How do I get the Twitter Widget ID number?

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  kmilnes2 · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 12:42 am

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  I just bought the Arcade theme and am trying to add the social buttons in the header.

  The Twitter Widget Configurator gave me the following code:
  Tweets by @KCM1207
  <script>!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”);</script>

  Which obviously does not include the ID number that I need for WordPress — how do I get this number?

  I tried pasting the Twitter code into a WordPress post to see if the code would refigure automatically, as it sometimes does with Youtube videos. No luck.

  Thanks!
  [twitter-timeline id=1234 username=yourhandle]

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 12:50 pm

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  Hi there,

  Your Twitter Widget ID number isn’t actually included in the code that Twitter gives you — it the long number in the URL (in your browser’s address bar) while you’re editing your Twitter widget on Twitter. We have more details about how to find that here: Twitter Timeline Widget

  Once you have that ID number, you won’t need any of the other code Twitter gives you for that widget. Please let me know if I can do anything more to help with that. :)