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Latest twitter sidebar widget

Display the latest updates for any twitter user in a widget. Automatically embeds links to @users, #hashtags and urls.

0.120328

  • Fixed a bug where I tried to delete a file of tweets without checking file_exists first

0.120307

  • Fixed a bug I introduced in the previous version that stopped displaying the title

0.120303

  • Converted code to use 2.8 Widgets API
  • Introduced use of HTTP API via wp_remote_get( )
  • Improved fail safe logic to prevent absence of tweets
  • Now plays nice with $before_title, $after_title, $before_widget and $after_widget
  • CSS rules for #latest-twitter-widget change to .widget_latest_twitter_widget

0.110801

  • Remove extra slashes in icon and profile pic URLs
  • Added FAQ section to plugin readme.txt
  • Added my email address to standard plugin information header

0.110711

  • Saves a backup file of the tweets in case twitter returns an API error
  • Removes before and after variables and now relies on the stylesheet only

0.110509

  • Now properly handles international characters in tweets via UTF-8
  • Added option to not include @replies

0.110412

  • Fixed error when show profile picture is enabled and no tweets found
  • Added optional widget title
  • Updated screen shot

0.110330

  • Fixed hashtag links to twitter.com
  • Fixed profile link when showing no profile image or twitter icon

0.110323

  • Include tweet times with new option

0.110318

  • Display twitter profile picture or the twitter icon or neither
  • Now includes image alt tags to better support HTML standard spec
  • Bigger input fields on the widget settings menu

0.110224

  • Faster refresh rate for better synchronization
  • Removed link target on links to twitter profile

0.101205

  • Better error handling for twitter API response

0.101126

  • Handle twitter API entities object null state
  • Fix off-by-one count during counting of twitter updates
  • Added twitter tag to readme file

0.101120

  • Introduced external .css file for formatting
  • Added element ID to HTML tags

0.101115

  • Rewrite to work with twitter's 2010 API
  • Uses PHP curl to pull data from Twitter
  • Uses PHP json to manipulate JSON data

0.100210

  • More features added to the widget options to increase customization
  • Added a link below the twitter updates "follow @username on twitter" to make link more obvious
  • This will be the last version that supports PHP4's DOMXML object available from the WP Plugin Directory

0.090401

  • Options available to choose username and number of twitter updates to show

0.081204

  • Displays more than one latest update

0.081125

  • First build

Requires: 3.0.0 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.2
Last Updated: 2012-3-29
Downloads: 41,246

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