This is a simple widget tutorial to turn a topic into a twitter timeline. The end result will look like this.
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First create a topic that will be the home of the twitter widget and record its topic id.
Now go to /admin/extend/widgets and place a html widget on topic.tpl/header. The standard twitter timeline widget code only works on cold loads so we have to modify it for NodeBB. You can generate the twitter widget at https://twitter.com/settings/widgets, after you copy that code you have to replace the <script> block with the one provided below.
<script>
!function(d,s,id){
var js,p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';
var el = d.getElementById(id);
if (el) {
el.parentNode.removeChild(el);
}
if (!d.getElementById(id)) {
js = d.createElement(s);
js.id = id;
js.src = p + "://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";
var fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);
}
}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");
</script>
Here is the full widget code for NodeBB's twitter timeline. You can copy paste it into your HTML widget and replace every <topic_id> with your own topic id.
<style>
.page-topic-<topic_id> .topic {
display: none;
}
.page-topic .twitter-timeline {
display: none !important;
width: 100% !important;
height: 800px !important;
}
.page-topic-<topic_id> .twitter-timeline {
display: block !important;
}
</style>
<a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/NodeBB" data-widget-id="433016924318883841">Tweets by @NodeBB</a>
<script>
!function(d,s,id){
var js,p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';
var el = d.getElementById(id);
if (el) {
el.parentNode.removeChild(el);
}
if (!d.getElementById(id)) {
js = d.createElement(s);
js.id = id;
js.src = p + "://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";
var fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);
}
}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");
</script>
Once you have the widget, you can customize it with data attributes, for more info you can read https://dev.twitter.com/web/embedded-timelines
