I’ve just gone through the process of adding posts from my wordpress site into Facebook and Twitter and after trying various amounts of shitty plugins I found these two beauties:

• FT FacePress II
• Post To Twitter

They are great and the Twitter plugin pretty much works straight off. It allows your posts, when published/updated, to automatically be added into Twitter. Unfortunately, FT FacePress II was not such a chalmer.

The problem was that One.com limit PHP mailer emails to 20 per day, and so I was cursing and blinding for about an hour before realising why the plugin did not work. So here’s the work around:

1. Create an email address with your host and call it something like out@domain.com
2. Download the Plugin: FT FacePress II
3. Edit the plugin and replace the following code:

if (!function_exists("ft_publish_status")) {
 function ft_publish_status($emailAddr, $status) { 

 $message = '-';
 $headers = 'From: '. get_bloginfo('admin_email') . "\r\n" .
 'Reply-To: '. get_bloginfo('admin_email') . "\r\n" .
 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
 wp_mail($emailAddr, $status, $message, $headers);

 if (is_wp_error($result)) {
 return $result->get_error_message();
 } else if (isset($result["response"]["code"])) {
 return $result["response"]["code"];
 } else {
 return false;    }
 }
}

with:

if (!function_exists("ft_publish_status")) {
 function ft_publish_status($emailAddr, $status) { 

 $message = '-';
 $headers = 'From: out@yourdomain.com' . "\r\n" .
 'Reply-To: '. get_bloginfo('admin_email') . "\r\n" .
 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
 wp_mail($emailAddr, $status, $message, $headers);

 if (is_wp_error($result)) {
 return $result->get_error_message();
 } else if (isset($result["response"]["code"])) {
 return $result["response"]["code"];
 } else {
 return false;    }
 }
}

And there we have it. You can now send as many freaking status updates as your host allows.

Enjoy success