Wordpress Plugin
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.
Andrew on March 6th, 2009
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
Soccer Dad on March 11th, 2009
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;
}
}
***************
*** 69,77 ****
\ No newline at end of file
--- 75,92 ----
Soccer Dad on March 11th, 2009
Nope – didn’t work. Oh well, if interested, email me. I also tweaked the JS code to make it XHTML compliant.
testyc on March 15th, 2009
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.
testyc on March 15th, 2009
forget what i just said.. its another plugin. Got it right now
gigi on March 22nd, 2009
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.
Family Anatomy on March 27th, 2009
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).
Awex on March 28th, 2009
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!
Nick Halstead on March 28th, 2009
Awex, can you raise that as an idea on http://feedback.tweetmeme.com/pages/general – and we will look into it for you.
Mac on April 26th, 2009
I’d like to get my twitter name whitelisted. It’s _McLaughlin.
Thanks
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[...] Tweetmeme – A newcomer although it has spread like wildfire and for good reason too. This plugin allows you to ‘retweet’ the article you are reading directly to Twitter. Everyone seems to be on Twitter these days, so it can create you a lot of traffic as people begin to retweet your article. Comes as a Wordpress Plugin and also a script which offers more functionality as to where you can place it on your article. Get your blog whitelisted by the Tweetmeme team and this will add even more credibility to your work. [...]
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Clay on July 3rd, 2009
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?
Sarah Blow on July 3rd, 2009
at this time we do not support single url shortener integration. It is on our feature request list though.
Daniel on July 3rd, 2009
We currently do not support the changing of the title, and we get the title that it tweets from your page title.
malcolmmunro on August 4th, 2009
One more request to RT the Wordpress post title and not the page title.
Anyone found a way around this yet?
Uli on August 22nd, 2009
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?
André Sanders on September 28th, 2009
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!