Twitter embed widget

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  janinge · Member · Jan 3, 2013 at 12:47 pm

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  WordPress own twitter widget has a poor and inadequate appearance.
  So: Why can’t I embed twitter’s own widget? the first 2 lines are deleted and thus can not twitters own widget not used (script lines):

  <script src=”http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js”></script>
  <script>
  new TWTR.Widget({
  version: 2,
  type: ‘profile’,
  rpp: 20,
  interval: 50,
  width: 200,
  height: 170,
  theme: {
  shell: {
  background: ‘#8ec1da’,
  color: ‘#ffffff’
  },
  tweets: {
  background: ‘#ffffff’,
  color: ‘#444444’,
  links: ‘#1985b5’
  }
  },
  features: {
  scrollbar: true,
  loop: true,
  live: true,
  behavior: ‘default’
  }
  }).render().setUser(‘janingelarsen’).start();
  </script>

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 3, 2013 at 1:06 pm

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  Because it’s javascript, and javascript is hugely vulnerable to security issues.

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  janinge · Member · Jan 3, 2013 at 1:25 pm

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  OK I understand that with javascript. Thanks.

  But is it any other way to get a better twitter view in a widget? wordpress own is not very good.

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  mikedariano · Member · Jan 3, 2013 at 1:32 pm

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  Can you expand on what’s not good about it? It looks formatted correctly to me. Colors? Fonts? Spacing?

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  janinge · Member · Jan 3, 2013 at 1:38 pm

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  Hi again. OK regrets, the widget displays the results.

  But one might say that the view is not exactly exciting. Would have liked a few more options so one could get a cleaner view, for example, to insert distance/space between tweets, other fonts, frame, colors, maybe scrolling also?

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  mikedariano · Member · Jan 3, 2013 at 6:44 pm

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  I think you’d need to either switch themes or wrangle some CSS this thread has some information – but that’s for a Twitter Widget Pro on the WordPress.org site.

  Are you interested in the Custom Design bundle? It’s $30/year and the customized CSS might be what you need.