Display last tweets on your wordpress blog

It is very useful to show your Twitter account on your wordpress blog by displaying your last tweets. To do this, we need to accomplish 2 steps.

First step

Open in editor function.php file and add at the end the code below:

<?php
function displayLatestTweet($twitterID){
 include_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.'/rss.php');
 $latest_tweet = fetch_rss("http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $twitterID . "&rpp=1");
 echo $latest_tweet->items[0]['atom_content'];
}
?>

Second step

Open in editor the sidebar.php file and add next code:

<h2>Latest Tweet</h2>
<p><?php displayLatestTweet('twitter_account'); ?></p>

Do not forget to change the twitter_account to your Twitter account name.

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