Publishing Your Flock of Followers

Following all the e-mails, here it is the step by step on how you too can add your Twitter flock to your WordPress powered blog. You can get this running in under five minutes thanks to the new improved WordPress admin panel. One thing to remember is that the images are being called in from Amazon’s S3 storage and it may take an hour for the images to first show up on your page. Be patient, changing the settings then publishing again and again could lead to more frustration as it will only delay your first feed.

1 – From the plugins panel select Add New.

2 – Search for Twitter Friends.

3 – Select Install

4 – Activate the Twitter Friends Widget

5 – Go to Settings for Twitter Friends. This should be at the far left bottom when you first activate the plugin.

6 – In the Twitter Friends options sets add your Twitter user name and password then save. Select if you want to show your friends or followers.

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7 – Create a new page, not post, then switch to HTML mode on the edit area and add the following code:

[twitter-friends title="My Twitter Friends" limit="300" type="friends" size="normal"]

The variables you can change here are title where you can give your flock any title you want, limit where you set the maxium number of Twitters you want to show, if you have million followers you may not want choke the server down there Ashton. The type is either “friends” or “followers” which you want to show, I selected followers as a “thanks for the follow” gesture. Finally the size is the size you want your Twitter’s profile photo to be, you have three choices “mini”, “normal” or “bigger”.

After you can entered all your choices you can hit publish or you add some copy to explain the page to people who may not be up to speed on Twitter. Once you have done these simple steps you should have a page that looks like the Flock of Twitters page. Additionally the plugin has a sidebar widget you can add to your sidebar.

Here is a small example of how it will look:

I hope you found this a quick and easy article and you were able to get your flock proudly displayed on your blog. When you do leave a comment with the URL where you have yours up at.