Do you have a WordPress blog, but hate playing about with the source code of your theme to insert the Official Twitter Widget?
Do you wish that instead you could just have a WordPress widget which did all the hard work for you?
Well now you can, with the (Un)official Twitter Widget.

This simple WordPress widget allows you to have the Twitter widget on your sidebar.

I wrote this widget for a client who wanted the new Official Twitter Widget, however all the WordPress plugins I came across either used the plain old widget, or did their own thing with the data.
It’s based (heavily) on the work from seanys, which used the old widget.

To install either use the built in plugin installer and search for (Un)official Twitter Widget, or visit the WordPress Plugin page and download the file, unzip it, and FTP it to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.

Tags: Twitter

Categories: Plugins

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9 Responses

1. 

   Toran:

   I actually use a dedicated plugin called Twitter Tools, for my WordPress blog(s). It is very simple to use and gives me the ability to tweet from within the programe, handy for when I tweet about new blog posts. I have tried one or two other WP Twitter widgets before, but that is the best one so far!

   25.01.2010 00:19

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   Fares:

   How can I edit the CSS of it?

   10.02.2010 10:48

3. 

   Aaron:

   Great plugin, thanks. Is it possible to customize how it looks in our sidebar?

   24.02.2010 06:43

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   Martin Hurford:

   Love how you’ve made the official widget that much more useful to the WordPress crowd.

   I just installed it but noticed straight away that it only allows a single instance (I wanted to add two to my sidebar) so I started digging and noticed you are not extending the WordPress Widget class which would enable this.

   Any plans to enable multiple instances? If not do you know anyway to hack your current code to enable this functionality?

   Thanks again for your efforts.

   03.06.2010 02:39

5. 

   Ben:

   Hey Ryan,

   I have been using this plugin for about 3 months with no issues. All of a sudden, the script isn’t generating the html anymore. You can see it on the front page of http://www.pulseworthy.com where there a follow on twitter but no twitter box.

   Thanks for any help you can provide.

   23.07.2010 22:41

6. 

   Abby:

   I am having trouble with my html code. Can you please contact me to fix this. I would really like to add this to my site.
   Thank you

   24.09.2010 16:40

7. 

   Jamie:

   Hello,

   Well this doesn’t look very promising but I’ll ask anyway. How can I style this widget?

   Thanks

   17.03.2011 14:48

8. 

   Joan Koritko:

   How do I change the appearance of the widget.

   06.06.2011 14:17

9. 

   Joanna:

   Interested in changing the font style in this widget – can anyone help? Thanks!

   15.08.2011 16:32