Here’s an example of how the widget looks on the front end: For example, you can choose to include a “Follow” button and you can show your own tweets, or a list you’ve created in Twitter. Now you just configure your widget to state what you want it to display. You should already be logged into your Twitter account so all you’ll have to do is click “authorize app”. That’s it, you’ve now created a Twitter app and the next screen will have the various keys you need to copy/paste into the corresponding settings on the plugin screen.Īfter you’ve pasted in the keys, save the options and now you can simply authorize your twitter account by clicking the button provided. All it takes to set up an app is 4 pieces of information: a name for your app, a description, the url of your site and the callback url for which you can just use the url of your site again. It gives you a link to set up your Twitter app. Many of you will try and ignore these, but don’t, they are there to help!Ĭlicking these notifcations will take you to the settings screen for the plugin. Twitter Widget ProĪfter installing the plugin the first thing you’ll notice are 2 red notifications at the top of your screen. Here are my current favorite Twitter plugins that have been updated to work with the new Twitter API.
You basically have to create your own Twitter app – but don’t worry, it’s not as scary as it sounds. Hopefully the Twitter plugin you have been using has a developer that stays on top of such changes and provides an update to the plugin. With this recent Twitter update however there’s some steps that you as the site owner need to take to make sure the plugin will work. When Twitter changes their API as they did recently, that will affect the plugin. So a WordPress plugin that pulls information from Twitter needs to utilize their API. An API is something that various web services like Twitter provide in order to allow developers to tap into the service and work with information from it. This is because Twitter changed their API. You may have noticed your Twitter feed stopped showing up on your WordPress site just recently. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Pocket Share on Email
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