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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

1. You can update your twitter status from your blog
2. You can view and display public updates on your blog
3. You can view and display your followers updates on your blog
4. You can view and display your followers on your blog and increase your followers
5. Simple installation
6. Widget Ready, just need to enable to use
7. Can you displayed anywhere on your blog, by just adding a simple code if you do not want to display using the widget
8. Widget fully customisable, size, font, font size, colour, number of updates, number of followers, etc
9. Enable and disable different features
10. 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.

UPDATE – Please check the latest version of Twitter WordPress Plugin – Kish Twit Pro

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