Title: GG Twitter
Author: Garth Gutenberg
Published: <strong>November 13, 2012</strong>
Last modified: July 13, 2013

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# GG Twitter

 By [Garth Gutenberg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ggutenberg/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gg-twitter.zip)

 * [Details](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/gg-twitter/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/gg-twitter/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/gg-twitter/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/gg-twitter/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gg-twitter/)

## Description

Lets you display a twitter feed in a sidebar widget.
 Caches last successful tweet
retrieval and only updates if it successfully gets a new list from Twitter. Practically
every element has a unique class so that it’s highly customizable via CSS.

There are various configuration options including:

 * Title
 * Twitter Username
 * Max Tweets to Display
 * HTML to override the View All link
 * Time Placement (whether or not the timestamp should appear before or after the
   tweet)
 * Time Format (uses PHP’s date() function for formatting)

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Widget configuration screen

## Installation

 1. Upload `gg-twitter.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the Plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Configure your Twitter API authentication information in WP Dashboard / Settings/
    GG Twitter
 4. Install the new Widget through the ‘Widgets’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

Make sure you configure your Twitter API authentication information in WP Dashboard/
Settings / GG Twitter or no tweets will be displayed.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“GG Twitter” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Garth Gutenberg ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ggutenberg/)

[Translate “GG Twitter” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/gg-twitter)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gg-twitter/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gg-twitter/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gg-twitter/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gg-twitter/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

1.2.1

 * Removed debug message
 * Added settings link to plugin page

1.2

 * Updated to use the authenticated Twitter API v1.1

1.1.1

 * Additional debug info

1.1

 * Fix to cache expiration

1.0.9

 * Added transient support with a configurable lifetime, option fallback

1.0.8

 * Using cURL instead of simplexml_load_file as the latter was failing when the 
   xml contained an error node
 * Added Last Twitter API Error displayed on widget (global error, not per-widget)

1.0.7

 * Added debug facility
 * Changed option name from ‘twitter’ to $widget_id to avoid conflicts with other
   plugins
 * Added ‘None’ option to Time Placement
 * Fixed php shorthand tag

1.0.6

 * Fixed spacing issue with linking @username
 * Added linking for #hashtags
 * Removed parsing for email addresses

1.0.5

 * Fixed an issue where an error was occurring if there was only one tweet available
 * Fixed parsing of URLs, email addresses and twitter names inside a tweet

1.0.4

 * Updated plugin URL and readme.txt
 * Added screenshot

1.0.3

 * Updated readme.txt

1.0.2

 * Updated twitter rss url

1.0.1

 * Changed from using is_array() to count() with twitter rss

1.0

 * First release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.1**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.4.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gg-twitter/)
 * Tags
 * [twitter](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/twitter/)[widget](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ssw.wordpress.org/plugins/gg-twitter/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Garth Gutenberg ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ggutenberg/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gg-twitter/)

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