Create a Twitter-style (X-style) microblog on your WordPress site with hashtags, AJAX feed, infinite scroll, and automatic title generation.
| Author: | nativebreed (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 5.8 |
| WordPress version tested: | 6.9.4 |
| Plugin version: | 1.5.1 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 31-10-2025 |
| Last updated: | 18-03-2026 |
| Rating, %: | 100 |
| Rated by: | 1 |
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| Total downloads: | 745 |
| Active installs: | 50+ |
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Microposts adds a simple microblogging system to your WordPress site – perfect for short posts, status updates, and mini articles.
It introduces a new custom post type called Micropost with a minimalist writing interface and a dynamic front-end feed.
Major features include:
- A clean, fast microblog editor with Gutenberg disabled.
- Automatic hashtag detection and linking.
- Tag-based filtering via AJAX.
- Infinite scroll loading for continuous reading.
- REST API endpoint for easy front-end integration.
- Auto-generated titles and permalinks.
- Content sanitisation and paragraph formatting.
- Admin tools for hashtag moderation.
- Fully responsive front-end output.
- SEO friendly – single page pagination.
- Optional support for native WordPress comments on Microposts.
- Shortcode [creomicro_list] for server-rendered output with date filtering, tag filtering, and sorting.
Microposts is ideal for personal sites, project updates, or internal micro-communication hubs.
Shortcodes
[creomicro_feed]
Displays the AJAX-powered Micropost feed with infinite scroll and hashtag filtering.
Example:
[creomicro_feed]
[creomicro_list]
Displays a static, server-rendered list of Microposts with optional filtering.
Attributes:
– start=”YYYY-MM-DD”
– end=”YYYY-MM-DD”
– tag=”tag1,tag2″
– sort=”asc|desc”
– per_page=”10″
– no_message=”Custom empty message”
Examples:
[creomicro_list start=”2025-11-01″ end=”2025-11-30″]
[creomicro_list tag=”news,updates” sort=”asc”]
[creomicro_list no_message=”No posts found.” per_page=”3″]
[creomicro_list start=”2025-11-01″ end=”2025-11-30″ tag=”geopolitical,woke” sort=”asc”]
License
This plugin is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This plugin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
Credits
Developed and maintained by Michael Gbadebo @ Creotec Limited.
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