Only show retweets

  • Resolved zimbo000

    (@zimbo000)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    There’s an option to include retweets via the settings but is it possible to only display retweets by a user? In other words, turn off ‘normal’ tweets in the widget and just display retweets?

    (Why? The website is a news site and it uses Jetpack to auto-send new posts to Twitter; the last 5 news stories / post titles are always shown in the right sidebar on pages [listed as Recent News] – displaying the last 5 Tweets in your widget on a page therefore almost always shows the same words as Recent News. Just showing retweets would create different content.)

    Happy to hack the plugin PHP if it’s possible… 🙂

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/rotatingtweets/

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  • Plugin Author Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    In principle, it would be quite easy to add a flag to do this…

    The quicker (and possibly more flexible) option would be to show a favourites feed…

    Martin

    Thread Starter zimbo000

    (@zimbo000)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    My client and I are not Twitter gurus and don’t fully understand favourites… 🙂

    Isn’t marking a tweet as favourite more like a bookmark when you’re busy to come back later and read it? But you are suggesting that whenever my client retweets something that they always mark it as favourite?

    If so, what settings would we use in the shortcode to only display retweets as per my original question?

    Plugin Author Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Currently there isn’t a Twitter setting to only display retweets. It will need some extra code in the plugin and may be unreliable! I’ve started writing it, but there’s a risk that it might break the main part of the plug-in so it will need quite a bit of testing.

    If you use the favourite setting, it taps directly into the Twitter API. It will let your client decide what they want to show on the front page – independent from retweets.

    Plugin Author Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Try using only_rts=1 in a shortcode with the development version.

    Plugin Author Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Now in the main version…

    Thread Starter zimbo000

    (@zimbo000)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Many thanks, gone live with the plugin today.

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