Live Blogging Plus
Live Blogging is a plugin that allows you to insert micro/live blogs into posts with automatic updating of the content.
4.2(5 reviews)
·60 active installs·Updated 7 years agoAs of April 2026, Live Blogging Plus is a WordPress live plugin with 60 active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: SearchWP Live Ajax Search.
4.2/55 reviews
60active installs
8.9K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
Live Blogging is a plugin that allows you to insert micro/live blogs into posts with automatic updating of the content.
Note: I am not really a good coder. More like a copy-paste hacker. I keep this plugin updated, but adding functionality and such may not be so prompt – if at all it happens. I am mostly updating this to include bugfixes.
Special thanks to Will Woodward for bugfixes offered in the support section.
This plugin is based on the Live Blogging plugin by Chris Northwood. Fixes some outdated code and allows adding links to the live blog in Twitter updates.
To see this plugin in use, it’s probably easiest to watch this screencast.
Live Blogging is a plugin developed to support blogs that are doing live micro blogging of running events.
Using WordPress 3.0’s cust…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.3
- Increased the length of tweet to 240 to take advantage of the longer tweets now allowed on Twitter.
Contributors
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