MODx Facebook and Twitter integration

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pjldesign Reply #1, 12 years, 7 months ago

A client that i'm working with has suddenly decided that they want to implement their Tumblr blog feed on a MODx Revo site that i've built for them because it automatically links to and updates their Twitter and Facebook feeds... I'm pretty sure i know how to do this, but was wondering whether it would be in any way possible for them to update with the blog that i've already set up for them (thru the boilerplate tutorial) or should i just chuck it and go with flowing in their Tumblr feed and having them update through their Tumblr page? Thanks for any insight at all.

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AMDbuilder Reply #2, 12 years, 7 months ago

Hello,

I know you can have MODX publish updates to twitter automatically, but no plugin exists for Facebook at this point in time (that I know of). You can have Facebook grab updates from Twitter or an RSS feed, and it can push to Twitter as well, so getting them all in sync without Tumblr shouldn't be that difficult.

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pjldesign Reply #3, 12 years, 7 months ago

cool, is there any documentation on getting modx to publish to twitter automatically? this would be tremendously helpful...

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pjldesign Reply #4, 12 years, 7 months ago

scratch that, i found it. so i guess all i have to do is figure out how to publish to facebook from twitter.

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pjldesign Reply #5, 12 years, 7 months ago

would it be impossible to publish out to Tumblr?

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AMDbuilder Reply #6, 12 years, 7 months ago

The article on auto posting to twitter is here: http://muddydogpaws.com/notebook/auto-post-to-twitter-when-publishing-in-modx.html granted it is MODX Evo centric, but a good starting point.

In regards to posting to Facebook from Twitter, you can use the Facebook Twitter app: http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/

Granted I am sure there are other ways to accomplish the same goal.

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pjldesign Reply #7, 12 years, 7 months ago

actually found a great alternative but couldn't post bc the forums were acting funny... have blog content feed into an RSS which is pretty easy to set up, and then pick it up with dlvr.it which can post to quite a few of the more prominent networking sites, including Tumblr and Myspace and of course the aforementioned apps. However, i stumbled into another problem: i'm having trouble getting the image to get picked up in the RSS feed. I'm using a TV in the resource docs to grab the image. here's my rss code:

<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>[[*pagetitle]]</title>
<link>[[++site_url]]</link>
<image>
  <url>[[++site_url]][[*article-image]]</url>
  <title>[[*pagetitle]]</title>
  <link>[[++site_url]]</link>
</image>
<description>[[*content]]</description>
<lastBuildDate>[[!getTime?format=`%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z`]]</lastBuildDate>
<language>en-gb</language>
[[!getResources? 
   &parents=`3`
   &limit=`0`
   &sortby=`createdon`
   &sortdir=`DESC`
   &includeTVs=`1`
   &processTVs=`1`
   &includeContent=`1`
   &tpl=`rssListing`]]
</channel>
</rss>

and the TPL:

<item>
<image>[[!++site_url]][[+tv.article-image]]</image>
<title>[[+pagetitle:toCDATA]]</title>
<link>[[!++site_url]][[~[[+id]]]]</link>
<guid>[[~[[+id]]]]</guid>
<pubDate>[[+createdon:strtotime:date=`%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z`]]</pubDate>
<description>[[+content:toCDATA]]</description>
</item>

all other channels are coming thru fine but the image won't show. any ideas?

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boomerang Reply #8, 12 years, 3 months ago

I can't resolve your issue, but would be interested in how you achieved the rss feed to twitter, could you explain further as I now have a client would like a similar feature.

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BobRay Reply #9, 12 years, 3 months ago

You either need to use a full URL in the image TV, convert it to a full URL with a custom output modifier, or add code to convert it to a full URL. You can see an example of the last method in the EmailResource package (see the CssToInLineStyles class).

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