Title: (Un)offical Twitter Widget
Author: artesea
Published: <strong>January 23, 2010</strong>
Last modified: March 31, 2013

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# (Un)offical Twitter Widget

 By [artesea](https://profiles.wordpress.org/artesea/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/unofficial-twitter-widget.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/unofficial-twitter-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/unofficial-twitter-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/unofficial-twitter-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/unofficial-twitter-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/unofficial-twitter-widget/)

## Description

Allows simple integration between your sidebar widgets and the official twitter 
widget
 ** THIS WIDGET WILL STOP WORKING AFTER MAY 7TH 2013 ** This is when Twitter
stop unauthenticated calls to their API, and block the old widgets. https://dev.
twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-final-dates This plugin won’t support the new
Twitter Widget. For more information about them please visit: https://twitter.com/
settings/widgets

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The widget settings
 * [[
 * How it appears in your widget enabled sidebar

## Installation

Recommend you use the built in plugin uploader which comes with WordPress, but if
you prefer the manual way

 1. Upload `un-official-twitter-widget.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  Will this plugin slow my blog down

The new twitter widget uses asynchronous javascript to load, this allows the rest
of your blog to continue loading
 whilst it fetches your latest tweets.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“(Un)offical Twitter Widget” is open source software. The following people have 
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ artesea ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/artesea/)

[Translate “(Un)offical Twitter Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/unofficial-twitter-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/unofficial-twitter-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/unofficial-twitter-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/unofficial-twitter-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/unofficial-twitter-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.4

 * Mar 2013 – Warning about widget no longer working in May

#### 0.3

 * Jun 2011 – Have added the ability to change the colours

#### 0.2

 * Jan 2010 – Released on wordpress.org plugins SVN with a minor tweak

#### 0.1

 * Jan 2010 – First design for a private project.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.4**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/unofficial-twitter-widget/)
 * Tags
 * [twitter](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/twitter/)[widget](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/unofficial-twitter-widget/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ artesea ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/artesea/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/unofficial-twitter-widget/)

## Donate

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