Twitter Widget Portlet

Table of Contents

• Life, the Universe, and Everything
• Mostly Harmless
• Don't Panic
  • Installation
  • Usage

Life, the Universe, and Everything

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.

Mostly Harmless

Got an idea? Found a bug? Let us know by opening a support ticket.

Don't Panic

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.

Note

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

Usage

Create twitter widget:

Configure widget:

Saved:

Get widget id:

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

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!