AJAXed Twitter for WordPress

This plugin is based on “Twitter for WordPress” 1.9.7 by Ricardo González.

It supports MooTools as well as jQuery which comes with WordPress and can be used as a widget.

You can use this plugin as a widget or add it manually to your theme. In widget-mode it depends on jQuery (the one that comes with WordPress is sufficient).

Widget

Use the management functionality for widgets provided by WordPress (simply drag and drop, edit the preferences, save).

Manual Installation

First of all tell the plugin (in wp_config.php) which framework to use:

define('AJAXED_TWITTER_FRAMEWORK', 'mootools');

You can also use ‘both’ which will allow you to add a widget and the MooTools version.

I did not include a release of MooTools, so you will have to add a script tag before wp_head(); like this (and of course provide that script there):

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/scripts/mootools-1.2.4-core-yc.js"></script>

Then you need a PHP-file that can be called by the JavaScript part, for example you could put a file named “twitter.php” with the following content in your theme folder. This is only an example and you can do whatever you like to get the tweets.

if (!defined('DB_NAME')) {
    require_once("../../../wp-config.php");
}

echo AJAXedTwitter::messages(array(
    'username' => 'username'
));

The Twitter-class is easy to configure (and already enqueued by the plugin).

var twitter = new Twitter('tweets', {
    url: '/blog/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/twitter.php',
    retries: 2,
    animate: true
});

In this example the element ‘tweets’ (that could be e.g. in your sidebar) is replaced by a public timeline after the page is loaded.

Additionally to the CSS classes provided by “Twitter for WordPress” this plugins provides first/last for list items.

For more details (options, configuration) visit the plugin hompage.

0.5.1

• Escape single quotes in passed options.
• Unset not needed options.

0.5

• Bugfixed custom title
• Implemented WP 2.8 Widget API (allows mupltiple widgets now)
• Rewrote to allow multiple instances, even MooTools and jQuery

0.4

• Widget does not depend on MooTools any more or require editing of the theme

0.3.1

• Fixed problem with forgotten timeout definition

0.3

• Implemented own copy of fetch_rss() for seperated cache handling
• Added option “cache expiry” (cache-age), defaulting to half an hour