Recently I have described how I fixed a wrong setup of the tweetmeme button on my blog. I manually modified the blog template and I only mentioned briefly there is a Wordpress plugin for Tweetmeme.
Acknowledging Wordpress as the most popular blogging platform I need to follow up with a more detailed description of the Tweetmeme WP Plugin.
The installation and configuration is straightforward and shouldn't be a problem for anyone who has installed Wordpress on her hosting account successfully.
I provide some screenshots for your orientation.
Update Dec. 21, 2009: I made a screencam video of the procedure as well.
Installation of the Wordpress Tweetmeme Plugin
You can download the
plugin from Tweetmeme (↑) or directly install it with the
Wordpress Admin Interface.
After installing you need to activate and configure the plugin.
A new item —
“Tweetememe” — appears in the left navigation bar at the bottom. Now it's time to configure it. (It's very easy.)
I used the default setting and only changed those below:
- Source: johnfurst
- URL shortener: bit.ly
Tweetmeme Button Successfully Installed
How long did this take?
4 minutes or less?
We are almost done.
I just want the button move the botton from the other side. All I need to do is to modify the
Style.
- Style for right side (default): float: right; margin:left: 10px;
- Style for left side: float: left; margin-right: 10px;
The result looks fine.
The plugin uses — behind the scenes — the HTML meta element and inserts a “tweetmeme-title” into the head section of the page with the title of the post. It drops the title of the blog to keep the retweet text string short.
<meta name="tweetmeme-title" content="Marketing Lesson From Sushi" />
There are additionally configuration options. Just play with them a little.
Yours
John W. Furst
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A couple of days ago I have removed my do-it-yourself Tweet-it button and put the button from Tweetmeme (↑) on this blog. Dreaming of 44 retweets. It's more encouraging for website visitors to retweet a story that already has been retweet
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