People have been asking me how on earth did I manage to integrate my Twitter feeds on my blog. It’s really simple..I used a plugin called Twitter Tools.
Twitter Tools is a Wordpress plugin created by Alex King that lets you create a complete integration of your Wordpress blog and Twitter account.
With Twitter Tools you can:
- Archive your tweets
- Create a blog post from each of your tweets
- Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
- Post a tweet from your sidebar
- Create a daily digest post of your tweets
- Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
- Pass your tweets along to another service (e.g., Facebook)
- You can also choose the number of tweets you want to show in the sidebar.
So, here’s how to add Twitter on your blog.
- Download Twitter Tools plugin.
- Upload ‘twitter-tools.php’ file into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Login to your Wordpress admin area and go to Plugins and click activate for Twitter Tools.
- Go to Options > Twitter Tools and set your Twitter info and preferrences.
- Open the wordpress file where you want to show your tweets (e.g., sidebar.php) and insert this code:
<?php aktt_sidebar_tweets(); ?> - Lastly, update your wordpress file.
If you have any questions, I’d be happy to help if I know the answer. :)
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6 responses so far
Andrew says:
Mar 5, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I really like your blog’s design. It’s very nice.
Nice idea with the plugin too, I might look into giving that a try.
Luc says:
Mar 6, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Thanks Andrew :)
Adam says:
Mar 16, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Nice blog, good tutorial aswell mate.
Bryan says:
Mar 23, 2008 at 12:36 am
I stopped by your site while I was at work yesterday and had to comeback to check it out more. I love the design of your blog…it’s awesome!
Excellent tutorial for adding Twitter. I’ll be adding this soon. Thanks!
yichi says:
Mar 27, 2008 at 12:43 am
Like your design a lot!
Adding twitter to blog there is another option, using its official JS enabled badget, it’s also easy and the most important is that it doesn’t require any plugin enabled.
http://twitter.com/badges
hope it works :)
Wordpress plugins I use in my blog says:
Apr 26, 2008 at 6:55 pm
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