Tweet Blog Post Without A Plugin
Since my last post on the “Top 10 Wordpress plugins”, I had read lots of readers asking for a Twitter Wordpress Plugin. I got this tip from John Chow’s Blog Post and all you need to do is to modify your blog post entries in the file to add in the following code below:
<a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://twitter.com/home/?status=Reading @Gathersuccess- <?php the_title(); ?> http://gathersuccess.com/?p=<?php the_ID(); ?>”><img src=”http://www.gathersuccess.com/images/twitter.jpg” alt=”Tweet This” /> <strong>Tweet This Post!</strong></a>
Insert the above code and change to your domain and twitter name where I have bold them above to your Wordpress single.php file at the point you want the Tweet link to show up. For my case, it is just below the blost post.
You will noticed the link is the default Wordpress URL which is not SEO friendly. The reason you do this is because Twitter has limited 160 characters so you cannot put in the full url.
The reason, I did not want to install another plugin as this simple code would do the job and this will take up less resources in the Wordpress engine.
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That is pretty neat. I will have to add this to my twitter account where I only post things about twitter.
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Need some comment on the new layout guys
Awesome tip! I’m a big fan of doing things without plugins if I can, my social bookmarks are all hardcoded to help with speed on my blog.
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Hi Alvin
This is a great plugin, but I think it doesn’t work on UBT Theme by Carl.
I had inserted the code and change the border words you instructed, but I can’t see the image and the link was this –
“http://www.thebadblogger.com/sex-secrets/%E2%80%9Dhttp://twitter.com/home/?status=Reading ”
I even try testing by not changing anything in the code you had given but still no luck, I still can’t see the little twitter bird logo and also the link cannot work too.
Any suggestion ?
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A problem I ran into with this and other copy/pasting to WordPress apps is the quotation marks(”")….MAKE SURE YOU DELETE THEM AND REINSERT because WP seems to always convert the quotation marks to a fancy style -which isn’t recognized so you need to edit them with the correct marks!
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Hi Caleb,
Thanks for the info,it works now !
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Can’t take all the credit bcz it was actually Christopher Ross(below) who informed of this WP issue a couple of weeks ago -I think it was, huh Christopher?….
Alvin
This seems like a great idea, and I love the image you use for your Twitter link but from the blog post I can’t tell where to insert the lines of code.
Insert in which file??? Where???
Thanks for the info, but would you mind clarifying for those of us who are…um…not coders?
Thanks again!
C my comment toward the end…
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Alvin,
Can you tell me where I should post this code
into the single.php code?
Thanks
Jeff
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@Jeff / @Kathleen
in the singles.php file, you can add the line of text immediately after the to have it appear in the text following the content. Remember you still have to change a few things for it to work on your blog, I recommend using the following:
<a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://twitter.com/home/?status=Reading @[YOURTWITTERNAME] – /?p=”>Twitter.
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hi alvin
where i should post these code?
This is awesome! Thank you. I’m going to use it right now
I am like the others where does it go? To show you how much I know about code to me it is something that the military uses. Thank goodness for outsourcing!!!!!!!
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After loggin into your Wordpress admin, goto ‘Appearance’ then to ‘Editor’…from there, select ‘Single Post(single.php)’ from the far right hand side.
You should then be on the correct page to insert the code. Simply scroll through it to find
and put the code either before or after it…simpleCaleb (Market Secrets Blogger)’s last blog post..How to Finally Make Money Using Affiliate Programs
Oooooops! That last comment didn’t show what to scroll for:
div class="post-content">Caleb (Market Secrets Blogger)’s last blog post..How to Finally Make Money Using Affiliate Programs
Nice hack. I would like to see more.
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Although I use OnlyWire for this -which submits to dozens of other social networks along with Twitter at one click- this is still a neat little script trick…thanx, I just installed the coded!
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Caleb thanks for the help got it working.
Bo Tipton
The Ornery Marketer
Very neat and useful code. But I found some problems using it..
Ben
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nice and simple plugin. the best thing is it is free and we can all use it without spending a dime.
Thanks alvin for sharing this plugin.
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thanks just deactivated tweetmeme button and installed this code amzed for such a small cod ethey were using so huge plugin
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