Friday, October 4, 2019

Adding a Twitter Feed

One way to tie some of your communication together is to embed your school/classroom twitter feed into your blog. This can be done by following the process below. It is a two step process. First you need to create the code but visit publish.twitter.com and following the steps below.

The instructions below come from https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/embed-twitter-feed

To add an embedded timeline to your website

  1. Go to https://publish.twitter.com/.
  2. Enter the URL of the timeline or Moment you’d like to embed.
  3. Customize the design by specifying the height, theme(light or dark), and link color to match your website. 
  4. Copy and paste the code into the HTML of your website wherever you would like the timeline to appear.
  5. You're done!
Once you have copied the code follow the process below to embed the twitter feed into your blog.

  1. Go to your blog author view and then click on Layout. In the Layout, find the Sidebar and add a new Gadget
  2. Scroll down to the HTML/JavaScript gadget and click the +
  3. [Before you go to #5 be sure to complete the copy the code your created above]
  4. Paste the Copied code into The box. *Tip ~ leave the title blank as the copied code has a title in it.
  5. Change the width and height in the copied code. This adjusts the size of the copied feed to display properly on your blog
  6. Click Save and look for the twitter feed on the right hand side of your published blog.