Twitter Feed

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Admin Control Panel The control functions such as connecting to a Twitter account and storing information on the tweets/blogs, can be accessed through the “Twitter Control” GUI in the WordPress admin panel. Any changes in the currently active Twitter account tweets can be immediately updated by clicking on the “Update Blogs” button. Order, Prioritisation and PM Filtering The application will display the latest tweet from all of the active accounts and then displays those latest tweets in date order. So the newest tweet across all of the accounts will always be shown first. It is also possible to switch between allowing/disallowing PM (Private Message) tweets to be included in the display. Separate All Tweets Page If a user has applied restrictions on the amount of Tweets displayed in the application then they can create a separate WordPress page to hold the entire tweet output of all the active Twitter accounts. Information Cache Running the relevant Twitter API function calls can sometimes a few minutes to fully execute. All information is stored in a cache data held locally, so that it minimises the chance of performance loss on web pages. Cron Support If users wish to have regular/automatic updates of their Twitter account tweets, then that is achievable through creating a crontab entry, or similar automation mechanism, to execute the supplied “runTwitterScript.php” file. Specific styling using CSS A CSS file is supplied to provide a starting point for displaying the tweets, but changes can be made to suit individual preference. File Listing All files, both PHP and CSS, can be found within the main extracted plugin folder. Within the folder “twitter-feed” you should find the following 13 files:- twitterScript.php – the file that will interface with the Twitter API (required) twitterPlugin.php – the display file that WordPress will interface with (required) inlcudeTwitter.php – used for commonly used PHP variables and functions (required) runTwitterScript.php – used for cron or other photo data update automation control (optional usage but recommended) twitterStyle.css – used for styling the presentation of the tweets (required, but can be modified) arrow_down.gif – used to expand the main application arrow_up.gif – used to collapse the main application twitterImage.gif – used in the header twitterpageheader.gif – used in the header screenshot-1.png – image of the application running on a WordPress front page screenshot-2.png – image of the Twitter Control Panel in WordPress readme.txt – this information file COPYING – a copy of the license terms for this release For further support or information please visit: http://community.plus.net/opensource/