Gnome Tweets
Version
1.3.3 (last update on Sep 2, 2011)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
5
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
19836
Date Added
15 July 2009
Requires PHP5.
I actually got this module precisely because I was having problems with mootools and jquery compatibility with another module (JTweet). Installed this, wrote about 3 lines of CSS and everything is perfect. So many modules force frames and styling on you. This puts the twitter feed you want in place with no styling at all so you can make it match your site perfectly. So simple. Love it.
this module is very easey to set up, but have truble with mootools and jquery modules can not coexist.
Owner's reply
Tweets Module has no javascript, so I don't know what kind of issue you are having but it isn't a conflict with this module. You might want to check your other module configurations for issues instead.
This module is great because it's so simple.
Out of the box it displays the Tweets in plain text so you can style them according to your sites' template in an existing CSS file.
Support is great too, when I had a problem(possibly caused by a bug) it was solved within a day. What more can you ask?
Out of the box it displays the Tweets in plain text so you can style them according to your sites' template in an existing CSS file.
Support is great too, when I had a problem(possibly caused by a bug) it was solved within a day. What more can you ask?
Big kudos to Jeremy Wilken, the developer of Gnome Tweets, for recognizing the need for caching in a Twitter module.
I had been using Twitter's widget code, but having to connect to Twitter every page load was slowing down our site (and reducing our Google Pagespeed score). Since the site I manage is for an ISP, it looks bad if the page loads slowly ;)
I found a small issue with this module on Joomla 1.6, in that HTML tags get stripped from the before and after text fields. I emailed Jeremy about it and he responded promptly and helpfully, and suggested an override for the time being, till he can fix it.
I look forward to a future version doing *exactly* what I want, and getting an *Excellent* rating from me.
So give this a try! Couldn't be simpler to install and use. For most folks, it should just be "plug and play."
For those like me who want to customize a bit, it's relatively easy to do that, too. Thank goodness, the developer didn't load it down with a stylesheet - that's the last I need, one more stylesheet added to the pile - so I can just add my own styles to my own stylesheet.
I had been using Twitter's widget code, but having to connect to Twitter every page load was slowing down our site (and reducing our Google Pagespeed score). Since the site I manage is for an ISP, it looks bad if the page loads slowly ;)
I found a small issue with this module on Joomla 1.6, in that HTML tags get stripped from the before and after text fields. I emailed Jeremy about it and he responded promptly and helpfully, and suggested an override for the time being, till he can fix it.
I look forward to a future version doing *exactly* what I want, and getting an *Excellent* rating from me.
So give this a try! Couldn't be simpler to install and use. For most folks, it should just be "plug and play."
For those like me who want to customize a bit, it's relatively easy to do that, too. Thank goodness, the developer didn't load it down with a stylesheet - that's the last I need, one more stylesheet added to the pile - so I can just add my own styles to my own stylesheet.
Owner's reply
Thanks for the review, I've fixed the issue once I dug into the JForm library and figured out how to disable the filtering that Joomla 1.6+ does to remove the HTML. I've updated the downloads as well with this fix.
The position of the word "before" can be configured, but this doesn't seem to work at the moment; I have created a german translation, but instead of "vor 2 Tagen" (2 days ago) the module shows "2 Tagen 2" (2 days 2)...
I would have subtracted one star for that, but apart from that problem, it is the only twitter extension I tried which works exactly as expected AND is very easy to configure! For that, I'll give the 5 stars!
I would have subtracted one star for that, but apart from that problem, it is the only twitter extension I tried which works exactly as expected AND is very easy to configure! For that, I'll give the 5 stars!
Straight to the point...this one works! It's not loaded with all this scrolling, avatars, and other eye-candy stuff, and no conflicting javascripts and jquery. It's a twitter display module that is just that, it shows your latest tweets.
I've literally tried almost every twitter module here that exists on the first page at least and surprised there was at least one issue with each...tried the Gnome one here and it worked from the start.
I've literally tried almost every twitter module here that exists on the first page at least and surprised there was at least one issue with each...tried the Gnome one here and it worked from the start.
