14 responses on “Add Twitter Updates to Your Sidebar: Self-Hosted Edition

  1. Eric Lightbody's avatar Eric Lightbody

    I also developed a similar wordpress plugin here: http://www.ericlightbody.com/2009/07/19/tweetiepie-for-wordpress/

    It links your hash tags (#), @replies, and is quite speedy.

  2. S.K Sharma's avatar S.K Sharma

    Twitter updates can easily optimized on the sidebar using some other methods too like Twittercounter.com,remote twitter etc.
    This is also awesome system.

  3. bingorabbit's avatar bingorabbit

    Excellent, thanks a lot for the video 🙂

  4. Chris's avatar Chris

    Really helpful – many thanks!

  5. Felfifer's avatar Felfifer

    I really want to know this more..if someone will give me a simple idea how to start..

    I don’t have enough time to spare for this..thanks.

    But I have already a website to start on..

    • Ryan Markel's avatar Ryan Markel

      As long as you already have a Twitter account established, the video gives you all the information you need to know. Go ahead and stop the video after each step, following the steps indicated one at a time. You can do it. 🙂

      I noticed that the blog linked to your username is a blog on WordPress.com. These instructions are for self-hosted WordPress blogs. For help getting this feature working on a WordPress.com blog, visit the sister tutorial here. You can also find some printed instructions here.

  6. Anoop Jacob's avatar Anoop Jacob

    I was lookin for such a video tutorial..

  7. juneayasol's avatar juneayasol

    Yeah, that’s good!

  8. June Yasol's avatar June Yasol

    Hurray! Where’s that Twitterer download link? Can’t wait!

  9. Rubyfifer's avatar felfifer09

    Thanks a lot, now I am having a problem with my changing of appearance of my website..I mean the website design. So, I cannot apply the Twitter sidebar yet until it is fixed.

  10. glen cumbie's avatar glen cumbie

    Very helpful. Video tutorials have always been easier for me to follow. I am bookmarking WordPress.tv now! Thanks so much.

  11. John Wilson's avatar John Wilson

    I was able to install on my site.

    Though, it seems to be slightly different than the video (new version, I guess.)

    The video definitely helped.

    Thanks

    John Wilson

  12. David's avatar David

    Unfortunately i’ve got this for the last few hours. Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.

    Have even reset my twitter name, username etc. Still no luck. Any ideas?

    • Ryan Markel's avatar Ryan Markel

      If you see connection issues with Twitter, please check with Twitter’s status; sometimes connections to Twitter don’t work because of high traffic or maintenance windows.

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Published

July 24, 2009

In this short video for self-hosted WordPress blogs, we walk you through the process of adding Twitter updates to the sidebar of your widget-enabled theme, using the Wickett Twitter plugin

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