Sometimes it’s just easier to hard code something into a WordPress theme. Many is a time I’ve spent a half hour looking for a plugin to “just do it for me” only to get back a truly ugly button that not even a mother could love.

You can use this anywhere in the wordpress loop to make a simple ‘tweet this’ link:

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<div id="custom-tweet-button">
 
  <?php
    $twitter_permalink = urlencode(get_permalink($post->ID));
    $twitter_via=urlencode('twitterusername');
    $twitter_post_title = strip_tags(get_the_title( $post->ID ));
    $twitter_blog_title = urlencode(get_bloginfo('name'));
  ?>
 
  <a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=<?php print $twitter_permalink ?>&amp;text=<?php print $twitter_post_title ?>&amp;via=<?php $twitter_via ?>" target="_blank" title="Tweet this">Tweet</a>
 
</div>

And remember to always theme with care.

Mmmm… Seems to work! Camera is pretty decent, better than I expected. (more…)

I’m very proud to announce the release of my first wordpress theme, pl00. Don’t let pl00′s plain wrapper fool you – it’s meant to be a development theme that quickly gets a themer from A to B. I use it on every wordpress project I work on. One of pl00′s best features is that the homepage has 5 widget areas. It’s been tested in Firefox, Safari and IE7 and is W3C validated.

Tags: fixed width, three columns, valid CSS, valid XHTML, white, simple, widgets, widget ready, 3columns, right sidebars, SEO friendly, gravatars, h:over effects, text-only

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