Twitter for WordPress Extended shows your tweets, tweets for a search term (e.g. a tag), your friends timeline or the current twitter trends.
| Author: | Marc Schieferdecker (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.1 |
| WordPress version tested: | 2.8 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0.3 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 30-06-2009 |
| Last updated: | 13-07-2009
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Plugin URI: | http://www.das-motorrad-blog.de/meine-wordpre... |
| Total downloads: | 9 162 |
| Active installs: | 100+ |
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Twitter for WordPress displays yours tweets, your friends timeline, a Twitter search result or the current twitter trends in your WordPress blog. This is done by using the built in widget or by using PHP functions in your theme.
Features
* Simply
* Customizable
* Widget support
* No options page (yes, its a feature)
* Uses WordPress resources (no extra files needed)
* Detects URLs, e-mail address and @username replies
Usage
If you use WordPress widgets, just drag the widget into your sidebar and configure. If widgets are not your thing, use the following php code to display Twitter messages:
<?php twitter_messages("username"); ?>
If you want to display tweets to a special search result, use the following code:
<?php twitter_searchstring("#twitaly"); ?>
If you want to display the tweets of your friends timeline, use this:
<?php twitter_friends( "username", "password" ); ?>
If you want to display the current twitter trends, use that snippet:
<?php twitter_trends(); ?>
Customization
The plug in provides the following CSS classes:
* ul.twitter: the main ul (if list is activated)
* li.twitter-item: the ul items (if list is activated)
* p.twitter-message: each one of the paragraphs (if msgs > 1)
* .twitter-timestamp: the timestamp span class
* a.twitter-link: the tweet link class
* a.twitter-user: the @username reply link class
* li.twitter-item img: format the avatar icon on search results