Widgets » Twitter Widget
The Twitter widget allows you to display updates from a Twitter account in the sidebar of your blog. You can look at the WordPress.com News Blog to see an example in action.
Title – Set the title to be shown above the authors.
Twitter username – The username from Twitter that will be used. When looking at your Twitter page, your username is the last part of the URL as shown in the image below.
Maximum number of updates to show – How many tweets should be shown (1-20).
Hide replies – Hides tweets that are a reply to another Twitter user, using @username at the beginning of the tweet.
Text to display between tweet and timestamp – As the label suggests, this allows you to insert additional text between the Twitter message and the time it was posted. Typically you would use this to add ‘tweeted’ or ‘published’ etc.
Additional Info
You can use multiple Twitter widgets to display updates from different accounts on the same blog.
The widget will check Twitter for updates every 15 minutes, so you may not see new tweets on the blog right away.
If “Protect my updates” is checked in your Twitter account, this widget will not be able to access your tweets. See Public vs. Private at Twitter.
If Hide replies is checked the number of tweets shown may not equal the # set. The # of updates setting is a maximum.
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Last modified: March 26, 2009
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