Just A Tweet

Adds a just_a_tweet function and short code that allows you to display only
the most recent Tweet from a Twitter feed.

This came about because I wanted a way to display my most recent tweet in the
header of my site. Looking through dozens of Twitter plugins I couldn’t find
one that just got the most recent tweet without too much extraneous HTML and
also cached the request. This function does both.

For more info, visit Nutt.net or
my Twitter feed.

1. Upload just-a-tweet to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Place <?php just_a_tweet('username'); ?> in your templates

The function just_a_tweet takes up to 4 parameters

$twitterUser – Required – The name of the Twitter user you want to request

$cacheAge – Optional – Number of minutes after which the cache is considered stale. Defaults to 5

$forceRefresh – Optional – If true then the cache is not used, although it is
still filled. Defaults to false

$echo – Optional – Whether the function should also echo out the HTML built. Either
way the HTML is returned. Defaults to true

Using the shortcode

There is also a shortcode just_a_tweet that you can use inside your posts and pages.

[ just_a_tweet twitteruser=yourtwitter ] will pull the most recent tweet from
whatever Twitter account you pass as yourtwitter.

None yet

0.3.1

• No real change, just updating to switch to a new site

0.3

• Switched to using a newer Twitter API call
• Wasn’t working if latest tweet was a retweet. Would cause an error on the first
  page view and then a JSON error after it was pulled from cache.

0.2

• Added just_a_tweet short code so you can use this inside a post or page without
  having to enable PHP code.

0.1

• Initial Release