Twitter Goodies Widgets
Uses the twitter goodies widgets API to create offical twitter widgets (profiles, lists, faves and search) straight from your control panel.
The facts
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 2 Jan 2011
- Added
- Nov 2009
- Requires WP
- 2.7
- Tested up to
- WP 3.0.5
- Downloads
- 30,297
Our analysis
AI-assistedTwitter Goodies Widgets is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create various Twitter widgets using a drag-and-drop interface. You can generate multiple instances of widgets for Twitter lists, favourites, profiles, or searches, all with the options available on Twitter's widget page. The plugin also supports shortcodes for placing widgets in posts and pages.
Best for: This plugin suits users looking to integrate Twitter widgets into their WordPress sites easily.
What it does well
- ✓Creates multiple Twitter widget instances
- ✓Supports four types of Twitter widgets
- ✓Uses the WordPress widget API
- ✓Allows saving multiple themes for widgets
- ✓Enables shortcode usage for posts and pages
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in January 2011
- •Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5
- •Directory score indicates potential issues
Verdict
Twitter Goodies Widgets offers a straightforward way to add Twitter features to your site, but its outdated status may limit compatibility with newer WordPress versions.
From the developer
Marcus (aka @msykes)'s own description of Twitter Goodies Widgets, lightly tidied.
This plugin will allow you to create any one of the four Twitter widgets located at twitter’s website twitter.com/goodies/widgets with the friendly wordpress drag & drop convenience of widgets. Some of the features:
- Can create multiple twitter widget instnaces (uses the new WP widget API)
- Four for one! Four twitter widgets – twitter lists, faves, your twitter profile, or a search
- All the options available via the twitter widget page are available here too (as of Nov 05 2009).
- Save multiple themes for your twitter widget. Use one theme (or many) across multiple widgets, no need to retype settings like on the twitter site.
- Quickly and easly switch between the different twitter widget types.
- One widget makes for twitter widgets.
- Place widgets in your posts and pages too with shortcodes (see notes).
If you have any problems with the plugins, please visit our [http://netweblogic.com/forums/](support forums) for further information and provide some feedback first, we may be able to help. It’s considered rude to just give low ratings and nothing reason for doing so.
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Notes
To generate a twitter widget in your pages, here is a shortcode with all the attributes:
[tgw title=”Title for twitter widget” subject=”Caption for twitter widget” username=”Twitter User Name” search=”Twitter search string” type=”Either (search|list|faves|profile)” list=”Twitter List Name”]
Look at one of the twitter widget options in your admin panel, or also on the twitter site twitter.com/goodies/widgets to see what combination you need for which widget type.