Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode)

• Replaces a shortcode such as [rotatingtweets screen_name='your_twitter'], or a widget, with a rotating display of your most recent tweets
• Supports the new longer tweet format
• Supports 280 characters
• Space efficient – instead of showing all your tweets at once, shows one at a time and then smoothly replaces it with the next one. After showing all your tweets, loops back to the beginning again.
• Reliable – keeps showing your latest Tweets even if the Twitter website is down.
• Customizable – you decide whose tweets to show, how many to show, whether to include retweets and replies, and whether to show a follow button. You can also decide how quickly the tweets rotate and what type of animation to use.
• Responsive – resizes as your page resizes
• GDPR-friendly – with default settings, collects no user data and shares no user data (including IP addresses) with anyone else. Supports ‘Do Not Track’ (DNT).
• Gives you the option to show a fully customizable Twitter ‘follow’ button. For note, because of the way Twitter’s code for the Twitter button works, the button will display as a regular text link to site visitors who have set ‘Do Not Track’.
• Replaces t.co links with the original link
• Caches the most recent data from Twitter to avoid problems with rate limiting
• Uses jQuery, jQuery.Cycle and jQuery.Cycle2 to produce a nice smooth result.
• Compatible with W3 Total Cache.
• Multi-lingual – now set up to be multi-lingual. The Twitter ‘follow’ button is automatically translated to match your site’s language setting if Twitter has made the appropriate language available. Also uses WordPress’s multi-lingual capability to enable translation of all the other text used by the plug-in via language packs.

If you’d like to see what the plug-in looks like in action, you can see the plug-in working here.

Credits

Most of this is my own work, but special thanks are owed to:

• The jQuery team
• Mike Alsup for jQuery.Cycle and jQuery.Cycle2
• Syd Lawrence for introducing me to jQuery and jQuery.Cycle
• Abraham Williams for TwitterOAuth
• Liam Gaddy at Storm Consultancy for his work on oAuth Twitter Feed for Developers (although I ended up using it for inspiration rather than plugging it in directly).
• All the people who have given advice and suggested improvements

Thank you to the people who did the original translation work for the following packs:

• Wilmerson Felipe for his work on Brazilian Portuguese
• Nils Kroneberg for his work on German
• Alberto Lario for his work on Spanish
• Mattia Migliorini at deshack for his work on Italian
• Natasja Weijer for her work on Dutch
• Alexandre Trudel for his help on French
• Borisa Djuraskovic at Web Hosting Hub for his help on Serbian