How to add a FaceBook-style Twitter Fan Widget in your WordPress Blog

by Aditya on February 14, 2010

I really like the FaceBook fan widget. It shows few profile pics from a FaceBook fan page and provides a button that anyone can click to join that fan club. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I am not on FaceBook. The reason why I am not on FaceBook can be read in my blog post titled – “Why I chose Twitter over FaceBook” (link). Anyway, that’s another story. In this post we will see how we can add a FaceBook-like Twitter Fan Widget in a WordPress blog sidebar.

Thanks to Sohail Abid who has created a WordPress plugin called “Twitter Fans”. This has made adding a Facebook-like Twitter Fan Widget to a WordPress blog immensely simple.

To activate this plugin and add Facebook-like Twitter Fan Widget to your WordPress sidebar, follow the following procedure:

1. Login to your WordPress dashboard.

2. Click “Add new” under “Plugins” from your dashboard sidebar.

3. Search for the plugin “Twitter fans”.

4. Click on “Install” link. The plugin will be installed.

5. Activate the plugin.

6. Go to “Widgets” under appearance.

7. Look for a new widget called “Twitter fans”.

8. Drag it to your sidebar.

9. Enter your Twitter username, no. of fans to show, border colour and other customizations.

10. Save the Twitter Fans’ setting by clicking the “Save” button.

You will now have a FaceBook style Twitter Fan widget on your WordPress sidebar.

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Utkarsh Verma February 16, 2010 at 7:11 pm: Trying it out
Khürt Williams  February 17, 2010 at 4:58 pm: Are you saying that you don’t user facebook personally or that your blog does not have a facebook fan page? Twitter and facebook are as alike as dogs and cats. One is for keeping up with REAL friend and family and the other is for keeping up with the world.
Love the tip.
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