How to Add a Custom Twitter Feed to Your Website (Step-by-Step)

Looking for easy ways to add custom Twitter feeds to your website?

Displaying custom Twitter content on your website helps engage your audience and encourage sales using social proof so you can grow your business using Twitter.

If you’re a WordPress newbie, many online guides on how to embed a Twitter feed in your website can be too complicated.

In this article, we’ll show you the easy way to display your personalized Twitter content on your WordPress — no coding needed.

Here’s a table of contents to help you skip ahead to the section you want:

• What are Custom Twitter Feeds?
• Why Embed Custom Twitter Feed Widgets on Your Website?
• Should You Add Custom Twitter Feeds Manually or With a Plugin?
• Easiest Way to Add a Custom Twitter Feed to WordPress

What are Custom Twitter Feeds?

A custom Twitter feed is a collection of tweets that are personalized based on your business needs. It can be a feed of tweets filtered by a specific hashtag, Twitter users or even search keywords.

Custom Twitter feeds come in many shapes and sizes. For instance, you can…

• Create a custom Twitter feed based on hashtags related to your brand
• Embed a Twitter feed with tweets mentioning your brand for user testimonials
• Showcase a Twitter carousel feed on your website
• Display a custom Twitter feed with results from an advanced Twitter search to serve tailored content to educate your visitors
• Embed tweets from multiple users in the same Twitter feed
• Add visual Twitter cards to your website

Now that you know what custom Twitter feeds are, let’s talk about why you need to add them to your site.

Why Embed Custom Twitter Feed Widgets on Your Website?

As we mentioned before, a Twitter feed can show a collection of tweets from a specific Twitter profile so you can promote your business online.

Here are the top reasons why it’s important to display custom Twitter feed widgets to your WordPress:

• Increase Site Engagement – Seeing a personalized custom Twitter feed embedded on your site means your site visitors will stay longer and interact with your site more. The longer they’re on your site, the more likely they are to read your blog, sign up to your email list and check out your products.
• Get More Twitter Followers – It’s easier to convert site visitors into your Twitter followers since they’re already interested in your business.
• Improve Site SEO – Displaying Twitter feeds on your site lets you add keyword-rich Twitter content that search bots can read, so it can improve your site’s SEO — with minimal effort on your part.

But what’s the best way to add custom Twitter feeds to your website? We’ll tackle that next.

Should You Add Custom Twitter Feeds Manually or With a Plugin?

There are 2 main ways to display customized Twitter content on your WordPress website:

• Manually embed the Twitter embed code
• Use a WordPress Twitter plugin to do it all for you

If you won’t use a plugin and you’d want to embed Twitter feeds manually using the official Twitter embed code, you need to visit their web page, choose your embed type, and enter the URL or hashtags for the content you want to display.

Then you’ll need to paste the generated Twitter embed code into your website.

That’s a lot of steps to keep track of!

For people with little to no experience with coding, it gets overwhelming to copy and customize your Twitter embed code — especially if you have lots of tweets for embedding.

More importantly, it’s complicated to customize your Twitter feed’s design if you’re not familiar with coding. You’re stuck with Twitter’s default styling.

Want your Twitter feed to match your website’s branding?

You’d need to be an expert in coding languages, HTML or JavaScript to tweak code snippets for customization.

If not, you’d probably need to hire a developer to personalize your custom Twitter feed for you.

The filtering options with manual Twitter feeds are also limited.

For example, you can’t manually filter Twitter feeds based on more than 1 hashtag, multiple search terms, or more than one user.

All these complicated tasks — and you can only embed a single tweet from your latest tweets. Yikes.

On the other hand, a great Twitter feed WordPress plugin can take all those complicated tasks and embed your Twitter feed for you with a few clicks.

So how about we learn how to put a custom Twitter feed to your website using a WordPress plugin?

Easiest Way to Add a Custom Twitter Feed to WordPress

Now you may be asking, “How do I add a Twitter feed to my website?”

Without a doubt, the easiest way to embed custom Twitter feeds to your WordPress website is by using the Twitter Feed Pro plugin from Smash Balloon.

As the best Twitter feed plugin for WordPress, Twitter Feed Pro lets you create, customize and embed Twitter feeds on your site — no coding needed.

The cool thing about Twitter Feed Pro is you can use it to display different types of customizable Twitter feeds, such as hashtag feeds, user timeline feeds, carousels or slideshow of tweets, Twitter search feeds and more.

Also, using Twitter Feed Pro is much better than manually embedding your tweets because:

• You can connect your Twitter account and website using the plugin in seconds
• The plugin automatically fetches your tweets for you — no need to manually embed tweets one-by-one so you save a lot of time
• With its simple visual feed editor, you can build deeply customizable Twitter feeds that engage your audience in a few easy clicks.

• Unlike other Twitter feed plugins, Twitter Feed Pro loads your tweets as part of your site’s content so they’re readable by search bots, which is great for boosting your site’s SEO

What’s more, this Twitter feed plugin comes with a support team of WordPress experts who are 100% committed to helping you with your social media feeds.

The best part?

Smash Balloon is trusted by 1.75M+ users to embed social media feeds on their sites, including the biggest brands like Coca-Cola, Indeed and others, so you know you’re in great hands.

Ready to start adding customizable Twitter content to your site? Get started with Twitter Feed Pro!

Now, let’s talk about the step-by-step tutorial on how you can embed Twitter feeds to your website — no coding needed.

Step 1: Install Twitter Feed Pro

First, go and get your copy of Twitter Feed Pro before installing it to your WordPress site.

To help with that, follow these simple instructions for installing a WordPress plugin.

You can now move on to step 2 and create your Twitter feed.

Step 2: Create a Twitter Feed

After that, navigate to Twitter Feed » All Feeds from your WordPress dashboard.

From this page, click on the Add New button at the top to continue.

Now, you can choose which type of Twitter feed you want on your website. Twitter Feed Pro has tons of different feed types which include:

• User timeline: Show all the tweets posted by any Twitter user
• Hashtag: Display tweets that contain specific hashtags
• Search: Choose to show tweets that have specific terms

What’s more, you can display tweets from multiple users in the same Twitter feed. Just select more than 1 feed type to do that.

In this tutorial, we’ll embed a Twitter user timeline.

After you pick your Twitter feed type, just click on Next. Then, you can now connect your own Twitter account so your feed can show tweets on your website.

Step 3: Connect Your Twitter Account

The next step is to enter the Twitter username or Twitter handle for the account that you want to display. In this example, we’ll enter the Twitter handle for @starbucks. Then, click on Next to continue.

It’s now time to customize the design of your new Twitter feed in step 4.

Step 4: Customize Your Custom Twitter Feed

Custom Twitter Feeds Pro makes it super easy to customize and set up your Twitter feed in a few easy steps.

After setting up your feed, the plugin will ask you to choose a feed template that you want to use.

Twitter Feed Pro has lots of professionally-designed templates you can choose from, so it’s easy for you to create Twitter feeds that match your brand’s visuals.

There are 7 templates that you can choose to instantly select a unique layout for your Twitter feed:

• Default
• Masonry
• Simple Carousel
• Simple Cards
• Showcase Carousel
• Latest Tweets
• Widget

Once you select the template you prefer, click on Next.

After you do this, the plugin will open your Twitter feed in the visual feed editor — see how quick and easy that was? You’ve now created your Twitter feed in just a few clicks!

Now, you can use the visual feed editor to customize the design of your feed with a real-time preview to help you out.

Towards the left, you can find the options to change your feed layout, color scheme, tweet box style, feed size, button design, and much more.

There’s a live preview of your feed on the right that’ll show you how everything looks.

To get started, click on the Feed Layout option on the left panel.

After that, you can choose from 3 different layout settings, including:

• List
• Carousel
• Masonry

With a list layout, your Twitter feed will be displayed as a full-width list of tweets.

Since each tweet gets more space, this is a great way to highlight important content.

Next, you have the masonry layout that shows tweets in columns with no space in between.

It’s a great way to show beautiful photos and videos on your website.

To show your Twitter posts in an engaging Twitter slideshow, you can go for the carousel layout instead.

You can make your site more interactive using this layout.

After picking your Twitter feed layout, click on Save.

To continue and customize the rest of your Twitter feed, just use the small Customize button at the top.

Now, go ahead and click on Color Scheme to set the colors for your Twitter feed.

With Custom Twitter Feeds Pro, there are 4 color scheme options:

• Inherit from Theme: Use the same colors as your WordPress theme
• Light: Show a bright Twitter feed with dark font
• Dark: Pick a dark background for your feed along with a light-colored font
• Custom: Manually choose all the colors for your Twitter feed

Once you’ve selected your color scheme, click on Save once again.

In addition to your Twitter feed’s design, you also have complete control over the content of your Twitter feeds.

Using the plugin’s visual customizer, you can also filter your tweets by choosing to hide or show replies or retweets in your Twitter feed. Plus, you can even hide or show tweets based on words that you specify:

As you can see, it’s pretty easy to use Twitter Feed Pro’s live feed customizer to set your Twitter card style, header design, button style, lightbox options, and much more.

After you’re happy with how your Twitter feed looks, click on the Save button to confirm your changes.

Finally, you can move on to step 5 and embed your custom Twitter feed to your website.

Step 5: Add Your Custom Twitter Feed to Your Website Page

Now that you know how to create custom feeds, let’s look at how to add a custom Twitter feed to your website.

To add your custom Twitter feed to a WordPress post or page, click on the Embed button on the live feed editor.

Next, you’ll see a popup that asks where you want to embed your Twitter feed.

Just click on the Add to a Page option here to continue.

You can now choose which WordPress you want to use for your custom Twitter feed. After you do that, click on Add to continue.

This will open that page in the WordPress editor so you can embed the feed.

To do that, first, click the Plus (+) icon to add a new content block.

In the search box, type “twitter feed” to locate the Twitter Feed block and click on it.

After that, your custom Twitter feed will automatically appear in the content area — no need to deal with confusing Twitter embed codes at all!

Just click on the Publish or Update button to confirm your changes.

Now, you can open your website, and you’ll see how your feed will look to your website’s visitors.

Plus, there’s another way to embed custom Twitter feeds using this plugin.

Let’s go on to step 6 and show you how you can do that.

Step 6: Add Your Custom Twitter Feed to Your Website Sidebar or Footer

Smash Balloon’s Twitter feed plugin also lets you embed Twitter widgets to your sidebar or footer areas.

To get started, just open your Twitter feed in the live feed editor.

You can do that by opening Twitter Feed » All Feeds page from your WordPress dashboard. Then find the Twitter feed that you created and click on it.

Like before, click on the Embed button in the top right corner of the live editor.

Next, you can use the popup to choose where you want to add your custom Twitter feed. Click on the Add to a Widget option here to continue.

Now, the plugin will open the widgets page of your website so you can embed the Twitter feed.

For that, click on the Sidebar panel to start managing the widgets there.

Or, you can click on a Footer panel instead and add your Twitter feed to your footer.

Finally, click on the plus (+) icon to add a new widget, and then click on Twitter Feed.

Just like that, you’ve added the custom Twitter feed to your sidebar or footer. Click on the Update button at the top to save your changes.

Now when you visit a page on your website with a sidebar, you’ll see your custom Twitter feed embedded for your visitors.

For more information, check out this guide on how to add a Twitter widget to WordPress.

And that’s it! We hope this article has helped you learn how to add a custom Twitter feed to your website.

Now all that’s left is for you to create one yourself so you can engage your audience, grow your Twitter followers, and improve your business.

Ready to add your custom Twitter feed to your site? Get started with Twitter Feed Pro today.

You may also want to check this next post on the best types of tweets proven to grow your business right now.

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