Feb 02
Update: WordPress Plugin Tweet This
Filed under: WordPressI recently added Tweet This to my site, a plugin for WordPress that enables your visitors to easily post a link to your article in their Twitter stream. The key point here, easier is better. One-click goodness will surely get your articles into the Twitterverse.
The plugin was updated yesterday with many more admin features along with options for Digg This, Plunk This and Ping This links. You can see all four at the bottom of this article.
A very welcome addition is customization of how the text is sent to Twitter. The default is ‘[URL] [TITLE]‘ but I followed John Chow’s lead and modified mine to ‘Reading @mesmerlab [TITLE] [URL]‘. I had to modify the plugin code itself when I first installed it.
Thanks go out to Richard X. Thripp for this great upgrade!
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Rob
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 5:07 pmVERY nice implementation. How do you get these buttons to show up in a nice line? They’re kind of scattered all over the bottom of our posts?
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Jason
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February 3rd, 2009 at 5:38 pm
I had to edit the plugin a little bit. Search for ‘function get_tweet_this()’. You’ll see a variable for $link. The first part of that is a <p> tag with no parameters. I simply added a class of ‘tweet-this’. And in the main style sheet I added the class declaration as follows.
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Richard X. Thripp
Sunday, February 8th, 2009 at 2:59 amThanks for writing this article, and great use of Tweet This!
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