Twitter WordPress Plugin

Twitter has at last released an official WordPress plugin to help integrate the social media platform with the popular blogging platform.

Rather than allowing you to embed a Twitter feed (as many other plugins offer), the officially supported plugin is about utilising the official Twitter tools within your WordPress website, with some additional customisation settings.

Highlighted features from the plugin include:

• Embedded Tweet – customise backgrounds and colour schemes to match your site’s theme
• Embedded Twitter video – showcase video uploaded to Twitter
• Tweet button – simple sharing of your site’s content on Twitter
• Twitter Cards – highlight your site’s content when shared on Twitter
• Twitter Analytics – track impressions and top distributors of your site’s content on Twitter
• Follow button – grow your Twitter audience
• Twitter ads conversion tracking – easily track actions on your WordPress site triggered by a Twitter ad or build a custom targeting audience

The tool itself isn’t going to be for everyone and most theme builders are likely will to give this a miss. However, if you’ve set up your own website with a premium theme and aren’t too keen on tinkering with your theme’s code, then this plugin could be right up your street.

To have a closer look at the plugin, head to the official Twitter plugin page.