Overview

Slate’s default sidebar template in html-templates/includes/site.sidebar.tpl contains a Twitter widget that can be activated by creating a widget on Twitter and inputting its settings into Slate.

Creating the widget

Open https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/new, configure your widget, and click Create widget

Configuring Slate

After creating the widget, you can find the long numerical ID Twitter assigns the widget either in the URL for the edit widget page you’ll find yourself on after creating it, or in the embed code Twitter provides you to copy.

Append the following block to your php-config/Slate.config.php file, replacing the number with your widget’s ID and MY_HANDLE with your Twitter handle (excluding the @ symbol).

Slate::$siteWidgets['twitter'] = array(
    'widgetId' => 1234567890987654321
    ,'href' => 'https://twitter.com/SlateFoundation'
    ,'handle' => 'SlateFoundation'
);