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Twitter Widget Portlet - https://twitter.com/settings/widgets

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This portlet allows you to easily embed and customise JavaScript-based Twitter widgets into your Plone site.

To read and understand more about such widgets, and to create your own, visit https://twitter.com/settings/widgets.

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Installation

To enable this package in a buildout-based installation:

  1. Edit your buildout.cfg and add add the following to it:

    [buildout]
    ...
    eggs =
        collective.portlet.twitter

After updating the configuration you need to run ‘’bin/buildout’’, which will take care of updating your system.

Go to the ‘Site Setup’ page in a Plone site and click on the ‘Add-ons’ link.

Check the box next to collective.portlet.twitter and click the ‘Activate’ button.

Usage

Create twitter widget:

https://raw.github.com/collective/collective.portlet.twitter/master/docs/_img/Screen%20Shot%202012-11-09%20at%209.54.19%20AM.png

Configure widget:

https://raw.github.com/collective/collective.portlet.twitter/master/docs/_img/Screen%20Shot%202012-11-09%20at%209.54.58%20AM.png

Saved:

https://raw.github.com/collective/collective.portlet.twitter/master/docs/_img/Screen%20Shot%202012-11-09%20at%209.55.14%20AM.png

Get widget id:

https://raw.github.com/collective/collective.portlet.twitter/master/docs/_img/Screen%20Shot%202012-11-09%20at%209.55.14%20AM-Get_id.png

Add your widget ID into the Data Widget ID field as follows:

https://raw.github.com/collective/collective.portlet.twitter/master/docs/_img/Screen%20Shot%202012-11-09%20at%209.53.19%20AM.png

For more information on the variety of client-side options (such as theme, link color, width, height, and so forth) that can be configured within this portlet’s settings, see Twitter’s development documentation at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-timelines#customization.

Make any customisations you’d like and click Save.

That’s it!

https://raw.github.com/collective/collective.portlet.twitter/master/docs/_img/Screen%20Shot%202012-11-09%20at%209.52.39%20AM.png

Share and Enjoy

collective.portlet.twitter would not have been possible without the contribution of the following people:

  • Thiago Avelino (original developer)

  • Gonzalo Almeida

  • Héctor Velarde

  • David Beitey

You can find an updated list of package contributors on GitHub.

Development sponsored by tv1.com and Open Multimedia.

Changelog

There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.

1.0rc1 (2014-09-10)

  • Add Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish translations. [hvelarde]

  • Fix issue with escaping non-basestring values [enkidulan]

1.0b3 (2013-10-09)

  • Fix package distribution; we are not including anymore the screenshots used in the documentation reducing significatively the egg size. [hvelarde]

  • Fix potential XSS (arbitrary injection) issue by escaping and quoting all attributes being set on the rendered portlet. [davidjb]

1.0b2 (2013-06-28)

  • Fix specifying the data-related attribute without a value. [davidjb]

  • Add ability to customise portlet header text and ability to show just the Twitter widget (omit border). [davidjb]

  • Link portlet title to the user’s Twitter timeline. [davidjb]

  • Update descriptions for Twitter client configuration to be end-user readable and add examples. [davidjb]

  • Add tweet-limit client-side configuration option to control the number of tweets displayed. [davidjb]

  • Add titles and descriptions to the portlet add and edit pages. [davidjb]

  • Remove tal:attributes specification from Twitter link in portlet page template. This is already handled by the HTML tag creation code, and lead to rendering failure in some cases (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/1004588). [davidjb]

1.0b1 (2013-04-24)

  • Initial release.

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