Twitter search widget and the text/HTML widget
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I have been wondering if their is any way to display a twitter search (like a hashtag) in your sidebar or anywhere else?
I have tried to use this code in the HTML widget, but it doesn’t work. Maybe it’s not HTML or? I have no idea about this stuff
Thx in advance.
Here is the code I got from twitter
new TWTR.Widget({
version: 2,
type: ‘search’,
search: ‘ZCF11’,
interval: 6000,
title: ‘Zulu Comedy Festival 2011’,
subject: ‘ZCF11’,
width: 200,
height: 300,
theme: {
shell: {
background: ‘#8ec1da’,
color: ‘#ffffff’
},
tweets: {
background: ‘#ffffff’,
color: ‘#444444’,
links: ‘#1985b5’
}
},
features: {
scrollbar: false,
loop: false,
live: true,
hashtags: true,
timestamp: true,
avatars: true,
toptweets: true,
behavior: ‘default’
}
}).render().start();The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I’m sorry that code does not work. As you are new I can provide some additional information and links:
You can also enable sharing buttons on your posts, pages and index pages.
Also note the “like” button.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/
You can use a Twitter widget > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/twitter-widget/You can post a twitter follow button > http://en.support.wordpress.com/twitter-follow-button/
You can set up Publicize and publish to your Twitter profile page > http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/
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Can you add different widgets to your already available widgets? I want to customize my sidebar as well, and I don’t want to use the ones that are already available. I know I can’t use javascript or Flash apparently in the arbitrary text widget.
I’m using Bueno, and just want more options for my free blog. I am broke, so buying a .org blog or hosting it is not an option.
Any help on how to add cooler widgets to my Bueno theme without being able to use plug ins? -
@ldomene
Could you please be very clear about which widgets you wish to add and what purpose you intend them to serve.Widgets generally accomplish one or more of the following things:
- improve the functionality of a site by providing reader accessibility to content that is not located on the front page;
- redirect readers to high quality sources of relevant information found in authoritative blogs in the same niche.
Widgets as spoilers
Widgets don’t only spoil the design and give the blog an amateurish appearance, but they also compromise blog speed (page loading time), and page loading time is a page ranking factor. In short viewers have to wait for widgets to load before they can interact with your blog. This may not seem important to bloggers on high speed broadband service but most people surfing the web today are on dial-up service.Widgets as distractions
Consider that readers come to our blogs to read our content. The important point here is that widgets and other sidebar clutter distract readers’ attention by drawing the eyes and mind away from the content in our posts. -
Well, I wanted a bible verse widget to inspire people that can relate to my faith or just make someone feel a little better when they most need it, but also, since I will be writing about sports a lot, I wanted to include some kind of sports top headlines. I have been looking all over for a strictly html widget either from ESPN or a major website, but I just don’t think they exist. There’s always been code that gets stripped out.
I agree that content should be king, but I feel that such relevant widgets wouldn’t be a hurt to my blog… So, I am guessing I’m right and can’t add to my themes available widgets in any way, huh?
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There’s always been code that gets stripped out.
The software here strips out these codes for security and stability reasons as this is a multuser blogging platform. >iframes, Embeds, Flash, HTML, Javascript > http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
If you can find Flash widgets then Panos may be able to translate the code into gigya shortcode and enable you to use such a widget. http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gigya-shortcode-3-widgets/
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The widget is working very well. But I am looking for a possibility to show only tweets with a certain hashtag i.e. #sts11
Please do You have a hint for me. Thanks in advance
Herb -
The site linked to your username is not a free hosted wordpress.com blog. We provide support on this forum only for free hosted wordpress.com blogs.
I am looking for a possibility to show only tweets with a certain hashtag i.e. #sts11
I assume you are referring to a free hosted WordPress.com blog and are the Twitter widget available to us here. If so, then we cannot customize it. What you see is what you get.
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I am looking for a solution as mentioned above for my page
I have several pages. Some hosted on my own server and some on wordpress.com.
On my own server I have no problem.The script mentioned by jacobmauritzen (this is the first one above) I found too, after saving the code I got from
http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search
This script is working very well with a page on my own server.
On wordpress.com it does not work. -
Once Twitter got rid of feeds, it became much more difficult to add such info to the RSS widget. If you can find a utility that exports an RSS feed from Twitter, you’re good to go.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/ -
Hmm. I don’t know if there are any that will work on WordPress.com. But I will have a look
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Any RSS feed should work in the RSS widget.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/
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