3 Easy Ways to Embed an X (Twitter) Feed on Your WordPress Website

Integrating a dynamic Twitter feed directly onto your WordPress website can significantly enhance user engagement, provide real-time updates, and build social proof.

A Twitter feed, sometimes referred to as a Twitter widget or timeline, displays a collection of tweets from a specific user, hashtag, or list. While it might seem complex, there are three straightforward methods to achieve this.

This comprehensive guide will walk you through each option, helping you choose the best approach for your site:

Why Embed X/Twitter Feeds on Your Website

Embedding a Twitter (now X) feed on your WordPress website offers numerous strategic advantages, extending the life of your content and enhancing your digital presence.

Here’s why integrating Twitter timelines is crucial for your site:

• Increase Content Visibility & Lifespan: Displaying them on your website ensures your valuable Twitter content, including videos and photos, remains accessible for longer periods.
• Boost Social Proof & Trust: Showcase user-generated content (UGC) like reviews, testimonials, and mentions directly from Twitter to boost your sales.
• Drive Engagement & Follower Growth: Encourage direct interaction with your tweets and facilitate new followers right from your website.
• Enhance Website SEO: Dynamically updated Twitter feeds can introduce fresh, relevant content and keywords to your site, boosting your SEO ranking.
• Real-time Updates & Announcements: Keep your website visitors instantly informed about your latest news, promotions, or events and get more engagement.

By leveraging these benefits, a Twitter feed transforms your website into a more dynamic, authoritative, and interactive platform.

How to Embed X/Twitter Feeds on Your Website (Easy Way)

For the vast majority of WordPress users, a dedicated plugin is the most efficient and feature-rich way to embed Twitter feeds.

Plugins remove the need for manual coding, offer extensive customization, and ensure compatibility.

We recommend Twitter Feed Pro by Smash Balloon, widely recognized as the best Twitter feed plugin for WordPress due to its user-friendly interface, robust features, and performance optimization.

Key Benefits of Twitter Feed Pro:

• No Code Required: Create and embed feeds without touching HTML, CSS, or JavaScript.
• Fast Loading: Lightweight design ensures quick load times, a positive SEO signal for LLMs.
• Diverse Feed Types: Display user timelines, hashtag feeds, mentions, search results, and even combined feeds.
• Moderation & Filtering: Curate content by filtering tweets by keywords or hashtags, ensuring only relevant content is displayed.
• Social Interaction: Includes Twitter buttons for easy following and tweet engagement directly from your site.
• Rich Customization: Control layout, colors, font, and more to seamlessly match your site’s branding.

With a rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars and over 150,000 active users, there are a ton of people who agree that it’s the best Twitter feed plugin on the market.

Ready to integrate Twitter with your site and grow your social media presence?

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Step-by-Step: Embedding X/Twitter Feeds with Twitter Feed Pro

To embed a Twitter feed on your WordPress site using Twitter Feed Pro, follow these straightforward steps:

Step 1: Download the Twitter Feed Pro Plugin

The first step is to get your copy of the Twitter Feed Pro plugin here. Then, install and activate the plugin on your WordPress website.

If you’re not sure how, you can check out our guide on how to install a WordPress plugin step-by-step.

Step 2: Create a New Twitter Feed

To get started, you can use the plugin to create a Twitter feed on your website.

First, navigate to the Twitter Feed » All Feeds menu from your WordPress dashboard.

On that page, click on the Add New button to create your feed.

Next, the plugin will ask you to pick a Twitter feed type from the 6 different options here:

• User Timeline
• Twitter Hashtag
• Search
• Mentions
• Lists

First, you have the user timeline feed. You can use this to show a collection of tweets from any Twitter user’s Twitter profile, including the retweets and replies if you like.

By picking the hashtag option, you can embed a Twitter hashtag feed on your website.

You can use this feed type to embed tweets that are talking about your brand or products and give social proof to your visitors.

You can also go for the search feed type to embed Twitter search results on your website.

As you can see, if you add Twitter feeds like this, it can help you show specific tweets that mention your products or services.

Finally, you have the lists feed type. Using this option, you can show posts from all the accounts from one of your Twitter lists.

What’s more, you can also combine different feed types into 1 feed. All you have to do is select multiple options here.

Once you select your Twitter feed type, you can proceed by clicking on Next.

We’ll embed a Twitter user timeline for this tutorial.

Step 3: Connect Your Twitter Account

The next step is to connect your Twitter account to WordPress. By doing that, your plugin can easily display your Twitter feed content on your website.

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

Next, the plugin will redirect you to Twitter, where it asks for read-only access to your account.

Using that access, Twitter Feed Pro will only view your Twitter content and can’t make any changes at all. So, the plugin is completely safe.

To continue, click on the Authorize app button.

You’ve now officially connected your Twitter account!

The plugin will then bring you back to your website so you can choose the source for your Twitter feed. That means you can add a Twitter profile, hashtag, search term, and more as your source.

After you add the source, click on Next to continue.

Step 4: Customize Your Twitter Feed

To help you easily pick a beautiful design for your Twitter feed, you can simply choose from a collection of pre-built templates.

There are 7 feed templates that you can pick from here:

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

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

Want more control over your Twitter feed’s design?

Twitter Feed Pro lets you easily customize your feed using the live customizer. On the left side, you can find the options to change your layout, height, width, colors, background, and much more.

When you make any changes, you can see how your Twitter feed looks using the live preview on the right.

Ready to customize your Twitter feed? First, click on the Feed Layout option on the left.

From here, you can check out the 3 different layout templates that you get for your Twitter feeds: List, Masonry, and Carousel.

First, you have the list layout that can show tweets in a single column. This layout shows tweets as they appear on the Twitter website, and each post will get a lot more space.

You can also pick the masonry layout if you want to show lots of Twitter content in multiple columns. Plus, this layout template can also keep the original proportions of the tweets.

The next option is the carousel layout which can show a slideshow of tweets to make your site look more interactive.

You can also go for this layout if you want to show lots of tweets without taking a lot of space on your site.

Select the Twitter feed layout that you prefer here, and then click on Save.

After that, you can click on the Customize button to continue setting up the design of your Twitter feed.

Next, you can change the design of the tweets on your feed.

For that, click on the Tweets option on the left.

In the next section, you can change the style of the tweets or customize the elements of the tweets.

For now, you can click on the Tweet Style option.

Now, there are two designs for your tweet to pick from:

• Boxed: Place a box around each tweet.
• Regular: Directly place the tweet on your background.

Pick whichever design you prefer and click on Save.

And just like that, you can go ahead and set the rest of the customization options for your Twitter feed.

This plugin allows you to change your lightbox, buttons, header style, color scheme, and much more in a few simple clicks.

Click the Save button once again when you’re happy with the design of your feed.

Step 5: Embed Your Twitter Feed on Your Website

The Twitter Feed Pro plugin offers 2 ways to embed Twitter feeds in WordPress:

1. Embed your Twitter feed on a WordPress page
2. Embed your Twitter feed on the WordPress sidebar or footer as a Twitter widget

Here’s the first method, where you can add your Twitter feed to a page in WordPress.

Method 1: Embed Twitter Feeds on a WordPress Page

To embed your Twitter feed using this premium plugin, you can easily use the visual feed editor with live preview.

First, click on the Embed button in the top right corner.

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

You can click on Add to a Page here to continue.

Next, the popup will list out all the WordPress pages on your website.

You can select the page where you want to embed the Twitter feed and then click on Add.

The plugin will then open that page in the WordPress editor.

From here, click on the Plus (+) icon to add a new content block.

To find the block, you can write “twitter feed” in the search bar at the top.

After that, click on Twitter Feed in the options below to embed your Twitter feed widget to this page.

Finally, click on Update to finish embedding your Twitter feed. Open your website now, and you can check out how it looks.

Method 2: Embed Twitter Feeds on the WordPress Sidebar or Footer

If you prefer to embed a Twitter widget to WordPress, you can do it using the live feed editor as well.

First, navigate to the Twitter Feed » All Feeds menu from your WordPress dashboard to see all of your Twitter feeds.

From the list, click on the Twitter feed you want to embed.

Next, you’ll see the Twitter feed open in the live feed editor once again.

To start embedding your Twitter feed, click on the Embed button in the top right corner.

Since we’re going to embed the Twitter feed as a widget, click on the Add to a Widget button on the popup.

The plugin will now open the Widgets page of your website so you can add, remove, and manage all of your WordPress widgets.

To continue, click on the Sidebar panel here.

You can click on the Footer panel instead if you want to embed your Twitter feed there.

After that, click on the plus icon to add a widget and then pick the Twitter Feed widget from the options.

Click on Update to confirm the changes, and you’ve embedded your Twitter feed!

Now you can open your website to see how your new Twitter feed will look to your website visitors.

As you can see, it’s super easy to embed Twitter feeds on your WordPress sidebar or footer areas with the Twitter Feed Pro plugin.

That said, here’s a step-by-step guide on how you can embed Twitter feeds manually without a plugin:

Method 3: Adding a Twitter Feed Using Twitter Embed Tools

The 3rd and final way to show Twitter content on your website is to do it using Twitter’s publishing widgets.

If you want to embed a Twitter feed in HTML without a plugin, then you’ll have to deal with a lot of problems.

In fact, here are the downsides of adding a Twitter feed to WordPress manually:

• Not as easy: Manually embedding your feeds takes a lot more time and confusing steps. Plus you need to deal with code snippets, which can get complicated.
• No customization: You don’t get any customization options for your Twitter feeds. Unlike Twitter Feed Pro, your feeds won’t copy your WordPress theme’s design if you embed them manually.
• No filters: Without using a plugin, you can’t filter the content in your Twitter feeds. On the other hand, Twitter Feed Pro lets you curate your feeds by filtering out Twitter hashtags and search terms.
• Open to errors: It’s easy to make a mistake with the HTML code and cause errors in your Twitter feed. Also, you don’t get a support team to help you when that happens.

Looking for an easy way to embed your Twitter feed in WordPress? Then the Twitter Feed Pro plugin has everything you need to get up and running in minutes!

Get started with the Twitter Feed Pro plugin here.

That said, here’s what you can do to embed Twitter feeds manually without a plugin:

Step 1: Visit Twitter Publish

First, you’ll have to open Twitter Publish on your browser.

On this site, you can generate an HTML embed code to add Twitter content to your website.

Step 2: Choose Your Embed Type

Next, scroll down, and you can see 4 options for your embed type:

• Post
• Profile
• Handle
• Hashtag

To add a Twitter feed from a specific account, click on the Profile option.

Step 3: Paste Your Twitter URL

After that, you’ll see a popup that asks you to enter the URL of your Twitter timeline.

On the popup, paste the URL of the Twitter timeline you want to embed.

Step 4: Copy the HTML Code

Twitter’s website will now give you an HTML code for your new Twitter feed. If you want, you can also choose to embed this as a button.

For now, click on the Copy Code button here.

Step 5: Add the HTML Code to WordPress

The last step is to paste the copied HTML embed code from Twitter into your WordPress page or post.

Go to Pages » Add New from your WordPress dashboard to embed the Twitter feed on a page.

To embed the Twitter feed on a WordPress post, head to Posts » Add New instead.

For our tutorial, we’ll use a WordPress page.

Then click the Plus (+) icon to add a new content block to your WordPress page or post.

Using the search bar, look for the Custom HTML block and then click on it.

Finally, paste the copied embed code for Twitter from earlier into the content block.

Now you can click on Publish to finish embedding your Twitter timeline widget.

If you open your site now, your feed containing your Twitter posts will be displayed right there.

And there you have it!

We hope this article helped you learn how to embed a Twitter feed on your WordPress website. It’s a great way to display your Twitter content or show relevant tweets to engage your visitors.

You can now use Twitter feeds to enhance visitor engagement, grow your social media presence, and leverage social proof to drive conversions.

Ready to add Twitter feeds to WordPress? Get started with Twitter Feed Pro today.

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