WordPress.com – Adding Your Twitter Updates to Your Sidebar
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July 22, 2009
This video walks you through a quick way to add your latest Twitter tweets to the sidebar of your blog, via the built in Twitter Widget. For self-hosted blogs, check out this video
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July 22, 2009 at 4:53 pm |
Nice tutorial. Very simple and easy to understand 🙂
July 22, 2009 at 5:55 pm |
Thanks. Liked this and was looking for one.
PS: I had to install the widget first. Just to let you know.
July 22, 2009 at 6:36 pm |
Can we have this widget/plugin available to the open source portion of the WordPress community?
July 23, 2009 at 12:31 am |
I am researching the possibility of transferring my websites to WordPress it will take a lot of work but adding widgets will be a lot easier. I haven’t started using twitter yet but I’m glad to see a well done tutorial on adding it.
July 23, 2009 at 1:17 am |
Very nice. Easy tutorial. I hope to see it as either a plugin or a default feature in the next installment of WordPress.
July 23, 2009 at 3:15 am |
What is the minimum version of WordPress you need to do it this way?
July 23, 2009 at 7:03 am |
Great tutorial! Simply put and easy to follow. Love it!
July 23, 2009 at 8:02 am |
Please make this Twitter add on my site…I can not wait for it, xoxoxo excited.
July 23, 2009 at 11:37 am |
I really like this tutorial, and the whole idea behind WordPress TV actually! One question though. What is the exact name of the Twitter plugin/widget you used. There is not a plugin built in to my version of WordPress.
July 23, 2009 at 4:40 pm |
The plugin shown in the WordPress TV is called Wickett Twitter Widget. It can be downloaded from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wickett-twitter-widget/
July 23, 2009 at 11:59 am |
Looks great, looking forward to a wordpress.org version.
July 23, 2009 at 2:23 pm |
You are great man.
July 23, 2009 at 2:43 pm |
How do I get the widget to appear in the widget menu? I’ve downloaded a twitter plugin and it isn’t showing up…love the vids by the way, great for newbies like me
July 23, 2009 at 5:52 pm |
I’ve been having good luck with the Twitter for WordPress plugin available here: http://rick.jinlabs.com/code/twitter/
July 23, 2009 at 6:29 pm |
There isn’t a built in Twitter widget.
July 23, 2009 at 6:54 pm |
This is not a widget in my wordpress either so this video doesnt help. Would be nice to know if this is a plugin or if Im missing something within wordpress.
July 23, 2009 at 9:39 pm |
How do you change the font color on this in the edit…thanks
b.quain
July 24, 2009 at 3:13 am |
Using self-hosted WordPress, you can do some sleuthing to find the classes used in the widget’s output and alter your CSS file to change the colors.
If you’re using WordPress.com, you can do the same, but you’ll need a Custom CSS upgrade for your blog.
July 23, 2009 at 11:39 pm |
The Twitter widget does not show up on my widget page, is there any reason why this is happening?
July 24, 2009 at 12:18 am |
Yes please anyone could teach us now how to put twitter on my side bar there is no Twitter plugin/widget that we might used.
July 24, 2009 at 3:12 am |
Since I’m seeing a lot of comments asking where the widget is located or that you can’t find it, I just want to remind everyone that the tutorial above references a feature that is standard to WordPress.com blogs.
To use it on a self-hosted WordPress blog, you’ll have to (as explained above) install the Wickett Twitter Widget, which has been kindly provided for self-hosted blogs.
Alvin (see above) gets points for answering everyone’s question before I did.
July 24, 2009 at 6:06 pm |
We’ve just added an alternate version of the video for self-hosting WordPress users
July 28, 2009 at 3:13 am |
i use twitter and don’t know how to switch it to wordpress.. bye watching this video now i know to switch it..
very usefull thanks 🙂
September 9, 2009 at 1:39 pm |
How do I Twitter my Flickr photos?
March 13, 2010 at 9:35 am |
How you put a wiget from twitter on to the side bar?
March 24, 2010 at 8:47 pm |
There’s no way to include the Twitter default widget on WordPress.com right now; the method outlined in the video is the provided way to include your Twitter feed in your sidebar.
April 2, 2010 at 9:07 pm |
Twitter is not simply status updates! Twitter is a place where you can market your brand or yourself in way to captivate and socially interact with your followers. Twitter, in essence, is really about building online relationships with your followers.
April 29, 2010 at 9:06 pm |
Thank you!
August 22, 2010 at 5:47 am |
how to change user? i have the widget but was configure with the wordpress twitter..how can i change it to my twitter?
August 23, 2010 at 1:38 am |
You can select the Twitter user used by changing the widget settings in Appearance > Widgets.
January 21, 2011 at 11:00 am |
If you want to display your followers without entering your password, try the Twitter Follower Widget
December 4, 2012 at 9:01 am |
I have followed all instruction this does not work any ideas
December 4, 2012 at 12:41 pm |
You may want to visit the support forums at “http://en.forums.wordpress.com as it would be hard to help you without more information as to what you’ve tried, and what is not working correctly for you.