Creative Web Specialist - An online portfolio and resource site of Warren Buckley

Hello all this is my first package for 2008. I have created a quick XSLT package to allow you to display your latest twitter status’s on your website/blog.

For example here is my twitter page where you can see what upto or thinking.

This package installs the following files:

• bin/CWSHelperTwitter.dll
• xslt/CWS_twitterStatus.xslt
• /usercontrols/Installer/CWSTwitter/cwsTwitterInstaller.ascx

The installer usercontrol cwsTwitterInstaller.ascx is used to modify the /config/xsltExtensions.config
to setup my custom XSLT extension to allow us to modify the strange format of the twitter date format.

The actual package installs the following into umbraco:

• Macro: [XSLT] CWS:Display Twitter Status
• XSLT: CWS_twitterStatus.xslt

To use this package just install this package, to do this take the following steps.

1. Login to umbraco
2. Goto the Developer section
3. Right click the Macros node
4. Select Import Package
5. Press Browse and find the zip package file you have downloaded
6. Follow the steps in the wizard
7. Once installed insert the macro into your XHTML template
8. Insert your twitter id (not username) and the number of items you want to display (upto 20)

How do I find my Twitter user id?

You can find your twitter id by browsing to your twitter page, for example http://twitter.com/warrenbuckley and clicking on the RSS link at the bottom of the page. Which loads your RSS feed like this, http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/9751992.rss
So in my case my Twitter user id is 9751992

The XSLT I have supplied is easy to read and edit to format and fit into your site design and structure, if you have any questions please leave a comment and ask me.

If you have enjoyed using this package, please tell your friends and tell them to use it

Without further-a-do here is the package for you to download.
Download Creative Website Specialist - Twitter Package v1.0.0

Thanks goes to Thomas Höhler for helping me to reformat the date.