As tweeted yesterday, I’ve just completed a new WordPress plug-in to show rotating tweets.
It’s easy to add using a widget or a shortcode in a post or on a page such as:
and, as a result, you get:
At a briefing on the Hampshire Local Transport Plan - an area where we need major change with a much stronger ambitions for decarbonisation and sustainable active travel hants.gov.uk/transport/loca…
For a bit more fun, you can add some extra options such as:
Problem retrieving data from Twitter
And the latest version goes for the official look:
Problem retrieving data from Twitter
Problem retrieving data from Twitter
You can also search:
Problem retrieving data from Twitter
You can see the widget in action on the top-right of this page.
You can download the plug-in from here.
All this was only possible due to the good people of WordPress, the Twitter API, jQuery and jQuery Cycle – and Syd who showed me jQuery Cycle in the first place  – so a big thank you to them too! 🙂
New error in twitter feed:
Twitter error code: 68 – The Twitter REST API v1 is no longer active. Please migrate to API v1.1. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview.
Please check the Twitter name in the widget or shortcode, Rotating Tweets settings or the Twitter API status.
In debug mode this error appears above the widget: /rotatingtweets.php on line 944
Also very interesting, it appears that my Oauth settings are not being saved. After I input them and click save, this page pops up:
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-admin/options.php. This has happened before, I think it was after the last dev version, and I didn’t realize that the settings weren’t being saved.
After changing line 85, many errors in same file at line 33, which is:
if($_GET[‘page’] == $this->pageinfo[‘filename’])
Pages are in debug mode, see at: http://coaching.valiantlane.com/test-rotating-tweets
First (easy) fix, try changing line 33 to:
Definitely a problem that the settings aren’t being saved – because we won’t be able to test anything until they are. I’ll see if I can replicate the problem.
Martin
Changed ln 33. Back to square one: http://coaching.valiantlane.com/test-rotating-tweets. I changed that line back to original, page still crashed.
Need site up so made pdfs of errors on tweets page:
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Test-Rotating-Tweets-_-coaching.valiantlane.com_1.pdf
and the settngs page for what happens after clicking save:
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/RotatingTweets_errors_save.pdf
Many thanks. Do you have the last lines that are showed when you ‘View source’ (in IE) or ‘View page source’ (in Chrome or Firefox). You need to right click on the page to get the option.
The last lines of HTML are normally the best clue for what is going wrong.
Was able to save settings. Page still crashed:
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/test-rotating-tweets
Uploaded pdf of entire source code file:
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_testRT.pdf
Sorry to be a pain. What do you get as the last line of HTML if you switch WP_DEBUG back on?
Martin
No problem…here’s pdf of page source w debug on.
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_testRT.pdf
Hopefully this will help…I’m sure neither of us thought it would take this much time. 🙂
This is really frustrating. It seems to be asking for very similar data to my page, but for some reason the server is crashing…
$url = https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=70&exclude_replies=0&include_entities=1&include_rts=0&oauth_consumer_key=IOVwRoiubX6dQk6IqlGZcw&oauth_nonce=558845dec459d2cac187a6134a125eb4&oauth_signature=icGZ95DUjFvZ4gqx%2FkbRqcARAqc%3D&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1378337594&oauth_token=1443625452-0hZL7sIRATOptDWR40nTPwS4zLBMF3dITFQ04LI&oauth_version=1.0&screen_name=valiantlane
$args = Array
(
[method] => GET
[timeout] => 3
[sslverify] => 1
)
-->
I’ve added an extra debug line to double-check that it’s the wp_remote_request() that’s causing the problem.
Have you had any server changes or plug-in installations that might affect how WordPress fetches files?
New pg source code after latest dev uploaded:
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_testRT_debugon_2.pdf
New pg source code after latest dev uploaded:
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_testRT_debugon_2.pdf
No server changes. Started happening with existing plugins. I don’t recall a plugin update after installing RT.
Well, at least we now know which line of the code is crashing!
What happens if you switch SSL Verify to ‘No’ on the settings pages?
And what other plug-ins are you currently using?
I have a nuclear option in mind to address this – in essence, I would replicate the hack I used to allow you to reset the settings to bypass the wp_remote_request() and use the original wp_twitteroauth.php cURL code to fetch the data – but I’m keen to avoid this if I can!
Martin
Hi Martin,
Removed and reinstalled the latest dev version and got formatting back. Still can’t save the settings.
Thanks for your patience!
Valerie
I’ve updated the dev version so that if you get a crash that stops you updating the settings, it switches off the error checking for 24 hours to enable you to update the settings without crashing the page!
This enables people who have a problem with wp_remote_request() to input working settings.
No change switching SSL to no.
Plugins (all are activated):
Akismet
All in one Favicon
All In One SEO Pack
Custom Post Templates
IQ Testimonials
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
Simple Page Sidebars
Social Media Widget
WP-Table Reloaded
With RT in widget and all PIs on, formatting crashes, RI and other widgets in same sidebar disappear. While leaving RT on and in sidebar widget, deactivated each PI to see impact and the only one that made a diff was Simple Page Sidebars. The formatting still crashed, the two widgets in the sidebar above RT appeared but the one below it didn’t, and RT still did not display. Interestingly, when I turned SPS back on, the two top widgets still displayed, which wasn’t the initial case when all widgets disappeared.
Here is the page source code for SPS off and on with debug off.
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_RTwidget_SimSideoff.pdf
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_RTwidget_SimSideon.pdf
Here is the page source code for SPS off and on with debug on.
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_RTwidget_SimSideoff_debugon.pdf
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_RTwidget_SimSideon_debugon.pdf
Good luck & thanks for hanging in there!
The page source codes above were for when there was no unique sidebar per page and the only sidebar with widgets was “displayed everywhere.”
There are 2 options for unique sidebars per page, one with the Simple Sidebars PI and through the Avisio theme. Here are the source codes with debugging on for when there is a unique sidebar:
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_RTwidget_SimSideon_UniqueSidebar_debugon.pdf
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_RTwidget_AvisioTheme_UniqueSidebar_debugon.pdf
Valerie,
I think we may be there.
Try http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/rotatingtweets/branches/1.6.0-curl/lib/wp_twitteroauth.php in the lib subdirectory…
Martin
Hi Martin,
Wish I could say it worked, but it didn’t. See
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/test-rotating-tweets. Here is page source with debug on:
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_error_test-rotating-tweets.pdf
I also tested another twitter feed plugin as well as script that I downloaded from twitter.
The other plugin crashed the page too, see at: http://coaching.valiantlane.com/test-simple-twitter-tweets. Here is page source with debug on: http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_error_test-simple-twitter-tweets.pdf
The code direct from twitter worked just fine. See at http://coaching.valiantlane.com/blog. In case pg source code helps here it is:http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pagesource_noerror_scriptfromtwitter.pdf
Checked my twitter account and app for this site to access twitter is functioning.
I rechecked settings for oauth in twitter developer and it looks right. I looked at guidelines for filling in the info and I think it’s right. However, that doesn’t mean it is. What should I look for? I even reset the consumer key & token to see if that would help, and it didn’t. If there is a private way to get them to you, I am happy to send you my settings and oauth pages for a look.
BTW, I tested RT and another plugin on another website of mine. They didn’t crash the page but the tweets never showed. So there must be some error in the oauth somewhere, either in a plugin or wp file or I haven’t set up the app right.
Again, thanks for hanging in there with this.
Cool. We now know the problem. We’ve got it down to one function!
In essence, your cURL configuration is not working with WordPress.
First way of fixing this (perhaps) is to install the latest development version and then comment back in line 1669 so that we get
// add_filter('use_http_extension_transport', 'rotatingtweets_block_transport');
add_filter('use_curl_transport', 'rotatingtweets_block_transport');
If this doesn’t work, we need to install Core Control – and use the http: modules to debug the connection and, probably, switch off CURL.
Putting 1669 in rotatingtweets.php back in didn’t work.
Results from HTTP access module show cURL not available and conflict betwee default and current value:
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Core%20Control%20%E2%80%B9%20coaching.valiantlane.com%20%E2%80%94%20WordPress.pdf
Enabled HTTP access logger but not sure how to engage it.
The adventure continues!
Well at least that page shows that my hack for switching off cURL works! 🙂
Does the page still crash with line 1669 ‘activated’?
Probably the best thing to do now is to:
Martin
PS: The reason the Twitter code works is that it doesn’t pull in the Tweets and display them like WordPress. They are sent directly from Twitter to the browser…
Dear Martin,
Thanks for creating the plugin. Have used it before but now I was asked for the following:
I would like to use your plugin with more than just one screenname. So i can have a team of the company sending tweets and show them on the site. Besides that I would like to add some shortcodes withit. So shortcodes and screennames in one rotating area. Is that possible? If so can you show me the shortcode or lines I have to alter ?
thanks, Brent
There are several ways to do this. You can set up a list of people to follow and use that:
Alternatively, you can do a search:
For more complex Twitter searches, you can use the options at https://support.twitter.com/articles/71577-using-advanced-search
Thanks it works with the several persons, but I can’t find a way to add AND people AND #hastags.
for instance ‘from:vanbrent OR mpntod AND #health AND #apple’
Am really not good in coding, hope you can help me out(again).
I don’t think you need the AND.
Perhaps ‘from: mpntod #health #apple OR from:vanbrent #apple #health’ ?
Martin
Yep, still crashes with 1669 activated. Reloaded the dev version of RT, so wasn’t using the wp-twitteroauth.php you posted here yesterday. Will reinstall the original RT and check it out with Core Control.
No burning need to have the latest release instead of the dev release.
Only option I can see is seeing if Core Control can give us a working transport that doesn’t crash WordPress! I will be very interested if you can let me know the results of testing each of the transports.
Best wishes,
Martin
Hi, thanks for the great plugin.
One question: how do I get only some of my tweets visible and not my whole account.
I now have [rotatingtweets screen_name='esterb11' search='#Heyku' tweet_count='5' timeout='3000'], but that will also rotate tweets from others with #Heyku. I only want the #Heyku on my timeline.
Can you help me?
Best regards,
esterb
Does
work for you?
Martin
Yes, that’s it!
Thanks!
esterb
Hi. How can i change shortcode for disappear screen name, time and date?
Try something like:
Hello Martin,
I have tried this on 1 site and it worked fine. Then I tried it on another fresh install and the tweets won’t rotate. I read all of your FAQ on it and nothing there helped. I uninstalled it and then thought I cleared everything and re-installed it and my widget was still in place with all of it’s data. SO when you delete you plugin, it doesn’t remove everything so you can do a clean install. So I need to know what else there is to try. I have disabled all of my plugins. The theme I am using is Pressimo By MagPress.
Any help would be appreciated! 🙂
Thanks!
Have you tried version 2 of the script as per the Rotating Tweets settings page?
I’ve tried it with a clean install of the latest version of Pressimo and it seems to rotate for me – although it has big problems with widget width using version 1 of the script.
Good question re: widgets. RT doesn’t remove them. I’ve had a look at the latest version of the API and it doesn’t seem to let you do this.
Martin
Yes I tried Version 2 and it breaks the widget. I’ll strip it all down and see if I can find the culprit. As of now Console doesn’t show me any errors. Nothing in the log files either. Has me stumped!
Very odd not to see anything at all in the Console Log. Sometimes it can be a reference to something completely different that highlights the problem (i.e. something else is crashing Javascript).
You might get some extra diagnostics if you switch WP_DEBUG to true in the wp-config.php file – but probably not (and this normally finds a load of other bugs).
What this can sometimes be is a ‘hidden’ copy of jQuery or, possibly, jQuery.cycle. It’s there as a second copy overwriting everything that came before – but not with an obviously identifiable filename.
If you send me a link, I can take a look if that helps.
Martin
Hi Martin,
How do you change the colour of the links from the dark blue. I am using your plugin on a dark site and it doesn’t stand out?
I have attached my URL so you can see.
Thanks in advance.
Does something like
color: white;
}
in your CSS file work?
Or, even better,
color: rgb(176,101,0);
}
Thanks Martin – I tried adding the code and it changed the colour but stopped the tweets from rotating ?
It seems to be working now (via Chrome). Did you put it in your stylesheet or in the plug-in?
Hi Martin,
Great plugin, was wondering if there was any way of adding in buttons to control the rotation of the widget? Meaning users could manually cycle through the tweets if they wanted to?
Also, is there anywhere you have listed all variables for the shortcode implementation of the widget?
Thanks in advance!
Having actually looked through your documentation seems you have covered both of my above questions. I can’t get the prev/next buttons to work on my site, they don’t seem to interact with the rotation at all. As the tag value is # the page automatically pushes to the top of the page when the buttons are clicked.
Could you email me if you’d like to see the website problem in hand, as I cannot disclose the site I am working on publicly.
Thanks
Which version of the script are you using?
They currently only work with version 1 of the script unfortunately.
There is in the shortcode – as per http://wordpress.org/plugins/rotatingtweets/installation/
The relevant codes are:
i have followed instructions thoroughly and still no twitter feed. i need help to the highest degree. i have downloaded the latest upgrade.
If you have:
you should be seeing something on your page.
if you’re not, can you send me a link or details of the template you are using?
Martin
on my website http://raisingbran.com I have your widget plugin on my sidebar however the color font is white and cant be seen with my white background how do I change the color of the widget font?
It’s hard to check because the widget isn’t currently on your blog, but a way of doing it for Rotating Tweets would be something like:
color: black;
}
but you may need a more global solution such as:
color: black;
}
Hi and thanks for the great plug in. I have only one issue. I would like to be able to increase the size of the title text, maybe center it or have the twitter bird before the title. You can view my website as my email adress. Where and what do I need to change.
Thanks,
You can do all of this via CSS. For example, you can change the size of the name and centre it via:
font-size: 1.2em;
text-align: center;
}
and the tag via:
font-size: 1.1em;
}
Should this plugin auto-refresh? It’s not happening on our tise.
Do you mean auto-refreshing after the page is loaded?
No. Currently the plugin doesn’t do this.
Because there are quite tight restrictions on how often a site can get data from Twitter, it would be quite tricky to implement.
Hi,
Is there any way I can adjust the distance between the widget header and the tweet?
Thanks
Sure. You can do this via some CSS, e.g.:
padding-top: 12px;
}
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Hi, on my website http://www.hopelefeber.com/ rotating tweets in sidebar does not showing newest tweets. I tried to clear cache but still no luck. please advice for this issue thank you
Is it working again now? When there’s a problem, you should normally see something in the HTML of your page explaining what the issue is.
Hi Martin.
I love this plugin!! For some reason the tweets won’t rotate anymore. I disabled all the plugins to see if that caused the problem, but no luck. Any advice you can give me is greatly appreciated. The plugin is on several pages. Thanks
http://keysignatureonline.com
http://keysignatureonline.com/bbnb_artists/aerial-view/
For some reason, the JavaScript isn’t appearing on the page anywhere.
I don’t know if it is another plug-in causing this or if `wp_footer()` or `wp_header()` is missing from your template.
What happens if you change the JavaScript settings on the Rotating Tweets settings page?
Have you tried loading the site with WP_DEBUG set to true in wp-config.php ?
Martin
Thanks for the quick response Martin! I ended up using a hack and hardcoding the references to the js files in header.php. It worked for the artist pages but the home page does not show any tweets. It appears that the javascript is working on this page as well. Any ideas??
Hi Martin!
Thanks for this great plugin, I really appreciate it! I’m using it on my current website which will go up officially at some point. You can find my website under
http://69.89.31.80/~climatk6/climatesnack/
I do have this white space in between the Follow button and my menu bar… do you know how to get rid of it? I didn’t have this problem with the other Twitter ticker I used previously.
Thanks,
Matt
Somewhere in your stylesheet, you’ve got:
margin-bottom: 30px;
}
So, you need to have something like:
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
in your CSS.
Hi Martin,
I really enjoy the plugin. I have a problem however. I use the plugin in a post, but the space where the tweets are supposed to be have somehow shrinked to something like half a line, and I can’t figure out why. In that way I cannot see the tweets… Can you help me on this?
Hi Avaja,
You seem to have solved it. I was going to suggest trying the alternative version of the script.
Best wishes,
Martin
Hi Tod,
I am using your rotating tweets plugin on the homepage of my website. Its a great plugin but I dont understand why it is showing your tweets instead of mine. I have created API using my own twitter account. It is working perfectly on the sidebar widget but only the problem is on the home page.
Any help would be really appreciated. Keep up the good work!
Regards
Talha
Hi Talha,
Have you put screen_name=”talha” or something similar inside your shortcode?
Martin
Hi Martin,
First of all great plugin! I am using wordpress canvas and have a couple of issues. Using rotating tweets 1.6.7.
1. What CSS do i need to resize the fonts? Does this need to be updated in the script??
2. I have added the ” official_format=’1′ ” to improve the feed, but this is not showing up in the twitter feed..
[rotatingtweets screen_name="ss_living" official_format='1']
Cheers
Aaren
Ok, so i solved 1. with the follow code i found from another thread;
still have not solved 2.
p.s. this information on modifying the properties would be really useful with the app details for users who may be new to this, such as myself. But good work on all the feedback on your page!
Apologies – here is the code i found!
div.widget_rotatingtweets_widget, div.rotatingtweet, div.widget_rotatingtweets_widget div.widget-title {
max-width: 240px; font-size: 10px;}
Aaren,
I’m surprised that your shortcode isn’t working. I copied it exactly onto my site and it did!
What result were you expecting from official_format=’1′ ? What happens if you try official_format=’2′ ? Can you send me a link?
Martin
Hi Martin, I upgraded your plugin from 1.4.7 to 1.6.7. WordPress 3.5.1
I got this error:
Problem retrieving data from Twitter.
Wordpress error code: http_request_failed – SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
Please check your PHP and server settings.
Can you help me? Where I wrong? Thank you.
ale
What happens if you switch off SSL on the settings page?
Martin
Nothing.
In the same page I have the rotating tweets in the sidebar as widget and in the page like shortcode.
In the sidebar widget I got only one tweet old 2 months, in the page i got the error: Problem retrieving data from Twitter. WordPress error code: 999 – Failed to read valid data from Twitter: problem with wp_remote_request()
In the screen_name property, I have to write the twitter nick or the name of the twitter app I create here dev.twitter.com? I wrote the twitter nickname.
This is a tricky one. I’m not quite sure what WordPress is getting back from Twitter.
The latest development version has some code to identify what the problem might be – if you set WP_DEBUG to true in wp-config.php it will provide a lot of useful information in the HTML.
Hi Martin,
Thanks for your great plug-in that works fine on WP 3.8.1.
Is is possible to set the amount of time (in seconds) each tweet (i.e. the rotating time) is displayed in the shortcode?
Best wishes,
Jan
Sure. Include something like
where time is in milliseconds.
Martin
Thanks for the pluging
I have problems with rotation. It doesn’t work!
I don’t know why.
Please help!!
[rotatingtweets screen_name='A_Toda_Vela' include_rts='1' tweet_count='3' timeout='7000' show_follow ='1' official_format='2']
Normally this is a JavaScript problem. Either the Rotating Tweets JavaScript isn’t displayed – or it clashes with another plug-in’s scripts.
Have you tried both versions of the script on the settings page? Looking at your page, I think your best bet will be to use version 2 of the script.
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Hello. Rotating Twitter is a brilliant plug in. Well done! I am using it on my own site and would love to use it on a site I am tweeking for an educational organisation in London. The only problem is: I would like it to display only the last 10 tweets on the timeline or last 10 tweets from users on a list. I don’t want the display to clog up with old tweets. Can I tweek the code to do that? What would I need to put in and where? Are you going to be creating any more great plug-ins? All the best. John Ellis
No need to tweak the code.
It’s an option in the shortcode:
and it’s an option in the widgets as well using the ‘how many tweets’ drop down box.
Many thanks, Martin.
Hi Martin!
You may remember that last year my site was crashing with RT. Wanted to let you know that the latest version of RT works beautifully in my new WordPress template! You can see it at
http://coaching.valiantlane.com/about/our-founder
I do have a question. I want to change the text color of the tweets and tried to do it in style.css in the three lines of code for color. The color didn’t change. Any ideas of how to resolve that?
Very happy to have RT on my site! Thanks so much!
Valerie
Hi Valerie,
Great to hear it’s working properly now!
What happens if you add something like:
div.rotatingtweet p.rtw_main a,
div.rotatingtweet p.rtw_meta a {
color: blue;
}
to your rotatingtweets.css file?
Hi Martin,
Worked perfectly! Thanks so much. So glad to use be able to use RT.
V.
Hello
It seems that there is something awry with character encoding, specifically æøå that is replaced with question marks etc. Any idea why? Often, this happens if the php-file isn’t encoded as UTF-8, but this does not seem to be the case at hand here.
Very strange. I’ve just tweeted those letters as a test and they’re displaying just fine on my test site.
What appears in your HTML?
Question marks in stead of Ã¥ and ø – ae in stead of æ. It’s on the front page of http://mortengade.dk/
I’ve put your feed on my test site at http://www.martintod.org.uk/blog/ and it works fine. Very odd.
What is the DB_CHARSET set in wp-config.php ? What happens if you comment out line 1467 of the plug-in?
Finally, if you set WP_DEBUG to true – you will get a LOT of extra info – which might help with the decoding. We probably need to find out if the corruption happens when the data is stored or when it is displayed.
From wp-config.php:
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ”);
If I comment out Line 1467, I get a parse error.
I don’t think I’ve seen a file with an empty charset before!
I’ve revised the development version to handle an empty DB_CHARSET string. Does it work?
Hello Martin,
My Website: http://djdims.fr/
1. How can I limit the number of characters?
2. How do I enable manual rotation of tweets?
3. How to make a link to the complete block tweet in question?
Thank you very much!
soon
Via a shortcode, and using the development version of the plug-in, it will be something like:
(although link all text links to the user page, not the tweet).
Hi,
Thank you verry much for your answer.
But,
doesn’t work….
And there are a space between prev / next block (http://djdims.fr/Sans-titre-2.jpg)
I do not know where it comes from !
Thx u again !
The space in between is the `middot` variable.
`tweet_length` worked when I tried it. Have you installed the latest development version? Which `tweet_length` did you set? Could you post your short-code here?
Hi,
Thank you very much, I understand the system.
But I do not want the space that generates the variable ‘middot’ how do I do?
Shortcode :
Try the latest development version of the plugin and:
I love the plugin.
Would it be possible to add formatting options?
I would like a black thin border around it so it looks the same as my facebook widget.
In theory, you can style
in CSS. Something like:
border:2px solid black;
}
Thank you, this is perfect.
But when I change the file ‘language’, nothing happens?
I would change the French file, but when I replace “before” with “^”, nothing happens …
Incidentally, the correct translation is: “Précédent” in French.
Thx
You normally need two files to edit the language. You edit the .po file in text. And then convert it to a .mo file for WordPress.
The trick is to use a piece of software like poedit – this also converts the .po file to a .mo file that WordPress can use.
Please send me an up to date .po file and I’ll update the standard file. 🙂
Thx for poedit, i try it.
When i’ve time, i do it 🙂
Martin,
Look my traduction : http://djdims.fr/wp-content/plugins/rotatingtweets/languages/rotatingtweets-fr_FR.po
C u 🙂
Hi Martin,
Thanks for really elegant plugin.
I was wondering if I can remove the rounded box from around the Tweet window and if I can reduce the margins/padding from the Tweet content.
I have embedded the plugin into another element which has its own styling and padding.
Thanks,
Nick
Nick,
The appearance of all the elements of the plug-in are completely editable via CSS. It’s hard to say more without seeing your particular site.
Martin
Hi Martin,
Thanks for the reply. I have moved on a bit from the last time I posted and wondered if you were able to help me achieve the following?
The website is: tbcscurrent.wpengine.com
This site is in development and I would like to set the ‘Rotating Tweets’ box to be the same as the others in that row. [These aren’t finished graphics merely place holders for now.] The site is responsive so I need ‘Rotating Tweets’ to follow the behaviour of the other graphics when the window resizes.
I could also do with having square corners too, and the same padding/margin as the other graphics in the row.
Hopefully that explanation is clear. Any help would be much appreciated!
Regards,
Nick
My general way to sort this is to set the size of div.rotatingtweets, div.rotatingtweet and section.shortcode-action-box via CSS using max-width or width and/or max-height or height. I find right clicking (in Chrome) and inspect element – as well as the ability to edit CSS on the fly – very helpful in sorting this out!
Hope this helps,
Martin
Hi, thanks for a great plugin. I just wanted to know is it possible to display tweeted photos in the feed with this plugin?
Thanks
Gary
Only if you’re using a shortcode and it’s pretty experimental at the moment. Try including `show_media=1` in the shortcode.
Martin
Hi Martin, thanks for your work on this plugin.
My tweets are rotating and everything seems to be working fine except that it is not posting my most recent tweets.
Any possible solution to this?
Thanks for your work on the plugin Martin. Everything seems to be working fine except that my most recent tweets are not showing. Any suggestions?
If you look at the source code of your page, it shows:
This normally means that the time clock on the server is out. There’s an example of someone with a similar problem here.
Thanks Martin, that was indeed the problem.
Great, simple plugin!
Any way I can display more than one tweet at a time? I already have it rotating through 10 tweets.
I’m happy to edit the code if needed, just wondered if there was an easier way, ie with shortcode?
Certainly. Make sure you are using version 2 of the JavaScript and then:
should do it for you. Other options are here.
Hi Martin, great plugin.
Im having a small issue with one site – http://themusicwardrobe.co.uk/about-the-music-wardrobe/
the tweets seem to be appearing but are partially hidden, any ideas?
Im using – [rotatingtweets screen_name="_MusicWardrobe" official_format='2']
Thanks
Very odd. I’ve never seen that before.
Two possible options:
width: 605px;
height: 150px;
}
How can I place the follow button before/over the tweets rather than below as the default version does?
Thanks for a great and flexible plugin.
The fastest option would probably be to have a separate text widget which includes something like:
<a href='http://twitter.com/mpntod' class='twitter-follow-button' data-show-screen-name="false" title='Follow @mpntod' data-lang='en'>
Follow @mpntod
</a>
</div>
Hi Martin,
Been using the plugin for over 2 years now – It’s great 🙂
I have a feature request. Would it be possible to render images within tweets inline? That is, if a picture is tweeted out, it is shown rather than just the link?
Many thanks.
Mark
Hi Mark,
Glad you like it.
If you are using a shortcode, then
should work for some formats.
Best wishes,
Martin
Hello Martin,
First of all, thanks for your great twitter plugin.
It works almost fine…except; no effects? I can’t get it to rotate..? No javascript errors, no log errors…Javascript is loading, jQuery also; but still no rotating effects.
I use [rotatingtweets screen_name='Speedynetworks' tweet_count='5' timeout='3000' show_follow='1' no_show_screen_name='1' rotation_type='toss' links_in_new_window='1' speed ='1000']
Can you help me out..?
Does your page only load jQuery once? That can be a problem.
Alternatively, have you tried the other version of the JavaScript on the settings page?
Is anything showing up in your console?
Hello Martin,
Thanks for your reply! Now It works with the Version of JQuery Cycle 2 (beta)
Thanks!
Hi Martin!
I’ve a request.
I’m not a genius with codes so is it posible that the solution is very close.
I wish create a shortcode that show my tweet but not the tweet that have a specifically #Hasgtag.
In order to Twitter’s using-advanced-search, I’ve try this
but not working! Any suggestions?
Thank you
Sawa
You either need a screenname or a search… not both. Try:
You can find out what search terms to use by visiting this page – https://twitter.com/search-advanced.
Hi Martin,
Great plugin! Have one question and have looked through comments but no luck.
I am currently using this short code
[rotatingtweets screen_name='Username' official_format='1' show_meta_screen_name='0' show_meta_via='0']
However it is still showing the screen name. Is there any way to have the official format without the screen name & twitter icon? As I like the look of official format 1 with the timestamp and call to action icons.
Thanks.
Try adding
to the shortcode.
Hope it works!
Martin
Dear Martin,
I have been using this plugin for quite some time now and it worked very well. But now I ran into an error:
– Problem retrieving data from twitter. –
I use the “rotating tweets” widget. Using one twittername works fine but in the past it also worked with more names. Is the way to write them down in the “twitter name” field dchanged?
@nameone @nametwo @namethree
How to show 10 tweets with the widget from three different persons?
Are there any tweets on those accounts recently? The Tweet Search API works on an incredibly short time frame.
Another option for this would be to create a list with the three accounts on it. This doesn’t use the search function so doesn’t have the small search window.
Yes it has been a while since some of them posted a tweet. I do not know how to make a list with the three accounts on it. Can you give an example?
Go to https://twitter.com/nameone/lists and create a list with @nameone @nametwo @namethree in it. Called namelist perhaps!
Then, in the widget, select ‘list’ as the type of tweets and then put nameone as the name and namelist as the list tag.
If you’re using a shortcode, go with something like:
Dear Martin,
Works like a charm. Fantastic. Thanks a lot.
Brent
Hey there Martin,
I’m using your plugin on several sites, and it’s working great. A client of mine has a non-WordPress site and we’ve been trying to find something out there that does what your plugin does, but haven’t really been able to find anything we like that works reliably.
What would it take to create a version of this plugin that didn’t need WordPress to function? I bet you could do decent with something like what I’m talking about over at CodeCanyon or somewhere like that. There’s one there now we’ve been using called LiveTweets by a guy named Johan Dorper that is unreliable, the documentation isn’t good, and the support is pretty non-existent.
In principle it’s possible – although the plug-in does rely heavily on WordPress for caching, cleaning and storing data.
In essence:
– Reading the Tweets uses an available library – adapted to work better with WordPress
– Storing and formatting the Tweets is heavily intertwined with WordPress and would need quite a bit of work
– Rotating the Tweets uses an available library – and would be quite quick to adapt
Martin
Hello Martin.
I’m quite embarrassed to ask this question as (from my searches) it seems no one else has had a similar problem: where is the “Rotating Tweets settings” page? I’ve looked for over an hour and can’t find it. The widget I’m using contains settings options, but no place for the access tokens.
Many thanks.