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Show Your Favorite Tweets with WordPress

Just replace the URL in the fetch_rss line below with the RSS feed to your Twitter favorites. In fact this will work with any RSS feed.

<?php
    include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/feed.php');
    $rss = fetch_feed('http://twitter.com/favorites/793830.rss');
    $maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity(3);
    $rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $maxitems);
?>

<ul>
    <?php if ($maxitems == 0) echo '<li>No items.</li>';
    else
    // Loop through each feed item and display each item as a hyperlink.
    foreach ( $rss_items as $item ) : ?>
    <li>
        <a href='<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>'>
            <?php echo $item->get_title(); ?>
        </a>
    </li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

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  1. Srigi

    Very ussefull, thanks for sharing.

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  2. Nithin Bekal

    I used something similar for a theme recently, but it involved a lot more code. This will be useful.

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  3. Shari

    How about comment for each favorite? What do you think?

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  4. Joe G.

    what about making a tweet a post? is this something that can be achieved with this code?

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    • Chris Radford

      Nope, this code will pull the tweet into the WordPress theme, not the database, you’d need to find a plugin or do that manually.

      Liking the shortness of the code, used something similar recently, was just a lot longer…

    • Matt Royce

      I know this is well over a year old, but couldn’t you just setup a super long RSS feed with AJAX auto-reload when you scroll to the bottom of the page, and list all of your tweets on there?

  5. Cipha Sublime

    I added a custom field option to this snippet. Will allow users to specify custom rss from facebook, twitter or where ever. 

    <?php // Get RSS Feed(s)
	include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php');
	$feeds =  get_post_meta($post->ID, 'feeds',true);
	$rss = fetch_rss($feeds);
	$maxitems = 5;
	$items = array_slice($rss->items,0,$maxitems);
?>

<ul>
	<?php
	  if (empty($items))
	    echo '<li>No items</li>';
	  else
	    foreach ( $items as $item ) : ?>
    	  <li>
    	    <a href='<?php echo $item['link']; ?>' title='<?php echo $item['title']; ?>'><?php echo $item['title']; ?> </a>
    	  </li>
	    <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
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  6. Robert Merrill

    Nice snippet. What about accessing private feeds with this… any way to authenticate the feed?

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  7. seo

    Thank you, I have recently been seeking for details about this subject matter for ages and yours is the best I’ve discovered so far.

    Reply ↓
  8. Nick Hauselman

    I’ve been having trouble implementing this to a post. Can you suggest a plugin that will allow PHP on a post that works well with this?
    I’ve been struggling with Allow PHP in Posts and Pages and I’m getting all kinds of errors. THANKS.

    Reply ↓

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