The plugin works using Twitter's own API, and has similar results to Twitter's own widget.
Installation:
Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
Use admin Settings > Tweet Blender to specify sources and other configuration options
Use admin Appearance > Widgets page to drop the widget in the appropriate spot on your sidebar. You can also insert widget by hand by including <?php tb_widget(); ?> in the sidebar.php file of your theme and create an archive page manually by including <?php tb_archive(); ?> in a page.
Here are some key features of "Tweet Blender":
· Support for Twitter lists
· Allows to blend tweets from private accounts if you authorize access to your Twitter account that follows these private users (oAuth).
· Status tab in the admin panel that shows API limits remaining and cache information
· Shows tweets from one or more Twitter users (e.g. @tweetblender)
· Shows tweets for one or more topic defined by keywords (e.g. 'wordpress')
· Shows tweets for one or more topic defined by Twitter hashtag (e.g. #wordpress)
· Shows tweets for multiple users, multiple topics, and multiple hashtags blended together into single stream
· Allows to turn display of user's photo ON/OFF. Photos can be OFF in the sidebar to conserve screen space and ON on the archive page.
· Allows to replace @screennames in tweets with links to user accounts (open in new window)
· Allows to replace #hastags in tweets with links to Twitter search results for that hashtag (open in new window)
· Allows to replace URLs in tweets with links to those URLs (open in new window)
· Automatically creates a page with archive (a longer, expanded list of tweets). Can be disabled if you want to create archive manually or don't need an archive.
· Allows to override automatic archive page with a custom archive page
· Allows to specify number of tweets to show in the sidebar widget
· Allows to specify number of tweets to show on the archive page
· Provides template tag to include widget on any page
· Provides template tag to include archive on any page
· Provides "refresh" icon that allows users to manually refresh tweet list
· Allows to specify refresh period which turns ON automatic refresh of the tweet list
· Checks screennames, keywords, and hashtags for validity prior to saving which ensures that no protected users were specified
· Displays "reply" and "follow" links for each tweet that appear when user places mouse over the tweet area.
· Allows to create individual twitter streams for different authors by overriding sources in tb_archive() tag (e.g. )
· Provides basic caching mechanism to store Twitter data and work around Twitter API's connection limit
· Allows to reroute all Twitter API requests via blog's web server to take advantage of white-listed server
· Allows to filter tweets by language (for hashtags and keyword sources only)
· Allows to expand shortened URL and show them to users when mouse is over a link or special icon (in Beta). Uses URLexpand.com.
Requirements:
· WordPress 2.8 or higher
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Bug fix: made "view more" link appear again.
· Improvement: both PHP tag and form embed now support view more text config option - see Installation tab.
· Improvement: faster page loads because JavaScript now loads in the footer.
· Improvement: main.js is now minifiable.
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