django CMS Twitter plugin

djangocms-twitter is a upgrade-friendly plugin, mostly derived from original implementation in django CMS core.

Due to the switch from v 1.0 to v 1.1 in the twitter API, the original plugin no longer works, and it's going to be removed.

Other plugin exists (or you could just switch to plain twitter widgets), althogh, it's still a bit frustrating to throw away existing plugins.

Contrary to the 1.0 API, Twitter 1.1 API requires you to create client side plugins in your profile and djangocms-twitter can do very little to avoid this. It delivers data-compatible plugins for straightforward upgrade.

Some field has been deprecated as no longer used by the twitter widgets. They have been left for easier upgrade.

Installation

First-time installation

1. Add djangocms_twitter to INSTALLED_APPS

2. Apply migrations:

   $ python manage.py migrate djangocms_twitter
   

3. Insert the plugins in the page and configure them as stated in Usage.

Upgrade from the in-core plugin

1. Remove cms.plugins.twitter from INSTALLED_APPS

2. Add djangocms_twitter to INSTALLED_APPS

3. Apply migrations:

   $ python manage.py migrate djangocms_twitter
   

4. Modify the plugins instances according to Usage.

5. Check your Templates.

Usage

TwitterRecentEntriesPlugin

For this plugin it's not necessary to create a widget for every plugin in your website; you could just consider the widget you create on the Twitter website as templates for this django CMS plugin:

Create the twitter-side widget

1. Login in your twitter account;
2. Go to https://twitter.com/settings/widgets;
3. Create new widget;
4. Select "user timeline" as source;
5. Configure the options (theme, colours etc) as described in https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-timelines;
6. Create widget;
7. get the value of data-widget-id in the embed code;

Plugin instances data

data-widget-id value can be shared by any number of plugins instances, the plugin-provided user timeline will be shown, while the twitter widget graphics appearance will be used.

1. Add or edit the Twitter plugin in you placeholders;
2. Fill in the Twitter widget it field using the data-widget-id value from the previous step;
3. Save the plugin;

TwitterSearchPlugin

The twitter widget used by this plugin is entirely configured on the twitter website.

Create the twitter-side widget

1. Login in your twitter account;
2. Go to https://twitter.com/settings/widgets;
3. Create new widget;
4. Select "Search" as source;
5. Configure the search query;
6. Configure the options (theme, colours etc) as described in https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-timelines;
7. Create widget;
8. get the value of data-widget-id in the embed code;

Plugin instances data

1. Add or edit the Twitter Search plugin in you placeholders;
2. Fill in the Twitter widget it field using the data-widget-id value from the previous step;
3. Optionally fill-in the query field in the plugin form; this is only used for non-javascript enabled browser, as the data-widget-id will take over on javascript-enabled ones;
4. Save the plugin;

Templates

Older templates it's no longer valid. Most of the graphic configuration must be done in when creating the widget on the Twitter website.

A limited set of client-side options exists to configure the widgets; see https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-timelines#options for further info.

To apply them you need to modify the plugin templates:

• cms/plugins/twitter_timeline.html: for TwitterRecentEntriesPlugin
• cms/plugins/twitter_search_widget.html: for TwitterSearchPlugin