Simple WordPress Twitter feed code snippet

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Jeremy Clark

Updated version for API v1.1
Sometimes a Twitter plugin is just the right fit for a site, other times it just might be overkill. If all that’s need is a simple list of recent Twitter posts this solution might be the best. The code below can be placed in a functions.php for the current theme or in a separate plugin. The code will automatically change @usernames into links to profiles and #hastags into links for the search page for the tag. It will also convert text links into valid click-able links.

Source Code



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About Jeremy Clark

Small town IT worker with interests in all things technological and technical. Biggest interests are in web development especially the WordPress publishing platform and the community supporting it. Currently developing and maintain the free WordPress theme Techozoic. I'm also always available for hire.
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7 Responses to "Simple WordPress Twitter feed code snippet"

  • By sheriffderek November 4, 2012 - 11:57 am

    THANK YOU ! I just needed 3 tweets to appear. I was going insane. What are all these crazy widgets and plug-ins for ? We need a plug-in police! IT’S CRAZY !!!

    Thanks for a logical solution for a person who rolls their own sites.

    Reply
  • By Simple WordPress Twitter follower count snippet | Jeremy Clark - TechNet.com November 30, 2012 - 11:54 am

    [...] on the idea from this post, sometimes a full-blown Twitter plugin is too much. Luckily Twitter has a rich API that is ripe for [...]

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  • By Tommy February 12, 2013 - 12:17 pm

    Is there a way to change the date to show time, like 6 hours ago, and then the date once it hits a days mark?

    Thanks!

    Reply
  • By Tommy February 15, 2013 - 11:32 am

    I have this setup to use a $value for multiple company tweets. Everything was working fine but I noticed today on 1 company that the 3rd tweet being pulled in is crashing the site. It was not allowing the closing divs to be processed.

    I went to twitter and noticed some weird symbols at the end of the tweet. Is there anyway to exclude them?

    “New coupon coming out in Dining Out this weekend!! It could be a good Valentines day present!????????”

    Thanks,
    Tommy

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    • By Tommy February 15, 2013 - 11:33 am

      post didn’t render symbols. You can see it here https://twitter.com/cookie_jar_cafe

      It’s the one under Jan 28th.

      Reply
    • By Jeremy Clark February 15, 2013 - 11:57 am

      Could you post a link to where it’s happening it might help to see the source code of the page. I use a little different more advanced code for the Twitter widget for my Techozoic theme and it’s pulling the tweets fine with that. I’ll have to update the post with this code.

      Reply

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