Description

This widget lets you display your latest tweets on your blog. Various configuration options are available.

Features:

No need to enter your Twitter password
No Javascript
Simple but reliable caching, so your website won’t slow down
Various options such as clickable URLs and usernames, date format etc.
Supports multiple instances at the same time
Fully compatible with widget-ready themes

Screenshots

Widget options

Installation

Option 1 – Automatic install

Use the plugin installer built into WordPress to search. WordPress will then download and install it for you.

Option 2 – Manual install

Make sure the files are within a folder.
Copy the whole folder into the wp-content/plugins/ folder.
Log into WordPress and activate the plugin. You can now select the widget under Appearance / Widgets.

FAQ

What could be the reason if the widget doesn’t work?

The code has been extensively tested and most issues can be resolved by trying the following:

make sure your server / WordPress can connect to Twitter
check if your WordPress upload directory is writable. This is where the widget tries to store the cache file
try other public Twitter feeds
temporarily set the caching interval to a low value like 10 and see if it makes a difference.

Also keep in mind it will only work with public Twitter feeds, not private ones.

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Contributors & Developers

“Simple Twitter Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.04

Clickable hashtags (thanks Tyler Longren)

1.03

Added new option to HTML-encode special characters like ampersands (requested)

1.02

Bugfix for multiple feeds

1.01

URL detection should be more reliable now
Fix for potential problem with feed update interval
Tested with WordPress 3.0

1.0

Initial release.