To make the class available, please add the following to your composer file:
"atomicsmash/twitter-feed-wordpress" : "*",Next, create a twitter app and generate your API access keys here.
Then add these inside your environment specific constants to your wp-config file, filling in the values as appropriate:
define('TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY','');
define('TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET','');
define('TWITTER_OAUTH_TOKEN','');
define('TWITTER_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET','');At the current time you can only have one twitter feed per site however this may be changed in the future.
Just add a constant specifying the username:
define('TWITTER_USERNAME','');Don't worry about adding the '@' symbol. For example
define('TWITTER_USERNAME','atomicsmash')
You can query the cached tweets simply by calling the get method of the
twitterAPI class:
if( isset( $twitterAPI ) ){
$tweets = $twitterAPI->get([
'results_per_page' => 4, // int
'order' => 'asc', // 'asc|desc'
'tweet_type' => 'all' // 'all|tweet|retweet|reply'
]);
}| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
results_per_page |
int | The number of results to show per page |
order |
string | desc for newest first, asc for oldest |
tweet_type |
string | One of all, tweet, retweet or reply. What kind of tweets should be returned. |
To sync tweets in background, schedule a cron job to run the command:
wp twitter sync_tweetsIf you are using composer in your project, then your WordPress core files might be inside a subfolder. Please modify the path to reflect this. The cron job might look like this:
/usr/local/bin/wp twitter sync_tweets --path=/path/to/www.website.co.uk/wp