How to publish your WordPress posts on Twitter

Glub. Blub.

After struggling a lot against many different plugins, I finally managed to interlink my WordPress blog with my Twitter account. The way I was doing before, a website called TwitterFeed had to read my RSS feed every X hours and then create the Twitter posts. Now, thanks to a plugin called WordTwit, my WordPress does it directly.

This is how to do it:

1. Download WordTwit plugin from its official website. Unpack the compressed file into your WordPress plugin folder at
   /wp-content/plugins
2. Upload the new folder using your FTP client.
3. Open your WordPress admin, check if the new plugin is in there, activate it, and proceed to configure it.
4. This new version of WordTwit offers you the possibility of using your own blog‘s URL for the links. It’s neat, but it doesn’t work. Didn’t work for me, didn’t work for a friend of mine, and didn’t work for a lot of people at the plugin’s forum. Something to do with subdirs, whatever. You have to choose one of the other URL shorteners from the list.
5. Most URL-shrinking websites today are shite. For me, the only one that works most of the time is bit.ly – so if you don’t have a bit.ly account yet, create one.
6. Choose bit.ly from the drop-down menu at the plugin configuration page and save the configuration. The config page will be refreshed and you will see a new space to add your bit.ly login name and your API.
7. To get your bit.ly API, just login at their website and click on Account. It’s a small blue link on the right top side of the screen, next to the little blowfishes. The API looks like a long line of random characters like this: UMipGUATFiygaYoMamma
8. Paste the API at the config page.
9. At the bottom of the config page, add your Twitter username and password.

That’s it. After I did all this, the damn thing started working. Now everytime I post something here, its title and link are automatically posted on my Twitter.

Hope this works for you too. If you’re in trouble, drop me a line and I’ll try to help.

Thanks to Leopoldo for the tip and to the entire WordTwit team!