SimpleTwitter
SimpleTwitter is a plug-in for WordPress which enables WordPress blog owners to easily add Twitter messages to their templates.
Description
Once installed, the plug-in is used by adding the following call in a template.
<?php get_twitter_msg(); ?>
There’s no formatting. All this returns is the plain text that is the most recent Twitter post found for the configured Twitter user. The message will be cached for the configured number of minutes. After this time, Twitter is checked for new messages. All configuring is done through an additional Options menu in wp-admin; no editing of the plug-in code is required.
Requirements
SimpleTwitter has been tested with php version 4.4.3 and WordPress version 2.0.5. It may well work with other versions too.
It uses the cURL php libraries to make requests to twitter.com, which are most likely installed when php was installed. If you get curl_init() function errors, you’ll know you haven’t got it, and unfortunately SimpleTwitter won’t work for you. (If you know of a workaround that can allow me to use a more available/standard function and control URL request time outs, I’m all ears.)
Download
Download the latest version of SimpleTwitter from here, where full instructions are also available.