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Twitter Feed for WordPress – up to Version 0.3

by Alex Moss

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PAGE SUPPORTS ONLY UP TO VERSION 0.3. IF YOU WOULD LIKE THE LATEST VERSION OF THIS PLUGIN, PLEASE CLICK HERE.

The Twitter Feed WordPress Plugin lets you simply output any user’s Tweets into your WordPress blog!

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Also, take a look at our RSS Feed Reader Plugin!

Installation:

Download the plugin direct from the Plugin Page at WordPress.
Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin
Insert the shortcode!

How & Where to Enter the Shortcode:

To insert the Twitter feed, simply enter the following shortcode within a page, post or text widget:

[twitter-feed]

Settings:

You have to insert these values to make sure the feed is set up for you:

Option

Default

Options

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id

108306523

N/A

This is your twitter user ID. The default is set to me. To find out how to find your Twitter ID, click here

username

alexmossSEO

N/A

This is your twitter user username. The default is set to me

mode

feed

feed
fav
public
search

feed – outputs the most recent tweets
fav – outputs the favourites
public – outputs latest tweets plus replies/mentions
search – outputs feed of that search term

term

N/A

twitter
alexmossSEO
%23mancseo

If mode is set to search, this is the search term the feed will output
N.B. you will need to use HTML hex codes such as %23 for #. For a full list of HTML characters please click here.

num

5

1-15

The number of tweets to display

encoding

no

yes/no

Switch to yes if you’re feed outputs odd characters. This may apply if your tweets are in a language other than English

Options:

There are a few attributes that you can use to change the way the twitter feed outputs within WordPress:

Option

Default

Options/
Examples

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anchor

target URL

[LINK]
click here

The anchor text you want to use. As default, the actual URL entered will be output.

followlink

yes

yes/no

Inserts a link to your profile with anchor text “Follow @username on Twitter”

searchlink

yes

yes/no

Inserts a link to your search (if search mode is used)

userlinks

yes

yes/no

Inserts a link to any @username who is mentioned in a tweet
N.B. this cannot be set to no whilst in search mode

hashlinks

yes

yes/no

Inserts a link to any #hashtag that is mentioned in a tweet.
N.B. this cannot be set to no whilst in search mode

timeline

yes

yes/no

Whether you want the tweet to append xx minutes/hours/days ago from the tweet

conditional

yes

yes/no

Have a choice of xx minutes/hours/days ago or 01 January 2010

phptime

j F Y \a\t h:ia

j f y

The PHP date format to output. More formats can be found here

linktotweet

yes

yes/no

If timeline is set to yes, the timeline will link to the specific tweet within twitter.com

linklove

yes

yes/no

Inserts a link to this page

Customisation & Styling:

There are a few attributes that you can use to customise the look and feel of the tweets:

Option

Default

Options/
Examples

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divid

N/A

twitter-feed

If a value is entered, the whole plugin will be surrounded by a DIV with the ID you choose

ulclass

N/A

twitter-updates

The CSS class you want to give to the <ul> the tweets are listed within

liclass

N/A

The CSS class you want to give to each <li> each tweet is listed within

All links use the rel=”external nofollow” tag. You can also download my rel=”external” in a New Window WordPress plugin!

How to Find my Twitter ID:

Visit your chosen Twitter profile whilst logged out.
On the right hand column, find the link RSS feed of username‘s tweets
Clicking this link will take you to an RSS feed. Copy and paste the the ID of the .rss file

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Maintained by Alex Moss

Follow @alexmoss

Alex is a partner at Pleer. He has worked in SEO for over 5 years and has been messing with HTML since he was 13. Alex is known mostly for his WordPress plugins, and contributes to Econsultancy, 123Reg, State of Search and many more.

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