Add a Twitter Widget To Your WordPress Site

If you need to add a Twitter widget to your WordPress site, it is fairly easy and only requires a few steps.

Along the side of my site pages, I have a widget that shows my latest tweets and make things easier for people wanting to follow or send messages to me. I added this by logging into my Twitter account and going to the settings.

Creating a Twitter Widget

Once you have signed in to your Twitter account, go to Widgets:

You want to create a new one, so click the button on the top-right:

You have some options here so set whatever you want and click the blue Create widget button.

Customisation is limited to link colour via this method, but there is a very useful Codepen example showing how to control the appearance through the use of javascript here.

After you create the widget, code is generated:

Copy this then go back to your WordPress site.

Adding the Twitter Widget to Your WordPress Site

Go to Appearance > Widgets and add a new Text widget to your sidebar. Give it a title if you wish and paste your code into the box. Save and you are done!

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