A WordPress Twitter widget is great if you want to be able to check your tweets or let people retweet entries from your WordPress blog letting you display Twitter updates on your website or social network page like Facebook. Twitter has become one of the most fabulous tools for social messaging and millions of people worldwide use Twitter clients to read tweets and update their status. Twitter is appealing to use because it’s informal, concise and conversational yet with a low commitment for users.
Generally all social network plugins for WordPress are a great and useful way to promote your online status or business and Twitter is certainly no exception. With WordPress Twitter widgets and plugins you can let users comment with a tweet, get real-time Twitter feed-live tweets and add dedicated social buttons and much more. This is just to mention a few of the things you can do to drive more traffic to your site.
Here is a collection of more than 25 of the best WordPress Twitter widgets and plugins to integrate with your website or blog. They are all very easy to install and implement and you will be up and running in a matter of minutes. There are both free and premium widgets and plugins and I will encourage you to check the developers info pages in order not to miss any important details or requirements. I hope you enjoy reading this article and find something that will fit your purposes perfectly. This is a great collection to find a WordPress Twitter Widget but don’t forget that there are great Facebook plugins for WordPress that can also be great for your blog or website!
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Twitter Widget Pro
A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including @username, #hashtag, and link parsing. It supports displaying profiles images, and even lets you control whether to display the time and date of a tweet or how log ago it happened (about 5 hours ago, etc).
MORE INFO / DEMO – by WordPress.org (Free Plugin)
Fanciest Author Box
Fanciest Author Box is a WordPress plugin developed by ThematoSoup. It’s long list of features allows you to give identity to your single or multi-author WordPress blog. This premium author bio plugin is very easy to use and customize. Right after installation the author bio is, by default, enabled on all your posts, pages and custom post types. You can also implement it as a widget in your sidebars, as a template tag or manually using a shortcode. It’s translation ready and offers unlimited color options.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
jNewsticker for WordPress
jNewsticker for WordPress is designed to be as painless as possible, regardless of your technical expertise. Just install the plugin, configure a news ticker and drop it into one of your theme’s widget ready areas or into any post with the shortcode. The plugin comes pre-packaged with support for adding news items from RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook, recent posts and recent comments out of the box, but you can take advantage of the plugin’s flexible framework to register your own data sources.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Advanced Social Widge
Advanced Social Widget Adds an advanced widget box to your sidebar giving users the ability to link your site to all the popular Social Networking sites such as Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, Stumble Upon and access to Feed Burner Email Subscription.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Facebook Likebox/Twitter Slider
It is a sliding plugin. Easy to install, simply to configure, very flexible with nice design. Supports locale settings, Middle/Fixed vertical position, Light/Dark color scheme, Left/Right side available, 3 nice layout designs, CSS3 ready and only 3 click configuration!
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Social Network Tabs For WordPress
Combine all of your favorite social networks profiles & feeds into slick slide out or static tabs with Social Network Tabs for WordPress. Fast loading with each social network feed loaded using AJAX only when required!
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
zTwitter – Twitter Feed Widget For WordPress
zTwitter is a widget that shows users latest tweets using Seaofclouds jQuery plugin with a ton of widget visual options and easy to customize. It support multi user and use jQuery plugin, so end user must enable javascript feature on their browsers.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
WordPress Social Rating Plugin
Kohrus rate is a unique WordPress rating plugin that lets your site visitors rate posts or pages on your site by simply tweeting votes to the Twitter timeline. With the depreciation of trust of sites that use cookies to track users behaviour, it’s imperative webmasters find alternate ways to validate user interaction.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Tabs Widget for WordPress
This plugin creates a new WordPress widget to display a tabbed panel with different content types on your site, from recent or popular posts to your latest tweets from your Twitter timeline. Tabs can rotate one after the other thus allowing for more exposure of the content: your posts are no longer hidden.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
WP Feed Ticker
Want to add a News Feed right on your website from your Facebook account? Or Twitter Feed? Or another site’s RSS ? That’s what WP Feed Ticker does for you! With this plugin you can display feeds from Facebook, Twitter, RSS, Tumblr, MySpace and Deviant Art.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Live Tweets – jQuery plugin
Live Tweets is a jQuery plugin that lets you easily create a LIVE Twitter feed on your website. You can search on hashtags (#apple), usernames, @mentions and more using the Twitter operators. All results will be pulled into your website resulting in a up to date feed.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Twitter Hover Tweet for WordPress
Twitter Hover Tweet for WordPress and allows you to quickly and easily add hover-over Tweet buttons to your images on the fly making them instantly “Tweet-able” on Twitter. Even better, the hover effects are silky smooth, cross browser, and come with multiple overlay images!
MORE INFO / DEMO by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
miniTweets – Embed Twitter Data
miniTweets is a powerful wordpress plugin wich allows embed Timelines, Searches, Hashtags or user Plates from Twitter, also includes a intelligent cache system with auto backup.
MORE INFO / DEMO by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
TweetSearch – Twitter Search Plugin for WordPress
Premium WordPress plugin for displaying Twitter search results in your posts, pages and widgets.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
WordPress Widget Bundle
Widget bundle is a combination of the 9 most used widgets/shortcodes for WordPress. Every widget is very easy to style because you can make custom views/templates for every widget. This bundle is essential for every WordPress website. Default WordPress has some of this widgets onboard, but we made a premium versions of these widgets with more options and ajax support were needed. All the widgets can also be placed with shortcodes. This way you can really use these widgets were you want, even if your theme isn’t widget ready.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Twitter WPress Premium Plugin for WordPress
The Twitter WPress for WordPress enables you to use the power of the Twitter API , on your own WordPress blog. Integrate the Twitter connect, the signup process using Twitter. Store your users Twitter tokens and update their timeline later. Display Twitter widgets and buttons with powerful shortcodes. Display Twitter friends and followers using the built-in widgets. Open you WordPress to the Twitter API !
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Tweet O’cron, schedule your tweets from WordPress
Tweet O’cron allows you to conveniently schedule tweets from your WordPress site. Easy to use and setup Tweet O’cron uses the standard WordPress controls, features a API limit monitor so you can check how many requests you have left with Twitters API and fully commented code throughout. You’ll also find instructions on how to get setup with a Twitter Application so you can use the Twitter API and of course fully details on how to use this Tweet O’cron WordPress plugin.
Twitter Trending Widget: A jQuery WordPress Plugin
This is a simple WordPress plugin that allows you to track the trending of your posts based on the number of times the URL has been shared via the Twitter platform. This plugin was developed using jQuery, PHP 4 , HTML & CSS . The widget comes with a custom skin, fully layered PSD , and it is easily customized to suit your needs.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Twitter Alligator WordPress Plugin
Twitter Alligator is a WordPres plugin that, using a custom widget, allows you to aggregate “tweets” from several Twitter users. Allows you to specify the number of tweets per user and per widget.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Mojothemes (Premium Plugin)
WordPress Social Counter
Add social media counters to your blog so users can share your content and see how many others have shared. place your counters wherever you like and style them from the settings page.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Facebook Likebox Slider for WordPress
It is a Social Slider plugin for WordPress. Easy to install, simply to configure, very flexible with nice design.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
StatDash: Statistics on Your WordPress Dashboard
StatDash displays vital statistics on your WordPress Dashboard, giving you at-a-glance access to figures from Google Analytics, Feed Burner, Twitter, and the marketplaces like Envato etc.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Twitter Ultimate-Wordpress Plugin
Twitter Ultimate is s WordPress plugin offering a cool set of features like real-time twitter feed-live tweets, shortcodes, multiple instances, multiple Query/username options, two types of search, auto play on/off, start/stop feed, speed control options, tweet count and more.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Tweet to Download for WordPress
Turn the Tweet and Follow buttons into a social download system for your site and drive tons of new social traffic and backlinks to your WordPress websites! More Tweets = More Traffic = More $$$$$$. Comes with powerful built-in tinyMCE plugin to generate all kinds of twitter download buttons on the fly with no code required. Works with any download URL, cookie support, Ajax options panel.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Birdo – Twitter Comments Plugin
Birdo makes WordPress comments more powerful and social. It lets your users comment with a tweet, spurring the conversation and promoting your website at the same time. When your user uses Birdo to make a comment on your website, he’s asked to authenticate with his Twitter account, and his comment will appear on your website and on his Twitter page, always with a shortened version of the post address. This way, every comment is a promotion on the twitter social network to every friend of your user.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
Twembed
Twembed is the Most easy way to show Styled and Rich in media Tweets, Timelines, Status and Lists.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Codecanyon (Premium Plugin)
WP Twitter Feeder Widget 1.0
Show your latest twitter posts with this easy to use twitter sidebar plugin widget for WordPress. Easy to setup and easy to use. This widget will use your themes styling so that the widget looks like the rest of your website. If your theme is setup, the widget will blend and look like all your other widgets.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by WordPress.org (Free Plugin)
Twitter Goodies
Official Tweet Button + Twitter Goodies Profile & Search Widget. Plugin shows your tweets on Page/Post/Widget area.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by WordPress.org (Free Plugin)
TweetView-Widget
Add a widget to your sidebar to show your latest tweets.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by WordPress.org (Free Plugin)
Carsten started writing for Tripwiremagazine in 2011 and is a blogger who likes to write about WordPress topics, web design, photography, blogging, new tech stuff, gadgets, gaming etc.
This is nice post and very informative and its provide such a beautiful theme and also such a use full features
Everyone has to make a living but its sad to see that you only suggest plugins that you can make money on codecanyon. There are some amazing free plugins, that need support and exposure…many of them read your blogs. You aren’t helpingthe community by only highlighting the premium plugins, afterall, WordPress is still a free platform.
Hello.
I have got a wordpress blog and I want create aun automatic twit with ever post.
What pluggin thinks you is best for it?
Thanks
I like all of these. I think Tweet-meme is the best one you mention here. I wish there was one that prompted people to follow you after comments!!
Hi!
Thanx for great article. I replaces official plugin to Twitter Ultimate in my personal blog. =)
Would you mind if I submit own plugin to this list.
LikeHack:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/likehack/
It create a feed with links that you (or + your friends) shared in twitter and facebook. And can add a few additional filters to the feed. Friendly and just so damn convenient. =)
I love canon, I still get so much use out of my 1d classic
Hello
Can I get Tweety Wall added to this list? It’s one of my latest plugins
http://codecanyon.net/item/tweety-wall-wordpress-plugin/3709348?ref=mikemayhem3030
It creates a pinterest style wall of tweets for your WordPress site and it is totally epic!
Thanks in advance
Mike
Hi Mike thank you for sharing your latest work.
Next time we update this article we will have a closer look at your plugin.
Regards,
Sofie
This is nice post and very informative and its provide such a beautiful theme and also such a use full features
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Thumbs Up for this great post. I was wondering what Twitter widget will suite my needs the best 🙂
Neat list, some very useful plugins. “Tweet my post” is also interesting.
thank you very much for this great informative article i like ur blogging passion
Awesome list of WordPress plugins and very helpful.