Wow that title was a mouthful but its true. I want to introduce you to a tool that inserts a “Retweet” button into your blog posts!, this is great to use to get your latest and greatest blog posts all over Twitter(If they are good). By having a retweet button easily accessible to your readers after they have read your post, this gives them the ability to share it with everyone on Twitter at the touch of a button.
How Do You Do It?
Interested?… great lets get down to getting this on your site;).
Visit this link -> ReTweet My STUFF
You will now find yourself at the tweetmeme button homepage, what you will see on your screen is a short description of what this button does..
Now under this intro is the <code> part. For this blog im using WordPress so i’ll be showing you how to insert this code into every post you make on the WordPress platform, but hopefully you will get an idea of where to insert it on any platform just by following along.
This is the code box and all you have to do from here is select that code chunk, see that blue “Select” button?, you can just use that too:). Right so we now have our code selected, you just need to COPY it:).
We are done in this site for now, its time to get yourself into your WordPress admin page, then into -> Apperance, and then jump right in to the -> Editor.
Now in the Editor page of your WordPress site, over on the right hand side you hopefully should see this bar…
What we want to do now is insert our button into every single post we make, so we want to put it into a place that pretty much everyone will be able to notice it. In WordPress the best place to do this, and the easiest is in that SINGLE POST(single.php) file, this is the file WordPress uses to display all your posts with, so no better file to place your copied code from earlier;).
Once you have clicked the Single Post file to edit you will see a bunch of source code, but don’t worry, all you need to so here is look for this part of the code, and this should be pretty near the top of the file.
Look for ->
<!– BEGIN ENTRY –>
<div class=”entry”>
Begin entry and <div class=”entry”> is the very start of all your posts, so in my mind I wanted to place my retweet button right at the top of every post I made, in order to do this I just needed to get my code I copied before, click right under that <div class=”entry”> line and PASTE my code, just like this ….
See that <script> line?, that was not their before because that’s the code I just pasted into my Single Post file, now just hit the “Update File” button so SAVE your changes in WordPress. And this is the magic that will display my retweet button at the top of every post, see -> ..
There it is!. Now for me this seemed to be the best place to put it, but if you would prefer it at the bottom of your posts all you need to do is paste the code right in before this part…
</div>
<!– END ENTRY //–>
Again remember to Update File or this will not save your changes.
Test A ReTweet Out
With all the changes made and saved all you have left to do is two simple things.
1) Visit your own site and click on a great post you wrote, once on that posts page im hoping you see your brand new retweet button right?, great, it will show you a big fat ZERO retweets so lets get this viral ball rolling, hit your retweet button -> now you will see Twitter open with everything you need in your tweet, press UPDATE to send that tweet out and you are done:). Once you get back to your post you should see that ZERO retweet change to ONE;).
Here’s the second thing you absolutely must do or none of this will work;)….
2) Can you ReTweet this post if you found it helpful?, this is just for testing purposes and in no way related to the fact that I sometimes need an ego stroking too;). But if you did find this post a great help, please share it with others and I’ll be eternally grateful to you, and also to mint chocolate chip ice cream!.
OR THE BIRD GETS IT!!:))
