Twitter This is a great Twitter plugin for WordPress written by Andres Artux Scheffer which can potentially make your blog posts or pages go viral on Twitter.

How Twitter This WordPress Plugin Works

1. The obvious first step is to install and activate the plugin on your WordPress blog.
2. Assuming that everything goes well with the installation and activation, the plugin will simply insert a small icon and a “Twitter This” link at the end of every blog post or page. When users click this link, the Twitter username and password fields are displayed which allows them to tweet the blog post or page.
3. If the user enters the correct Twitter username and password then the blog post or page title along with a shortened link is posted as a tweet otherwise an error is displayed.

Everything sounds really good so far but there are a few issues with the plugin. I know it is a free plugin so I shouldn’t be complaining too much but my main grouse is the lack of support for other languages. This is how it can be fixed.

No Language Support

The language used for the plugin is Spanish and I could surely add on a language file but that’s a little too techie for most people. The quick and dirty way to change the language is by directly editing the code. The good news is that editing the code is not difficult but the bad news is that you have to edit the code whenever there is an update to the plugin.

Edit the following plugin files.

twitter-this.php on line 89:
From: $html .= "Usuario: ...
To: $html .= "Twitter Username: ...

Post_to_twitter.php on line 94:
From: echo "Posteado en ...
To: echo "Posted on ...

Post_to_twitter.php on line 96:
From: echo "Error en Twitter, intentelo luego";
To: echo "Error posting on Twitter, please check your username and password";

Remember to back up before amending the files. The above changes should make the plugin workable on English language blogs. However, other limitations still exist but these are fortunately not deal breakers.