As of April 6th, 2023, Twitter now requires a separate developer account in order to integrate with the CMS.
Depending on your level of automated use, there are now paid and free developer accounts that you can sign up for to integrate with the CMS.
More information about these developer accounts are available at https://developer.twitter.com/
Note: Your system will need to be updated to build 6882 or later in order to have this new functionality.
Showing a Twitter feed on my front-end only
If you are only interested in having your Twitter feed show within your templates and NOT have the system read or post Tweets, we have a "Widget Only" mode within the CMS that will let you register the account you wish to show on your Twitter front-end.
Within the Plugin Menu, scroll down to Twitter and click manage. Choose the Twitter account you wish to manage and click Edit:
Under the Accounts, click "Widget Support Only" You will see most of the Twitter options collapse, but you'll be allowed to enter a username.
Fill in the information and click Save.
Your Templates will need to be updated. Please see the next section for more information
Showing the Twitter Widget within your Templates
If you do not have a paid version of the Twitter API, you'll need to update your templates to embed Twitter directly into your areas.
Our newest PHP templates have updated code within template_sections/twitter_ticker.tpl and template_sections/twitter.tpl that will show the Twitter widget if you are either have a free Twitter account or are using Widget-Only mode.
If you are using a standard version of our templates, you can drop these files into your template folder and automatically get this new functionality. Otherwise, please reference these files as a starting point for integrating this functionality with your custom templates.
Integrating a developer account with the software.
Signing up for a developer account on Twitter:
In order to fully integrate with Elevated X, you'll need to sign up for a developer account at https://developer.twitter.com/
Currently, there are Free and Basic ($100 / month tiers).
Note: The Free tier is limited to posting tweets to twitter and deleting existing tweets. It cannot read new tweets that are created from outside of the CMS. There is also a 1500 tweet post limit for the free tier.
Once you sign up for an account and agree to their terms, you will see a default project set up within Projects and Apps:
Click it. On the top left side of the page, you'll see a section for Keys and Tokens. Click that.
At this point, you'll want to Regenerate your Consumer Keys. When you do this, you'll get a popup with your API keys. SAVE THESE. These are what you will be putting into your Elevated X CMS admin panel.
Next, under Settings, you'll want to scroll down to User Authentication Settings and click Set Up
Under App Permissions, you'll want to make sure this is set to Read and Write:
Under Type of App, choose Web App
Then under App Info, you'll want to set your callback to be:
https://[path_to_admin]/cms_admin/plugins/twitter/twitter_edit.php
and the website URL as your website:
Then scroll down and click Save.
Integrating your Developer Account with your CMS.
In your CMS Admin Panel, click Plugins. Scroll down to the Twitter Plugin and click Configure:
Under Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, paste in the API key and API key Secret you got from Twitter when regenerating Consumer Keys in the Twitter Developer Admin Panel:
Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.
Reauthenticating existing accounts
If you already have existing accounts in your admin panel, you will need to go into each account and re-authorize. Within the Plugin Menu, scroll down to Twitter and click manage. You'll see accounts that aren't authorized:
Click Edit next to each account. You will need to Authorize your account with Twitter:
Once this is done, you should be able to save this page and your account should be connected to Twitter.
