Keir Whitaker

The Twitter News Feed plugin has a specific use case, that is to import tweets from defined Twitter users containing specific hashtags into WordPress.
Why Use Twitter News Feed
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.
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.
Automatically add Tweets as Posts
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.
When adding Tweets as posts a number of custom fields are added that you are then able to use in your templates. These are:
<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>
Use the Jabber field to Map Users to Tweets
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.
Features
<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>
Support
If you have any problems with of feedback on Twitter News Feed please email keir[at]keirwhitaker.com
You can also follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/keirwhitaker
<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>
There are two ways to display Tweets on your blog.
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
<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>
The available array elements are as follows:
<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>
The other option is to use WordPress to pull out posts from the category specified in the Twitter News Feed admin panel.
See https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts for examples.

Twitter News Feed

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

vaakash

Super RSS Reader plugin allows you to display RSS feed(s) in an attractive way to your widget. It has options to display multiple RSS feeds separated by tabs in a single widget and has feature to add a news ticker like effect to it. See the features list below for complete list.
The widget is fully customizable with external styles and also has color themes out of the box. It is a perfect replacement for the default RSS widget in WordPress.
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<h3>✨ Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>News ticker – Add news ticker like effect to the RSS feeds (can turn on of off)</li>
<li>Multiple tabs – Display multiple feeds in one widget separated by tabs.</li>
<li>Thumbnail – Display the thumbnail of the feed item.</li>
<li>Color themes – Options of multiple color themes out of the box. Customizable via CSS.</li>
<li>Different thumbnail positions (align left, right and cover)</li>
<li>Customizable ticker speed.</li>
<li>Different date formats for feed item (absolute and relative)</li>
<li>Supports RSS and atom feed.</li>
<li>Trim title and description text of the feed item.</li>
<li>Order feed items by date or random.</li>
</ul>
<h3>🌄 Display RSS feeds like</h3>
<ul>
<li>Your own website content like recent posts, comments, forum topics etc.</li>
<li>Articles, posts from related websites and share with your users.</li>
<li>Events, job listings etc. from other websites.</li>
<li>Deals, Craigslist, Google News RSS etc. You got it, any RSS feed on your site !</li>
</ul>
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<h3>💎 PRO version</h3>
Super RSS reader has a PRO version which has more features to further enhance and to get more control of the RSS feed you display. With the PRO version you can enjoy below additional features included and also support the development of this plugin.
<ul>
<li>Shortcode – Display RSS feed anywhere in your website using <code>[srr_feed]</code></li>
<li>Grid display – Display feed item in rows and columns</li>
<li>Paginated display – Display feed item in different pages with a pagination bar</li>
<li>Filter by keyword – Show/hide feed items based on keyword</li>
<li>Custom feed item template – Change order of feed item content, add HTML</li>
<li>Fetch thumbnail – Forcefully fetches the thumbnail from feed URL</li>
<li>Merge multiple feeds – Display multiple RSS feeds as one</li>
<li>4 new color themes</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/super-rss-reader/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=srr-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">More information</a> – <a href="https://wpdemos.aakashweb.com/super-rss-reader/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=srr-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Live demo</a>
<h3>Resources</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/docs/super-rss-reader/faq/" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/docs/super-rss-reader/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/forum/discuss/wordpress-plugins/super-rss-reader/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support forum</a></li>
</ul>

Super RSS Reader – Add attractive RSS Feed Widget

Display any RSS feed(s) in widget with news ticker effect in multiple tabs, thumbnails, customizable color themes and more.

Twitter News Feed vs Super RSS Reader – Add attractive RSS Feed Widget