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Tweet Individual Posts.

Peggy

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Has anyone done this yet (searched and can't find one).

Currently we can tweet threads only. I have asked and Kier said that it is not in his plans to add tweet functionality to individual posts.

It is important to me, and my site, to be able to tweet individual posts. So if a coder out there is willing to code this, I would be more than happy to make a donation, even tho you'd be free to release it here for everyone.
 
Do you want something per-post? At the moment I created this, which took a couple of minutes and it's a simple template change, that's all, and it appears below the post.

Screen shot 2011-04-04 at 8.58.23 PM.webp

Is there somewhere particular you want it? Maybe below the user info on the left?
 
Bottom right:
bottom_right.webp
Next to the report link:report_link.webp
Under user box:
under_avatar.webp

Personally I think under the user box looks best, where it's out of the way of the content but is visibly still part of the post.
 
Oh yeah, I like that. :)

Now I'm wondering, would I be able to change that tweet button?
 
Yeah was thinking to replace it with a custom button. I use this one on my blog.
twitthis_grey_72x22.gif

That's ok. I'm liking being able to do this at all. :)
 
OM, I'm familiar with that information, thanks.

However, it doesn't tell me how to add it to the XF functionality in order to tweet individual posts. I would never have been able to figure out how to do this. Which is why I asked for help. :)
 
righto. you just need to find the exact place in the xenforo code to place the link. the link code itself can be generated from the twitter documentation.

i posted here as a user. the tweet button is well sort of a distraction. a simple text link would be much better alongside the report button.
 
I've put the guide up here: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/tweet-per-post.14581/

Twitter has extensive documentation related to the tweet button. They have made it very easy to add the Tweet Button functionality to anything. You have simply have a Tweet link providing the same functionality using the documentation provided here: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button
I may look into that and provide that alternative a bit later, I just personally don't have that much time to read through it and do it at the moment. Of course if someone else want to post it, they can do it in the thread I linked and I'll link to their post. :)

However, for a quick solution, my guide should be fine.
 
well the only thing of importance is this line:

HTML:
<a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=URL" target="_blank">Tweet</a>

Test
 
well the only thing of importance is this line:

HTML:
<a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=URL" target="_blank">Tweet</a>

Test
I went back and tried this, but it drops the #postid from the URL, making it not work with what's needed. Seems your link does the same thing.

I have to get back to working on my stuff, but as I'm almost done I may come back and revisit this approach in-depth soon if no one else has first.
 
Dave don't worry about this anymore tonight. I'm very happy with it for now, thank you very much.
However I did post an issue on the other thread.
 
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