Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget vs Simple X Buttons – Share, Follow, Mention & Hashtag for WordPress

Display a completely customizable, responsive and search engine crawlable X feed or Twitter feed on your website. The Custom Twitter Feeds plugin will display any user timeline posts or tweets that completely match the look and feel of your site and includes tons of customization options! Features Quick 3-Step Feed Creation – create a Twitter feed in just 3 steps with our guided flow to help you do this, even if you’re a WordPress newbie Completely Customizable – by default, your user timeline feed will inherit your theme’s styles – automatically X posts (Twitter feed) content is crawlable by search engines, adding SEO value to your site Completely responsive and mobile-optimized – your Twitter feed looks great on any screen size and on any device Easily display an X Feed (Twitter feed) from any Twitter user – you can quickly connect 1 public Twitter account for absolutely free Using our Site Key and a verified email address, you can automatically refresh your Twitter feed once a week so you can showcase fresh Twitter content on your site at zero cost Post caching means that your Twitter feed loads lightning fast. Load more of your Tweets with the ‘Load More’ button Built-in easy to use “Custom Twitter Feeds” Widget makes it easy to display tweets from any public Twitter account Fully internationalized and translatable into any language Display a beautiful header at the top of your Twitter feed Enter your own custom CSS or JavaScript for even deeper customization of your Tweets For simple step-by-step directions on how to set up the Custom Twitter Feeds plugin, please refer to our setup guide. Benefits Increase social engagement between you and your users, customers, or fans Save time by using the Custom Twitter Feeds plugin to generate dynamic, search engine crawlable content on your website Convert site visitors into Twitter followers by displaying your Twitter content directly on your site Improve your SEO as all of that quality keyword-rich Twitter content is directly embedded into your website Keep users on your site by showcasing your tweets from any user timeline on WordPress Boost engagement by letting site visitors reply and like your tweets directly on your site Showcase your Twitter content your way to perfectly match your website’s style The Custom Twitter Feeds plugin is updated regularly with new features, bug-fixes and solutions to comply with recent Twitter API changes Pro Version In order to maintain the free version of Custom Twitter Feeds plugin on an ongoing basis, and to provide quick and effective support for free, we offer a Pro version of the plugin. The Pro version allows you to: Display tweets from multiple users in the same Twitter feed Display photos, videos, and gifs and view them in a popup lightbox directly on your site Multi-column Masonry layout demo Show your tweets in a Twitter slideshow demo Choose from professionally-made Twitter templates so you can easily build your Twitter feed in seconds Allow filtering of Twitter user timelines include/exclude any/all keywords Tweet-specific moderation system Visual Twitter cards displayed with links which support them Include Tweet replies (in reply to tweets) Combine multiple Twitter feeds into one Automatically update your Twitter feeds up to 12 times per day so you can effortlessly display up-to-date X posts (Twitter content) to your site visitors Autoload more Tweets when scrolling Find out more about the Pro version. Try the Pro version demo here Featured Reviews for Custom Twitter Feeds “Great for Customization – Great plugin! Superb customization options! Am changing all twitter feeds for all my websites to this! I have tried several Twitter plugins so far. This is the best I have come across 🙂” – @nehavivekpatil “Excellent plug-in. Excellent support. – Excellent instructions and guidance. Patient and prompt support for the newbies. Regular updates. You can’t lose. Thank you Smash Balloon.” – @nuspa “Amazing Support and a Great Twitter Plugin – I am using the free version of this Twitter plugin and identified a real problem in the display on my website. I emailed support and Craig was all over the fix for me. Seven or so emails later (even on a Sunday) the problem was fixed and Craig was still reaching out to make sure all was well.“ In a world of crappy support for premium plugins, and even worse support for free plugins, this kind of support (and listening to customers) that Craig and Smash Balloon provided me make their premium products worth every penny. In fact, I am going to buy them for my next project. They deserve it.“ Thanks again, Craig!” – @kcwebguy “At last a configurable Twitter Feed that WORKS! – I have messed with Twitter feeds on sites so many times only to be frustrated. This Plugin is the best I have tried. Stable, configurable and not too hefty a drag on performance. Well done!” – @mikemac67 “Everything you’ll need in a Twitter feed plugin – We’ve tried a few Twitter feed plugins across a bunch of our sites, and this one is now our go-to favorite. Most of the others we’ve tried have either styling or performance issues, but we’ve been using this plugin for a few months now, and it’s been perfect. There are tons of customization options, the feed looks great, and… it works!“ Kudos to the SmashBalloon team on a well supported, tightly developed, feature-packed WordPress Plugin.” – @laymanlab View the reviews to see what other users are saying about the Custom Twitter Feeds plugin. We’re dedicated to providing the most customizable, robust and well supported Twitter feed plugin in the world! Feedback or Support We’re committed to providing the easiest-to-use, most powerful and #1 supported Twitter feed plugin in the world, so if you have an issue or any feedback on how to improve the plugin, then please let us know. If you like the plugin then please consider leaving a review, as it really helps to support the plugin. If you have an issue, then please allow us to help you fix it before leaving a review. Just let us know what the problem is and we’ll get back to you right away.

Simple X Buttons adds X (Twitter) buttons to your WordPress posts and pages — the right way. Why not use X’s official embed buttons? X’s embed infrastructure (platform.twitter.com/widgets.js) has been unreliable since 2023, hitting HTTP 429 rate limits at scale and causing embeds to fail silently or load slowly. X has not committed to fixing this. This plugin takes a different approach entirely. What are X Web Intents? Web Intents are plain URLs provided by X for sharing, following, mentioning, and more. They open a lightweight native X popup — no JavaScript SDK, no third-party cookies, no external scripts loaded on page load. You click, a popup opens, done. That means: No API key required — zero setup friction No external scripts — nothing loads until the user clicks No rate limits — static URLs, no API calls GDPR-friendly — no cookies or tracking on page load Fast — the plugin CSS is ~1 KB, loaded only when a button is on the page Four button types Share — opens X compose pre-filled with the post title, permalink, hashtags, and via handle Follow — opens X’s native follow dialog for your account Mention — opens X compose pre-filled with @yourhandle so visitors can tweet at you Hashtag — opens X compose pre-filled with #yourtag; optionally pulls in the post’s own tags automatically Features Auto-insert before and/or after post content — choose which buttons and which post types per placement Per-placement button control — show Share on all posts, Follow only on certain post types, etc. Post tags as hashtags — Share and Hashtag buttons can automatically pull the post’s tags (capped at 5 to keep tweets writable) 4 Gutenberg blocks — X Share, Follow, Mention, and Hashtag blocks with live editor previews 4 Shortcodes — [sxb-share], [sxb-follow], [sxb-mention], [sxb-hashtag] Template tags — sxb_share_button() and sxb_button_bar() for theme developers Three button styles — Dark, Outline, Ghost Popup or new-tab intent window Integration Four ways to add buttons to your site: Auto-insert (recommended): Enable a placement in Settings → Simple X Buttons. Buttons appear automatically on every matching post type. Shortcode: [sxb-share], [sxb-follow handle="yourhandle"], [sxb-mention handle="yourhandle"], [sxb-hashtag tag="travel"] anywhere in content. Block: Search for “X Share Button”, “X Follow Button”, “X Mention Button”, or “X Hashtag Button” in the Gutenberg block inserter. Template tag: or in theme templates. Compatibility WordPress 5.8 or higher PHP 7.2 or higher No API key required No external JavaScript loaded on page load Works with any theme