Feeling a bit puzzled by the “Twitter Tools” plugin

I really like MailChimp’s “Social” plugin, which not only publishes a WordPress blog entry to Twitter and Facebook, but also collects responses from Twitter and Facebook users and collects them as WordPress comments.

Today I installed a different plugin, Twitter Tools, which is really just a single tool — it lets you create a WordPress post via tweet.

One problem — when I then try to publish the resulting WordPress post, there’s no way I can attach a thumbnail to the Facebook post.

Here’s what it looks like when I use the “Social” plugin to share a regular WordPress post to Facebook.  Note the nifty thumbnail image.

Here’s what it looks like when I use the same plugin to share the WordPress post created via Twitter… no thumbnail. (Both posts have a “Featured Image” set, and the featured image does show up on my blog as I expect it to.)

I posted about this in the “Twitter Tools” support forum.

Update, July 16.

I just noticed a box on my WordPress admin page that I’ve never needed to use before…

After I changed an item from “Status” to “Standard,” the broadcast-to-Facebook function worked as I expected.

Post was last modified on 16 Jul 2013 12:28 am

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