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Twitter for WordPress

Widgets

Timeline Types

Twitter Platform Integration

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The Twitter plugin for WordPress bundles best-practice Twitter for Websites integrations into an installable package for websites powered by WordPress.

Cards

Automatically generate Cards to enable link previews and site attribution when your URLs are shared on Twitter.

Customize embedded Tweets

Check out this epic #sunset from Zabriskie point @DeathValleyNPS. Photo: Mahendiran Mohan #nature pic.twitter.com/oCfTvA6Pqc

— US Dept of Interior (@Interior) January 24, 2015

Easily customize embedded Tweets to match your site design. Choose a dark or light theme, custom link color and custom border color.

Easily embed Tweets and timelines

The plugin includes URL handlers for Tweets, profiles, lists, collections, Moments, and Periscope profiles. Easily add Twitter and Periscope widgets to your site using shortcodes or links pasted into the editor.

Enable sharing with Tweet buttons

Add a Tweet button to every post, customize Tweet text, and make it easy to share your content to Twitter.

Grow your Twitter and Periscope audience

Add a Follow button to your site to convert website visitors into Twitter followers.

Add a Periscope On Air button to promote your Periscope profile and show when you're broadcasting live.

Measure advertising success

Twitter advertisers can build a custom audience target or track advertising conversions with a Twitter advertising shortcode added to any webpage.

Customize enabled features across your site or network

Enable or disable specific plugin features by acting on the associative array passed through the twitter_features filter.

Key Description
cards Cards <meta> elements used to generate link previews and provide Twitter account bylines when your URLs are shared on Twitter
embed-tweet Embedded Tweets
embed-tweet-video Embedded video Tweets
embed-profile Profile timelines
embed-list List timelines
embed-collection Collections
embed-collection-grid Collections displayed in a grid template
embed-moment Moments
follow Follow buttons
share Tweet buttons
periscope-on-air Periscope On Air buttons
ad-pixel Custom audience and advertising conversion pixel