As of April 2026, Get Tweets in PHP is a WordPress tweet plugin with 60 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Easy Twitter Feed Widget Plugin.
5/52 reviews
60active installs
3.1K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
This plugin will add the PHP class GetTweetsInPhp. You can use this class as described below for retrieving latest tweets from a Twitter account, then handle the tweets as you want in your PHP code.
Note: you should create a Twitter app before using this plugin. You can do it from here: http://apps.twitter.com.
Features
- Get latest N tweets from a Twitter account.
- Get the tweet’s text formatted as HTML (with links for each entities).
- Cache support.
- Made for developers.
- Really light and simple.
- Works with the v1.1 Twitter API.
- Trivial install/uninstall (only add/remove the plugin’s files).
- No any data will be permanently stored in your database (only transient data
if the cache is enabled). - Proudly coded by Netgloo.
Example usage
Get and show latest tweets from @netglooweb:
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2
- Custom HTML templates for links and “retweeted by” text.
- New hashtag link: https://twitter.com/hashtag.
- Get media urls with https.
- Cache disabled by default (as in the documentation).
Contributors
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