Author: joedolson

By default, XPoster does not enable a URL shortener. With most services, there is no need for a URL shortener. URL shorteners are largely a historical feature, dating back to a time when the number of characters in your URL were counted against your character limits in a status update. But modern social media services […]

Staging mode is a configuration where XPoster will bypass the action of sending updates, but will return messages as if it had successfully posted updates. It is enabled automatically in any environment where the core function wp_get_environment_type() returns as ‘staging’, but can also be enabled manually by setting the constant WPT_STAGING_MODE to true: While in […]

By default, XPoster will ignore posts pulled in using post importers. This is because it’s an undesirable action in many cases – flooding social media with 3000 updates in 10 minutes because you imported a bunch of content is unlikely to be a desired outcome. However, the same checks that protect against this can sometimes […]

Every service has different criteria for how long a status update can be, and on X.com you can have a longer status if you’re a premium subscriber. However, XPoster only has one setting for this, and it’s shared by all status updates. The default length is 280 characters (or 140 characters if you’re operating in […]

Selecting a URL shortener is at your personal preference. In practice, all URLs of any kind are shortened by X.com’s own shortening service at http://t.co. Your shortened URL may display instead of the t.co URL in the web site or in a client; but the URL has still been shortened under the hood. If you […]