ShowTweets - Twitter plugin

Who's using the plugin?

I have made a list, which shows all the requests for the plugin until now. Check it out here!

ShowTweets example with extra styling


About the plugin

Paul Klinkenberg developed the plugin in March 2009.
It uses the Twitter search api to retrieve and display tweets.

You are allowed to use the plugin on your own site, as long as you keep the link at the end of the plugin page intact.
ShowTweets is an opensource plugin which shows 'tweets', messages written on the Twitter network.
There are a lot of these plugins available, but I couldn't find one that suited my needs for my weblog.

I wanted NO ADS, to view the picture of the person posting the message, and be able to set a small width of the plugin.

You're welcome to use the plugin yourself; that's what it's here for!

Create your own embed code!

You can create your own customized embed code here by using this nifty form!

*New*: much longer history then other twitter feeds!

Twitter.com normally only shows tweets which happened within the last 8 days. Because I'm not tweeting every day, I sometimes just had 1 or 2 messages online. Now I created a database backup of all tweets for 30 days! So when you start using showtweets, it will save all tweets (max. 100) from that day on.

Isn't that great? We are showing more then what twitter itself is showing!

How to use the plugin

There are 3 settings for the plugin:
  1. the search word (required), "q=..."
  2. the number of messages (optional, defaults to 50), "nr=..."
  3. the styling (optional), "style=..."

Donate

Hosting costs money, and programming takes time. If you're using the plugin, and are able to help me out, please make a donation via my PayPal-account!
The html (or "embed code") you need to use this plugin on your site, is:
<iframe src="http://www.ongevraagdadvies.nl/showtweets/?q=SEARCHWORD"
 width="100%" height="400"frameborder="0"></iframe>

So, the embed code using the search word 'hippies' would be:
<iframe src="http://www.ongevraagdadvies.nl/showtweets/?q=hippies"
 width="100%" height="400" frameborder="0"></iframe>

And if you only want to show 15 messages:
<iframe src="http://www.ongevraagdadvies.nl/showtweets/?q=hippies&nr=15"
 width="100%" height="400" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Open source

Besides using the plugin for free, you can also copy and use the source code!
You can find the coldfusion source code of the plugin here.

If you have any questions, just contact me.

Styling the plugin

If you are familiair with cascading style sheets (CSS), then you can change the appearance of the plugin.
You can add all the css you want, with a max of 1000 characters. Please first check the html source code of the plugin, and then create your custom css. (the coldfusion source code can also be viewed)

After you created it, go to the embed code generator and paste the css into the form!
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