How to show Twitter followers and more in WordPress

We've written a piece of code before that lets you show the number of Twitter followers, which is contributed by Rarst. In this article, we will share a more advanced and elegant code that allows you to display Twitter followers in WordPress. This script was also contributed by Rust.

feature

This feature is not limited to the number of followers. It can get any non-nested values ​​returned by the Twitter users/show API method.

It has two levels of cache:

• The query's value is stored in the database as an array using the WP option, lasting $interval seconds;
• API responses are stored in memory, so you can query as many fields as you like without generating multiple API requests.

This should be safe to use both multiply values ​​and multiply users without worrying about running out of API limits.

Tutorial

First open the functions.php file of the theme and add the following code:

 functionrarst_twitter_user( $username, $field, $display= false ) {$interval= 3600;$cache= get_option('rarst_twitter_user');$url= 'http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name='.urlencode($username);if( false == $cache)$cache= array();// if first time request add placeholder and force updateif( !isset( $cache[$username][$field] ) ) {$cache[$username][$field] = NULL;$cache[$username]['lastcheck'] = 0;}// if outdatedif( $cache[$username]['lastcheck']  $value)if( isset($data->$key) )$cache[$username][$key] = $data->$key;$cache[$username]['lastcheck'] = time();}else{$cache[$username]['lastcheck'] = time() 60;}update_option( 'rarst_twitter_user', $cache);}if( false != $display)echo$cache[$username][$field]; return$cache[$username][$field];}

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usage

After pasting the function, you can now use the code in any WordPress template file you like. Just paste the following code:

 echoorarst_twitter_user('wpbeginner', 'name').' has '.rarsst_twitter_user('wpbeginner', 'followers_count').' followers after '.rarsst_twitter_user('wpbeginner', 'statuses_count').' updates.';

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The above code will display the following:

WPBeginner has 5846 followers after 1300 updates.

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