Twitter Fans (Wordpress Plugin)
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I was looking for a plugin that can show my twitter followers in a box very much like Facebook’s fan widget. Found a couple but their presentation was not what I was looking for AND the thing that bothered me most was that they needed both your username and password to work.
I have strong opinion about developing applications that are smart and simple. So I created this plugin. After you activate, it gives you a new widget called Twitter Fans. Just drag n drop it in the sidebar. And set your username (that’s the only required thing). You can leave the rest empty.
Download from official WordPress plugin repository.
And of course, I would highly recommend you to follow me: @SohailAbid
Here is a screenshot of both the administration and how it appears on site:
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Great Plugin man..would be use it soon on my website
That’s cool and I’ll use it, but I wish there was an HTML version as well, one that could be put either into an regular HTML website or onto a Facebook profile page.
[...] Fans Twitter Widget è un plugin per WordPress nuova e interessante, che ti permetterà di visualizzare i tuoi Fans di Twitter simile al widget di Facebook. Una volta installato il plugin sul tuo blog, vai su “Aspetto -> Widget” e trascina il Fans Twitter widget ovunque lo desideri visualizzare. [...]
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Really nice plugins. Why you don’t make it works for Blogger? Hmm, I will use it if any.
Hi Sohail,
I installed your plugin and got this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_setopt_array() in /homepages/27/d180914401/htdocs/homesweethomepage/wp-content/plugins/twitter-fans-widget.php on line 101
Any ideas?
Thanks!
- Carma
The error means your host does not support cURL library. Which should not be the case. You may request support to enable cURL.
Tried this, no images are coming over from twitter. Empty images on the blog. Any ideas?
great!! thankz for sharing this…i probably use this
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Installed the plugin but got fatal error on activation “Class ‘WP_Widget’ not found in …/twitter-fans/twitter-fans.php on line 11
This is on wp2.7.1
Will upgrading to 2.9 solve this?
Regards,
Dave Seldon
Yes Dave. This plugin is for Wordpress 2.8 and above.
This is really a cool plugin .. Thanks for creating it … Great work …
i uploaded the folder to wp-content/plugins but it doesn get detected in plugins how do i activate it using wp 2.9
Hello can you please let me know how to resize the box of this widget, is too large for the right column of my blog.
Thank’s in advance.
Isn’t the usage of cURL a redundant thing in WP 2.8 and above? I heard somewhere in the WP plugin dev community that using cURL gives the problem that one of your users just faced, that the lib is sometimes not accessible to the WP system. Any thoughts on that?
And I am d/l’ing this right now, will be nagging you a lot more regarding plugin dev than you’d find comfortable
Gr8 going and good luck in the future m’man
God bless and peace out,
M.
Tried this, no images are coming over from twitter. Empty images on the blog. Any ideas?
Thanks for Twitter Fans Widget A WordPress Plugin.
Real cool only putting in my user name and bingo up pop my Twitter fans – on my website. Using WP 2.9.
Great Plugin, Is is possible to change the size of the follower pictures so they are smaller?
I like this widget, but I have a question. Why does it display my real name? I do not want it to do that. I entered my Twitter name in the form. Please let me know if I need to do something else. Thanks!
Great widget. Quick question? Is there a way to randomly rotate the followers, rather than showing the same ones all the time? Like every time a new follower is added, it updates on the widget? Thanks so much!
SUPERB Plugin, exactly what I was looking for. I share your philosophy about “why ask for a password when it’s not needed”. Well done!
Slight snag though: I’ve got it running on http://www.vipscoop.com, and it works a treat. However, on two other sites I run (different server) it doesn’t seem to work. The widget appearrs, but neither the title nor the followers or pictures are displayed. Curl is installed on both servers. Any ideas?
Suggestion:
- make the widget sizable (width)
I checked this again with another site, it has to be the server configuration. They’re both Linux (CentOS distributions). One is a virtual server with 32-bit OS (Plugin working fine), the other one is a dedicated server with 64-bit OS (not working).
First I congratulate you on excellent plugin, the problem that I have is that my sidebar does not admit widget, for what I have not insert it to place it by means of php I have used the following judgment and and not working some suggestion sorry for my English
I Quote Cheryl Ann.
Tried to change twitterfans_username to user_screen_name but fail.
Any tips???
Is there a way I can hardcode this into the sidebar instead of using the widget? It’s because I customized my sidebar in a different way.
Is there any way to adjust the width of the widget? I have a fb list on my page as well (like the above graphic) but I had to adjust it to fit on my sidebar. Can I do this? Please help!!!