Display Twitch streams in your sidebars.
Features
- This plugin allows you to display Twitch™ streams in your sidebars
- Display streams of certain streamers (by username)
- Display streams for certain games (e.g. League of Legends only)
- Choose from 100 available games
- Filter streams by their language (e.g. showing German streams only)
- Define the maximum amount of streams to show
- Select between the following layouts: Large, small & a combination of both
- Caching functionality
- Configuration page for more options
- Try out the online demo
- Regular updates and improvements: Go though the changelog
Quickstart Examples
- Step 1: Create API Credentials
- Step 2: Enter your API credentials
- Step 3: Place Twitch streams in your sidebars
More features with the PRO version
The PRO version extends this plugin exclusively with a variety of different styles and some exclusively features:
- Display more than 3 streams
- More than 200+ games available
- Place streams via shortcode inside your posts and pages
- Choose from different styles
- Sort streams by different criteria
Details and upgrade can be found
here.
Support
Credits
- This plugin is not official made or maintained by Twitch™. All data provided through the official Twitch™ API.
The installation and configuration of the plugin is as simple as it can be.
Using The WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the 'Add New' in the plugins dashboard
- Search for 'twitch for wordpress'
- Click 'Install Now'
- Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard
Uploading in WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the 'Add New' in the plugins dashboard
- Navigate to the 'Upload' area
- Select zip file from your computer
- Click 'Install Now'
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
Using FTP
- Download the plugin
- Extract the directory to your computer
- Upload the directory to the
/wp-content/plugins/
directory
- Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
Version 3.4.0 (27th August 2024)
- Security: Audit and update
- Change name of plugin to Stream Embed for Twitch from Twitch for WP
Version 3.3.0 (6th June 2024)
- New: New owners now solely KryptoniteWP. Update removal from wordpress.org to main website.
Version 3.2.5 (12th January 2021)
- Fix: "max" number of streams applies before the ordering in the pro version
Version 3.2.4 (7th July 2021)
- Tweak: Optimized for pro version stream pagination
Version 3.2.3 (7th April 2021)
- Fix: Offline streams couldn't be displayed in the pro version
Version 3.2.2 (30th March 2021)
- Fix: Streams couldn't be displayed after the last plugin update
Version 3.2.1 (15th March 2021)
- Tweak: Optimized webpack for assets building
Version 3.2.0 (15th March 2021)
- New: Added settings widget to easily submit a plugin review
- Tweak: Optimized Twitch API calls to be able to receive more than 100 streams
- Tweak: Optimized assets building
- WordPress v5.7 compatibility
Version 3.1.1 (31th August 2020)
- Plugin update was not distributed due to wrong versioning
Version 3.1.0 (27th August 2020)
- New: Added support for the following game(s): EA Sports UFC 4
- Tweak: Optimized settings page "API Related Data" section
- WordPress v5.5 compatibility
Version 3.0.1 (13th June 2020)
- Fix: Embedded player didn't play the video and showed: "Whoops! This embed is misconfigured"
- WordPress v5.4.2 compatibility
Version 3.0.0 (30th April 2020)
- New: Added support for the new Twitch Helix API
- New: Added 15 and 30 minutes as new cache durations
- Tweak: Default cache duration is 60 minutes now
- WordPress v5.4.1 compatibility
Version 2.0.5 (26th November 2019)
- New: Added support for the following game(s): NHL 20
- Tweak: Widget title can now be empty as well
- WordPress v5.3 compatibility
Version 2.0.4 (20th October 2019)
- New: Added setting which allows customizing the "No streams found" message on the frontend
- New: Added support for the following game(s): Soulcalibur VI
- WordPress v5.2.4 compatibility
Version 2.0.3 (8th July 2019)
- New: Added support for the following game(s): Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands
- Fix: PHP notice related to the setting "api_status"
- WordPress v5.2.2 compatibility
Version 2.0.2 (29th March 2019)
- New: Added support for the following games: MLB The Show 19; Out Of The Park Baseball 20
- WordPress v5.1.1 compatibility
Version 2.0.1 (6th November 2018)
- Fix: Language selection via widget didn't work properly
Version 2.0 (28th September 2018)
- Complete plugin rebuild
- Based on the new Twitch API
- WordPress v4.9.8 compatibility