Continuing our series on helpful WordPress plugins we use and recommend for our clients…

Twitter Widget Pro

More and more companies are using microblogging services like Twitter to keep in touch with their target audiences. So surely there must be a way to integrate your Twitter feed with your WordPress blog, right? Right! Meet Twitter Widget Pro. This little gem adds a widget item to your blog that you can then effortlessly add to the sidebar of any widget-enabled theme. Just add the widget to a sidebar (Appearance > Widgets) tell the widget the name of your Twitter account (no password required), set a few options and you’re golden. The widget is even smart enough to know if Twitter is unavailable and can display a message instead of just sitting there trying to load forever. And with heavily burdened Web 2.0 sites like Twitter occasionally having outages, you really have to love some good old-fashioned fault tolerance. As a bonus, the widget’s HTML output is heavily laden with CSS selectors so your web guys can style it however you need (if necessary).

Check out the Twitter Widget Pro plugin home page for more information or to download it yourself. As usual, don’t forget to donate to the author!

Next time we’ll cover Wordbook, a great tool to help add your blog posts to your Facebook stream.