Embedding tweets

kierontownend · Member · May 22, 2015 at 12:46 pm
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Hi,

Why won’t wordpress let me embed tweets into a post properly?

Last night I held a live tweet for a film premiere & I wanted to put those tweets into a post today.

While I was writing the post, all seemed fine. I previewed it & the tweets were visible as they should be. But after saving it they now just appear as a link.

Is there a reason for this?

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galois · Member · May 22, 2015 at 12:48 pm
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The full instructions for embed tweets are here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/twitter/twitter-embeds/
galois · Member · May 22, 2015 at 12:51 pm
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And note that…

Be sure to paste the Twitter URL on a line by itself and make sure it isn’t hyperlinked
galois · Member · May 22, 2015 at 12:53 pm
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BTW, I also slept since then. ;)
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpress-wont-embed-videos?replies=12#post-2387861
kierontownend · Member · May 22, 2015 at 12:58 pm
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I copied and pasted the links as per the instructions, but as I say they are now only appearing as links in the preview page and not as tweets.
kierontownend · Member · May 22, 2015 at 12:59 pm
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Apparently putting short code in to change the width brings them back as tweets, but I’m unsure in why I need to do this when all was fine originally.
galois · Member · May 22, 2015 at 1:21 pm
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I copied and pasted the links as per the instructions, but as I say they are now only appearing as links in the preview page and not as tweets.

https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/embedding-tweets-3?replies=6#post-2388436
kierontownend · Member · May 22, 2015 at 1:30 pm
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That’s a link to this forum, why have you posted a link to this forum?
galois · Member · May 22, 2015 at 2:55 pm
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why have you posted a link to this forum?

Because you have read that response:

Be sure to paste the Twitter URL on a line by itself and make sure it isn’t hyperlinked

https://i1.wp.com/en.support.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/twitter_post.png
Do you understand?
kierontownend · Member · May 22, 2015 at 2:58 pm
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Once again, I followed the instructions and they came up as links, not as tweets.
galois · Member · May 22, 2015 at 2:59 pm
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Ok, copy & paste the Tweet URL here.
I try whit it.
galois · Member · May 22, 2015 at 2:59 pm
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Typo: I try with it.
kierontownend · Member · May 22, 2015 at 3:06 pm
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This is one example: https://twitter.com/TheTwinkieThing/status/601435120277463041

I have made them work since by putting short code in like this: [tweet https://twitter.com/TheTwinkieThing/status/601435120277463041 width='800]

But it is my belief that I shouldn’t need to have done that as it should have worked first time.

Thanks in advance for your time.
galois · Member · May 22, 2015 at 3:14 pm
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This is one example: https://twitter.com/TheTwinkieThing/status/601435120277463041

Copied, pasted & posted on a test blog. You can see it here:
(latest post)
https://archivos2.wordpress.com/

BTW, I used only the link that you gave me.
galois · Member · May 22, 2015 at 3:15 pm
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I mean, only the link, not the shortcode.
galois · Member · May 22, 2015 at 3:20 pm
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One question: have you copied the link in the visual editor or the text editor?
https://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/
kierontownend · Member · May 22, 2015 at 10:37 pm
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Hey man, the test you put up is how mine look now & how they looked originally, but as I say I’ve had to put short code in to make them work, something I believe I should not have needed to do.

And I did them both in the visual editor.

Thanks.
galois · Member · May 23, 2015 at 1:29 am
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And I did them both in the visual editor.

Try with the Text editor.

I put only the link, not the shortcode, and it works perfectly, as you can see in my test blog.
kierontownend · Member · May 24, 2015 at 12:44 pm
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Excellent, will try this soon.

Thanks for your time.

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