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The Twitter plugin for WordPress supports adding a follow button to your site through a WordPress widget, pasting a Twitter profile URL into post content, or through the twitter_follow WordPress shortcode. Add a Follow button to a WordPress post by including the shortcode in
your post content area or by evaluating a shortcode in PHP using the do_shortcode WordPress function.
Display a follow button for a Twitter profile URL
Add a follow button to a WordPress post by copy-and-pasting a Twitter profile URL on its own line in the post content area.
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Customize a follow button using a shortcode
Example:
Follow us on Twitter: [twitter_follow screen_name="TwitterDev"]
Supported shortcode parameters
| Attribute | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| screen_name | Twitter username of the account to follow. | TwitterDev |
| show_screen_name | Set to false, 0, no, or off to remove the Twitter username from the displayed button. |
false |
| show_count | Set to false, 0, no, or off to remove the number of followers for the specified account alongside the button. |
false |
| size | Set to large to display a larger version of the follow button. |
large |
Site-wide customization using a filter
A website may set site-wide preferences for Follow buttons by acting on the associative array passed to the shortcode_atts_twitter_follow WordPress filter. Functions acting on the filter should set boolean literals when modifying show_count or show_screen_name values.
Example:
/**
* Always show large button
*
* @param array $options parsed options with defaults applied
* @param array $defaults default values of a Follow button
* @param array $attributes user-defined shortcode attributes
*
* @return array options array with our customization applied
*/
function twitter_follow_custom_options( $options, $defaults, $attributes )
{
$options['size'] = 'large';
return $options;
}
add_filter( 'shortcode_atts_twitter_follow', 'twitter_follow_custom_options', 10, 3 );