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How many tweets will be shown?

This is determined by your settings within the widget. The default is set to 5.

How long back will tweets be shown for?

If using the update frequency "Live (uncached)" ThinkTwit will show tweets that have occurred as far back as "max days" (up to the last 7 days, due to restrictions in the Twitter API). However, any other option will utilise ThinkTwit's own cache and will therefore display anything within the cache (up to "max days").

What will happen if I haven't tweeted in the last 7 days?

If you aren't caching tweets then a message will be shown stating: "There have been no tweets for the past 7 days", but if you are caching tweets then it will simply show the tweets stored in the cache, even if they are older than 7 days. This message can be customised within the settings.

How can I style ThinkTwit?

ThinkTwit uses the widget API so should be styled correctly by your theme. It has some default CSS but you may, however, wish to make minor CSS changes which will override this. If so you should find the following information handy:

• ThinkTwit essentially outputs tweets as a list
• The list container can be accessed using ol.thinkTwitTweets
• All tweets can be accessed using ol.thinkTwitTweets li.thinkTwitTweet
• Individual tweets can be accessed using ol.thinkTwitTweets #tweet-n where n is the number of the tweet
• Odd and even tweets can be accessed using ol.thinkTwitTweets li.thinkTwitOdd and ol.thinkTwitTweets li.thinkTwitEven accordingly
• The author within a tweet can be accessed using ol.thinkTwitTweets li.thinkTwitTweet a.thinkTwitAuthor
• The author suffix within a tweet can be accessed using ol.thinkTwitTweets li.thinkTwitTweet a.thinkTwitSuffix
• The content of a tweet can be accessed using ol.thinkTwitTweets li.thinkTwitTweet a.thinkTwitContent
• The published time within a tweet can be accessed using ol.thinkTwitTweets li.thinkTwitTweet span.thinkTwitPublished
• The "no tweets" message can be accessed using ol.thinkTwitTweets li.thinkTwitNoTweets
• The AJAX error message ("Error: Unable to display tweets") can be accessed using `p.thinkTwitError'

NOTE: Be sure to use the id to access each style in order to over-write the default CSS.

How do I stop caching in caching engines such as WP Super Cache?

Turn on no-caching in the widget settings.

How does no-caching work?

Instead of outputting HTML it outputs Javascript. The Javascript uses AJAX (via jQuery) to make a call to a method that returns the HTML which is then inserted in to the correct location.

I'm using no-caching but nothing appears below the title

Your theme is probably not setup properly. AJAX requires a location to insert the returned data from the server-side call. ThinkTwit puts it in to the div that contains the widget. A WordPress theme written correctly should output a unique id for each widget that is output. Inform the developer of your theme to have the following (or something similar) in their register_sidebar function:

'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">'

Why do I get this error? Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

You are getting this error because the allow_url_fopen option is disabled on your server. You can resolve this by either enabling it, or if you are unable to do this (it may be a shared server) you can enable CURL in the widget options.

I'm getting strange errors or no output

You may need to clear and rebuild your cache. See uninstall instructions.

How do I prevent use of nofollow tags in my URLs?

You can apply a filter - see the following URL for an example:

http://digwp.com/2010/02/remove-nofollow-attributes-from-post-content/

What are the options "Show when published" and "Update frequency"?

• Show when published - indicates whether the time the tweet was made is shown e.g. "This happened 1 day ago"
• Update frequency - indicates how often Twitter should be contacted to get a list of tweets. Use this to turn on or off caching, and to decide how often to update the cache

Why aren't my avatar images showing?

The images folder may not exist or it may not be writeable (this folder is required for caching avatars). You must create the directory if it doesn't already exist or you must chmod it to 755 or higher so that the web server can write to the folder.

How often do avatars get updated?

Once every 24 hours (assuming a request is made in this period). This value is not currently configurable.