Ever wished it was a little simpler to add our retweet button to your blog? Well in continuing our steps to making your lives easier we’re pleased to announce the TweetMeme TypePad Widget! There is now a new page in the plugins section of the site which has all the great options to customise your button and how it retweets, and even has a live preview so you can see how it will all look before it’s added to your TypePad blog.
Unfortunately TypePad’s API only allows widgets to be added to those blogs using Drag-and-Drop Design Templates so if you are using Advanced Templates you will, for the moment at least, need to continue using the manual insert method described in our help page How to Add a TweetMeme Button to your TypePad Blog.
Head over to the TweetMeme TypePad Widget page to customise your button and get it added to your blog!
By default, the widget will be installed at the bottom of your side-bar but you are free to re-organise if you wish through the Organize Content section of your Design tab.
Support for many more sites is on the way.
This is a great with step for Typepad with Tweetmeme — is there anyway to have th e widget automatically embed in the post instead of the sidebar?
The template only allows you to put the tweetmeme link on the sidebar. That isn’t where you want it. You want to place it on the footer of the blog post.
To reiterate what Rhonda and Steve wrote, it is necessary to be able to place the widget in the posts, not the sidebar. Will this option soon be available?