Twitter plug-in

  • silent88uk

    (@silent88uk)


    9 years, 3 months ago

    Hi there..

    I hope someone can help – is there a free Twitter plug-in/widget that allows displaying both your tweets and also offers displaying the blue Follow@(TwitterName) button as part of the same plug-in/widget? I’ve checked quite a few Twitter plug-ins but still haven’t found any! Official Twitter WP plug-in doesn’t do that (you have to combined 2 widgets: tweets/profile + Follow button), some plug-ins (e.g. Tweet Master) offer as a premium, and some only offer different Twitter buttons but not tweets

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  • Ronald Gijsel

    (@just2ronald)

    9 years, 3 months ago

    Have you tried using the twitter developer tools to create a widget?
    https://dev.twitter.com/web/follow-button
    You might need to combine a follow button and timeline widget together with some added code to make it look like you want it.

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by Ronald Gijsel.
    Thread Starter silent88uk

    (@silent88uk)

    9 years, 3 months ago

    Hey (just2)Ronald

    Yes, I’ve seen the said link and displaying the Follow button itself is not an issue, can either use existing WP widgets/plugins for that or just the available code. I specifically wanted to have them 2 as a “single item” hence I was after some existing free plug-in already offering it. It’s OK to combine as you suggest and have tried it, but sometimes it can look skewed and “separated” (and “misplaced”, rather than “connected” as one item), depending on the timeline lengths/browser/page layout etc. I’m not that much of a coder (but can edit/update the code if someone points me to the right direction)

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by silent88uk.
    Thread Starter silent88uk

    (@silent88uk)

    9 years, 3 months ago

    I was suggested this solution:

    If you would like to always append a follow button at the end of an embedded profile timeline widget then the after_widget parameter should be a good place to add follow button HTML.

    You can call do_shortcode on a twitter_follow shortcode to return the HTML to prepend in the after_widget argument.

    Only not quite sure how exactly this should be executed? Can anyone help me out with this? where can I find the HTML code in question? I’m not a dev/coder but can do bits n bobs with proper instructions..

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