Martin Tod
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)] Not loading tweets.Try RepCoED, but you may still need to check your settings page after that.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)] Not loading tweets.Hmmm. Clearly the error message needs improving – although it does show more as the Tweets rotate!
Have you put the relevant settings on the Rotating Tweets settings page?
What user name do you have in your shortcode or widget?
- This reply was modified 8 years ago by Martin Tod.
If these options aren’t possible (and I hope they are!), I will see if there’s a way to give each Tweet a permanent unique identifier and/or let you set such an identifier yourself.
You might need to add
<div class="area1"> ... </div>and<div class="area2"> ... </div>around the Tweet code to make this happen – although normally there are enough identifiers on the page for you to be able to use one that’s already there!Normally, you’d do this by finding a different CSS selector and using that to change the CSS.
So, for example, if widget 1 was inside
div.area1and widget 2 was insidediv.area2, you’d select the relevant bits of CSS viadiv.area1 .rotatingtweets { your CSS here }anddiv.area2 .rotatingtweets { your CSS here }.Martin
No worries! I always enjoy the hunt for this kind of bug!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)] GDRPAre you using an ‘official’ format? If so, that’s probably the link to the profile image of the person that appears next to the Tweet.
You can switch this off by moving to the original format of Tweet.
In theory, the image could be downloaded to your site and rendered from there, but that’s quite a major functionality change – with potential significant storage implications for the user – and I’d also have to check the legality of it!
I’ve found the problems. It seems to happen in Tweets where the same URL features twice!
Does the development version fix it?
It’s not at all clear why this Tweet displays fine and this one doesn’t. But once I find out, I’ll fix it!
Many thanks for this.
It appears that there’s no problem with a conventional retweet (and other Tweets with Twitter links or retweets in your feed are working fine), but something has clearly gone wrong here!
Am currently looking to download the particular original Tweet text to see what might have happened and find a fix.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)] GDRPThe new version now only includes the Twitter JavaScript if both the ‘Follow’ button is switched on and ‘do not track’ is switched off in the visitor’s browser.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)] GDRPBy default, it’s switched off.
In the short-code, you would have
show_follow=0.In the Twitter widget, it should be ‘Show this follow button?’ ‘None’.
It appears it may still be loading the Twitter code and storing a cookie (although it doesn’t if people’s browsers are set to ‘Do Not Track’) and I’ll see if there is a way to switch this off.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)] GDRPGood point. The logo is hosted on your website – it’s part of the plug-in installation.
But the follow button is served via Twitter. You can switch it off as an option. And it also respects the ‘Do not track’ instruction.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)] GDRPNo. The link is between your server and Twitter.
In that respect, it’s different from the ‘official’ Twitter Javascript-based plug-ins which pull data to the browser.
Rotating Tweets pulls the data from the Twitter to the server – and doesn’t send any user data to the server in the process.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)] GDRPIt doesn’t collect or use or store any personal data from the site visitor.