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Tweet Button For WP Posts
Posted by: | CommentsHave you ever seen those big Tweet buttons on the posts of the people you like to read and follow? It is so simple to have one of those on your posts. Look to the right of this paragraph for an example.
To get started:
Search the great WordPress repository for “Big Tweet Button”. This is the plugin website: Big Tweet Button.
Once installed, this is how it will appear on your WP backend plugin page:
The plugin developer, Scott Carter, provides three views to choose from:
That last view that doesn’t show how many times the post has been tweeted comes in handy for posts like mine that haven’t been tweeted much. How about a tweet somebody? *SMILE*
And, how it looks on my blog posts:
A really great, simple, powerful plugin!
Think Outside the WP Box
Posted by: | CommentsSomehow, I’ve always thought that any plugin that went into WordPress had to come from the WordPress Repository, or at least be designed specifically for WordPress. After figuring out how to use the ShareThis plugin on my website, I realized that other plugins could work on a WordPress site.
Take a look at this screenshot:
Have you ever seen this widget on a web page and wondered how it got there? Go to Twitter Goodies, click on “Widgets”, and then “My Website”. You will have a choice of four kinds of widgets: Fave, List, Search, and Profile. The one displayed here is a profile widget that displays my latests tweeps.
It is very easy to do. Even though it looks like nothing is there, click on “Finish & Grab Code”. When you see the code, highlight and copy it.
Then, go over to your WP Dashboard, open “Widgets”, locate the place in your sidebar you want it to display, drag a text widget over there, and paste the code in. There it is!
The widget code didn’t render the correct width to work in my theme, but I changed the width a few times, and it worked just great at 170 pixels.
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