Keir Whitaker

<p>The Twitter News Feed plugin has a specific use case, that is to import tweets from defined Twitter users containing specific hashtags into WordPress.</p>
<p><strong>Why Use Twitter News Feed</strong></p>
<p>Let’s say everyone in your company has a Twitter account and you would like their updates to appear on your site but some of them tweet about pizzas and beer as well as some good links and company news. Twitter News Feed allows you to import tweets tagged with certain hashtags from those users.</p>
<p>For example you might want to import tweets from @johndoe and @janedoe containing the hashtag #news. Twitter News Feed can do this for you. There is no limit to the number of users or hashtags you can add. The main benefit being that you can power your news feed using Twitter as well as allowing the conversation to continue using WordPress comments.</p>
<p><strong>Automatically add Tweets as Posts</strong></p>
<p>Twitter News Feed is designed to add the imported tweets as posts, although you can choose to not add them to the database as posts and just grab them on each page load using a template function. In the admin panel (available from the Settings menu) you are able to specify hashtags, usernames as well as define a category to add your imported tweets to as well as a default user.</p>
<p>When adding Tweets as posts a number of custom fields are added that you are then able to use in your templates. These are:</p>
<ul>
<li>status => The full tweet returned from the RSS feed</li>
<li>status_href => A href to the tweet</li>
<li>status_id => The status id of the tweet</li>
<li>twitter_username => The username of the tweets author (NB: keirwhitaker NOT @keirwhitaker)</li>
<li>twitter_username_link => A href link to the tweet authors homepage (NB: includes the @)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Use the Jabber field to Map Users to Tweets</strong></p>
<p>Twitter News Feed goes one step further and will attribute posts to the correct author. It does this by looking in the “jabber” field in the user profile for a Twitter username. Let’s say we enter “johndoe” in the jabber field any tweets from @johndoe will be attributed to him. If no match is found the post will be added to the default user defined in the Twitter News Feed admin panel.</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Allows multiple Twitter users to add news to a WordPress blog based on defined hashtags</li>
<li>Automatically adds Tweets to WordPress to a defined category</li>
<li>Maps Twitter usernames to the “jabber” field in the user profile, if not found Tweets are attributed to a “default” user e.g. Twitter News Bot</li>
<li>Uses WordPress scheduled events to look for new tweets for every hour</li>
<li>Provides a template function to grab updates but not store them as posts </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Support</strong></p>
<p>If you have any problems with of feedback on Twitter News Feed please email keir[at]keirwhitaker.com</p>
<p>You can also follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/keirwhitaker</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ol>
<li>Twitter News Feed 1.0 requires PHP5</li>
<li>Simplepie – http://simplepie.org/ (This is included in the plugin)</li>
</ol>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>There are two ways to display Tweets on your blog.</p>
<p>Firstly, if you choose not to store your Tweets as post you can use the following template tag “tnf_get_news_as_array()” in your templates</p>
<pre><code><?php $tweets = tnf_get_news_as_array(); ?>
<ul>
<?php foreach($tweets as $tweet): ?>
<li><?php echo $tweet["description_filtered"]." - ".date("l jS \of F Y - H:i:s"); ?></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
</code></pre>
<p>The available array elements are as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>user_id => (string e.g 1 – needs to be cast to int if required)</li>
<li>date => (Y-m-d H:i:s)</li>
<li>link => (string e.g http://twitter.com/keirwhitaker/status/2784830708)</li>
<li>id => (string e.g 2784830708 – the actual status id of the tweet)</li>
<li>description => (string – The unfiltered tweet which will include the #tag(s))</li>
<li>description_filtered => (string – The filtered tweet)</li>
<li>twitter_username_link => (String – href of the Twitter username)</li>
</ul>
<p>The other option is to use WordPress to pull out posts from the category specified in the Twitter News Feed admin panel.</p>
<p>See https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts for examples.</p>


Twitter News Feed

Collects Tweets based on specific Twitter usernames and hashtags and then adds them as posts

DAEXT

<p>The Live News Lite plugin generates a fixed news ticker that you can use to communicate the latest news, financial news, weather warnings, election results, sports results, etc.</p>
<p>By default, the news ticker includes a <strong>Featured News</strong> section in red and a <strong>Sliding News</strong> in black, and it’s similar to the ones used by networks like Fox News, CNN, Sky News, etc.</p>
<p>In terms of content, the news should be manually added by the website administrator or by users that belong to other configured roles.</p>
<h3>Pro Version</h3>
<p>The <a href="https://daext.com/live-news/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Version</a> of this plugin, allows you to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Automatically generate news based on the posts</li>
<li>Automatically generate the news based on a specified RSS feed (E.g., Your own RSS feed, the RSS feed of a tv channel, the RSS feed of a radio station.)</li>
<li>Control the speed and the delay of the sliding news with advanced options of the news ticker</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<p>This plugin is highly customizable and comes with 46 options per news ticker, 4 options per featured news, 9 options per sliding news, and 4 general options.</p>
<h4>Customizable Style</h4>
<p>All the elements displayed in the news ticker are customizable in terms of colors and typography. The images used to represent the open and close buttons and the clock background are replaceable with your custom images.</p>
<h4>Links in the News Ticker</h4>
<p>You can optionally apply links to the news and open them in the same tab or new tabs based on your selections.</p>
<h4>Applicable Globally or Only on Specific URLs</h4>
<p>The news ticker can be applied to all the pages of your website or only to specific URLs. In case of a setup with news tickers assigned to different URLs, you can create an unlimited number of news tickers.</p>
<h4>Sliding News Images</h4>
<p>You can place small images before and after the text of the sliding news. Use this feature to display the news provider’s logo, represent financial trends, categorize different types of communications, and more.</p>
<h4>Clock</h4>
<p>The news ticker has an optional clock that displays the time in a custom format defined with <a href="http://momentjs.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Moment.js</a> token.</p>
<p>In the plugin options, you can also decide if you want to display the server time, the user time, if you want to apply a time offset, and the frequency of the time updates.</p>
<h4>Mobile Device Detection</h4>
<p>The plugin uses the Mobile Detect Js library to detect the device of the user. The resulting value is used to display or hide the news ticker or specific news ticker elements based on the device type. This behavior is defined by the administrator in the news ticker settings.</p>
<h4>Cached Cycled</h4>
<p>The news ticker updates the news with AJAX requests at the end of each news cycle. With the <strong>Cached Cycled</strong> option, you can define the number of cycles per AJAX request.</p>
<h4>WordPress Transients API</h4>
<p>You can optionally store the news ticker data in a WordPress transient and limit the number of queries used to retrieve the news.</p>
<h4>Support for RTL Layouts</h4>
<p>We have included the <strong>Enable RTL Layout</strong> to allow the use of the plugin in RTL websites.</p>
<h4>Suitable for Digital Signage Systems</h4>
<p>You can use the plugin locally in a browser-based digital signage system.</p>
<h4>Advanced Options</h4>
<p>Advanced options to further customize the news ticker are also available:</p>
<ul>
<li>The <strong>Sliding News Margin</strong> option to define the margin between the sliding news</li>
<li>The <strong>Sliding News Padding</strong> option determines the padding on the left and the right of each sliding news. This option is also helpful to control the distance between the sliding news text and the optional images.</li>
<li>Control the opacity of the news ticker with the <strong>Featured News Background Color Opacity</strong> and the <strong>Sliding News Background Color Opacity</strong> options</li>
<li>And more.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>For more information on how to implement this plugin, please see the <a href="https://daext.com/doc/live-news/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a> published on our website.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>This plugin makes use of the following resources:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hgoebl/mobile-detect.js" rel="nofollow ugc">Mobile Detect JS</a> licensed under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php" rel="nofollow ugc">MIT License</a></li>
<li><a href="http://momentjs.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Moment.js</a> licensed under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php" rel="nofollow ugc">MIT License</a></li>
<li><a href="https://select2.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Select2</a> licensed under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php" rel="nofollow ugc">MIT License</a></li>
</ul>


Live News – Responsive News Ticker

Generate a news ticker to communicate the latest updates, including financial news, weather warnings, election results, sports scores, and more.

Twitter News Feed vs Live News – Responsive News Ticker