Description
Lets you display a twitter feed in a sidebar widget.
Caches last successful tweet retrieval and only updates if it successfully gets a new list from Twitter.
Practically every element has a unique class so that it’s highly customizable via CSS.
There are various configuration options including:
- Title
- Twitter Username
- Max Tweets to Display
- HTML to override the View All link
- Time Placement (whether or not the timestamp should appear before or after the tweet)
- Time Format (uses PHP’s date() function for formatting)
Screenshots
Widget configuration screen
Installation
- Upload
gg-twitter.phpto the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the Plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Configure your Twitter API authentication information in WP Dashboard / Settings / GG Twitter
- Install the new Widget through the ‘Widgets’ menu in WordPress
FAQ
Make sure you configure your Twitter API authentication information in WP Dashboard / Settings / GG Twitter or no tweets will be displayed.
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Contributors & Developers
“GG Twitter” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.2.1
- Removed debug message
- Added settings link to plugin page
1.2
- Updated to use the authenticated Twitter API v1.1
1.1.1
- Additional debug info
1.1
- Fix to cache expiration
1.0.9
- Added transient support with a configurable lifetime, option fallback
1.0.8
- Using cURL instead of simplexml_load_file as the latter was failing when the xml contained an error node
- Added Last Twitter API Error displayed on widget (global error, not per-widget)
1.0.7
- Added debug facility
- Changed option name from ‘twitter’ to $widget_id to avoid conflicts with other plugins
- Added ‘None’ option to Time Placement
- Fixed php shorthand tag
1.0.6
- Fixed spacing issue with linking @username
- Added linking for #hashtags
- Removed parsing for email addresses
1.0.5
- Fixed an issue where an error was occurring if there was only one tweet available
- Fixed parsing of URLs, email addresses and twitter names inside a tweet
1.0.4
- Updated plugin URL and readme.txt
- Added screenshot
1.0.3
- Updated readme.txt
1.0.2
- Updated twitter rss url
1.0.1
- Changed from using is_array() to count() with twitter rss
1.0
- First release