Add Official Tweet Button in WordPress

Adding a decent looking tweet button to your wordpress post or page is a really good marketing tool. In this post we will explore a simple way to add official tweet button in WordPress.

Resulting button could be one of the three listed in this image depending upon your choice.

Step 1:

Visit the URL : http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton and choose the button of your choice.

Step 2:

Copy the given code to your code editor and customize it using WordPress functions.

Example:

<a href="http://twitter.com/share"
   class="twitter-share-button"
   data-url="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"
   data-text="<?php the_title(); ?>"
   data-count="horizontal"
   data-via="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>">Tweet</a>

<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>

Any questions are welcome

I hope you have enjoyed the post !

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