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(Un)official Twitter Widget

Posted by Ryan Cullen | Posted in Plugins | Posted on 16th January 2010

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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.

Comments (5)

Toran said on Mon 25th Jan 2010

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!
Fares said on Wed 10th Feb 2010

How can I edit the CSS of it?
Aaron said on Wed 24th Feb 2010

Great plugin, thanks. Is it possible to customize how it looks in our sidebar?
Martin Hurford said on Thu 3rd Jun 2010

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.
Ben said on Fri 23rd Jul 2010

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.

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