Plugin / Latest Tweets Widget

Tim Whitlock
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Unzip all files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory Log into WordPress admin and activate the ‘Latest Tweets’ plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu Once the plugin is installed and enabled you can bind it to a Twitter account as follows: Register a Twitter application at https://dev.twitter.com/apps Note the Consumer key and Consumer secret under OAuth settings Log into WordPress admin and go to Settings > Twitter API Enter the consumer key and secret and click ‘Save settings’ Click the ‘Connect to Twitter’ button and follow the prompts. Once your site is authenticated you can configure the widget as follows: Log into WordPress admin and go to Appearance > Widgets Drag ‘Latest Tweets’ from ‘Available widgets’ to where you want it. e.g. Main Sidebar Optionally configure the widget title and number of tweets to display.
See the ‘Other Notes’ tab for theming information.
Because I’m providing code, not a service. If I set up a Twitter app for this plugin I’d be responsible for every person who uses it. If Twitter closed my account or revoked my keys every instance of this plugin would break. Twitter also place limits on the number of users that can connect to a single app.
These details are available in the Twitter dashboard
Once you’ve populated the first two fields, just click the Connect button and follow the prompts.
Here you can specify a number of retweets and favourites that a tweet must have before it’s displayed. This is useful for only showing your most interesting content.
If you’re unable too fix your PHP cURL installation, you can disable SSL verification of twitter.com by adding this to your theme functions.php: add_filter(‘https_ssl_verify’, ‘__return_false’); Do so at your own risk.
Yes, as of version 1.1.2 Emojis are rendered the same as on twitter.com. See the Other Notes section for how to disable Emoji.

Ratings

5
34 reviews

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Details Information

Version

1.1.4

First Released

25 Feb, 2013

Total Downloads

189,425

Wordpress Version

3.5.1 or higher

Tested up to:

4.5.13

Require PHP Version:

-

Tags

api oauth rest tweets twitter

Contributors

Tim W

Languages

English (US) German

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