Twitter Flock for Wordpress: multiple accounts tweets with style
Twitter Flock is Wordpress plugin for showing multiple accounts tweets with different color scheme for every account. Also, there are setting allowing you to control how your tweets will look like and will they cache or not.
One of the things that make this plugin different form other are tabs above Twitter Flock box. This tab shows accounts avatars so visitors can click on them and see only tweets from that account. From 1.1 version Twitter Flock have sidebar widget.
With Twitter Flock you can:
- show tweets from multiple accounts or only one account,
- cache tweets for faster page load,
- set different color scheme for every user,
- show only tweets with defined hash tag,
- link url inside of tweets,
- display tab with accounts avatars so visitors can select which account tweets wants to see,
- easy implement as sidebar widget,
- custom header title
You should follow those steps in order to install Twitter Flock on you Wordpress:
1. Upload `twitter-flock` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Add this <?php include (ABSPATH . ‘/wp-content/plugins/twitter-flock/twitter-flock.php’); ?> in header of your template
4. Put <?php TwitterFlock(); ?> in your template on place where you want Twitter Flock to show tweets or
5. Drag widget on your sidebar
6. Set options on admin panel
Twitter Flock, beside standard options, have and some not-so-standard features.
My favorite feature and main reason why I made this plugin is possibility to show only tweets with chosen hash tag and remove that hash tag from tweets. So, now on workshop.rs I can show only those tweets that I select with #ws hash tag and I will not bother you with rest of my tweets.
Another cool feature is tab bar above Twitter Flock box so your visitor can choose only tweets from selected account. Also, you can choose different colors for background and text for every user separately.
Changelog
1.2
* Header title
* Option for exclude jQuery in case of conflict
1.1
* Sidebar widget
* No need for inlude line in header
* Fixes problem with new avatar appereance
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June 30, 2011
i’m sorry, i feel dumb lol
where do i put this?
June 30, 2011
oh AND i changed my theme, the tweets don’t load at the bottom of the page. now i just can’t see the tabs : /
July 21, 2011
Hi Ivan,
Retweets are not coming through the feed. Is there a setting I mis-configured?
December 7, 2011
I’m getting a “Cannot retrieve data from Twitter” error (it repeats over and over again). It was working fine before. Did something change?
December 23, 2011
how do you edit the width of the twitter flock widget? I either want to make it wider (260px) or set to auto width. Can’t find anywhere in the code to do it… please help! thanks!
January 16, 2012
Really enjoyed this blog.Much thanks again.
January 28, 2012
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March 6, 2012
@Bungkelip— I just had this issue:
“Warning: fopen(/home/vip022/public_html/wp-content/plugins/twitter-flock/cache/cache.ch) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/vip022/public_html/wp-content/plugins/twitter-flock/twitter-flock-content.php on line 175
Warning: fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/vip022/public_html/wp-content/plugins/twitter-flock/twitter-flock-content.php on line 176
Warning: fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/vip022/public_html/wp-content/plugins/twitter-flock/twitter-flock-content.php on line 177″
TO SOLVE: Pull the twitter-flock directory down from your FTP. View the permissions for the folder, if Everyone is set to read only, change to read&write and apply to contents.
Then put back up on FTP and the issue should be solved.
April 10, 2012
Is this plugin available somewhere for WordPress 3.x ?
I’ve tried to download from plugins page but twitter-flock.php seems to be empty or the .zip broken.
Seems to be a great plugin!
Thanks in advance
April 29, 2012
It would be nice to have an option in Options Page to Disable CSS, as you have already to JS.
I remove the line 39 in twitter-flock.php in order to disable it.
Regards,
David
April 30, 2012
And I give a plus thing. In order to validate HTML I change the line 196 of twitter-flock-content.php:
$img = “”;
Regards.
June 19, 2012
Love your widget but is there any way to filter out any conversations and just keep individual posts?
June 27, 2012
Appreciate the recommendation. Let me try it out.
October 15, 2012
Keep this gοіng pleasе, great job!
October 15, 2012
I’ve done what you suggested but still got the problem, now that appears:
“Warning: date() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in /home/vip022/public_html/wp-content/plugins/twitter-flock/twitter-flock-content.php on line 271:
Warning: date() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in /home/vip022/public_html/wp-content/plugins/twitter-flock/twitter-flock-content.php on line 271″
Please help us how this problem can be solved, thanks.
October 18, 2012
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I care for such information much. I was looking for this certain info for a long time. Thank you and good luck.
I’m impressed! Extremely helpful info particularly the last part
December 12, 2012
I am currently using a Twitter widget on my website to post tweets about weather. However, the widget that I have can only be keyed or programmed to allow the display of one hashtag at a time. Currently, the hashtag selected is: #okwx which means we are posting only those tweets dealing with Oklahoma weather. However, we would like to have a widget that allows for the posting of multiple hashtags, such as #txwx for Texas, #cowx for Colorado, #kswx for Kansas, etc. Will your widget help us meet our need?
February 18, 2013
FYI, the plugin only allows the widget to appear in one sidebar, strangely. Once I drag it to a sidebar it removes itself from the available widgets.
February 22, 2013
I installed the plugin and configured and then placed it on the right sidbar. Nothing shows up expept and empty box and the twitter logo.
April 6, 2013
After checking out a few of the blog posts on your website, I seriously like your technique of writing a blog.
I book marked it to my bookmark website list and will be checking back soon.
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