The Shtick Auto-Twitter for Nucleus

Server Requirements

• The Client URL (cURL) Library for PHP. (Most servers with PHP have this, but if there’s a problem, this might be something to check into.)

Upgrade

To upgrade The Shtick Auto-Twitter for Nucleus perform the following steps:

1. Download the plugin's ZIP archive. (See link above.)
2. Unzip the plugin to obtain NP_AutoTwitter.php.
3. Copy NP_AutoTwitter.php to nucleus/plugins/ in your nucleus installation folder (on your webserver), overwriting the existing plugin file.
4. Visit your Nucleus-managed website.
5. Log in as an administrator.
6. Visit the administrative console of your Nucleus-managed website.
7. In the side-bar on the left-hand side of the screen, click on the "plugins" link. (This should bring up the Manage Plugins page.)

After performing these steps The Shtick Auto-Twitter for Nucleus should be upgraded.

Installation

To install The Shtick Auto-Twitter for Nucleus perform the following steps:

1. Download the plugin's ZIP archive. (See link above.)
2. Unzip the plugin to obtain NP_AutoTwitter.php.
3. Copy NP_AutoTwitter.php to nucleus/plugins/ in your nucleus installation folder (on your webserver).
4. Visit your Nucleus-managed website.
5. Log in as an administrator.
6. Visit the administrative console of your Nucleus-managed website.
7. In the side-bar on the left-hand side of the screen, click on the "plugins" link. (This should bring up the Manage Plugins page.)
8. From the page that comes up, scroll down to the "Install New Plugin" section near the bottom.
9. Select AutoTwitter from the drop-down menu in this section and then click on the "Install Plugin" button.

After performing these steps The Shtick Auto-Twitter for Nucleus should be installed. This can be verified by finding it in the list of installed plugins that begins at the top of the page.

Instructions

The first thing one needs in order for a user to make use The Shtick Auto-Twitter for Nucleus, is a Twitter account. Once this basic necessity is provided for a user, the user needs to provide The Shtick Auto-Twitter for Nucleus with the Twitter Account username and password. These can be entered in from the user's profile page. The profile page is available from the sidebar in the nucleus admin area.

Turning on Auto-Twittering.

Once the username and password are entered, a user can turn on and of auto-twittering on comments from the same profile page where the username and password were entered. To turn on and off auto-twittering for blog entries, a blog administrator should visit the "settings" page for the blog. A checkbox is provided from the blog settings page to enable or disable auto-twittering.

Only bloggers who have entered the username and password for a valid twitter account will have their posts automatically tweeted to their accounts.

Customization

The Shtick Auto-Twitter for Nucleus provides the ability to customize the format of tweets using tweet templates. The tweet template for comments can be specified in the user's profile page, whereas the blog entry tweet template can be specified in the blog settings page.

With the template, the text of the tweet is specified, and three wildcards can be used to make the tweets specific to the blog entry they relate to. The default tweet template for a blog comment is as follows:

Commented on %##BLOGNAME##% - %##URL##%

%##BLOGNAME##% and %##URL##% are both wildcards. There are three wildcards total. These wildcards, along with their replacements, are as follows.

• %##BLOGNAME##% - The name of the blog.
• %##TITLE##% - The title of the relevant item.
• %##URL##% - The url of the relevant item.