February 10, 2015
Pulling your tweets into your website
The best way to pull tweets into your website is creating a Twitter “widget” right in your Twitter account.
The best way to pull tweets into your website is creating a Twitter “widget” right in your Twitter account. Here are the steps that you’ll need to follow in order to do this:
- Log into the twitter account that you’d like to display
- Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner, then click on “Settings”
- Click on “Widgets” in the list of links on the left
- Click on the “Create New” button
- If you are hoping to display all of the tweets from the same account that you are currently logged in to, you can use the “User Timeline” widget. If you intend to pull tweets from several accounts into a single list, then create a public list of all those twitter accounts and use the “List” widget.
- There are a few settings available to tweak, and the results of your settings are visible on the right. It is likely that you’ll want to opt out of “tailoring Twitter” for now.
- If the widget looks like you want it to, click the “Create Widget” button and it will give you the code to embed that widget on your website. If you don’t like the way it looks you can use custom options, which are set directly in the code, or send your widget code to [email protected] for us to help you.
To add the script to your website
- Log into your website’s administrative panel
- Click on the Web Pages tab
- Find the page where you want the widget to appear and click on “Settings”
- Open the Advanced Settings for the page
- Find the “Section Processors” section of settings and then find the area of the page where you want the widget to appear.
- Set the processor to “Plain Text” then save and edit the page.
- In the blank box that appears on the edit screen, paste your Twitter Widget code.
- Preview the page to see how the widget looks on your page.
Need more help customizing a twitter feed to appear on your website? Send the code to [email protected] and we’d be happy to help.
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