We have just released a WordPress plugin which fully integrates the tweetmeme button with your WordPress self hosted blog. It provides a easy way to integrate the retweet facility into your blog posts.
Why?
If you do want the button on every single post then copy/pasting the javascript can become tiresome, so to make things simple the plugin places the button either at the top or the bottom automatically, you can also override the styling.
Download/Install
You can download and find instructions on how to install the tweetmeme WordPress plugin on the tweetmeme plugin page.
Firstly I’m loving Tweetmeme ,super addicted!!
Just one quick question:
I’ve enabled the button and upon selecting it, it obviously publishes to twitter. What is the character or letters mean?
An example:
RT @tweetmeme 20 2009 SA Blog Awards | d PS3Blog.co.za 35 http://bit.ly/5Ewwj
What’s is the signifigance of “RT” OR “| d ” OR the number “35″?
Is it a problem on myside or is this so tweetmeme.com can distinguish whats a video,blog etc post?
I’ve also posted my question here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/250258?replies=1
I’ve made a few updates to the plugin – it was driving my excerpts and feeds crazy (including the tweetememe_url variable in them). I figured most feed readers would strip the JS anyway, so I added a change to not run if it was a feed. I also tweaked the filter code to NOT modify the content when an excerpt is being generated from the content because a separate excerpts doesn’t exist.
Will try to paste it here, but if it doesn’t work, feel free to email me.
*** tweetmeme.php.dist Wed Mar 11 10:09:49 2009
--- tweetmeme.php Wed Mar 11 11:01:26 2009
***************
*** 13,28 ****
}
function tm_update($content) {
! $button = '
tweetmeme_url = \'' . get_permalink() . '\';
';
! if (get_option('tm_where') == 'before') {
! return $button . $content;
} else {
! return $content . $button;
}
}
--- 13,34 ----
}
function tm_update($content) {
! if (!is_feed()) {
! $button = '
+ //
';
! if (get_option('tm_where') == 'before') {
! return $button . $content;
! } else {
! return $content . $button;
! }
} else {
! return $content;
}
}
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*** 69,77 ****
\ No newline at end of file
--- 75,92 ----
Nope – didn’t work. Oh well, if interested, email me. I also tweaked the JS code to make it XHTML compliant.
How can i customize the text. I have seen many people using this plugin in customized text like this:
‘RT @othertwitteracc … (via @tweetmeme)’
so how to change the default message:
‘RT @tweetmeme … ‘
thanks in advance.
forget what i just said.. its another plugin. Got it right now
this plugin doesn’t get permalink correctly, if i click on retweet button i’m redirected to twitter.com but not inserted title post and link automatically.
I like the plugin, and the button looks cool on the posts, but I have a couple of questions/problems. Is there a way to include the post title instead of the blog title in the RT? And I noticed that the button shows up on individual post pages but not on the home page (http://familyanatomy.com).
Hi,
Just started using your button in my joomla site.
http://www.houseplanet.dj/index.php/March-2009/Steve-Angello-vs-Paris-Hilton.html
How can I open the retweet in new window?
Thanx!
Awex, can you raise that as an idea on http://feedback.tweetmeme.com/pages/general – and we will look into it for you.
I’d like to get my twitter name whitelisted. It’s _McLaughlin.
Thanks
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Hi,
I got the latest version of the plugin and now RTs include my @clayhebert but how do I customize the test to be the post title, not the blog title?
Also, can I integrate my bit.ly account to track the clicks?
at this time we do not support single url shortener integration. It is on our feature request list though.
We currently do not support the changing of the title, and we get the title that it tweets from your page title.
One more request to RT the WordPress post title and not the page title.
Anyone found a way around this yet?
When do you provide the ability to specify the background color outside the tweet button – it’s white right now in IE6, IE7 and IE8, quite annoying for people with colored page backgrounds. See for example at the end of this post:
http://skinnychef.com/blog/healthy-lunches-kids
How hard could it be to add this into the next plugin upgrade?
You can fix it with this if you’re using jQuery:
if(jQuery.browser.msie) { jQuery(‘iframe’).attr(“allowtransparency”,”true”);
}
Is there any way to choose a different colored icon or a way to change the color? Just curious, if not, not a problem, this is still a great plugin!
How can I put the button where I want to and not especially where you want me to?
Hi Manan
In the settings set it to manual button install and then just put [tweetmeme] in your posts where you want the button to show.
Many thanks
Sarah
and outsite of posts?
i would love to put it somehwere else in the worpdress loop, because of other sharing tools
something like tweetmeme(); ?
Hi Sebastian,
For more granular placement of the button within your site you can edit your theme and include our javascript code which you will find on our help pages.
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I propose updating this plug-in to offer the option of using the auto-generated WP.ME shortlink which is available in WordPress version 2.9 and higher.
I’ve tried inserting [tweetmeme] into a post after switching the settings to manual and it simply displays as [tweetmeme] – i.e., no button. Am I missing something? (Using WordPress 2.9.1)?
[tweetmeme] should be inserted in text view not code view and it should automatically get picked up in the scenario that you are talking about. If this is not working for you please put a support request through on our forum found here: http://help.tweetmeme.com/forum and provide the details of your platform, theme and any plugins that could potentially be conflicting and causing the issue that you mention.
Hi, is there anyway to customize the tweetmeme buttons? Just wondering because a bright green button can look odd with some blog designs/themes.
I added the plugin to my wordpress, it is showing fine on the sigle post but it is not showing on the home page:
magiclogix.com/blog
Any idea?
Hi Magiclogix,
If your site is a WordPress site there is a setting in the admin/tweetmeme/settings area to toggle on or off the button for the front page, however the theme must be able to support full feeds and for this to be enabled before the button will show.
Many thanks
Sarah
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