How to Aggregate X (Twitter Feeds) on Your Site: Step-by-Step Guide
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How to Aggregate X (Twitter Feeds) on Your Site: Step-by-Step Guide

How to Aggregate Twitter Feeds on Your Site

Lots of people who have websites want to show different ideas or voices. In my experience working on websites and online marketing, I’ve found that bringing different views together makes a site feel more alive and current.

X (Twitter) is a platform that thrives on diverse conversations.

If your website could benefit from showing multiple Twitter feeds, perhaps from different team members, event speakers, or related organizations, then aggregating those feeds is a great solution.

Quick Answer: The easiest way to aggregate Twitter feeds on your site is with a WordPress plugin like Smash Balloon Twitter Feed Pro, which lets you combine tweets from multiple accounts, hashtags, and lists into a single feed using a guided 3-step setup.

By displaying an aggregated Twitter feed, you present a unified stream of tweets from multiple sources directly on your site. This offers your visitors a richer, more comprehensive view of relevant Twitter discussions.

In this article, I’ll walk you through a step-by-step process to combine X content from various accounts into a single, dynamic display.

In This Article

What is an X/Twitter Aggregator?

A Twitter aggregator is a tool that you can use to display Twitter posts on your website.

Using a social media feed aggregator specifically for X, you can organize Twitter content into feeds and embed these feeds on your pages, sidebar, or footer.

A feed pulling from multiple sources gives visitors more reasons to keep scrolling than a single account ever could, which means more time on page and more fresh, keyword-rich content for search engines to crawl.

And that’s just the start! Here are a few more ways X (Twitter) aggregators can help your business:

  • Combine your brand account with a branded hashtag, and visitors see a fuller picture of who’s talking about you, not just your own posts.
  • By displaying reviews and testimonials for your products, you can turn Twitter into a full UGC gallery and convince more people to make a purchase.
twitter review feed example
  • Using a Twitter image aggregator, you can also show beautiful visual content that immediately grabs people’s attention.
  • A single-account feed only proves you’re active. An aggregated feed, your account plus your community’s mentions, proves people are actually engaging with you.

As you can see, X (Twitter) aggregators can be a great help for your website. You can get more sales, grow your social media presence, reach more customers, and much more.

If you eventually want to combine Twitter with feeds from Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube too, Social Wall does that in one unified display, but for now, let’s focus on getting your Twitter feed aggregated.

Ready to show Twitter feeds using a social media aggregator?

Let’s take a look at the easiest way to aggregate Twitter feeds on your WordPress website.

Easiest Way to Aggregate X (Twitter) Feeds to WordPress

I’ve tried most of the Twitter aggregators on the market. Most of them make you trade something away: you lose branding control, you’re stuck with a single account, or the free tier looks fine until you actually need more than one feed.

Smash Balloon Twitter Feed Pro is the one I keep coming back to because it doesn’t force that trade-off.

How Twitter Feed Pro Compares

Native X Embed WidgetFree Aggregators (Curator, Juicer, etc.)Twitter Feed Pro ⭐ Recommended
Can you combine multiple accounts, hashtags, or lists in one feed?❌ No — one source only⚠️ Usually 1-3 sources on free plans✅ Yes — unlimited sources, mix and match feed types
Does it match your site’s design?❌ No — fixed X styling⚠️ Limited color/layout control on free tiers✅ Yes — 7 templates, live customizer, inherits your theme
Any branding or ads on your feed?✅ None❌ Most free plans show the tool’s own branding or ads✅ None
Best forA single embedded post, nothing moreTesting the concept for free before committingA fully branded, reliable aggregated feed

If you just need to drop in one tweet, X’s own widget works fine. If you want an aggregated feed that actually looks like part of your site, Twitter Feed Pro is the faster path.

In fact, the plugin walks you through the setup in 3 steps. I didn’t have to open a code editor once or manage any embed codes.

Easiest Way to Aggregate Twitter Feeds to WordPress is by using Smash Balloon Twitter Feed Pro

To make your Twitter feeds even more engaging, you can choose from a collection of beautiful pre-built templates. Just pick a template you prefer, and your Twitter feed will instantly copy that design.

What’s more, you get a live feed editor where you can customize how your Twitter feed looks with a real-time preview.

That way, you can quickly and easily change your layout, color scheme, number of tweets, feed size, header style, and much more.

available layouts for your twitter live stream

Plus, you can use Twitter Feed Pro to aggregate Twitter content in lots of different ways, including Twitter hashtag feeds, Twitter lists, advanced search results, and more. 

In fact, Twitter Feed Pro currently has a 4.9/5 rating from 150,000+ users, which tells me I’m not the only one who’s found it reliable.

twitter feed pro reviews

Ready to aggregate Twitter feeds and grow your business? Get your copy of Twitter Feed Pro here.

Now, let’s get started with our tutorial and show you how you can aggregate Twitter feeds in the easiest way possible.

How to Aggregate X (Twitter) Feeds on Your Website Easily

Here’s the short version: Install Twitter Feed Pro, create a new feed and choose your content type, connect your account, customize the design with the live editor, then embed it on a page, sidebar, or footer.

The whole process takes most people under 10 minutes. Let’s get started!

Step 1: Install Smash Balloon Twitter Feed Pro

Grab the Twitter Feed Pro plugin here and install it like any other WordPress plugin.

If you’ve never installed one before, the WPBeginner guide covers it in under two minutes.

After you install and activate the plugin, you can start aggregating Twitter content in step 2.

Step 2: Create an Aggregate Twitter Feed

Now, you can use Twitter Feed Pro to create a new feed on your site.

To do that, navigate to the Twitter Feed » All Feeds menu from your WordPress dashboard. On the new page, click on the Add New button at the top.

add new custom twitter feed

This will create a new Twitter feed for your website. Next, you can choose what type of Twitter content you want to aggregate using this feed.

You can pick from 4 different feed types, and each will aggregate different types of Twitter content:

  • User Timeline: Show tweets from Twitter user profiles
  • Hashtag: Embed tweets that have specific hashtags
  • Search: Show the results of a Twitter search
  • Lists: Display tweets posted by the accounts in a specific Twitter list

This is where the aggregation actually happens. Plus, if you select more than one option, Twitter Feed Pro pulls from all of them into a single feed.

Select one or more feed types and click on Next.

select twitter hashtag feed as your option

In this tutorial, I’m going to go ahead and choose a Twitter hashtag feed as a demonstration.

Just like that, you now have a new Twitter feed on your website. In the next step, you can connect it to your Twitter account.

Step 3: Connect Your Twitter Account

Using Twitter Feed Pro, you can connect your new feed to Twitter with a few simple clicks.

Ready to get started? On the popup, click on the Connect button.

connect twitter account to wordpress

You’ll see a permissions screen asking for read-only access, meaning the plugin can pull your tweets but can’t post, follow, or change anything on your behalf.

Click Authorize app and you’re connected.

authorize twitter read only access.jpg

Doing that will bring you back to your WordPress website once again. From here, you can now choose the source for your Twitter feed.

That means you can enter Twitter handles, hashtags, search terms, Twitter lists, and more on the popup. Then, your feed will start showing the tweets from that source.

Since we picked the hashtag feed type earlier, we’ll enter a hashtag for our example.

After that, click on the Next button to continue.

select your twitter feed hashtags

Now that you’ve connected your Twitter account and chosen the source, your feed is ready to aggregate Twitter content.

Before adding the feed to your website, you can customize how it looks in step 4.

Step 4: Customize Your Twitter Feed

With Twitter Feed Pro, your feeds will automatically copy the design of your website and look amazing right out of the box.

And if you want more control over your Twitter feed, there are tons of customization options that you can use.

First, you can choose a template that you want to use for your Twitter feed. You get to pick from 7 different feed templates here:

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

Select the feed template that you prefer and then click on the Next button.

choose a feed template

After you pick a template, you can use the live feed editor to customize your Twitter feed even more.

Towards the left, you can find the customization panel. Using the options there, you can set your feed layout, color scheme, header style, button design, and much more.

live feed editor twitter feed pro visual preview

When you use these options, you can see a live preview of your changes on the right. That way, you’ll have a real-time view of how your Twitter feed looks.

To get started, look for the Feed Layout option on the left and click on it.

pick the feed layout option create twitter feed

From here, you can choose between 3 layouts for your Twitter feed: List, Masonry, and Carousel.

feed layout options twitter aggregator

Want each tweet to get more space on your page?

You can pick the list layout, which shows all the tweets in a single column.

twitter list layout aggregator

If you want to aggregate a lot of Twitter content at once, the masonry layout can help you out.

This option will show your tweets in lots of different columns at once.

masonry layout twitter feed

Lastly, we have the carousel layout, which shows tweets using a beautiful Twitter slideshow carousel.

As a result, you can show a lot of tweets without taking much space on your page.

carousel layout for twitter feed pro

Once you pick the Twitter feed layout that you want to use, click on Save.

To continue editing the design of your Twitter feed, click on the small Customize button at the top.

return to main menu live feed editor

Next, you can click on the Color Scheme option on the left to start setting the colors of your Twitter feed.

pick the color scheme option twitter feed

With this plugin, you can simply choose a color scheme to instantly change all the colors of your Twitter feed at once:

  • Inherit from Theme: Use the same colors as your website’s theme
  • Light: Show a light background and a dark font for your feed
  • Dark: Pick a darker background along with a light font
  • Custom: Manually select your colors yourself
color scheme options for your twitter feed

Select a color scheme that you prefer and then click on Save once again.

On the whole, the live feed editor covers the details most people actually care about: font, header style, text length, and your ‘load more’ button, all with a preview that updates as you go.

Finally, click on the Save button to confirm your changes.

When you’re done styling your Twitter feed, it’s time to embed it on your WordPress website below.

Step 5: Embed Your Twitter Feed on Your WordPress Site

To show the collected Twitter content on your site, you have 2 methods to pick from:

  • Aggregate Twitter feed on a WordPress page
  • Aggregate Twitter feed on your WordPress sidebar or footer

Let’s take a look at how you can use both of these methods below.

Aggregate Twitter Feed on a WordPress Page

With this method, you can show Twitter content on your pages so it acts like the main focus and engages visitors. Plus, you can start doing that directly from the live feed editor.

Just click on the Embed button at the top to get started.

live feed editor embed button twitter

Once you do that, Twitter Feed Pro will show you a popup that asks where you want to embed the Twitter feed.

To continue, click on Add to a Page.

add to a page

After that, you can see a list of pages that you have on your website.

From the list, select the page where you want to aggregate your Twitter content and then click on the Add button below.

add twitter feed to a new page

Now, the plugin will send you to that page so you can embed your Twitter feed using the WordPress editor.

First, add a content block to the editor by clicking on the plus (+) icon.

add new wordpress block

Using the search bar, look for the “twitter feed” block. Then, click on Twitter Feed in the search results below.

embed twitter feed on your wordpress site

Finally, click on Publish or Update to confirm your changes, and your Twitter feed will be online.

Now, the feed will aggregate content from Twitter and show it to your visitors. You can just open your WordPress page to take a look.

twitter feed on website example

Another way to show tweets on your website is by displaying a Twitter feed widget.

First, go to the Twitter Feed » All Feeds menu from your dashboard. You can then see all the Twitter feeds you created on this page.

Now click on the Twitter feed you just created to open it in the live feed editor.

open hashtag twitter feed

From the live feed editor, click on the Embed button in the top right corner to get started.

live feed editor embed button twitter

On the popup, click on the Add to a Widget option to continue.

After you do that, Twitter Feed Pro will send you to the WordPress widgets page.

add twitter feed to widget

Here, you can choose where you want to embed the Twitter widget.

To show Twitter content on your sidebar, select the Sidebar panel.

open sidebar panel

If you prefer to show tweets on your footer instead, click on Footer.

For our example, we’ll use the sidebar of the website.

open footer panel

Now, add a new Twitter widget by clicking on the plus icon (+) at the bottom.

Finally, select the Twitter Feed widget from the options.

add a twitter feed widget to wordpress

If you click on the Update button at the top, your new Twitter widget will be online.

Now, open your website, and you can check out the aggregated Twitter content on your footer or sidebar.

embed twitter feed on wordpress sidebar

That’s the whole setup, from install to a live aggregated feed. The real value shows up over time: instead of manually pasting in new tweets, your feed refreshes on its own every time that hashtag picks up new activity.

Add a second or third source later, and it keeps working exactly the same way, no extra setup required.

From here, the feed keeps itself current without you touching it again, which is really the point of aggregating in the first place instead of manually embedding one static tweet.

Ready to aggregate Twitter feeds? Get your copy of Twitter Feed Pro here.

While you’re here, you can take a look at our list of the top ways to make money on Twitter.

You may also want to read our next post on the best Twitter widget examples you can add to your site.

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Sajjan Sharma Senior Writer
Sajjan has been writing about WordPress, social media marketing, and online businesses for over 10 years. His professional interests extend to include influencer marketing, content curation and digital marketing strategies.

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