Add a Twitter Follow Button with this WordPress Plugin!
The Twitter Follow Button
While you’re here, why not also try one of our other plugins – Twitter Feed, Facebook Comments, Facebook Like & Send Buttons
Installation:
- Download the plugin direct from the Plugin Page at WordPress.
- Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
- Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin
- Insert the shortcode!
Example Shortcode:
To insert the Twitter follow button, simply enter the following shortcode within a page, post or text widget. Here’s an example:
[twitter-follow username="alexmoss" scheme="dark"]
This will output the following:
Options:
You have to insert these values to make sure the feed is set up for you:
Option
Default
Options
Comments
username
alexmoss
N/A
The chosen Twitter @username
scheme
light/dark
N/A
the colour scheme of your site
count
yes
yes/no
shows the number of followers by your @username
lang
en
fr
de
it
ja
ko
ru
es
tr
de
it
ja
ko
ru
es
tr
the language you want the tweet button to output. If nothing is entered, English will be output.
fr – French
de – German
it – Italian
ja – Japanese
ko – Korean
ru – Russian
es – Spanish
tr – Turkish
fr – French
de – German
it – Italian
ja – Japanese
ko – Korean
ru – Russian
es – Spanish
tr – Turkish
Maintained by Alex Moss
Alex is a partner at Pleer. He has worked in SEO for over 5 years and has been messing with HTML since he was 13. Alex is known mostly for his WordPress plugins, and contributes to Econsultancy, 123Reg, State of Search and many more.
