BWTwitter
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:38 am
Hello everyone,
We have developed a module that allows you to show multiple Twitter timelines, and different types of timelines like search results, hashtags or Twitter accounts.
Requirements:
CMS Made Simple 1.5.4 or higher
Description:
The goal of BWTwitter is to make showing tweets from different sources as easy as possible. Multiple sources can be created (user profiles, hashtags, search terms) and grouped. Sources can also be called individually.
How do I use it?
BWTwitter can be used with the {BWTwitter} tag in every page or template. You can either show a group of sources or call sources individually. (See parameters)
How does it work?
By default the database with tweets is refreshed when the {BWTwitter} tag is called on a page. If a specific group or source is given as a parameter, only those sources will be refreshed to keep loading time as low as possible. You can let the database be refreshed, even when the tag is not called on a page, on the settings tab. You can also set the time that should have passed before a source is refreshed. We recommend settings this at 5 minutes (300 seconds) to keep loading time as low as possible and to not exceed the maxium amount of requests to Twitter.
Users
If you don't want to show tweets from a specific user you can search for the user in the users tab and deactivate the user. Tweets from this user won't be saved in the database and won't be shown if deactivated.
The module can be found here: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/bwtwitter. We'd love to hear your feedback!
We hope you enjoy it!
We have developed a module that allows you to show multiple Twitter timelines, and different types of timelines like search results, hashtags or Twitter accounts.
Requirements:
CMS Made Simple 1.5.4 or higher
Description:
The goal of BWTwitter is to make showing tweets from different sources as easy as possible. Multiple sources can be created (user profiles, hashtags, search terms) and grouped. Sources can also be called individually.
How do I use it?
BWTwitter can be used with the {BWTwitter} tag in every page or template. You can either show a group of sources or call sources individually. (See parameters)
How does it work?
By default the database with tweets is refreshed when the {BWTwitter} tag is called on a page. If a specific group or source is given as a parameter, only those sources will be refreshed to keep loading time as low as possible. You can let the database be refreshed, even when the tag is not called on a page, on the settings tab. You can also set the time that should have passed before a source is refreshed. We recommend settings this at 5 minutes (300 seconds) to keep loading time as low as possible and to not exceed the maxium amount of requests to Twitter.
Users
If you don't want to show tweets from a specific user you can search for the user in the users tab and deactivate the user. Tweets from this user won't be saved in the database and won't be shown if deactivated.
The module can be found here: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/bwtwitter. We'd love to hear your feedback!
We hope you enjoy it!
