collective.twitter.portlets 1.0b1

This product allows you to add different kinds of portlets to your site to get tweets.

Table of Contents

• Overview

• Prerequisites

• Usage

  • Twitter profile portlet

  • Twitter search portlet

• Extras

• Installation

• Contributors

• Changelog

Overview

This product allows you to add different kinds of portlets to your site to get tweets.

Prerequisites

This product depends on collective.twitter.accounts.

Usage

Twitter profile portlet

• Add a “Twitter profile Portlet” wherever you want.

• Enter a header (if you want one).

• Choose the Twitter account to use from the drop-down (see Prerequisites).

• Enter the user you want to get the feed from. (username can be with @ or not).

• Mark the checkbox for showing the avatars next to the username, or leave it unmarked for not.

• Choose the maximum results you want to show each time.

Twitter search portlet

• Add a “Twitter search Portlet” wherever you want.

• Enter a header (if you want one).

• Choose the Twitter account to use from the drop-down (see Prerequisites).

• Enter the search string you want to use.

• Mark the checkbox for showing the avatars next to the username, or leave it unmarked for not.

• Choose the maximum results you want to show each time.

Extras

From any portlet, you can:

• Click on a “#” starting word (hashtag) to go to Twitter and get further results

• Click on an “@” starting word (usernames) to go to the user profile in Twitter.

Installation

To enable this product in a buildout-based installation:

1. Edit your buildout.cfg and add collective.twitter.portlets to the list of eggs to install

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

2. You may need to extend a five.grok known good set (KGS) to make sure that you get the right versions of the packages that make up five.grok

   [buildout]
   ...
   extends =
       http://good-py.appspot.com/release/five.grok/1.2.0-1

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.twitter.portlets’’ and click the ‘Activate’ button.

Note: You may have to empty your browser cache and save your resource registries in order to see the effects of the product installation.

Contributors

• Franco Pellegrini ([e-mail])

• Silvestre Huens ([e-mail])

• Héctor Velarde ([e-mail])

• Gonzalo Almeida ([e-mail])

Development sponsored by Open Multimedia.

Changelog

1.0b1 (2012-04-10)

• Initial release.