Added 2 new user settings on the site.
- Remember me option for social login.
- Twitter blog promotion.
- Custom promotional text for twitter blog promotions.
Twitter users now have the option to automatically post a promotional tweet to twitter. You can use the default or write your own custom promotional text. The blog link will follow the promotion text.
The default text is: "Check out my new blog post on OtakuElite.com! {subject}"
When writing your own promotion text you can choose to include the subject by including {subject}. Because tweets can only be 140 characters there are some restrictions to prevent potential issues when tweeting.
- Promotional text can only be up to 60 characters.
- If {subject} is included the tweet can go up to 90 characters total. If over 90 characters the subject will be trimmed.
- The remaining 50 characters are reserved by twitter for the URL which is trimmed.
By including a shorter promotional text it's more likely that your entire subject will be included. For best results you can simply make your promotional text "{subject}". This will make sure that your subject is almost always visible.
At this time you cannot customize a tweet before posting your blog but this feature is expected in the future. Hopefully sometime in early 2014
if things go to plan.
With these features added I have finished twitter integration. If there are other areas of the site you want to connect to twitter be sure to let me know. Unlike many other sites I only plan to include it where it enhances the user experience and not as a tool
to spam social networks. Because of this all social networking features are opt-in and will not interfere in anyway with normal site use.
Other Update Notes:
- A few bugs have been fixed on account settings.
- Added a little clarification as to what a "gobi" is.
- Fixed up code in account settings a little.
- Added code to prevent double posting of blogs as posting to twitter adds a second or two to posting.
Enjoy the new features!
~Webmaster