Add Twitter & Facebook status updates to your WordPress(.com) blog.

Update(07.04.09):WordPress now has a Twitter widget.

Updated this post with new images & steps [17 Dec 2008].

We do love WordPress(WP) so much even though we lack Javascript support. If you ever wanted to add your Twitter updates on your wordpress.com blog, here’s a simple way to just get the thing done.

First, Go to your Twitter page & retrieve your Twitter RSS address & copy-paste it on …err..a text file ;) .

In Your Twitter Home page at the bottom left corner there’s a button named RSS. Twitter-RSS

[If You use Firefox just right click on the RSS button & choose 'copy Link location'.]

I normally Burn my feeds with feedburner. But I had problems burning Twitter feed. There is a validation problem in Twitter RSS. In this case you can use plain Twitter RSS address.

You can have a wide variety of feeds with Friendfeed.com. You can get twitter feed through friendfeed. And also mixup other social networks into one feed easily with Friendfeed. To get a Twitter feed through Friendfeed just replace ‘chanux‘ with your Friendfeed name in following URL. Make sure you’ve added Twitter on friendfeed.

http://friendfeed.com/chanux?service=twitter&format=atom [you can burn this feed]

Then find your Facebook ‘My Status’ RSS feed & copy it down too.

  • Make sure you are logged in to Facebook & follow this link to your Facebook Minifeed page.
  • And look for following feed link on minifeed page & save the link address.

goto_widgets

You can get your Facebook Status FEED address there. Your Feed address would look similar to this. http://www.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=#########& viewer=#########&key=##########&format=rss20

Now the WordPress stuff.

  • Now go to widgets page in your wordpress admin pages.

goto_widgets

  • Add an RSS widget.

add_rss_widget

  • Choose to edit the widget.

add_widget

  • Paste the RSS address & choose a title for the widget. Select number of items to display from drop down box (5 is decent).  click done.

edit_rss_widget

  • Do not forget to Save changes :)

save_changes

You can add Twitter and/or Facebook feed address in your sidebar like this.

Hope This tutorial is helpful. If you like, consider following me on Twitter :) . All Images are uploaded on PhotBucket

21 Responses to “Add Twitter & Facebook status updates to your WordPress(.com) blog.”

  1. Guimo Says:

    Nice post, I did it and worked fine.
    Cheers

  2. chanux Says:

    happy to hear that you find it helpful.

  3. Giridhar Chandrasekar Says:

    Thanks man..that was really useful

  4. poonsycat Says:

    Thank you for this tutorial. It worked for me!

  5. paisleygoddess Says:

    Thank you for this very simple tutorial!

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  7. Mike Says:

    Of course you could use TwitterSync FB app and only use one or the other…

  8. Floroskop Says:

    Hello!
    I think this try.

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  10. Vinnie Says:

    very nice but not very usefull for our blog. We’re actually seeking a plugin were users (we’ve a couple of 100) can add rtheir twitter / facebook url and their feeds get’s displayed on author.php

  11. vvittorio Says:

    Thanks for the post. Very useful.

  12. oridusartic Says:

    Thanks for the tutorial. It worked.

  13. Jay Says:

    Um… The new facebook doesn’t have the minifeed anymore so it seems that this is no longer possible?

  14. chanux Says:

    @jay
    No idea dude. Was / is too lazy to check on that. For me twitter RSS is down too :(

    PS: Minifeed is there. Login to facebook & check here.

  15. chanux Says:

    Just Updated this post with new Images & guidelines.

  16. Dushi Says:

    Hey thanx chanux this is awesome. i was looking for somthing like this. Im going to try this out..

  17. budgallant Says:

    Very nice. Thanks!

  18. cakrud Says:

    thanx very much..

  19. Hoagie Says:

    How easy was that. Thanks

  20. xoan Says:

    great tip! never thought of it


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