Maltpress

How do I style the widget?

The output of the widget is this:

<h3>Latest tweets</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Tweet content
<br>
<span>Thursday 28 April</span>
<br>
<span>Via <a href="#">Tweetdeck</a></span>
</li>
</ul>

Add the appropriate styles to your CSS and you should be good to go.

Can I change the date format?

Not yet, sorry. Next version.

Fewer tweets than I expected are showing. What’s with that?

If you @reply a lot but turn replies off on this widget, you might see this. Basically, the plugin pulls the last 20 tweets, caches them, then removes @replies if you turn them off. So if you’ve got 15 @replies in your stream, then you’ve only really got 5 tweets to show. Sorry. I made a decision to keep things simple and resource-friendly by using only a basic API call. If you know what you’re doing, you can increase the count by changing the code (lines 255 and 284 have the API calls on them).

Do you have a plan for improvements and more functionality?

Aside from adding some control over the date format (because in most cases it would be good to see time), and getting it to do a clean uninstall (removing the old cache file when you disable it), no. This is a simple, almost throwaway plugin. There are other Twitter widgets out there which do more, or you can adapt this one as you see fit. If you have specific requirements, there are lots of developers (me included) who’d be happy to write what you need for money, or beer, or hugs or something. Depending on the developer. Sorry – I’m not really a believer in adding hundreds of complex settings to plugins.

Stupid name

Well, I like it. As I do with plugins, I asked Twitter what it should be called; this time the winner was @silv3r who has no idea what it is he’s actually named because he doesn’t use WordPress. I think he’s a fan of Jackie Wilson