Being able to tweet out from WordPress automatically is a pretty useful thing. Luckily, a handy little plugin called WordTwit does that for you pretty well.
However, it's missing the ability to attribute the author via their Twitter name in the tweet. So, I hacked up a little modification to make that work....
First thing: go into WordTwit settings and change the message to include [author]
Next step: download a plugin that lets users at their twitter usernames to their profile.
Then: update your profile to add your twitter username
After that: the hacking beings. (don't worry, its not very hard!)
Go into the plugins directory and inside of the wordtwit folder you will find wordtwit.php.
Edit the wordtwit_get_message function
Adding
/* MODIFICATIONS BY SPENCER SCHOEBEN */
$userdata = get_userdata($my_post->post_author);
$twitter = $userdata->twitter;
$display_name = $userdata->display_name;
if ($twitter) {
$twitter = trim($twitter);
if (strpos($twitter, "@") !== 0) {
$author = "@".$twitter;
} else {
$author = $twitter;
}
} else {
$author = $display_name;
}
$message = str_replace( '[author]', $author, $message );
/* END MODIFICATIONS */
