This is the last in a long series of posts about the Twitter Tools WordPress plugin. The first post was an overview of the plugin and the second was about the plugin backend with a section on hashtags. The next three posts dealt with configuring the options section of the settings page.
Last week I covered the Experimental, WordPress HelpCenter, and Update Tweets/Reset Checking and Digests sections. This week’s post, the last one on this plugin, will cover Bit.ly, Exclude Categories, #hashtags, and ReadMe. And that will be all!
I don’t know what plugin I’ll explore next, any suggestions?
The plugin can be configured to use the url shortener Bit.ly. You must have an account to use this feature. If you need one, or to get your API key, click here. The other option in the dropdown is j.mp which is “powered by bit.ly”. I couldn’t find a difference except in the name. Remember to save. 
If there are some of your blog posts you don’t want tweeted, this is where you exclude them. Create a category and assign those blog posts to it, put a check by that category here, and nothing will be sent to Twitter. Remember to save.
If you have a #hashtags for your business (mine is #mwpw), place it here and it will be added to the tweets you send from your blog.
The README section is all about the plugin developer. If you mouse over the image, a hand indicating a hyperlink appears. From there you can navigate to any of the links just as if you were on the actual webpage. (Consider donating if you find the plugin useful.) Look closely and you will see a scroll bar to the right. The entire page can be seen by scrolling.
Alex King, the plugin author, is the found of “Crowd Favorite”. Headquartered in beautiful Denver, Colorado, Crowd Favorite is an independent development firm specializing in WordPress development and integrations, sophisticated web applications, Open Source implementations and user experience consulting. If you need it to work, trust Crowd Favorite to build it. (I had to put in a plug for his business.)
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