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The main two buttons I wanted were a Facebook Like button and a Tweet This type button. The Facebook Like button was easy to find and install, but it took me a while to find the official Twitter button, since I never really looked at the footer links on Twitter.</p> <p>If you click on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119232402/http://twitter.com/goodies">Goodies</a> link, you will see three options: Tweet Button, Widgets and Buttons. All three are useful, but for my purposes, the Tweet Button was all I needed. You will probably have to sign in to Twitter before you can check out the Goodies.</p> <div id="attachment_2844" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 560px"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119232402im_/http://bavotasan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/tweetbutton.jpg" alt="Tweet Button" title="tweetbutton" width="550" height="722" class="size-full wp-image-2844"/><p class="wp-caption-text">Twitter's Tweet Button options page</p></div> <p>There are many options you can tweak to get the Tweet Button working the way you want. I left everything on the defaults and ended up with this bit of code:</p> <div class="wp_syntax"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="code"><pre class="php" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #339933;"><</span>a href<span style="color: #339933;">=</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">"http://twitter.com/share"</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">class</span><span style="color: #339933;">=</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">"twitter-share-button"</span> data<span style="color: #339933;">-</span><span style="color: #990000;">count</span><span style="color: #339933;">=</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">"vertical"</span> data<span style="color: #339933;">-</span>via<span style="color: #339933;">=</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">"bavotasan"</span><span style="color: #339933;">></span>Tweet<span style="color: #339933;"></</span>a<span style="color: #339933;">><</span>script type<span style="color: #339933;">=</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">"text/javascript"</span> src<span style="color: #339933;">=</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">"http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"</span><span style="color: #339933;">></</span>script<span style="color: #339933;">></span></pre></div></td></tr></table></div> <p>Including this code anywhere in your <code>single.php</code> file will work. If you wanted to include it on a category page or your index page, you would need to make a few changes.</p> <div class="wp_syntax"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="code"><pre class="php" style="font-family:monospace;"><a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;"><?php</span> <span style="color: #990000;">urlencode</span><span style="color: #009900;">(</span>the_permalink<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">?></span>&amp;counturl=<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;"><?php</span> <span style="color: #990000;">urlencode</span><span style="color: #009900;">(</span>the_permalink<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">?></span>" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="vertical" data-via="bavotasan">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></pre></div></td></tr></table></div> <p>Include that within the loop and it will include the post specific URL for each button. You can even take it one step further if you’re using shortlinks:</p> <div class="wp_syntax"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="code"><pre class="php" style="font-family:monospace;"><a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;"><?php</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">echo</span> <span style="color: #990000;">urlencode</span><span style="color: #009900;">(</span>wp_get_shortlink<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">?></span>&amp;counturl=<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;"><?php</span> <span style="color: #990000;">urlencode</span><span style="color: #009900;">(</span>the_permalink<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">?></span>" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="vertical" data-via="bavotasan">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></pre></div></td></tr></table></div> <p>The last code snippet is the one I use on this site. 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It does all that and more.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119232402/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-tweet-button/">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-tweet-button/</a></p> </div> <div class="reply"> <a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="/web/20101119232402/http://bavotasan.com/tutorials/adding-tweet-button-wordpress/?replytocom=15996#respond" onclick="return addComment.moveForm("comment-15996", "15996", "respond", "2842")">Reply</a> </div> </div> <ul class="children"> <li class="comment byuser bypostauthor even depth-2" id="li-comment-15998"> <div id="comment-15998"> <div class="comment-avatar"> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119232402im_/http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ba043b2af6a355787f1b6fd1b1ea3eda?s=60&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D60&r=G" class="avatar avatar-60 photo" height="60" width="60"/> </div> <div class="comment-author"> <span class="authorname"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119232402/http://bavotasan.com/" rel="external " class="url">c.bavota</a></span> <span class="commentdate"> on September 9, 2010 at 3:04 pm</span> </div> <div class="comment-text"> <p>That plugin does seem to have tons of cool features. I prefer to just add a bit of code instead of a whole plugin, especially when the more plugins you run on your site, the slower your site might become.</p> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-16045"> <div id="comment-16045"> <div class="comment-avatar"> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119232402im_/http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/d067530a8f13dcc567e912d43e2f8ff6?s=60&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D60&r=G" class="avatar avatar-60 photo" height="60" width="60"/> </div> <div class="comment-author"> <span class="authorname"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119232402/http://google.com/" rel="external " class="url">john</a></span> <span class="commentdate"> on September 12, 2010 at 10:28 pm</span> </div> <div class="comment-text"> <p>Good work on this</p> </div> <div class="reply"> <a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="/web/20101119232402/http://bavotasan.com/tutorials/adding-tweet-button-wordpress/?replytocom=16045#respond" onclick="return addComment.moveForm("comment-16045", "16045", "respond", "2842")">Reply</a> </div> </div> </li> <li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-16510"> <div id="comment-16510"> <div class="comment-avatar"> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119232402im_/http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/c37b8da72a7863e599c8ed11fbb3983a?s=60&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D60&r=G" class="avatar avatar-60 photo" height="60" width="60"/> </div> <div class="comment-author"> <span class="authorname"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119232402/http://beerpla.net/" rel="external " class="url">Artem Russakovskii</a></span> <span class="commentdate"> on October 28, 2010 at 4:05 am</span> </div> <div class="comment-text"> <div class="wp_syntax"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div class="code"><pre class="php" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #990000;">urlencode</span><span style="color: #009900;">(</span>the_permalink<span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span></pre></div></td></tr></table></div> <p>doesn’t actually make sense because the_permalink() echoes the url and doesn’t return it, so you’re encoding an empty string. It’s dumb – WordPress doesn’t have the get_the_permalink() function for the loop – you have to use get_permalink($id) instead. Lame.</p> </div> <div class="reply"> <a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="/web/20101119232402/http://bavotasan.com/tutorials/adding-tweet-button-wordpress/?replytocom=16510#respond" onclick="return addComment.moveForm("comment-16510", "16510", "respond", "2842")">Reply</a> </div> </div> <ul class="children"> <li class="comment byuser bypostauthor odd alt depth-2" id="li-comment-16514"> <div id="comment-16514"> <div class="comment-avatar"> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119232402im_/http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ba043b2af6a355787f1b6fd1b1ea3eda?s=60&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D60&r=G" class="avatar avatar-60 photo" height="60" width="60"/> </div> <div class="comment-author"> <span class="authorname"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119232402/http://bavotasan.com/" rel="external " class="url">c.bavota</a></span> <span class="commentdate"> on October 28, 2010 at 8:33 am</span> </div> <div class="comment-text"> <p>You want to be echoing the_permalink() in this instance so that the URL is automatically added to the string. 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