Title: shortcode?
Last modified: August 21, 2016
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# shortcode?
* Resolved [lamarant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lamarant/)
* (@lamarant)
* [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-67/)
* Great work. Does this plugin have a way to only show the latest tweet, perhaps
via a short code? I’d like to just display my latest tweet in my sites header
rather than a list in a sidebar.
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/)
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* Plugin Author [Tim W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwhitlock/)
* (@timwhitlock)
* [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-67/#post-3893396)
* shortcode is a good idea. Not supported yet. I will add when I get a moment
* Thread Starter [lamarant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lamarant/)
* (@lamarant)
* [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-67/#post-3893397)
* Thanks. I’ll check back periodically but can you post here when you’ve implemented
the shortcode? I’ll be your guinea pig. Appreciate it!
* Plugin Author [Tim W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwhitlock/)
* (@timwhitlock)
* [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-67/#post-3893404)
* I’ve added a [tweets] shortcode to the development version 1.0.10
* You can specify a couple of attributes too:
[tweets max=5 user=timwhitlock]
* Let me know how you get on and I’ll publish it to the stable branch at some point.
* Thread Starter [lamarant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lamarant/)
* (@lamarant)
* [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-67/#post-3893423)
* I can’t seem to find the 1.0.10 version? Only goes up to .09
* Plugin Author [Tim W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwhitlock/)
* (@timwhitlock)
* [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-67/#post-3893424)
* Sorry, yes. I incremented the version number in the wrong file.
Try again: [http://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/developers/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/latest-tweets-widget/developers/)
* Thread Starter [lamarant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lamarant/)
* (@lamarant)
* [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-67/#post-3893427)
* Very close. All I need is the text of the last tweet. But I ended up using your
existing code to create my own short code: [tweet user=lamarant], which calls
a modified function:
* function last_tweet_text( $screen_name = ” ){
$items = latest_tweets_render(
$screen_name, 1, false, false ); return $items[0]; }
* That returns the last tweet and date stamp in elements. I remove the date
using css (display: none) and voila.
* [http://www.leonamarant.com/](http://www.leonamarant.com/)
* It would be cool if your plugin could include a web service that returned the
raw JSON from the users Twitter feed (like the old API). That way you could call
the service (using jQuery.ajax() for example) and do whatever you wanted with
the data. I think this could be done using the wp_ajax method but I’m not 100%
sure (it’s been a while).
* In any case…great work on this plugin. I was worried that I was going to have
to create this myself! Thanks again.
* Plugin Author [Tim W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwhitlock/)
* (@timwhitlock)
* [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-67/#post-3893439)
* Glad it got you there.
* re Ajax. Opening up Twitter data in this form on your site is likely to get you
shut down by Twitter. Even if it’s only your feed, it’s against their oppressive
API terms of use. For reference: [http://twproxy.eu/](http://twproxy.eu/)
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* Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-67/#post-3893439)
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