Description
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
- Detailed online documentation
- Browse issue tracker on GitHub
- Follow us on Twitter to stay in contact and informed about updates
Credits
- This plugin is not official made or maintained by Twitch™. All data provided through the official Twitch™ API.
Screenshots
Widget Output 
Widget Configuration 
Settings Page
Installation
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
FAQ
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Multisite supported?
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Yes of course.
Reviews
February 23, 2022
We have used the premium version of this plugin for over 2 years. Anytime an issue happened with Twitch API changes etc. the developer has a patch ready within hours or days!
If you're looking to display your or a friend's Twitch stream on a website then this is the plugin for you.
We have had no issues period!
December 15, 2020
Works great! 🙂
May 30, 2020
4 replies
Didn't tell you that you can't use the plugin within a page when I downloaded it, only works in side-bar. The limitation wasn't clarified beforehand and since then, the description has been updated ....so 2 extra stars.
October 7, 2018
3 replies
The developer of this has switched hands, and I'm hopeful for the support to greatly increase as well. We have been using this plugin for about 1.5 years now, and definitely love it!
January 15, 2018
1 reply
Works amazing. It would be even better if you could control how many online streams will automatically start.
Perfect widget for gaming-related websites
June 2, 2017
3 replies
You should add column formatting so that it fits automatically.
And you can see all direct in Grid format. It would be great, and you would have many more facilities.
Extra opinion, you should improve the Plugin miniature, it does not emphasize enough because it seems unprofessional.
Nice Plugin!
Contributors & Developers
“Twitch for WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Translate “Twitch for WordPress” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
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