In the past, adding a Twitter timeline to your website required you to log in to your Twitter account and connect it/provide permissions to a third-party plugin or service that provided the special code to add to your site.
Or you would log into your Twitter account to create a widget to add to your site. And hope that the code provided would work on your site.
Neither option worked well if you were a designer or developer creating a site for a client.
You needed to walk your client through the steps to get the information. Or ask your client for their Twitter login credentials.
Thankfully, Twitter has made it a lot easier to embed Twitter on your site.
No more setting up a third-party service or logging into a Twitter account!
Use Twitter Publish to Embed Twitter Timeline on Your Website
Using the Twitter Publish tool, you can quickly get the embed code to add to your site. Here are the steps:
- Visit the Twitter Publish tool
- Enter the full URL for the timeline you want to embed. I entered my Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/redcrew
- Select the display option you prefer: Embedded Timeline or Twitter Buttons. I selected Embedded Timeline.
- If you want, you can configure customization options for color, size, default link color, and language.
- The Twitter Publish tool displays the code you need to copy and paste into your site, along with a snapshot of how the timeline will display.
Summary
Rather than using a third-party service or plugin, Twitter makes it straightforward to add a Twitter timeline to your site in five quick steps.
I’ve used plugins in the past to add a timeline to WordPress sites, the Twitter publish tool is so much easier.
