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Twitter plugin to work with Django-CMS

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##About


Twitter dropped support for v1.0 of its REST API. Since this was used in DjangoCMS, all of the installations which used this plugin broke.
Hence, this creates a twitter plugin using widgets.


##Installation

- In order to install this plugin, fire up your virtualenv:

```bash
pip install cmsplugin-twitter
```

- And add the this line in INSTALLED_APPS in your base.py
```python
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'south',
'project.apps.movies',
'project.apps.books',
'project.apps.blog',
'project.apps.linkedin',

'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',

'cms',
'cms.plugins.text',
'cms.plugins.picture',
'cms.plugins.link',
'cms.plugins.file',
'cms.plugins.snippet',
'cms.plugins.googlemap',
'sekizai',
'cmsplugin_twitter',
'menus',
'mptt',
'publisher',
'storages',
'boto',
'tinymce',
)
```
considering you have settings.py similar to this:

- After saving them , run migrations:

```bash
python manage.py migrate
```

##How to Use:

- Login to your `twitter` account and go to this url: `https://twitter.com/settings/widgets`

- Create a new widgets and then copy the `twitter handle ` and ` widget_id` from the generated script.

- Enter those two fields in the plugin form and other fields and you are good to go.


##Plugin in Action


This is the plugin working on a Django-CMS site:

![Twitter Plugin](twitter.png)

Enjoy!

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