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Learning Magento Theme Development

You're reading from   Learning Magento Theme Development Create visually stunning and responsive themes to customize the appearance of your Magento store

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783280612
Length 182 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Richard Carter Richard Carter
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Preface 1. Introduction to Magento and Magento Themes FREE CHAPTER 2. Magento Theming Basics 3. Magento Templates 4. Magento Layout 5. Social Media and Magento 6. Advanced Magento Theming 7. Magento Theming for Mobile and Tablet Devices 8. Magento E-mail Templates Index

Integrating a Twitter feed into your Magento store


If you're active on Twitter, it can be worthwhile to let your customers know. While you can't (yet, anyway!) accept payment for your goods through Twitter, it can be a great way to develop a long term relationship with your store's customers and increase repeat orders.

One way you can tell customers you're active on Twitter is to place a Twitter feed that contains some of your recent tweets on your store's home page. While you need to be careful not to get in the way of your store's true content, such as your most recent products and offers, you could add the Twitter feed in the footer of your website.

Creating your Twitter widget

To embed your tweets, you will need to create a Twitter widget. Log in to your Twitter account, navigate to https://twitter.com/settings/widgets, and follow the instructions given there to create a widget that contains your most recent tweets. This will create a block of code for you that looks similar to the following...

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