This is an old old old old old post – Alex King’s Twitter Tools does this entire post far more effectively than this little post does!
I’ll start this off with a bit of an explanation of what RSS is. It stands for Really Simple Syndication and its the best thing since sliced bread. If your not using it your actually driving away readers. Put it this way. How many sites do you visit on a daily basis? You want to read all of your friends entries, but your not going to go to each and every page all the time are you!? Not if you’ve got as many feeds as I do! With RSS you go to one page, bloglines or if you already have a gmail account (and who doesn’t!) you can go to google.com/reader and start adding feeds. To get you started my feed URL is http://feeds.feedburner.com/Eruanna (I use feed burner so I can manage my statistics.) The main advantage is that if you read those tween sites that use an awfully small font then you can actually read the posts in the feed reader.
If your using a hosted blog service like blogger, wordpress.com etc then you already have an RSS feed. There should be a link to it on your site, if your using wordpress then your feed is yoururl.com/feed
So firstly, if you’re not using twitter then your missing out on something theoretically pointless but really really addictive. So if you’ll look at my sidebar <– which I have my twitter feeding into.
Heres how I imported my twitter into my sidebar. (Alex Kings just released a flickr plugin
Download and install the FeedList Plugin. I tried to write my own but I gave up! Then activate it and in your sidebar.php page write the following:
<ul class="twitterFeed">
<?php feedList(array("rss_feed_url"=>"RSSURLHERE", "num_items"=>5, "show_description"=>false,"before"=>"<li>", "after"=>"</li>", "random"=>false,"sort"=>"none","suppress_link"=>true,"show_date"=>true));?>
</ul>
Add your RSS url into the specified space. and tada you’ve imported your twitter feed to your wordpress blog. There are many variables you can change but these are the ones I used.
Можно и подискутировать по этому поводу …
Да, похоже что в действительности – так оно и есть. P.S. Сайт, кстати, у вас прикольно сверстан
your site theme is a love at first sight to me
i am in love with it
thank you :)
Hello ! ^_^
I am Piter Kokoniz. oOnly want to tell, that I like your blog very much!
And want to ask you: is this blog your hobby?
Sorry for my bad english:)
Tnx!
Your Piter
errm , it’s a little outdated but you should try
http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/USERNAME.rss
http://twitter.com/t/status/user_timeline/26613?callback=twitterCallback&count=10
Page doesn’t exsist
I got this error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: feedlist() in /home/insanity/public_html/wp-content/themes/eruannatutorial/sidebar.php on line 74
And yes I activated the plugin
This is what I added to my sidebar
Twitter
“http://twitter.com/Insanity_Kills”, “num_items”=>5, “show_description”=>false,”before”=>”", “after”=>”",
“random”=>false,”sort”=>”none”,”suppress_link”=>true,”show_date”=>true));?>
NOW I realize
‘http://twitter.com/Insanity_Kills’ probably wouldn’t work
so I tried
http://twitter.com/Insanity_Kills/statuses/391237362
I’m still not sure which link it is. I got the 2nd link by clicking RSS.
Uh I feel so stupid
Your talking about on my sidebar? thats a different plugin managed through wordpress called sideblog.
I’ve been looking for a tutorial about implimenting twitter into wordpress like this but couldn’t find one. Thankyou so much for this tutorial. I have a question though, how do I make the updates in the sidebar like their own blog entry (like if you click on the # it stays in your blog) mine doesnt have any link. Sorry if that’s confusing.
A better way to do this guys is here:
http://www.twitter.com/t/status/user_timeline/26613?callback=twitterCallback&count=10
Mine was just an experiment! This one works better! ^^
This is great. I tried it today, and it works great. EXCEPT! It doesn’t refresh! Since I have added it I have twittered several times, and refreshed my blog in Firefox several times in the last 10-15 min. and its just not refreshing. What am I missing?
thanks!
tralalal
Lisa – Twitter lets you tell people what your doing at any one time. and yeah, you should use RSS!
Rhys – I always thought you did use RSS befr eyou told me you didnt!
Nan – Thats a good point – urls are so unmemorable! I prefer webbased ones so I can get to them whatever computer I’m on.
If you don’t have RSS and we have no relation such as comments or link exchange I will most likely never return to your blog – I use a built in RSS feature with FireFox and I am utterly hooked :)
I have to admit, if I never’d met you, I would’ve never had used RSS feeds.
Whilst I can’t see the point of twitter, I love google reader. Guys, check it out. She speaks sense!
RSS sounds cool, I haven’t tried it yet though, maybe I should.. :) I didn’t understand what twitter is though.. what exactly does that do?
Its the second link. the one you get through RSS cos its importing the RSS feed, but if you read the comments theres a better solution there :)