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1. janinge
   Member
   Jan 3, 2013, 12:47 PM

   WordPress own twitter widget has a poor and inadequate appearance.
   So: Why can't I embed twitter's own widget? the first 2 lines are deleted and thus can not twitters own widget not used (script lines):

   <script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
   <script>
   new TWTR.Widget({
   version: 2,
   type: 'profile',
   rpp: 20,
   interval: 50,
   width: 200,
   height: 170,
   theme: {
   shell: {
   background: '#8ec1da',
   color: '#ffffff'
   },
   tweets: {
   background: '#ffffff',
   color: '#444444',
   links: '#1985b5'
   }
   },
   features: {
   scrollbar: true,
   loop: true,
   live: true,
   behavior: 'default'
   }
   }).render().setUser('janingelarsen').start();
   </script>

   The blog I need help with is janinge.wordpress.com.

2. raincoaster
   Member
   Jan 3, 2013, 1:06 PM

   Because it's javascript, and javascript is hugely vulnerable to security issues.

3. janinge
   Member
   Jan 3, 2013, 1:25 PM

   OK I understand that with javascript. Thanks.

   But is it any other way to get a better twitter view in a widget? wordpress own is not very good.

4. mikedariano
   Member
   Jan 3, 2013, 1:32 PM

   Can you expand on what's not good about it? It looks formatted correctly to me. Colors? Fonts? Spacing?

5. janinge
   Member
   Jan 3, 2013, 1:38 PM

   Hi again. OK regrets, the widget displays the results.

   But one might say that the view is not exactly exciting. Would have liked a few more options so one could get a cleaner view, for example, to insert distance/space between tweets, other fonts, frame, colors, maybe scrolling also?

6. mikedariano
   Member
   Jan 3, 2013, 6:44 PM

   I think you'd need to either switch themes or wrangle some CSS this thread has some information - but that's for a Twitter Widget Pro on the WordPress.org site.

   Are you interested in the Custom Design bundle? It's $30/year and the customized CSS might be what you need.

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