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Creating a Twitter application

To use the Twitter 1.1 API you need to create an application. Follow this Youtube tutorial to create it.

Custom HTML output

You can fully customize your HTML output via variables. Some variables can only be used inside a feed loop, others anywhere. Before you output a Twitter feed, you must write the following:

{$tweets_start}
// Your other data here ...
{$tweets_end}

Once inside a loop, you can use any of the following variables:

{$tweet_text} - the text of the tweet
{$tweet_time} - the time of the tweet
{$tweet_location} - the location of the tweet (example: Budapest)
{$retweet} - outputs a ready retweet link with the text Retweet, opens in new tab
{$reply} - outputs a ready reply link with the text Reply, opens in new tab
{$favorite} - outputs a favorite link with the text Favorite, opens in new tab
{$retweet_link} - returns URL of retweet link
{$reply_link} - returns URL of reply link
{$favorite_link} - returns URL of favorite link
{$tweet_link} - returns URL of tweet

Outside a loop you can use the following:

{$profile_image} - the url to the profile image of the user
{$user_real_name} - the real name of the user
{$user_twitter_name} - username of the twitter user
{$url} - website url of the user
{$user_description} - description of the user
{$user_location} - user location
{$follower_count} - number of followers
{$friends_count} - number of friends

For example if you want to output Twitter text, a retweet link, a custom favorite link and some data behind the feed, you would do the following:

<ul>
{$tweets_start}
    <li>{$tweet_text}<br />on {$tweet_time}<br />{$retweet} | <a href="{$favorite_link}">Favorite this tweet</a></li>
{$tweets_end}
</ul>

I have {$follower_count} followers and {$friends_count} friends.

And this is basically it.

Author

The author of this plugin is Bostjan Cigan, visit the homepage.

Homepage

Visit the homepage of the plugin.

Donators

Thank you to the following people who have donated so far:

• Aaron
• Corinne
• Civil Society Trust
• Kay Grant
• JD Kitchens
• Rachel Young

I appreciate your support!