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Customising the ‘Via’ in Tweet Button for AddThis WordPress Plugin

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This one had me scratching my head for ages, and it was only some good investigation by @domsoar that found the answer, here: http://thenorthernedge.ca/blog/how-customize-addthis-for-your-website-or-blog-3559/.

The answer is to use a custom button and this sort of code:

 

<div class=”addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style “>

<a class=”addthis_button_facebook_like”></a>

<a class=”addthis_button_tweet” tw:via=”YOURHANDLE” tw:related=”YOURHANDLE “></a>

<a class=”addthis_button_google_plusone”></a>

<a class=”addthis_counter addthis_pill_style”></a>

</div>

The bit that actually fixes the ‘via’ reference in the Tweet is emboldened above. I had tried with the ‘via’ reference previously with no success, but the tw:related argument fixed it!

Hope this helps someone 🙂

 

Kindle Research

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Kindle Research screenshot

For this job, I designed and then developed and implemented an upgrade to the existing WordPress-powered part of the Kindle Research website. The brief was to improve the impact and usability of the blog, and to connect it up with a simple workflow that would encourage the company to keep the blog updated regularly (such as via iPhone app and Posterous) and would then distribute that content across social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

I implemented the design by modifying the existing theme and incorporating plugins and widgets such as Feedburner, Cufon font replacement, a Twitter widget. As part of this process, I had to update to the current PHP release, the current version of WordPress and then had to fix various issues with the rest of the site that these changes bought about. I also performed some minor changes on the homepage to reflect the improvements made to the blog.