Block Overview

The Twitter Widget block allows you to insert a Twitter Timeline into your page.

Creating a Twitter Widget

Before you can utlize this block, you must first go to your Twitter page and create a Widget. Once the Widget is created, you will copy your Twitter Widget Id and insert it into this block.

1. Go to Twitter and log in.
2. In the upper right corner click the Gear icon and choose settings.
   
3. Click Widgets from the menu on the left
   
4. Click the Create New button in the middle of the page.
   
5. Use the tabs and options to customize the type of Widget you'd like to create.
   • User timeline - Shows all of the tweets from one user. You probably want to stick with this one.
     • ​It's probably a good idea to leave 'Exclude replies' checked
     • You may need to come back and change the height after you see how it looks on your page.
     • Feel free to change the theme and link color.
   • Favorites - Shows your favorite tweets
   • List - Shows tweets from the list you select. This is a good way to show tweets from multiple teachers in your building. Create a list and add all of the teachers to the group. Then create a List widget.
   • Search - Shows tweets from search terms (including hashtags searches). Use this if you want to show all #isdstrong tweets.
6. Click Create Widget
7. Copy the Widget Id from the URL in the Address bar. It's the long string of numbers after the word 'widgets'
   
   The widget id is bolded
   https://twitter.com/settings/widget/507233692293402624/edit

Twitter Widget Block Properties

Now that you have the Widget Id, create a Twitter Widget Block on your ISD Site Editor page. 

1. After creating the block, click the block properties button (the cog in the header)
2. Make sure to enter the Twitter username for the account you created the widget in.
3. Copy and paste the Twitter Widget Id
4. Click Apply
5. Save the page

Note: When you first create the block and set the properties, the feed won't show, save the page and go look at the live site to see the timeline.