Twitter Timeline

I am having troubles similar to what is listed here by others. I followed the instructions for editing the twitter timeline widget, but when I hit save it just erases what I put into the box. The widget then appears on my site as a static box that just says “Follow Me on Twitter” and “My Tweets”. No tweets appear, no timeline. Its just text.

I have read through other posts above but none of the fixes that worked for others have worked for me or seem to apply to my configurations.

I think perhaps there is a serious flaw with this widget that needs some attention. For now, I’m removing the widget from my site and hoping that the next update of the Jetpack plug-in will address this problem.

Why are you guys even using the widget? Just add a text widget and paste the widget code twitter gives you. Add the advanced options to make it look like you want.

@daileycon — Thanks so much for trying to help. But I don’t think I’m as good with code as you are… can you help with more specific instructions for placing the twitter code? I tried it and it didn’t work. And I’m not seeing any place for “advanced options.”

These are the advanced options I’m using, change as you like:
“noheader nofooter noborders transparent noscrollbar”

Add a text widget and add this code. Just change the twitter id and widget id to yours:

<a class="twitter-timeline" data-dnt="true" href="https://twitter.com/YOURTWITTERID" data-widget-id="YOURWIDGETID" data-chrome="noheader nofooter noborders transparent noscrollbar" data-tweet-limit="3">Tweets by @YOURTWITTERID</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>

Change this to show more tweets data-tweet-limit=”3″

@daileycon. Okay, now I know I am not experienced enough. In the text widget I have there is no place that I see for code. All of my attempts have just resulted in long streams of code showing up in a text box on my site — not really what I want to happen!

Thanks anyway. I think I’ll have to wait for the “widget for dummies” version of this, which is kind of what I depend on Jetpack to be. ??

Hopefully your response will help others, though, who are better at code and widgets.

If you want to remove the scroll bar and limit the number of tweets from the Jetpack Twitter Timeline widget, then try this fix.
https://arushad.org/how-to-remove-scroll-bar-and-limit-tweets-on-jetpack-twitter-timeline/

Anyone an idea how to change text-size etc via css? Any help much appreciated…

Hi hnzz, you won’t be able to change with with CSS as it’s inside an iframe. If you look at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-timelines#customization the options provided by Twitter are fairly limited.

Ok, anyway i now know that it is no use trying to pursue that…

The problem is as described by Parham above. If I change the wp_enqueue_script not not use a protocol-agnostic URL for Twitter’s widget.js in modules/widgets/twitter-timeline.php then the widget works as expected.

Hi, what’s the deal with this jetpack twitter timeline? Mine works in Safari but in Chrome it shows ‘My Tweets’ only. I’ve tried the text box method as well with no luck. Has anyone found a solution?

@halfpatbxl – I’d suggest starting your own thread – as this one is over 6 months old and both Twitter and JetPack have changed in that time.

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