Plugin / Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)

Try something like: A common mistake with do_shortcode shortcodes is to use single-quotes or double-quotes all the way through without ‘escaping’ them. This will normally break your site! It’s best to use double-quotes to enclose the shortcode string and single-quotes inside the shortcode string (or vice-versa!).

The easiest way is to list more than one account in the ‘Twitter name’ box in the widget or use something like screen_name='account1 account2' in the shortcode.

In most cases, each use (or “instance”) of this plug-in gets data from Twitter every 2 minutes. The exception is when two or more instances share the same settings (screen name etc.), in which case they share the same data rather than each calling it separately.

This normally happens if there is an SSL problem. Try going to the settings page and switching off SSL validation. If this doesn’t solve the problem, check your Twitter API key settings. If neither of these approaches work, Rotating Tweets will normally be reporting the error as a comment in the HTML of your page. This should give you an idea of how to solve the problem.

This normally happens if there is more than one copy of jQuery installed on a page – or more than one copy of jQuery.cycle. To see if this is the case, search the HTML on your website to see if either script is called more than once. To do this: Open the page. Right click and select ‘View Page Source’ or ‘View Source’ Hit [CTRL]+F and search for jquery Look out for lines that contain jquery.min.js or jquery.cycle.all.min.js. Neither script should appear more than once. The problem is that the second (or third) copy of the script overwrites all previous versions and the scripts that go with them. This is particularly likely to happen with old templates or plug-ins. If this is the case: Check is that you have upgraded your template or your plug-in to the latest version. If this still doesn’t work, please let me know which plug-in or template is causing the problem and I’ll see if I can build a fix into the next version of Rotating Tweets. If there is only one copy of jquery and of jquery.cycle on your page, the best way to look for the problem is to open the ‘console’. To do this: Press [F12] (in Chrome or IE) or [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+K (in Firefox) Load the page where you have a problem In Chrome or IE, select the tab marked ‘console’. Read the diagnostics and look for any problems that relate to JavaScript. This will normally tell you which JavaScript (if any) is having problems.

Yes. No user data is collected, stored or sent to Twitter by Rotating Tweets. By default, Rotating Tweets also does not load any JavaScript from Twitter or anywhere else ‘off site’. It supports ‘do not track’ and only loads JavaScript from Twitter needed to display the Twitter Follow button if you choose that option and the user has not set ‘do not track’ on their browser. If you use an ‘official format’ for your Tweet, profile images may be loaded from Twitter; to avoid this, choose the ‘original’ format to display your Tweets.

Try installing the Core Control plug-in and disabling cURL. You can read more about the problem via this support page. Thank you to darkiko for sharing their solution to this problem.

Try putting: div.widget_rotatingtweets_widget, div.rotatingtweet, div.widget_rotatingtweets_widget div.widget-title { max-width: 123px; } into your CSS – changing 123px; to the width you’re aiming at – either via additional CSS or by editing your own template files.

You can do this by going to the rotatingtweets/css directory, opening rotatingtweets-sample.css and copying its contents (modifying the link to the bird graphic to match your site) into additional CSS (the preferred approach from WordPress 4.7 onwards) on the Appearance Customize Screen page. Alternatively rename rotatingtweets-sample.css to rotatingtweets.css and put it in the wp-content/uploads/ directory. Or copy the CSS into your own template files. Any of these approaches will display a Twitter bird to the left of your tweets.