Title: Reet-pe-Tweet
Author: maltpress
Published: <strong>മെയ്‌ 12, 2011</strong>
Last modified: മെയ്‌ 14, 2011

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# Reet-pe-Tweet

 By [maltpress](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maltpress/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/reet-pe-tweet.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://ml.wordpress.org/plugins/reet-pe-tweet/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ml.wordpress.org/plugins/reet-pe-tweet/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/reet-pe-tweet/)

## Description

This is a simple Twitter widget for your sidebar. I know there are several out there,
but I needed something very specific for my site and decided to make it a bit more
general and release it into the world…

This plugin uses basic caching so you don’t hit the API rate limit (it’s using the
user.timeline API method rather than the deprecated RSS method). It will need to
write a (small) xml file to your uploads folder, and to update this regularly, so
make sure the directory is writeable. The cache time can be changed for busy sites
or quiet sites where you want more immediate effect – but the default updates every
minute (if required, it won’t be active if no-one’s on your site) so you should 
be fine.

User controls:

 * Title: widget title
 * Twitter user name: feed to show (must be public)
 * Cache time: put this up for really busy sites, but you probably won’t need to
 * Show replies: show tweets which are @replies (won’t remove tweets which _mention_
   someone)
 * Show “via” link: shows your tweet method (i.e. “Via Tweetdeck”) with link
 * Tweets to show: number of tweets, up to 20 (with @replies on – see FAQ)

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The Widget control panel
 * [[
 * Widget in place and unstyled on the 2010 theme, with replies off and “via” links
   on.

## Installation

 1. Upload the reet-pe-tweet directory to `/wp-content/plugins/`
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Place your widget. Make sure you set a Twitter user name.
 4. If you get errors on activating/first loading your page, make sure your wp-content/
    uploads folder is there and writeable.

## FAQ

  How do I style the widget?

The output of the widget is this:

    ```
    <h3 class="widget-title">Latest tweets</h3>
    <ul class="reet-pe-tweet-ul">
    <li class="tweet-single">
    Tweet content
    <br>
    <span class="tweet-date">Thursday 28 April</span>
    <br>
    <span class="tweet-source">Via <a href="#">Tweetdeck</a></span>
    </li>
    </ul>
    ```

Add the appropriate styles to your CSS and you should be good to go.

  Can I change the date format?

Not yet, sorry. Next version.

  Fewer tweets than I expected are showing. What’s with that?

If you @reply a lot but turn replies off on this widget, you might see this. Basically,
the plugin pulls the last 20 tweets, caches them, then removes @replies if you turn
them off. So if you’ve got 15 @replies in your stream, then you’ve only really got
5 tweets to show. Sorry. I made a decision to keep things simple and resource-friendly
by using only a basic API call. If you know what you’re doing, you can increase 
the count by changing the code (lines 255 and 284 have the API calls on them).

  Do you have a plan for improvements and more functionality?

Aside from adding some control over the date format (because in most cases it would
be good to see time), and getting it to do a clean uninstall (removing the old cache
file when you disable it), no. This is a simple, almost throwaway plugin. There 
are other Twitter widgets out there which do more, or you can adapt this one as 
you see fit. If you have specific requirements, there are lots of developers (me
included) who’d be happy to write what you need for money, or beer, or hugs or something.
Depending on the developer. Sorry – I’m not really a believer in adding hundreds
of complex settings to plugins.

  Stupid name

Well, I like it. As I do with plugins, I asked Twitter what it should be called;
this time the winner was @silv3r who has no idea what it is he’s actually named 
because he doesn’t use WordPress. I think he’s a fan of [Jackie Wilson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ3-NnNx6Zs)

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Reet-pe-Tweet” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ maltpress ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maltpress/)

[Translate “Reet-pe-Tweet” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/reet-pe-tweet)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 0.2.1

 * Fixed date issue where Tweet dates fell back to Jan 1 on newer PHP versions

#### 0.2

 * Fixed error whereby cache would be emptied and error shown if connection to Twitter
   lost
 * Fixed error with dates and times on some versions of PHP

#### 0.1

 * Plugin released

## Meta

 *  Version **0.2.1**
 *  Last updated **15 വര്‍ഷങ്ങള്‍ ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  വേർഡ്പ്രസ്സ് പതിപ്പ് ** 3.0.0 അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ അതിലും ഉയര്‍ന്നത് **
 *  Tested up to **3.1.4**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/reet-pe-tweet/)
 * Tags
 * [simple](https://ml.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/simple/)[twitter](https://ml.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/twitter/)
   [widget](https://ml.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ml.wordpress.org/plugins/reet-pe-tweet/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ maltpress ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maltpress/)

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