How to display tweets on a WordPress page

Thanks for the plugin! I changed $tweet["id"] to $tweet["id_str"], otherwise the links to the statuses weren’t correct (in the get_latest_tweets_html function).

Hi!

Great plugin, but: I got a problem with German Umlauts like äüö, they aren’t displayed correctly (“f�@r” instead of “für”).
Is there any solution for this?

Thanks a lot in advance!

How do I remove the bullets?

I get this message but I’m sure the path and file is 777 writable.

“Could not write to JSON cache. Make sure … is writeable by the web server”

I’m getting the same error, it just started a few days ago (username removed):

Warning: file_get_contents(http://twitter.com/status/user_timeline/username.json) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request in /home/charlott/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/get-latest-tweets/get-latest-tweets.php on line 72
Could not write to JSON cache. Make sure /home/charlott/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/cache/latest_tweets/ is writeable by the web server

I have triple checked permissions and everything is dandy – the cache and plugin directories both have appropriate permissions. I suspect this is the result of some change to Twitter’s API that broke your plugin. If I can figure out what the issue is I’ll follow up. It might be a rate limiting thing since it seems to work occasionally but I get that error 90% of the time over the past couple days.

I am getting this same error “Could not write to JSON cache. Make sure … is writeable by the web server” all directories confirmed to be writable (wasn’t nothing changed to not make them writable). This just started happening a week or so ago.

Also tried Paulschreiber’s suggestion of chmoding 0+x, didn’t help either.

Totally out of ideas now. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

First of all, love the plug-in. Secondly, is there a way to remove (or not show) the replied tweets?

Hi there Paul,
Thanks for the plugin,
I tried your suggestion re: the address change and our site is still having issues. The perms on the folder are open.
Can you please advise what could be going wrong when you get a chance?
Thanks!
Hamish

Hi, Paul. I’m having the same problem related above:
Warning: file_get_contents(http://twitter.com/status/user_timeline/username.json) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request in /home/charlott/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/get-latest-tweets/get-latest-tweets.php on line 72
Could not write to JSON cache. Make sure /home/charlott/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/cache/latest_tweets/ is writeable by the web server

I tried to change the code with “curl_setopt” and it works partially. Sometimes it returns “/ R” and others it works.

That was solution for JJ problem with “äüö” also in latvian for “š” and “ļ”.

I’m also have a problem with the JSON error… tried using the changes suggested by motoxer4533 from the WP support forum but it resulted in displaying something strange and not really working quite right… The version number in github is 0.1.1 but the version in the WordPress repository is 0.1.3, not sure which one is the newest but it seems to have been updated around the same time frame… tried the one on github but it still doesn’t work. I definitely have the permissions on 777 for the cache folder and the latest_tweets folder… anyone suggestions or ideas???

Hi,

Great plugin – I’ve got everything working but can’t workout how to add the tweet count to the shortcode referenced here ( You can optionally supply a count=X parameter to display more or fewer tweets.) I’ve tried a few ways such as [get_latest_tweets username="aeonmag",count=1] but not found the one that works.

Could you show me how this is done? Thanks!

Thanks for the plugin.

I too would like to know how to remove the bullets.

Also, how does one centre the Tweet?

I have centered the code in the page, but it still aligns to the left.

Thanks for that Paul.

Have tried to edit the CSS, but did not work.

So, am wondering if there is a change that can be made in the php?

Thanks, will have to look deeper into it.

I have another question.

How can I change the clickable link to open in a new window?
At the moment, the Twitter page opens and takes you away from the original page.

I am not sure if this is a php change or a css change.

Thanks Paul.

Forgive the questions I ask, as I am really ignorant when it comes to any code and what it does.

Still learning :)

If you’re getting the ‘Could not write to JSON cache.’ and you have already checked your server permissions chances are the problem is not with you. The plugin uses the result of file_put_contents to determine whether or not to display that error message but doesn’t take into account that file_put_contents can return 0 or false. If the initial request fails then file_put_contents will return 0.

Using curl in place of file_get_contents may fix the issue. I was able to fix it by setting file_get_contents to ignore errors:

function get_json_from_twitter($username, $count) {
$url = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=' . $username;
$opts = array('http' =>
array(
'method' => 'GET',
'ignore_errors' => '1'
)
);
$json = file_get_contents($url, false, stream_context_create($opts));
return $json;
}


Hope that helps.

Our News page has recently stopped showing our Tweets and I can’t find out why. Anyone got any suggestions? I’m not a coder by the way, I usually just have to create, update and delete pages.