Twitter, the microblogging website, is one of the most popular social media platforms, which is above the ‘fake news’ and is always up with good and informative stuff. Most of the businesses use this very platform as one of their digital marketing tools, as it has got the most authentic userbase. Today, it has become necessary for every business and its representatives to be active on Twitter, as it is a way more convenient and cheaper method to reach out the right audience, as compared to the other means of marketing.
These days it has become common to embed the Twitter feed on to one’s WordPress website, but why people do so? The Twitter feed gets updated on your website, as soon as you post a tweet on your Twitter handle. This way, you get content updated to your website on a regular basis, which is the most necessary thing to do for the SEO of a website. Also, keeping your Twitter handle updated keeps the audience engaged and brings traffic to your website. These Twitter feed are also interactive, such that the users can directly post comments on Twitter from the Recent Tweets feed on your WordPress website.
WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS that offers numerous plugins and widgets that you can use to add new functionalities to your website. But Twitter itself provides a Recent Tweets widget that you can include to your WordPress website, in a few easy steps. There are many ways to add the Recent Tweets feed on to WordPress website, which is described below:
Follow the steps below to embed the Recent Tweets to your website:
This way, you will be able to see the recent tweets from that same profile on the website’s sidebar. Usually, people include the Recent Tweet widget in the sidebar and footer of the website. For the footer, you need to simply paste the code in the footer.
You can get the Twitter widget from the Twitter website itself. To get the embed code and include the Recent Tweet widget to your WordPress website, follow the steps below:
So this way you have got the access to the Twitter widget, now you need to embed the same into your WordPress website. For that, follow the steps below:
Save the settings, and you will be able to see the Tweets feed on the sidebar.
You can even display your recent tweets into your blog post, for that you need to follow the steps below:
Save the changes, and in the preview, you will see that the Recent Tweets feed is embedded in your post.
If you do not want to use the Twitter Widget, you can simply get a plugin for embedding the Twitter feed to your WordPress Website. The most popular Twitter plugins are Another Twitter Plugin, Rotating Tweets and Twitter Feed for WordPress.