Adding A Twitter Follow & Share Button To WordPress

Twitter offers an official twitter widget which you can use to create twitter buttons in WordPress.

You get 4 options to choose from once you arrive at the Twitter Resources page.

Once you’ve created you button, simply copy and paste the code into WordPress HTML editor, save the changes and you’re done.

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You can insert the button at the beginning or end of all posts by using WordPress Hooks.

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Javascript or iframe Twitter Button?

Javascript configuration options – You can also customize the twitter button to include or exclude:

User to follow	(in the anchor URL)
Followers count display	data-show-count
Language	data-lang
Width	data-width
Alignment	data-align
Show Screen Name	data-show-screen-name
Size	data-size

Javascript Example:

[php]<a class="twitter-follow-button" href="https://twitter.com/wordpress_blogs" data-show-count="true" data-lang="en">Follow @wordpress_blogs</a>
<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");
// ]]></script>[/php]

iFrame Configuration options – You can also customize the twitter button to include or exclude:

User to follow	screen_name
Followers count display	show_count
Language	lang
Size	Not Supported
Width	Not Supported
Alignment	Not Supported
Show Screen Name	show_screen_name

iFrame Example :

[php]
<iframe style="width: 200px; height: 15px;" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.html?screen_name=wordpress_blogs" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="320" height="240"></iframe>
[/php]

If you prefer to use a plugin, check out the best social media plugins for WordPress by popularity.

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I’m sure there’s a plugin around that offers an easier way to configure all these options. Know of any?

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