I have been working on a plugin which I had early posted on my personal blog. I have finished the Twitter plugin for Wordpress now and ready to release for public download.
This plugin is using the Twitter API to get and post the updates. You need to have a twitter account to post updates. I am sure now almost all the bloggers use twitter.
Features
- You can update your twitter status from your blog
- You can view and display public updates on your blog
- You can view and display your followers updates on your blog
- You can view and display your followers on your blog and increase your followers
- Simple installation
- Widget Ready, just need to enable to use
- Can you displayed anywhere on your blog, by just adding a simple code if you do not want to display using the widget
- Widget fully customisable, size, font, font size, colour, number of updates, number of followers, etc
- Enable and disable different features
- Regular Updates
Installation
Installation is very simple, just upload the unzipped files to the plugins directory and activate the plugin. If you wish to display on the sidebar, just go to the widgets option as shown below
Settings
After activating the plugin, just go to the setting link , you will find the Kish Twitter settings link
Once you go to the settings, you will find all the options to customize the view of the “Kish Twitter” Widget
Options Explained
- Twitter Enabled – If you want this plugin to work, you need to check this option or nothing will be shown even if the plugin is activated
- Enable Public Updates – You can enable or disable public updates on your widget
- Enable Followers Say – By enabling this, you can display the messages from your followers on your widget
- Enable Rel = nofollow – You can add rel tag by enabling this
- Enable Follow Me- You can enable this to get your followers details
- Twitter User Name – You need to enter your username and password for this plugin to work
- Maximum Info Lines – The maximum number of updates that you want to show on your widget. You will need to set this according to the size of the widget.
- Maximum Users- You need to set this to display the number of followers and the number of twitters you follow
- Font- Family – Name of the font that you want to use for this widget, example a series of fonts or font name
- Font Size – Font size of the widget
- Message – You can display a message on the footer of the widget
- After you make the changes, just save the options
You can display the widget anywhere on your blog by just adding the following to your blog template
<? if (function_exists('printKishTwitter')) printKishTwitter(); ?>
If you have a questions please post it here.
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You can test the widget, which is on the right sidebar of this page
Kishore,
Looks like a great plugin that I’ve been searching for.
There’s a snag which I hope just a trivial one. I have several warnings when the plugin activated. Here are some:
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Warning: include_once(…/wp-content/plugins/kishore-twitter/functions.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /…/wp-content/plugins/kish-twitter/kish-twit.php on line 28
Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/…/wp-content/plugins/kishore-twitter/functions.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /…/wp-content/plugins/kish-twitter/kish-twit.php on line 28
Could you please help me with this? Thanks.
hilmy – I am sorry for that, please download a new copy and overwrite the files, it should work now without any errors
Well, I re-downloaded the plugin and it does not work. I have left the dead widget in my sidebar so you can go there and see for yourself what it is doing. Also the rss link on the bottom of the widget is not inserting the username! I really have high hopes for this to work as I want my tweets there.
Jeff did you use the widget or did you add the function to your template ?
Some templates are having problem with the widget, I am working on that. Please try using the function instead, just insert
< ? if (function_exists('printKishTwitter')) printKishTwitter(); ?>
and try.
Jeff, the issues are sorted out now, please download the latest files and try. Hope this time it should work. I have tested on different servers and environment
I know enough about templates, css, and codes to be dangerous. Where do I paste this in my template?
-Christina, you can paste it anywhere you want to display the widget. Please make sure that you enter your login details in the settings of Kish Twitter
Kishore, how can I avoid the following error message?
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/content/(…)/html/wp-content/plugins/kish-twitter/twitter_api.php on line 29
planetdamage – I guess you are not using PHP 5 or above. You will need to edit the twitter_api.php and change all the private to public. I guess you are using php4, I have not tested on PHP 4