Are you looking to harness the power of Twitter to increase your traffic?

When used properly, Twitter can help you get new subscribers, expand the scope of your content and increase your traffic.

In this tutorial, I will introduce you the 7 most recommended tools to integrate (add) Twitter to your WordPress blog.

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1. Floating Social Bar

“Floating Social Bar” adds social sharing buttons above your content, including the “Tweet This” button. Unlike other plugins, “Floating Social Bar” does not slow down your blog. It asynchronously loads the number of times your article has been tweeted into the share button.

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2. Schedule Your Tweets with buffer

Buffer is the tool most used by American bloggers. It allows you to schedule your tweets but also other updates to different social networks. You can even use it to schedule your articles to post to Twitter.

What's remarkable about this plugin is that you can schedule days and even weeks ahead if you want.

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3. How to add the official Tweet Button

If you use the plugin Floating Social Bar ", then you won't need this, because the latter already offers a share button. However, if you want to do it yourself, then you will need to copy the corresponding code and display it on your blog.

I therefore invite you to visit the website from Twitter to generate a code for your user account. You can add this code in a text type widget. This button will automatically detect the link you want to share.

Create a button from Twitter

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4. How to integrate recent tweets on your WordPress blog

WordPress allows you to embed a tweet in a post your blog. All you need to do is copy the tweet link and add it to a post/page or even a widget.

WordPress will automatically retrieve the Tweet and display it as on Twitter. It will also display the photos or videos attached to the tweet.

5. How to Add Twitter cards on WordPress

Twitter cards allow you to view a summary and thumbnail of one of your articles when someone tweets it. Twitter will also display a link with the label " Show summary " or " View Summary Next to the tweet to see more details.

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6. How to publish your tweets as articles on WordPress

If, if it is possible. Just install and activate the plugin « Twitter Tools ". It will create a connection between your blog and Twitter and allow you to retrieve recent tweets and publish them on your blog.

You can choose to post each tweet as a single article or combine the set as a daily summary.

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7. How to add a "Pay with a tweet" button

Here's a great way to easily share your content on Twitter. This method makes getting a service or product to a tweet subordinate. On WordPress, there is among other things a plugin that performs this task, it is the plugin " Pay with a Tweet ».

You will need to log into your Twitter account to create an application. After configuration, you can create a new button and configure the tweet you want users to post.

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That's it for this list of tools to integrate Twitter into your WordPress blog. Feel free to share the trick with your friends on your favorite social networks.