After upgrading my site to the latest version (1.4) of BlogEngine I guess it's time to release this little piece of code so everyone can include in their own installations. The thing is simple, TwitterPing 1.0 is an extension that tweets out when you publish a new post in your blog. It sends a message through your Twitter account with the title of the post and the URL, preceded with a tag (configured to [blog] by default) that can be edited in the configuration settings.
Installation is quite simple:
- Download the TwitterPing10Extension.zip file attached to this post
- Extract the files in your local system
- Upload file Yedda.Twitter.dll to BlogEngine's \Bin folder
- Upload file TwitterPing.cs to BlogEngine's \App_Code\Extensions
- Configure your Twitter username and password under the Extensions tab in the administration pane
- Post something and test it :)
Anyway, you'll find a readme.txt inside the zipped file with installations instructions. Have in mind that this extension is using the Twitter public API and, as you may already know, the service is up and down intermittently, so if it's not able to send the message it will not retry nor fail publishing your post. I've tested TwitterPing Extension with BlogEngine 1.3 and 1.4, and it worked perfectly when Twitter was up and running :)
I would like to thank Yedda for their marvelous Twitter .NET Library v0.1 and please, don't hesitate to comment any issues you may find. Thanks!
TwitterPing10Extension.zip (6.60 kb)