Title: Official Format Variable Question
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Official Format Variable Question

 *  Resolved [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curbano1972/)
 * (@curbano1972)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/official-format-variable-question/)
 * Hello! Great plug-in!
 * I am using the **official_format=’1′** variable because I really like way it 
   looks. I would also like to tweak it just a bit, such as hiding the timestamp,
   etc.
 *     ```
       [rotatingtweets screen_name="MYUSERID" show_meta_timestamp='0' show_meta_screen_name='0' timeout ='7000'  official_format='1']
       ```
   
 * But there are no changes at all; everything still shows and the time for each
   to show is still 4 secs. Do the other variables not work if the the **official_format**
   is set? Or am I doing something wrong?
 * Thank you!!
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/rotatingtweets/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/rotatingtweets/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Martin Tod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpntod/)
 * (@mpntod)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/official-format-variable-question/#post-4116553)
 * There are a couple of fixes for this.
 * I’ve adjusted the development version of the plug-in to address this – although
   I don’t know how it will work.
 * Alternatively, you can do it via CSS in `wp-content/uploads/rotatingtweets.css`–
   for example:
 *     ```
       div.rtw_name {
          display:none;
       }
       div.rtw_id {
          display:none;
       }
       div.rtw_timestamp {
          display:none;
       }
       ```
   
 * or
 *     ```
       div.rtw_name,
       div.rtw_id,
       div.rtw_timestamp {
          display:none;
       }
       ```
   
 * I’d suggest trying the CSS first. I may not implement the hard coded change because
   it looks likely that it will cause problems with widgets for current users unfortunately…
 *  Thread Starter [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curbano1972/)
 * (@curbano1972)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/official-format-variable-question/#post-4116584)
 * Thank you very much for your quick response! The only thing I couldn’t get to
   work was the div.rtw_timestamp part. I looked in the rotatingtweets.php and there
   weren’t any instances of rtw_timestamp. I found two of the others. I just changed
   the rotatingtweets_timestamp_link to short and am ok with the results. If there
   is a different way to hide the timestamp, please let me know. Thank you very 
   much for everything!
 * Chris
 *  Plugin Author [Martin Tod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpntod/)
 * (@mpntod)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/official-format-variable-question/#post-4116611)
 * The [latest development version](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/rotatingtweets.zip)
   has this built-in, but it’s not in the main script yet.
 * Martin

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## Tags

 * [format](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/format/)
 * [official](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/official/)
 * [timestamp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/timestamp/)
 * [variable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/variable/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Martin Tod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpntod/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/official-format-variable-question/#post-4116611)
 * Status: resolved