Can I embed a twitter hashtag feed?

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  manuschwendener · Member · May 30, 2017 at 8:31 pm

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  Hi
  I thought that I can embed a twitter hashtag feed by adding a text widget to my footer area, with the code from twitter’s Widgets Configurator. But it doesn’t work.

  What I have so far:

  <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/researchdata">#researchdata Tweets</a>
              !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

  Is there another way of doing it? What I want to achieve: I’d like to display a twitter feed, but of a certain hashtag, not of a single account.

  Thank you :-)

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  timethief · Member · May 30, 2017 at 8:40 pm

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  Note that WordPress.COM users have code restrictions. No JavaScript, no form codes, except these https://en.support.wordpress.com/forms/contact-form https://en.support.wordpress.com/forms/, no tracking codes, no advertising codes, and no unsupported embeds of unsupported iframes can be used on any wordpress.COM hosted sites.

  Please read:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
  allowed HTML tags list – https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#html-tags
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#javascript
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#flash-and-other-embeds

  See: Moving to self hosted wordpress http://move.wordpress.com

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  christineoakfield · Member · May 30, 2017 at 9:03 pm

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  Hi, I actually was able to do what you are trying to do, manuschwendener, through the widget, and by following these instructions. I was curious, so I just tested it. Worked like a charm.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/twitter-timeline-widget/
  Scroll down to the Using Twitter Widget IDs section. Once you have the id, go back to the beginning of the WordPress.com instructions.
  This should work for you. I tested this on a free account.
  Happy Blogging,
  ~Christine

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  christineoakfield · Member · May 30, 2017 at 9:04 pm

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  To be clear, you don’t need to add any extra code. Everything timethief says is correct. :)

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  timethief · Member · May 30, 2017 at 9:06 pm

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  @happyathometoday
  Thanks for your help here. :)

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  christineoakfield · Member · May 30, 2017 at 9:09 pm

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  No problem. Slowly learning the ropes. :) Thanks for all you do!

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  timethief · Member · May 30, 2017 at 9:12 pm

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  You’re welcome and it’s good to have you onboard.

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  manuschwendener · Member · May 30, 2017 at 9:39 pm

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  Hi Christine, thanks a lot – this is exactly what I was looking for.

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  christineoakfield · Member · May 30, 2017 at 9:56 pm

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  Wonderful. I see it worked. Great job.