll upload to my photo uploads page, but won’t update twitter? Also, on the uploads page, it just includes the photo with no text?
How can I upload to twitter simultaneously? How can I get the twitter text on my uploads page?
Matt, what Twitter client are you using?
If it is not too complicated to integrate into the plugin, i would be sooo great to have a rss-feed delivering the links to the uploaded photos.
Btw: very goood plugin! Thx!
Cheers
Jens