Display your Twitter feeds
Here is a simple way to display your latest Tweets from Twitter on your site. All you need is a very nice plugin called kml_twitter.
First step – create a cache folder
Once the plugin is installed, you need to create a folder in your /texpattern directory called cache. The folder needs to be writable, set this to 777.
Download and install the plugin
After creating the cache folder, download the kml_twitter plugin, install and activate.
Start your Tweets!
This plugin has many attributes and I use only a couple in the following sample code:
<div class="details">
<h2>Twitter</h2>
<txp:kml_twitter user="your_name" displaytitle="false" breaktag="p" titletag="" wraptag="p" wraptag_class="" />
</div>
Note: On my web host (Joyent), I got a PHP error after activating the plugin. In my case, I had to enable the extension=json.so in my php.ini file.
Craig Valadez
# 6 February 2010
This is an awesome TXPtip but i am having one issue. My tweets display as they should. But after an hour or so my tweets disappear and an error with a message that says.. “Twitter only allows 150 call per hour…
I’ve tried different values ranging from 100-800 on the CACHE_LIFE. But still keep getting the error.
Any suggestions?
Craig