Want more Retweets? Use the official tweet button
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 9:39 am
A little over a month ago, I recommended using the TweetMeme WordPress plugin to get more retweets on your posts.
A few days ago, Twitter announced its own retweet button. Several methods have already emerged to integrate the official Tweet button into your WordPress sites.
WordPress Plugins
The first Twitter button WordPress plugin I came across was from Blogsessive.
Twitter button WordPress plugin
As you can see in the screenshot above, russian virtual mobile number the options integrate all the options you would expect from a WordPress Twitter button plugin, without any additional features. You can download it from the post linked above.
After this a few others appeared in the WordPress.org plugin directory:
Twitter Button by Svilen Popov
TweetButton by David R. Davis, Jr.
The manual way
Twitter has provided several ways to include the Tweet How to Make a Bio Dropdown Box with CSS
button on your own pages. The easiest option is through this customizable form where you can define the button type, a custom URL, Tweet text, language, and recommended Twitter users.
Let's take a look at the code that is produced after entering some example values.
<a href="
data-url=
data-text="El título de la página va aquí"
data-count="vertical"
data-via="themelab"
data-related="
Let's go through this line by line.
First line: Basically just open the link and add a CSS class.
Second line: data-urlused to introduce a link, probably the permalink of your post.
Third line: data-textUsed for the text of the tweet, probably the title of your post.
Fourth line: data-countused to define the type of button: vertical, horizontal, or none.
Fifth line: data-viaUsed in the @mention of the tweet, probably your own Twitter account.
Sixth line: data-relatedallows you to define another Twitter account with a custom description.
Last Line: Basically just closes the link and adds a mandatory line of javascript.
I recommend you play around with the button code generator to get a better feel for the different options.
A few days ago, Twitter announced its own retweet button. Several methods have already emerged to integrate the official Tweet button into your WordPress sites.
WordPress Plugins
The first Twitter button WordPress plugin I came across was from Blogsessive.
Twitter button WordPress plugin
As you can see in the screenshot above, russian virtual mobile number the options integrate all the options you would expect from a WordPress Twitter button plugin, without any additional features. You can download it from the post linked above.
After this a few others appeared in the WordPress.org plugin directory:
Twitter Button by Svilen Popov
TweetButton by David R. Davis, Jr.
The manual way
Twitter has provided several ways to include the Tweet How to Make a Bio Dropdown Box with CSS
button on your own pages. The easiest option is through this customizable form where you can define the button type, a custom URL, Tweet text, language, and recommended Twitter users.
Let's take a look at the code that is produced after entering some example values.
<a href="
data-url=
data-text="El título de la página va aquí"
data-count="vertical"
data-via="themelab"
data-related="
Let's go through this line by line.
First line: Basically just open the link and add a CSS class.
Second line: data-urlused to introduce a link, probably the permalink of your post.
Third line: data-textUsed for the text of the tweet, probably the title of your post.
Fourth line: data-countused to define the type of button: vertical, horizontal, or none.
Fifth line: data-viaUsed in the @mention of the tweet, probably your own Twitter account.
Sixth line: data-relatedallows you to define another Twitter account with a custom description.
Last Line: Basically just closes the link and adds a mandatory line of javascript.
I recommend you play around with the button code generator to get a better feel for the different options.