{"id":6765,"date":"2009-03-27T00:09:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2012-04-01T16:35:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T11:05:23","slug":"tweetmeme-button-on-selected-wordpress-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/03\/tweetmeme-button-on-selected-wordpress-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Tweetmeme Button on Selected WordPress Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tweetmeme Tweetmeme is a Digg-like site for popular links on Twitter. Using a Tweetmeme badge can be a helpful reminder for your readers to retweet it<\/strong> – and if my experience is anything to go by, Twitter does send targeted traffic to your blogs. Clicking on the Tweetmeme badge will direct you to your Twitter profile, with a tweet of the format RT @tweetmeme <post title> <post link><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Integrating Tweetmeme on your blog is as simple as entering some JavaScript code (provided on Tweetmeme website). In this WordPress hack<\/strong>, however, I’ll show you how to display the Tweetmeme button only on posts you decide – by using a custom field. This is crucial, because a Tweetmeme badge on a site announcement would be unprofessional, not to mention redundant.<\/p>\n

PHP function to to display Tweetmeme badge<\/h2>\n

Since you would want to show the Tweetmeme badge on multiple pages (on single.php, index.php etc.), wrapping the code in a simple function<\/strong> is a good idea. We can then call this function wherever we want the badge to be displayed.<\/p>\n

Open up your theme’s functions.php<\/strong> file. At the end of the file, you will find a ?><\/code><\/p>\n

Place the code below just before that.<\/p>\n

function tweetmeme(){\r\n?>\r\n<div style=\"float: left; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0;\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\ntweetmeme_url = '<?php the_permalink(); ?>';\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\"><\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<?php\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
PHP tag to display the badge<\/h2>\n
In single.php and index.php<\/strong>, place the code below just before the tag <?php the_content(); ?><\/em> or <?php the_excerpt(); ?><\/em>.<\/p>\n
<?php $check_sm = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'tweetmeme', $single = true);\r\nif($check_sm != '')\r\ntweetmeme();\r\n?>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Enabling the badge on posts<\/h2>\n
Enabling the Tweetmeme badge requires you to add a custom field <\/strong>to the post in question. On posts where you want to display the post, add a field named tweetmeme<\/strong> with a value true<\/em>.<\/p>\n
You can also extend this hack to hide Tweetmeme badge only on posts where you enter a custom field, or show other badges (Digg, Stumble Upon etc.) selectively.<\/p>\n
Guest blogger Sumesh writes Blog Designed, a blog for tips and links on design, SEO and WordPress. You can also follow him on Twitter<\/a>. If you have some tips to share, write a guest article<\/a> on QOT.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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