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
July 2, 2010
Great plugin! I was using Tweet Blender, but it was way to temperamental, especially with all the Twitter API issues. I use it in a sidebar, but I’d like to recommend a feature. Tweet Blender had an archive of tweets that you could place anywhere with a bit of shortcode. Your plugin with multiple accounts fills up the sidebar quickly, but an archive would alleviate the need to have a really long list of tweets.
August 9, 2010
Hi there.
I’ve been playing with your plugin, and here’s the question:
Is there anyway of making it to autorefresh the Twitter API so it gets new tweets without reloading the entire page?
I’ve tried with some AJAX onto a div, but doesn’t seems to work with this plugin php code.
Maybe on a future version? Thanks!
August 14, 2010
Hey, this plugin works well except that i’m trying to get the tab images to show up for the 2 accounts I added. Only the ALL image is showing. However, when I add the option to show images with all posts the correct images show next to each post, still though, not in the tabs…
August 14, 2010
also, i noticed in twitter-flock-content there is some versioning code around line 238.
August 14, 2010
ok… sorry to post again on your thread… i found what went wrong for me. basically, my twitter accounts were created using camel case. so the loop that generates the tab links was using the variable $val that is all undercase. for my case, I created a new variable $lVal and used strotolower(). however, i think i could have just changed the accounts to be lowercase in your app’s settings…
August 14, 2010
i found a cross browser bug. ie browsers cannot use the css style opacity. to make life easier i added a style to the twitter-flock-css.php sheet. it includes the standard opacity methods by applying a filter first. this means the script code around line 239 needs to be modified. i used the jquery addClass and removeClass methods. lastly you want to apply the class to the image and not the < a > tag… this not works great for me. i may do some more modifications. right now the plugin is setup for 2 accounts with tabs. i wanted to show 2 updates per TAB, and not account. so the ALL tab has 2 updates, but the other tabs only show 1 because they are filtered down from the ALL tab…
August 17, 2010
I cannot get this, or any other multi-twitter feed wordpress plugin, to pull in tweets from more than one twitter account. I can get it to pull in more than one tweet from one account, but just that one. I have tried multiple accounts and it still doesn’t work. I am using WP 3.0.1. Is this not compatible, you think?
September 18, 2010
I was wondering if there was any way to limit the tweets so replies aren’t shown?
Great plugin btw
September 20, 2010
Hi there,
I was looking after a plugin which allow me to publish my two different twitter feeds according to some specific condition, therefore I’d like to know if I can choose which account to publish using a variable or something like that to be put into the code with an if statement.
Is this possible?
Thanks.
October 9, 2010
this is super duper buggy!
February 23, 2011
I’m receiving this errror.
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in
Does anybody know what is wrong?
The url is http://www.weloveplanning.com
Any help would be very much appreciated. I had the same problem with Twitter Blend.
Best
Tania
February 25, 2011
Loving the plugin! Wondering the best way to tweak font, font sizes, size of user’s photo?
March 16, 2011
@Ryan
You should try with CSS, each element have different class
March 22, 2011
Hey, love the plugin. Although sometimes it doesn’t refresh with new tweets for days on end. (even when i refresh the page)Is it because i’ve added too many usernames to it or what? If so, can you tell me the maximum amount of usernames is suggested to add without causing the problem?
April 5, 2011
I Found this:
“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″:
What can I do??
April 8, 2011
Hey Ivan,
I have installed your plugin and it’s quite cool. Congrats on that. Everything works like a charm however I am trying to see if we can open the twitter a/c’s and http links in a new window so that the user stay put in our website. Please share the possibilities and your thoughts.
Regards,
SJWPM Team
April 18, 2011
Hi Ivan!
Awesome app! Really helped my website. Thank you so much for making it open to the public. May I ask for your help tho? is it possible to just display the first name of the twitter screenname?
June 3, 2011
The [lugin is great, but, I have two comments for you.
First I think there is an error in the line 340 of twitter-flock-content.php
tf_cashes would be tf_hashes!
and the second is, when I put hashes in the option, the plugin doesn;t work
Thank you
moscar
June 22, 2011
so i just found this plugin, decided to try it, and i get a twitter logo with my tweets being like 600px down at the bottom of my page? (no tabs whatsoever)
i tried changing all the options, and looked at the script… everything seems fine? (check my site, i’ll leave it up)
June 23, 2011
It seems that it’s CSS issue, I’ve just add float: left for #twitter-flock-body and your tweets are visible.