HI,
I have just pushed an Action that will place a Twitter feed on your site out the door.
http://www.actionsworld.com/Actions/Twitter/index.php
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Thanks Paul.
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Hey, what a champ you are!
I Just bought your action and all I can say is Very cool!!
I would love to know how to customize a few things.
Is there any chance you could provide a quick beginner tutorial on styling your action? Covering things which go beyond the scope of the built in style options.
For example, I would love to control the following:
Spacing between each tweet
BG color of the twitter box
BG color of the tweets themselves
so for example, I would have a dark grey twitter box with lighter grey background for each individual tweet with control to space the tweets out a bit leaving more dark grey BG between them.
Would this be possible and easy enough to do at my end?
Many thanks once again for a great action
–Nathan Clark
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HI,
styling the box and the tweets is fairly straight forward. The Action itself is a stand alone Action, so it won’t be directly styled - it was designed to be the marker where the Twitter feed goes, allowing you the freedom to do styling within Freeway itself.
So to create a background box of a set colour:
1 - Draw and HTML box
2 - Give it a colour
3 - Click in the box as if yuo are going to type something
4 - Go to Insert>Action Item>Twitter
5 - Resize the Twitter box to give your preview a fighting chance of being displayed (though the size of the Twitter box has no bearing on final code output).
You can, of course use other methods to style the box, my Text Box Decoration Action for example, or Freeway’s own box background effects.
To style the Tweets, you need to write a little CSS (I’ll no doubt look at expanding what can be done in a future update).
1 - Go to Page>HTML MarkUp
2 - Choose the Before option
3 - Type the following:
Where #ffff00 is replaced by the colour of your choice. This will place each Tweet in a yellow box.
To increase the spacing between each tweet (at the moment it’s fixed to 8px) add the margin-bottom attribute to the CSS above, for example:
This is a bit extreme, but you will be able to up the spaces between Tweets this way.
If you look at the source of the page the Action is on, you will see a lot of CSS rules. You can override or add settings to them using the methods above. Be sure to use the After slot in the page markup so that if you do change a setting already made, the change will be used by the browser.
I’ll also look at doing a tutorial, though possibly after I’ve pondered adding more styling freedom to the Action.
Hope all this helps, and I’m glad the Action is being welcomed. I’ll post these notes on my Actions site for the time being.
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Fantastic! you are a true gentleman!
What a lovely and concise response and with such timely a manner!
I look forward to seeing and supporting your future endeavors with actions for freeway!
Many thanks,
Nathan
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GREAT!
I’ve been looking for a solution to display a set amount on tweets in specific styles on my freeway sites for ages!!!
Many thanks Paul!
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Hi Paul, I’ve messaged you about this but I thought I’d post on here too, it’s fairly urgent. All my twitter feeds using this action are suddenly blank. Any ideas?
Thanks.
One site is here: http://www.scruffydogltd.com/day/index.php
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On 11 Oct 2012, at 11:55, spark wrote:
Hi Paul, I’ve messaged you about this but I thought I’d post on here too, it’s fairly urgent. All my twitter feeds using this action are suddenly blank. Any ideas?
Ooer. I’ve just noticed it on my site.
I suspect Twitter have broken something. =o(
Heather
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Looks that way. That’s handy…
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I believe Twitter recently and suddenly made significant changes to their API, the news of which made the rounds online because it broke a lot of 3rd Party apps. that left a lot of people scratching their heads. I could be mistaken, though.
Todd
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Hi, all
Twitter has changed how they allow Tweets and timelines to be embedded on websites, and in doing so has killed the method my Action used. The Action basically took some script that Twitter gave, and generated a lot of CSS to style the Tweets. This worked well and meant that you could style your Tweets to match your webpage.
The new method of embedding your Twitter stream is to create a widget on Twitter’s site. Again, they hand you some HTML to put on your web page, but this time the Twitter stream is contained within an iFrame. This means that they have full control over styling, appearance of the timeline, and we won”t be able to override it. There are some options available, but don’t expect to be able to change fonts, colours or have any real fine grained control over the look and feel of it.
Twitter is making a lot of changes over how its data is accessed by third party applications - and this policy is clearly being applied to web sites as well.
I guess this means that the much threatened Promoted Tweets are on their way, and this method means that there is no way to cunningly filter them out with a script or CSS. Twitter is in need of making money from its service, and adverts is clearly the obvious way of doing this.
Unfortunately, this means that the Twitter Action is no more. Sorry, folks. I have no control over this.
You’ll have to visit https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/ and configure your own widgets from there, and embed them in your Freeway documents.
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I think you’re right. And I can’t even get the official Twitter widget to embed properly into a freeway page. Today is going well…
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Although wordpress widgets seem to still be working…
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On 11 Oct 2012, at 15:26, Paul wrote:
Unfortunately, this means that the Twitter Action is no more. Sorry, folks. I have no control over this.
Thanks for clarifying the situation Paul.
It was fun while it lasted.
Cheers
Heather
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So how do we embed the official widget into a page?
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1 - Create the Widget in Twitter
2 - In Freeway, go to Insert>Markup Item
3 - Paste the code Twitter gives you into the window that appears. Then OK it.
4 - Resize the box with an in a grey icon to fit.
I have just found this page that tells you why this change has happened:
In essence: behavioural marketing. Twitter will be tracking you, and in order to do this, they need to access cookies, which they can only do from their domain, hence the iFrame.
This is what Facebook does with those little Like buttons you see everywhere.
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So how come the Wordpress widgets are still working?
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They were probably using an iframe all along… (Just guessing.)
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So how come the Wordpress widgets are still working?
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Ah right that might make sense.
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Or maybe their widget was part of a collusion between the two companies. Is this a Wordpress.com widget, or a (download open source and install on your own server) Wordpress widget? If the former, and their privacy policy allowed it, Wordpress might have been sharing the granular usage data directly with Twitter.
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On Oct 11, 2012, at 10:46 AM, spark wrote:
Ah right that might make sense.
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