TwiBadge

TwiBadge is a WordPress plugin to show your Twitter badge with easy personalization. It supports widget and non-widget themes. And you can use shortcode to add Twitter badge to your blog post and page.

Current version: 1.0.8

TwiBadge Screenshot

Features

  • Integrate Twitter and WordPress seamlessly
  • Show Twitter badge as a WordPress widget
  • Support flash interactive widget
  • Easy personalization, no coding knowledge is needed
  • Support shortcode
  • Support non-widget theme

Requirement

  • WordPress 2.7 or above
  • PHP5

Installation And Configuration

  1. Unzip the zip file you have downloaded (twibadge.zip)
  2. Upload folder twibadge to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  3. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
  4. Configure the plugin through TwiBadge menu in WordPress Settings page
  5. Add TwiBadge widget through Widget menu in WordPress
  6. Done, go to your blog homepage to view the twitter badge widget
  7. If your theme doesn’t support widget, you can add the following code to anyplace of your theme <?php showTwitterBadge(); ?>
  8. You can add shortcode without spaces [ twibadge ] to your post or page content to show your Twitter badge

Frequently Asked Questions

Question: Why the widget is showing me black screen?

Answer: There are a few possibilities for this question:

  1. Your Twitter username is incorrect. Please check and enter your Twitter username correctly (Settings -> TwiBadge -> Step 1 -> Username).
  2. Twitter is down. You can verify this by checking Twitter website (http://www.twitter.com).

Question: Why it is showing me invalid username in the option page of the administrative screen?

Answer: Please check and enter your Twitter username carefully. Once it is successfully verified with Twitter account, this error message will not be shown.

Version History/Change Log

v1.0.0

  • First public release
  • Support flash interactive widget
  • Easy personalization

v1.0.1

  • Fixed not to share common variable with other plugin

v1.0.2

  • Support shortcode
  • Support non-widget theme

v1.0.3

  • Fixed Internet Explorer displaying issue

v1.0.4

  • Fixed improper display of widget footer issue

v1.0.5

  • Fixed black screen issue
  • Change the appearance of the widget

v1.0.6

  • Fixed not able to save appearance settings issue

v1.0.7

  • Fixed to show more than 4 tweets

v1.0.8

  • New feature to configure the number of tweets shown in the widget

License

All files and their contents are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.

Support

If you have any issue about the plugin, feel free to contact me or leave a message in the comment box below.

Download

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1 Heath March 4, 2010 at 1:52 am

The top black banner of the widget, where my avatar and name are located, is off center. My avatar is on a row above my name and it looks really weird. I’ve tried to adjust the width but this doesnt seem to work. Please advise. Thanks!

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2 Bey Luen March 4, 2010 at 10:44 pm

@Heath,
May I know what is your website URL so that I can take a look?

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3 Heath March 5, 2010 at 12:51 am

@Bey

http://heathtavrides.com/blog/

thank you for your help

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4 Bey Luen March 6, 2010 at 12:32 am

@Heath,
It is caused by your CSS of your WordPress theme. I have tried to remove your CSS and save it into static HTML page and it works fine. But now I don’t know which part of your CSS is causing the problem.

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5 Taylor March 16, 2010 at 8:29 am

Is there a way to limit the number of tweets being displayed? I don’t want a scroll bar on the TwiBadge.

Thanks!

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6 beyluen March 16, 2010 at 4:16 pm

@Taylor,
I have release a new version to allow you to configure number of tweet shown.

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7 Rafa March 17, 2010 at 4:12 pm

First, thanks for this great plugin!!!

It works fine, but in some twits with tags with accents, like #conciliación, it shows the full word but the link tag is until the accent, in this example, conciliaci (http://twitter.com/search?q=%23conciliaci)

Are there any solution?

Thanks.

Pdta: Sorry for my English

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8 beyluen March 17, 2010 at 4:37 pm

@Rafa,
Thanks for using TwiBadge. Currently I do not have solution for this issue because this section is controlled by Twitter. I will check with Twitter to see if they can get it fixed.

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9 Rafa March 17, 2010 at 4:45 pm

Ok,

I will wait the solution from Twitter.

Thanks for all.

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10 foxmask March 29, 2010 at 3:58 am

Hi,

You should add type=”text/javascript” on each <script node otherwise the page is not W3C compliant at all.

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11 Rafa March 29, 2010 at 2:34 pm

Ok, I will try it.

Thanks.

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12 foxmask April 2, 2010 at 7:02 pm

Rafa : i spoke to Bey Luen :-)

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13 April April 6, 2010 at 11:51 pm

Is there a way to keep the widget from displaying Name? Currently, it is displaying Name and then right below it Username. I only want to display the username.

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14 beyluen April 7, 2010 at 12:53 pm

@April,
It’s not possible at this moment because Twitter API is returning both username and name.

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15 iadore May 30, 2010 at 12:54 am

No matter what I do I can’t get my twitter pic in the upper left-hand corner.
Also, the tiny ugly font is driving me crazy. Everyone elses has a bigger, better looking font.
It has to be because of the style in my theme. Please help me fix. Thankyou

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16 Cesar June 6, 2010 at 7:14 pm

Hi,
Thanks for the plugin, but i’m having a really hard time with this.
In every browser, render fine, but in firefox just won`t work… and, i’m run out of ideas…
Please help me out!

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