Now you can animate your website title, not that one which comes on website but the one that shows up on main title bar of your web browser’s screen. TITLE ANIMATOR is the new WordPress plugin that works out of box. The plugin enables you to animate your website title with five different effects and its very easy to use. See it live working at www.pilgrimsholidays.com and www.ebangali.co.in.
Twitter already provides you inbuilt widget creation features. Other than this WordPress also provides you oEmbed for twitter, you can enable oEmbed in your WordPress site from Dashboard -> Settings -> Media page and then you can embed a tweet simply by pasting its URL inside your post or page content.
This article is on few other WordPress plugins that extends tweet embed features in WordPress and allows you to do some more good things with your tweets.
Tweet Blender is a popular WordPress plugin that provides you various Twitter Widgets like you can
Display your own tweets
Display tweets for hashtags
Display tweets for twitter lists
Display tweets relevant to your post content (like Huffingtonpost)
The plugin supports multiple authors, keywords and hashtags. With Tweet Blender you can display tweets from a single user or a list of users. Also you can display tweets from a certain topic, multiple hashtags or keywords, various lists, authors etc. There is a long list of this plugin features.
After activation specify your configuration settings from Dashboard -> Settings -> Tweet Blender admin page. You will be needing to authenticate to Twitter and allow read-only access to tweet stream (present under the Status tab).
Fetch Tweets is another plugin for fetching and showing Twitter tweets. With this plugin you can display tweets by specifying username, search results, keywords, Lists and yes you can show up combined results by adding multiple rules.
For displaying the fetched tweets the plugin provides you Widget, Shortcode, PHP Code and Custom Templates.
Installation & Usage:
Install and activate the plugin then follow the given steps:
After activation you can set a rule from Dashboard -> Fetch Tweets -> Add Rule by User Name or Add Rule by Keyword.
For using its widgets visit Appearance -> Widgets and use Fetch Tweets by Rule Set. You can set the rule in the widget form itself.
The plugin also provides you shortcode to use in your posts, pages. Use the shortcode
[fetch_tweets id="123"]
Replacing 123 with your rule ID. Rule ID can be found in the Fetch Tweets admin page in your dashboard.
As clear from its name, the plugin provides you widget and shortcodes for displaying Twitter Tweets. It is used for displaying one tweet at a time with rotation which means one tweets gets automatically and smoothly replaced by the other. Display is responsive and it shows up the recent tweets even if Twitter is down. Check out the plugin working here.
Installation & Usage:
After activation you can use its widget from Appearance -> Widgets page or you can display it via shortcode (inside your posts and pages etc) like:
[rotatingtweets screen_name='your_twitter']
The plugin allows you to decide how you want to show up tweets, you can set the number of tweets to display, you can include retweets and replies and even display a follow button if you like.
You can also set Tweets rotation speed and animation type to use in Tweet rotation.
How To Create A Twitter Application ?
Most of the above plugins uses Twitter Application, API so following are he instructions on how you can create your Twitter Application, it takes a few minutes:
Visit My applications page on the Twitter website. Login with your Twitter username and password.
If you don’t already have a suitable ‘application’ then create one from the Create an Application page. It’s normally best to use the name, description and website URL of the website where you plan to use Rotating Tweets. You don’t need a Callback URL if you are setting it up for the plugins discussed here.
After clicking Create your Twitter application, click on Create my access token.
Now copy the Consumer key, Consumer secret, Access token and Access token secret from your Twitter application page and use it wherever required.
WP Parallax Content Slider is a powerful customizable JQuery content slider plugin with CSS3 animations, parallax effects, 4 different themes and more. The plugin provides you beautiful transitions between slides made using a combination of CSS3 and JQuery for displaying a cool parallax effect.
Here are some popular and easy to use web services you can use for generating beautiful animated GIF images. You can add various images from your computer, URL, social websites or convert any video into a GIF animated image and icons etc.
You can easily create animated .GIF files online free of cost and even it doesn’t require any registration. Additionally you can play a GIF backwards and save it as a new one, resize an existing gif, or split a gif into separate pictures. All you need is a flash player supported browser.