Provides a Twitter retweet button for your posts that shows all tweets, enables retweeting, and adds tweets as comments.
| Author: | Topsy Labs (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.0 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.1.4 |
| Plugin version: | 1.2.8 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 26-10-2009 |
| Last updated: | 30-01-2013
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 87 |
| Rated by: | 39 |
| Plugin URI: | http://labs.topsy.com/widgets/wordpress |
| Total downloads: | 93 987 |
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This plugin integrates the Topsy Retweet Button with WordPress blogs. The Topsy Retweet Button provides the following features:
- A Twitter retweet button that shows tweet counts and allows retweeting.
- Highly customizable buttons can be displayed in various colors.
- Automatic URL shortening using bit.ly, tr.im, and others including support for your own shortener API key or username where available.
- Option to add tweets as comments or trackbacks.
- Designed for high volume sites.
- "Streaming" feature allows retweet buttons on your site to automatically update the tweet count as more people retweet your posts.
- Made to load fast, and to not interfere with your page's loading or display.
- Works on all modern browsers (MSIE 7 and up, Firefox 3 and up, google Chrome, and Safari), and works on major smartphone browsers (iPhone, Android, and Palm Prē).
- Displays Topsy TopLinks badges for posts that are in the Topsy Top5k or above - http://labs.topsy.com/toplinks
- Topsy doesn't delete old tweets, so the plugin will work on all of your historical posts.
- Free analytics via Topsy trackback pages - for example, see http://topsy.com/tb/www.techcrunch.com or http://topsy.com/tb/www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/03/topsy-twitter-bit-ly-tweetmeme-retweet/
- Allows you to choose the username used as the source for retweets from your blog - e.g. "RT @<your Twitter account> ..."
- Allows you to select hashtags to be used with retweets, or have hashtags created based on the post's WordPress tags.
- Buttons can be placed on main blog page, static content page, individual entries, category listings, and archive pages. Can skip buttons from particular categories, or from individual posts.
- Small and large size buttons and button position customization via settings, shortcodes, and manual positioning.
- Supports WordPress 2.0, PHP4 and above.