WordPress Multiple Twitter Accounts Widget

Mon, April 19, 2010 14 Comments by Clayton McIlrath

There are tons of wordpress twitter plugins, but none of them solved a problem I was facing. I wanted to display a feed from multiple accounts, but rather than showing them in order (some users tweet more than others) I instead wanted to show 1 from each account. So I threw together my own plugin to do so. Feel free to download and submit feature requests. Get it at WordPress.org.

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  • Scot

    Hi

    Is there a requirement for a cache file somewhere? I’m getting an error using WP 3.0 beta:

    Warning: fopen(./cache/twitter/thinkclay.xml) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ////public_html/wp-content/plugins/multi-twitter-widget/widget.php on line 148
    Permission to write cache dir not granted
    Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in ////public_html/wp-content/plugins/multi-twitter-widget/widget.php on line 151

  • http://chosendevelopment.com Chosen

    Yeah sorry, it’s a brand-spanking new plugin. Create a directory called “cache/twitter” in your webroot and the plugin will create cache.xml files to pull data locally. I hope to have a fix for this in the next day or so which will make this automatic.

  • http://chosendevelopment.com Chosen

    Oh, and set the permission to 777 on the directories.

  • http://www.gcconline.net Eric

    is there a way to remove the picture off the from of a tweet so that just the name is showing to save space?

  • http://www.gcconline.net Eric

    Actually, I dug a little farther and found my answer, but let me ask a different question: is there a way to add a twitter logo to the top for the title of the widget? Just wondering, thanks again! I think this is going to be perfect for our need!

  • http://www.marmalade.ca Kelly

    Hi!

    Im getting a fatal error when I try to activate this plugin. Ive manually create cache/twitter just in case that was the problem (and set CHMOD to 777) but it still exists:

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /nfs/c04/h03/mnt/64358/domains/totallytami.com/html/wp-content/plugins/twitter-widget-pro/wp-twitter-widget.php on line 37

    Any idea why thats being spit out? Thanks!

  • http://powernet4u.de/blog/ Tobias

    Is it possible to display e.g. 3 tweets per user?

  • Thiago

    Where is the link to download?

  • Anonymous
  • Galyna Parker

    Hi, Your plugin is doing exactly what I needed!
    But I keep getting message 
    Permission to write cache dir to…. not granted. What should I do?

  • http://thinkclay.com Clay McIlrath

    In your webroot make sure a folder exists called “cache” and set permission to 777 and you should be set.

  • Galyna Parker

    It worked! Thank you so much!! 

  • Anonymous

    Spot on… been looking for a plugin like this for months!

  • Olivia

    You guy ROCK !! I have been looking for that specific plugin for hours. It works perfecty. Thank you !

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