Wordpress Twitter Tool – How to change ‘New Blog Post:’ when new posts are tweeted?

Twitter Tools lets you integrates your blog with Twitter, so that every time you publish an article, it is automatically sent to Twitter. Even better, it can setup a daily and weekly blog post listing all the tweets you sent. One small thing is that the default setting for the blog posts is “New Blog Post”. Luckily, you can change this. Here’s how.

What it does

Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 10 minutes)
Create a blog post from each of your tweets
Create a daily or weekly digest post of your tweets
Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
Post a tweet from your sidebar
Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)

It’s brilliant except for one small detail. Every post from your site shows up in Twitter with ‘New Blog Post:’ as its prefix. Luckily, it’s easy to change this (once you know how!)

How do I change the ‘New Blog Post:’ prefix when my new posts get tweeted?

You have to change one line in the plug-in file.

1. Click Plugins.

2. Select Twitter-tools.

3. Look for the file – twitter-tools.php.

This is located in Plugins/twitter-tools/twitter-tools.php.

4. Scroll down to $this->tweet_prefix=”New Blog Post”

5. Change ‘New Blog Post:’ to whatever you want, for example, ‘Tips‘.

6. Click Update File.

Congrats. Your file has been updated successfully.

Alex King, the developer explains that “The reason this is done this way, and not as an easily changeable option from the admin screen, is so that the plugin correctly identifies the tweets that originated from previous blog posts when creating the digest posts, displaying the latest tweet, displaying sidebar tweets, and creating blog posts from tweets (you don’t want tweets that are blog post notifications being treated like tweets that originated on Twitter).”

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