It’s in Dev Projects.

I just noticed that spell-check is flagging the terms “SEO”, “WordPress”, and “plugin”. You’d think they’d be commonplace enough by now that they’d be included in those dictionaries by default.

Anyway, the plugin is here: Tweetmeme Retweet Button.

Today was a very lazy sunday, but I managed to get a little something accomplished. Check out the Development Projects section and download my single-file script that lets you upload an image and automatically send a tweet to it, or just Download Here. It’s very basic, and now that I think about it, really open to abuse, because anyone with a valid twitter username and password can use it. I guess if anyone actually uses it, or I get bored enough again, I’ll add some more features like URL-shortening services or more security. Right now, the length of your message is limited by the length of your domain name and the directory the script resides in.

You can see (and use, I’ll leave it up until it starts getting abused) a live demo here: Image Upload and Tweet. Let me know if you find any bugs, please!

Anyway, blah blah blah, here’s the cleaned up source code:

Easy PHP Image Hosting Script

I took out the random image generator, because that uses mysql to store the array of images to randomly cycle through. This is 100% standalone, it’s easy, and it works. Well, it works for me.  There you go.

GD seems to handle animated gif thumbnails better — sure, it’s static, but it’s relatively clean.  Imagemagick looks like it just barfs everything up when you try to use it with GIFs.  Maybe I need to apply some hacks to Gallery2?

I Draw Too Much hasn’t had anything new in a while.  I was futzing around with the watermarking feature (when it’s applied to transparent PNGs/GIFs, it screws up when you use GD).  I’m not all that paranoid about it and I doubt that many people are going to try and steal my drawings, but whatever.  I have the turtle copywritten, although to be honest, I’d really prefer if somebody stole it and made money off it so I could just sue them and not have to do much work.  I draw too much.

Stuff I plan on doing:

• Aforementioned Gallery2 tweaks to allow different image processors on different albums.
• Better Wordpress/Gallery2 interaction; WPG2 or whatever it’s called is decent, but rather buggy and picky about certain things.  I couldn’t get it to function properly/the way I wanted it to, so I’m going to write my own damn version.  All I want is new images to appear in a widget!
• Clean up, genericize, and post the source code to my image hosting thing.  Should I leave in the image display randomizer thing?  It’s mainly geared towards forum signatures I guess, but you could use it in any instance that you wanted to have an image displayed randomly.  Maybe I’ll just release both.

I modified the code from The original twitter updater and the twitter update with tinyURL API integration.

Unfortunately there seems to be a duplicate posting issue – The issue comes from wordpress’s automatic revision saving feature. If you’re affected, put define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false); in wp-config. I don’t see any other way to fix it, but when I do, I’ll post it.

1. Download the plugin (see above link.)
2. Unzip the compressed file to your hard drive.
3. Upload the “twitter_updater” folder to your wp-content/plugins folder.
4. Browse to the Plugins page under wp-admin and activate the plugin.
5. Setting the options: Browse to Manage->Twitter Updater.
6. On this page, you can set any options you would like to.