Micro-blogging site Twitter announced Wednesday that it is releasing its first official Twitter plugin for WordPress.
The
new official Twitter plugin for WordPress, found at the WordPress site, brings a plethora of
features.
For instance, it automatically generates Twitter
Cards for your pages, enables Twitter Analytics, lets easily embed tweets and videos apart from adding a Tweet button to posts in the admin interface, and allowing the placement of Follow
buttons on every page.
There is an option that allows you to tweak
the look of embedded tweets on your site, so it matches your theme,
along with a number of features that help users get started with Twitter
advertising, including simplified conversion tracking and creating
tailored audiences with a WordPress macro. Twitter is also providing the
base PHP libraries on GitHub for developers.
The new Twitter plug-in for WordPress is available for free in 28 languages.
Describing
the new plugin, Twitter's Niall Kennedy in a blog post said,
"WordPress software powers millions of sites around the web from large
global brands such as Katy Perry and Mercedes-Benz to your local grocery
store. The official Twitter plugin for WordPress helps sites powered by
WordPress embed Twitter content and grow their audience on Twitter [..]
Today, we're releasing an official Twitter plugin for WordPress that
bundles Twitter features and functionality into an installable package
for sites powered by WordPress."
Written with inputs from IANS