How to embed tweets??!

• 

  theoldjustytrail · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 10:45 am

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  I’ve read previous forums and nothing is doing the trick. Using the tweet URL on a line by itself, without a hyperlink, still comes up as a hyperlink.

  Using ‘Insert Tweet’ under the Add Media option doesn’t work because they don’t show me tweets from two weeks ago.

  I download the zip file with a plugin for Embedding Tweets, but only use WP through WordPress.com so apparently plugins don’t work for me.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

• 

  hfzrhmn · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 10:56 am

  • Copy link

  Hi, not sure what’s happening in your case, but just to be sure, have you checked the documentation page?

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/twitter/twitter-embeds/

• 

  theoldjustytrail · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 11:00 am

  • Copy link

  I did check it, thanks for the quick reply.

  But I just re-tried, and it seems to be working! I’ll let you know if it doesn’t work again.

  Thanks!

• 

  hfzrhmn · Member · Mar 12, 2014 at 5:10 am

  • Copy link

  You’re welcome!

• 

  nancysbishop · Member · Mar 12, 2014 at 8:31 pm

  • Copy link

  I have the same problem. I’m trying to embed this tweet:

  @TD_HBO finale toight. Am I excited? Very--and I'll be glad it's over, so I'll have one fewer obsession in my life. #hookedonTDweirdness

  — Nancy S Bishop (@nsbishop) March 9, 2014

  in this blog: nancybishopsjournal.com.

  The file I’m working on is in draft, of course, It’s not posted yet.

• 

  nancysbishop · Member · Mar 12, 2014 at 8:54 pm

  • Copy link

  I should have added that I tried several times to click the tweet timestamp, copy the url, paste it in on a line by itself, and delink it.

  Also did it thru “embed tweet” function in Media Library. I got “No tweets matched your search query.” The tweet was posted 3/9/14.

  Both ways, the tweet just shows up as a URL in my post when I preview it.

  Nancy

• 

  theoldjustytrail · Member · Mar 13, 2014 at 12:40 am

  • Copy link

  It was doing that for me, too. I’m surprised you can’t find the tweets using the Embed Tweet function in Media Library if that’s recent. Did you try ‘by user’ and use your twitter handle with the @ symbol?

  It finally worked for me by using the shortcode, meaning still the URL but with brackets and the word ‘tweet’ also

  ex.

  [tweet https://twitter.com/status/oldjusty%5D

• 

  nancysbishop · Member · Mar 13, 2014 at 7:39 pm

  • Copy link

  Thanks for trying to help. I tried what you suggested too and nothing worked. So I just formatted the tweet text and stuck it in for now. I’m not giving up, however. Still going to look for a solution.