Implement Twitter Connect with Twit Connect
Implement Twitter Connect, check. This is somewhat old news as Twitter Connect or “Sign in with Twitter” has been out for quite some time via the Twitter API. For some reason it has been slightly quiet about it, not your regular boom-blast and video tutorials that we saw with the Facebook Connect release. It’s understandable though, as Facebook handles a significant higher portion of (personal) data.
I tried the Twit Connect plugin for Wordpress to do my implementation. I believe it’s the first of its kind, at least for Wordpress, created by Shannon Whitley. He has also written a short tutorial on how you go about implementing Twit Connect on your Wordpress site. Sebastien Couture wrote another one on the same topic.
Getting it to work properly is really easy and straight forward. All you need to do is register an application with Twitter to obtain your consumer key and consumer secret. You’ll need this for the plugin settings later. Once you’ve entered all necessary information on the settings page for Twit Connect, you’re good to go. How’s that for out-of-the-box? Oh, if you get a “Can’t open secret file” when you try to save your settings it’s because of the file permissions of the files in your twitconnect folder.
The only negative feedback I have is that it seems to be ‘early beta’ for Twit Connect. It works as intended, sure – but it’s quite messy if you want to modify it in any way. I’m no whizkid when it comes to CSS, and as it’s all integrated in the twitconnect.php – it makes it a bit of a hassle. I’d prefer a separate CSS for the next release! I also wonder if it would be possible to have a Twitter user’s comment tweeted out on Twitter? Similar to wall posting via FB-connect. That’d be neat too.
Anyway, you’ll notice the ‘Sign in with Twitter’-button right below the FB-connect dito in posts now. You can use both to sign in and make comments without entering your details. Try it out!
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Tags: Social Media, Twitter, Twitter Connect, Wordpress, Wordpress 2.7, Wordpress Plugins
2009/05/26 at 12:07 :
Thanks for the shout out :)
seb
2009/05/31 at 12:39 :
hello checking if this works
2009/06/30 at 05:34 :
This is test comment.
Please check on twitter
2009/07/18 at 05:01 :
The only problem Im having is logging out. When I log out, I get an error saying there is a problem logging out (only via post pages). It logs out fine from the WP User panel.
2009/09/15 at 00:53 :
As I see there's still a good portion of traffic to this post; I'd just like to make everyone aware that I'm using Disqus these days to handle comments on this blog. It's a great system that now also incorporates sign-on via both Twitter and FB, highly recommendable!
2009/10/05 at 20:37 :
i tried to use Twit Connect but i am not getting the twitter images… or Logged in as @rajmahendra message or post as @rajmahendra or even Tweet this comment as @rajmahendra in my comment form… Are you using any other plugin ?
2009/10/07 at 11:17 :
Hey Rajmahendra,
Yeah as I said in the comment I'm not using Twit Connect anymore but a system called “Disqus” instead these days. Twit Connect required a lot of tweaking and was something I only used before Disqus had integrated the Twitter Connect API into its own system. I'd encourage you to check out Disqus!
2009/10/07 at 11:17 :
Hey Rajmahendra,
Yeah as I said in the comment I'm not using Twit Connect anymore but a system called “Disqus” instead these days. Twit Connect required a lot of tweaking and was something I only used before Disqus had integrated the Twitter Connect API into its own system. I'd encourage you to check out Disqus!
2009/10/27 at 11:13 :
nice
2010/01/14 at 07:15 :
this comment if from twitter
2010/02/18 at 10:35 :
What advantage would using twit connect have over using say Disqus?
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