Twitter widget problem: feed not showing on website

  • Hi all,

    My business website was designed with a simple Twitter feed in the footer area of each page.

    The feed displayed perfectly for about a year. But then, suddenly and for no reason, it went completely blank and stopped displaying new Tweets.

    My web designer has been investigating and has tried pretty much every Twitter widget available, but none of them has worked so far. He has also tried hard-coding a feed into the template, but to no avail.

    He (as a designer) does not think he’ll be able to fix it on his own, and reckons I’ll need to hire a progammer instead. The alternative is to ditch the feed altogether, but that’s not an option as Twitter is an important traffic source for my site.

    Do any of you know what might have caused this problem? And how it can be solved?

    Many thanks for your help.

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  • I had the same problem on a few different sites I developed where I used any sort of twitter feed widgets. Twitter has discontinued support for ‘badges’* and made using most widgets a more difficult process.

    here’s a solution:

    Download the twitter widget and install it:
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/twitter-widget/

    then follow the instructions below:

    Make sure you **READ THE INSTRUCTIONS** for this version.

    == Installation ==
    1. Go to [Twitter ‘widgets’](https://twitter.com/settings/widgets)
    1. Create a new ‘widget’ with your desired settings
    2. **IMPORTANT**: make sure you enter the domain of the site the widget appears on
    1. Copy the generated code from the text field labelled “Copy and paste the code into the HTML of your site” and either:
    2. Copy just the data-widget-id *number* from the generated code. Paste the code into Notepad or your favourite text editor and copy the data-widget-id number from there (I know, it’s a pain).
    OR
    2. Copy the number from the URL, e.g. https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/<copy this number here>/edit
    1. “Save changes” on the widget settings page
    1. *Optional* (If you didn’t install direct from www.ads-software.com) Upload the ‘**twitter-widget.php**’ file to your WordPress ‘*/wp-content/plugins/widgets*’ folder.
    1. Activate the ‘*Twitter*’ plugin in your WordPress admin ‘*Plugins*’
    1. Go to ‘*Presentation / Widgets*’ in your WordPress admin area.
    1. Drag the ‘*Twitter*’ widget to your sidebar.
    1. Configure the options:
    2. *Account*: your Twitter account name, required
    2. *Data Widget Id*: the data-widget-id *number*
    2. *Title*: the heading you want to appear above your Twitters in the
    sidebar, defaults to ‘Twitter Updates’

    I tested it and it worked great. Let me know if you have any problems

    https://www.kaceykaderly.com

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