How to Display Recent Tweets in WordPress with Twitter Widgets:- Do you want to show your recent tweets in WordPress? Integrating your twitter account to WordPress website helps in increasing engagement on both platforms.
Your visitors find tweets which help you get new followers. On the other side, Twitter followers search more of your content which leads to increase traffic & engagement on your website.
Here in this post, We’ll show you how easily you can show recent tweets in WordPress.
Adding Recent Tweets in WordPress
You can show your recent tweets in WordPress by simply embedding twitter profile or timeline. Similar to YouTube video, WordPress also makes it easy to embed tweets, list, collection, likes and moment into website.
WordPress make use of o Embed feature, which automatically turns content into embed code when paste in content area.
Most common place to show recent tweets usually in blogs sidebar.
Adding Your Recent Tweets to WordPress Sidebar:-
Initially you need to find & copy URL of the twitter profile that you require to embed. Twitter profile url is simply combination of twitter site URL and username.
Next, Login WordPress dashboard and navigate to Appearance>> Widgets page. Drag & drop text widget to your sidebar & then paste the twitter profile URL.
Once done, It will appears like a twitter timeline immediately showing recent tweets from particular account.
After that, You can name your widget, save & preview it on live site.
Embedding Tweets in WordPress Blog Posts:-
Sometimes you may want to embed twitter timeline in blog posts or on about page. WordPress comes with twitter embed block in new WordPress Gutenberg editor.
Simply create new post or edit existing one. On edit screen, add the twitter embed block in content area. Now paste twitter profile URL & click on embed button.
Then, WordPress will auto fetch and display your recent tweets in content area. These steps will adds twitter feed with scrollbar in post.
Navigate to twitter publish website & paste twitter profile URL in “What would you like to embed” box & click on arrow.
Select “Embedded timeline” option and then copy embedded code. Now add custom HTML block in post editor to paste embed code. Once done, save it and preview.