Twitter profile widget

With ‘WP Twitter profile’ you can add a mini version of your twitter profile to your WordPress site as a widget.

What can this widget show:

• Your profile picture and banner image, layed out similar to the Twitter sidebar
• Your real name as it is held by Twitter and your @username
• A follow link to your profile
• The number of tweets, subscribers and subscribed for your profile
• Your recent tweets (including rich content with Twitter links for hashtags and @username, URLs and img tags for images uploaded to Twitter)
• CSS styling depending on the colour scheme used on your Twitter profile

Note: This plugin requires the use of cURL to be installed and active on the web server

Arbitrary section

1. Upload the plugin files to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/WP-Twitter-profile’ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
3. Go to ‘Appearance->Widgets’ and drag ‘Twitter profile widget’ to your desired widget area.
4. Register a Twitter app via https://apps.twitter.com to gain access to an ‘API key’ and ‘Access token’
5. Fill in the fields for the widget settings

Is anything else required, other than a WordPress website?

Yes. You will also require a Twitter API key, API key secret, Access token & Access token secret from twitter.
The required details can be obtained by registering an app at https://apps.twitter.com.

1. 

   The WP Twitter profile widget, showing a Twitter profile only, without any tweets.

2. 

   The WP Twitter profile widget, showing a Twitter profile with the two most recent tweets.

3. 

   The WP Twitter profile widget, showing a Twitter profile with only the most recent tweet, which also has an image attached which is displayed as a link to the tweet.

1.2.0

• Updated code for compatability with PHP7
• Fixed outdated code to allow functionality
• Adding extra options to turn off bio, follow button & stats

1.1.1

• Fixing missing CSS file

1.1.0

• Adding transient cache
• Correcting href target code
• Altering admin backend, changing target to checkbox, adding cache timeout, changing secret fields to type=password

1.0

• Initial release