Adding Tweetmeme to your Joomla site

Posted by: Qasim Virjee Wednesday, 30 January 2009 93 (3 votes, average: 3.33 of 5)

There are so many reasons your site visible on social networking sites and platforms to make - general visibility to increase and provide access to communities that the information that you otherwise might not spend time publishing in your posts.

Of course, Twitter is agile mouth to mouth social platforms on the Web and you may have noticed recently a pretty cool widgety stuff people are on your blogs/websites use to include a 'Retweet' - link and count how often a body has been tweeted - its powered by a website called 'Tweetmeme' and easily on any website - to install a CMS like Joomla or static html.

If you have a look at the Tweetmeme page that can not with the necessary embed code it too easy to say as it with your Joomla site - usage, and although it can circulation Joomla, a few plugins extension it did not offer an easy way to embed this going flexibility that is it for clean theming/template creation need. However, and what one needs a small change is the de-facto embed code.

Everything you have to do is:

Copy the following code (s), replace 'http://mysite.com' with your own root URL and: Twitterhandle with your Twitter handle to replace (if you Reweets, automagically incude @ Yourtwitterhandle can to delete this line from the code otherwise.)

For individual article template files (E.g. ' templates > Your_template > html > Com_content > article > default.php '):

For articles list pages - like section or category template files (E.g. ' templates > Your_template > html > Com_content > category > blog_item.php '):

The trick is then, take this code and add it to the appropriate version of your themethe template files - of course, you can see I have wrapped the code in a div 'Tweetmeme' called so you can then add in some CSS for the div where you format the widget Tweetmeme in your template to. you can include learn more Joomla templates and files, in the official documentation wiki.

Basically what we have done here is some PHP include the embed code the specific URL for each post - so the widget say clean works on individual article pages and several shows article at the same time displays.

* You can the widget in action here on this page above - just under the title of each post sehen.Probieren it out and retweet to see post, how it works!

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