Latest Version: 1.1
Twitter Tweets is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to easily display Tweets from Twitter using widgets, shortcodes and functions.
Twitters old API (version 1.0) is now depreciated and will stop working as of March 2013, Twitters new API (version 1.1) requires you to authorize yourself with Twitter using OAuth, Twitter Tweets makes this a breeze!
Five Methods for Displaying Tweets
- User Timeline – Displays a collection of the most recent Tweets posted by a specified Twitter user
- Mentions Timeline – Displays your most recent mentions (tweets containing your @screen_name)
- Home Timeline – Displays your collection of most recent Tweets, retweets and tweets of the users you follow
- Single Tweet – Displays a single Tweet
- Search Tweets – Displays a collection of relevant Tweets matching a specified query
Easy to Use
- Easily authorize yourself with Twitter (required with Twitters API as of version 1.1)
- Display Tweets using WordPress widgets
- Display Tweets using WordPress shortcodes
- Display Tweets using functions
- Easily configure styling in Twitter Tweets settings
- No coding required!
Customizable
- Pick from 62 Twitter birds
- Pick from 4 Twitter bird hover effects
- Pick from 4 Twitter actions (reply, retweet and favourite buttons) hover effects
- Pick from 2 favourite icons (heart or star)
Caching
- Easily set amount of time to cache Tweets before updating them
- As well as caching your Tweets, Twitter Tweets will back up your Tweets incase your server fails to retrieve Tweets from Twitters API while updating your Tweets (always displays Tweets on your website and never display errors!)
Built with Mobile in Mind
- Tweets are fully responsive
- If touch is detected, will disable hover effects
Developer Friendly
- Clean Code
- Functions to call for displaying Tweets
- Tweet Templating – You can override the default tweet template by placing a Tweet template in your theme folder
- Action and Filter Hooks
Other Features
- Full localization support
- Logs errors when you fail to connect with Twitter
- Shows you how many remaining hits to the Twitter API you have available
Support
If you encounter any bugs or require extra functionality, feel free to contact me and I’ll try my best to rectify the problem.
Changelog
1.1 – 30/01/13
- Added 32 more Twitter icons