Add share on Twitter button on blog

Twitter is growing day by day at faster since Internet crowd is diverting towards microblogging services or you can say twittering. Very common thing that can be found on Twitter are the links to interesting articles that were published and those who want to share it. Just as there are buttons to share your entries in various social sites, you can add a button to share from Twitter. I don’t know of any services or WP-Plugin which has “Share on twitter Button” so, do it yourself by following simple steps.

WordPress

First of all find some cool Twitter icon to be used as button (instead you can use text too) You can get free collection here. Upload it your server or anywhere else and note its URL.

Go to Single.php of your current WP theme and insert following code

For Text : <a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Leyendo <?php the_permalink(); ?> en <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" title="Add to Twitter" class="wptwitter"> Twitter </a>

For Image : <a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Leyendo <?php the_permalink(); ?> en <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" title="Add to Twitter" class="wptwitter"> <img src="YOUR IMAGE URL" alt="Twitter icon"/> </a>

For Blogger

Find Twitter icon to be used as button.

Go to Edit HTML under Design layout and find the code :

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>

Now paste the following code after it :

For Text link : <a expr:href='"http://twitter.com/home?status=Leyendo " + data:post.url + " en " + data:blog.title' class="btwitter" title="Add to Twitter"> Twitter </a>

For Image Button : <a expr:href='"http://twitter.com/home?status=Leyendo " + data:post.url + " en " + data:blog.title' class="btwitter" title="Add to Twitter"> <img src="YOUR IMAGE URL" alt="Twitter icon"/> </a>

Note for Image buttons : Insert Image URL wherever I have written YOUR IMAGE URL to display the button.