Twitter Tools Digest Double-Post
I use a plugin called Twitter Tools for this Wordpress blog. For the most part, I really like this plugin. It’s not too obtrusive, and it has a good number of features that the user can control.
However, I’ve been having trouble with the setup of a weekly digest. The intent is for Twitter Tools to automatically make a new blog post every Saturday night that contains all of the tweets I’ve made during the previous week. It almost works, but the problem is that Twitter Tools makes a double-post of the digest each week. I have to manually delete the duplicate post, which almost defeats the purpose of the setting altogether.
Has anyone else ever encountered the same problem? If so, is there a solution out there? I’m open to changing Twitter plugins, but I’d need a replacement that can cover the same basic functionality that Twitter Tools can.
Update:
It looks like Andrew Snedeker has found a solution to this problem. It involves adding the following two lines to your .htaccess file:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
Apparently, this forces your Wordpress install to use PHP5 and causes the plugin to work correctly. Has anyone else had success using this hack? (Thanks, Andrew!)
Update #2:
I received some feedback indicating that the proposed fix doesn’t work for everyone. I’ve emailed the author of the Twitter Tools plugin to see if he is aware of the problem and if he can suggest any workarounds or fixes.
I’ve had the same problem with daily digest posts, but it isn’t consistent. I’m guessing that we’ll have to wait for a new version that finds and fixes that bug.
I also have been having the same problem. But for me it seems to happen every time for all of the digests, daily or weekly. I have not had a time that this has not happened. I have installed version 1.7dev on June 4th, 2009 and that has not fixed the problem that I have been having.
I’m having the same problem. My daily digest is always posted twice. I’m running WP 2.8 and twittertools 1.6 at the moment. And i have no clue where the double posts come from.
I’m have the same issue….
same problem here too!
and now it won’t post at all! [i think i’ve changed a setting last week after the weekly digest but still it should have worked…but nooo!
i think i’ll give this a try http://whalespine.org/projects/wordpress/twitter-digest/
I have been frustrated with this problem and I think I have found a solutions to this problem. At least this has fixed the problem on my end and I am using WP 2.8.1 now and twitter tools 2.0-dev build. I am using 1and1.com for my website hosting and there service defaults to PHP4 I had to add these two lines to my .htaccess file to force my php files to use PHP5 and it fixed all of the problem that I have had with wordpress and this plun-in.
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
I’ve got the same problem. My weekly digest is always posted twice. I’m afraid the proposed fix won’t help, given that I only have PHP5 on the server anyway.
I am seeing the problem on one of my blogs but not the other and both are installed on the same system. I am running version 1.6 and WordPress 2.8.2. Very strange …