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How to embed real tweets into any WordPress post

How to embed real tweets into any WordPress post

From the course: Creative Quick Tips

How to embed real tweets into any WordPress post

Hello there, and welcome back to another installment of Creative Quick Tips. My name is Justin Seeley, and this week I'm going to be showing you how to quickly embed a tweet inside of your Word Press post to make them a little bit more interactive. Previously, when I wanted to quote someone from Twitter on my blog, I would always just take a screenshot of the tweet that they posted and then post it into my blog. But, the unfortunate thing there is I also had to add that link to the image that would link back to the tweet and it wasn't very interactive, and it just wasn't very good. But now, WordPress actually has support for you to directly embed tweets into your post without having to do a whole lot of work. So let's take a look at how this works. I'm going to go to a Twitter page. In this case, it's Morty Golding's Twitter page. And you'll see here Morty has a nice tweet that says Friday's Illustrator tip, don't get lost in your work while your afternoon snack melts by your side…

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