Get into the culture! » Widgets http://wpvibe.com Just another EMV Network Site site Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:21:29 +0000 en hourly 1 What’s the Best Twitter Plugin for WordPress? http://wpvibe.com/whats-the-best-twitter-plugin-for-wordpress-64/ http://wpvibe.com/whats-the-best-twitter-plugin-for-wordpress-64/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:44:55 +0000 Jonathan Dingman http://wpvibe.com/?p=64 There are a lot of Twitter plugins and widgets out there for WordPress. So which one is the best? I’ve tested a lot of the various plugins available, but I have yet to find a plugin that has the functionality of Twitter Tools by Alex King. This plugin does an great job of providing both enough options and clean code. I also trust Alex because he’s a core contributor to WordPress, which means more than likely not leaving WordPress anytime soon.

So what’s so great about Twitter Tools? Here are just a few items I love about this plugin:

  • The plugin comes loaded with 4 different widget plugins you can activate, for whatever suits you best.
  • You can setup weekly digest posts to recap from what was talked about on Twitter
  • Optionally you can create individual posts for each tweet
  • You can optionally tweet directly from your sidebar (which is great when you want to let people tweet from your account, but not give them access directly)
  • You can choose which Javascript library to use
  • A linkback is optional and not forced (which some plugins do, and makes me quite angry when they do)

Overall, this plugin is just a great plugin. Alex keeps it up to date, so you can rest assured that it’s a secure plugin.

Here is what the options page looks like.

WordPress Twitter Plugin

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