How To Integrate Tweetmeme Without A Plug-in

The Tweetmeme Plug-in is one of the many wordpress/blogger plug-ins out there that is known to help generate traffic via the now larger than life, Twitter.

I installed the plug-in on my blog like 3 weeks ago and was immediately irritated by the fact that the plug-in’s configuration page didn’t have options as to where I wanted the button to appear and not to appear. The button was on every page of my blog including the contact, about me, sitemap, category and you name it pages.

Luckily I was wise enough to check the official website of the plug-in and found out how to implement the tweetmeme button without having to install the plug-in on my WordPress blog and Blogger blog.

For Self Hosted WordPress Blogs: Below is the code I added in my single.php file of my theme, right after the <?php the_content(“<p>Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>”); ?> tag. Please note that this code doesn’t appear on the Tweetmeme official site this way. I’ve modified it a little to suit me.

<div class=”tweetmeme_button”>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
tweetmeme_url = ‘<?php the_permalink(); ?>’;
tweetmeme_source = ‘your twitter id’;
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js”></script>
</div>

For Blogger Blogs: Simply log into your account. In dashboard, click on Layout tab then Edit HTML tab. When you’re there, tick ‘Expand Widget Templates’ box and wait for page to reload. Look for the tag: <data:post.body/> then paste the code below after it.

<script type=”text/javascript”>
tweetmeme_url = ‘<data:post.url/>’;
tweetmeme_source = ‘your twitter id’;
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js”></script>

Remember to fill in your twitter id. Hope you enjoy this button and the load it takes off your server unlike if you were to be using the plug-in.

This post was created after carefully studying the following posts

1. Integrating The Tweetmeme button into Blogger.
2. Tweetmeme Button.
3. Integrating The Tweetmeme button into WordPress

Update: The new version of the tweetmeme plug-in now has options to remove the button from certain pages of your blog. At the time of writing this post, it didn’t have those features. My bad. . Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

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