Title: Customizing the "official-format='3'" shortcode
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Customizing the "official-format='3'" shortcode

 *  Resolved [tmades](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmades/)
 * (@tmades)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-official-format3-shortcode/)
 * When I use the “official-format=3” in the shortcode, at first it loads a nice
   looking simple format that displays the tweet in big grey letters in between 
   quotation marks. Almost immediately afterwards it changes to a different format.
   It’s hard to explain without seeing it and I can’t take a screenshot fast enough
   to be able to show what I mean. If you go to my site: [http://www.knksandbox.civilrose.com](http://www.knksandbox.civilrose.com)
   and look at the top of the screen where I’ve put the tweets, you can see what
   I’m talking about. Try reloading the page and you can see it switch from one 
   format to another. I want to stick with the format it loads initially.
 * Can anyone please help me!? 🙂
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/rotatingtweets/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rotatingtweets/)

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 *  Thread Starter [tmades](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmades/)
 * (@tmades)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-official-format3-shortcode/#post-5467944)
 * [http://knksandbox.civilrose.com](http://knksandbox.civilrose.com)
 *  Plugin Author [Martin Tod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpntod/)
 * (@mpntod)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-official-format3-shortcode/#post-5468066)
 * That’s a test format that was never meant to be used!
 * It’s an attempt to try and rotate the official Twitter tweet that has never quite
   worked – because the rotation script runs before the Twitter script that replaces
   the text with a tweet in their format and so all the sizing breaks!
 * The effect you’re liking (before it gets replaced) is the effect of displaying
   a tweet as a `<blockquote>`. If you’re using a shortcode to display your tweet,
   something like:
 *     ```
       <blockquote>[rotatingtweets screen_name='keysnkrates' official_format=2]</blockquote>
       ```
   
 * might give the effect you’re looking for.
 *  Plugin Author [Martin Tod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpntod/)
 * (@mpntod)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-official-format3-shortcode/#post-5468069)
 * The other option would be to put some styling in to your theme CSS or to a `rotatingtweets.
   css` file in `/wp-content/uploads/`. For example:
 *     ```
       div.rotatingtweet {
          border-left-style: solid;
          border-left-color: gray;
          border-left-width: 3px;
          padding-left: 2em;
          font-size: larger;
          font-style: italic;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [tmades](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmades/)
 * (@tmades)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-official-format3-shortcode/#post-5468209)
 * That’s awesome thanks so much!

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