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Overview:

Allows you to integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to display how many follows you have on Twitter.

Additionally, you can add the Twitter Remote to your blog, which shows which twitter users recently visited your blog or website.

Manually add where you would like to display the badge / remote or use the WordPress sidebar widgets instead.

Features:

  • Display TwitterCounter badges
  • Display Twitter Remote
  • Sidebar widgets included for ease of use
  • Complete customization from within the comfort of WordPress Admin
  • Deactivating plugin will not kill your theme
  • Clean uninstall if you choose to delete the plugin

Requirements:

Installing

  1. Download TwitterCounter.
  2. Extract the contents of twittercounter.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get a folder called twittercounter.
  3. Activate the Plugin in WP-Admin.
  4. Goto Settings > TwitterCounter and enter your Twitter username
  5. Add <?php do_action('echo_tc'); ?> to your theme file where you want to display the counter or use the WordPress widget
  6. Add <?php do_action('echo_twitter_remote'); ?> to your theme file where you want to display the counter or use the WordPress widget

Options:

The below screenshot shows the options you can configure. Currently, you can choose from four different style badges, viz blank, black, white and blue. Also includes the various settings for Twitter Remote. Click in the color input files to select the color.

TwitterCounter Options

You need to enter your Twitter username to begin.

ChangeLog:

  • 1.5
    • Added: Twitter Button with Photo
    • Modified: Twitter Widget has been renamed to Twitter Widget
    • Modified: Better compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress. If you are using the sidebar widgets, please re-add them to your theme under Appearance > Widgets
  • 1.4.1 – Added Russian language and fixed PHP undefined warnings
  • 1.4 – Support for the new button code from TwitterCounter. Now you can choose custom foreground and background color
  • 1.3.3 – Fix for internationalization
  • 1.3 – Now uses the new JavaScript code. Also added the new Big Bird button
  • 1.2 – Integrated Twitter Remote
  • 1.1 – Minor bug fixes
  • 1.0 – Release

To Do:

  • Support for Twitter widgets

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License

All files and their contents are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Questions or Bugs

Known Bugs

If you have any questions or would like to report any bugs, please see how you can get support.

Languages

The following translations are available:

Downloads

Download TwitterCounter v1.5
Number of downloads: 18,408
Rating: 5/5
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38 Comments

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  1. Louis Liem / Sep 10 2008

    Thanks for the plugin :)

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  2. Stefan / Sep 17 2008

    thanks, but I would love to see a “text-only” output instead of the button.

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  3. Ajay / Sep 17 2008

    This is something I plan on including in the next version.

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  4. K-IntheHouse / Oct 19 2008

    Very cool plugin.. I just activated it in my site and it complements it very well! Thanks Ajay! :-)

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  5. Mocha Fudge / Oct 24 2008

    I never tried Twitter since I still have no friends to follow.. well I will try this for sure

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  6. Missy / Nov 7 2008

    What are the advantages of using the plugin versus just adding the HTML code given by Twitter Counter?Please advise.

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  7. Ajay / Nov 7 2008

    Mainly that you don’t need to edit the template files.

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  8. Dirty Blue Widgets / Nov 15 2008

    Ajay,

    Thanks for such a sweet plugin. I’ve been looking to integrate some of my blogs with twitter, and this proved to be helpful in my pursuit. If we wanted to get this in our WP header, would we still have to tweak the sidebar.php file in addition to the header.php one?

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  9. Ajay / Nov 16 2008

    Am a bit confused by this question? When you say add to WP Header, where and why exactly?

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  10. Clean Red Widgets / Nov 18 2008

    Ajay,

    I think he wants his twitter plugin at the top of his wordpress theme, which probably has a header.php file. I would assume it would work but it may not look great with css formatting and all. Either way, excellent plugin recommendation, thanks for posting it.

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  11. John / Nov 20 2008

    Very nice plug-in. There are some other Twitter based WP plug-ins out there, but this is the first one I’ve seen that shows the badges. Well done.

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  12. Dino De Lelelis / Nov 23 2008

    hey ppl… thanks!! vewwi nice plugin.. now i can display the number of followers ..

    ty

    Dino

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  13. marian mccanless / Nov 26 2008

    I like this plugin…although I’m not sure I want know just how unpopular Iam.

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  14. Mike Rutkowski / Nov 26 2008

    Thanks for the cool plug in! I use a different plug in currently for Twitter, but I’m going to switch over to this to show the number of followers (now that I have over 350).

    Mike

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  15. Andy / Dec 1 2008

    Great plugin- all up and running – many many thanks for your work here

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  16. Carrie / Dec 5 2008

    Please tell me the translation file “.po” file to where? I translate “zh_TW.po” file, but put it in the folder is invalid.

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  17. Ajay / Dec 6 2008

    @Carrie, is there some error that you are getting?

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  18. Carrie / Dec 6 2008

    @Ajay, I mean that I was translate this plugins to my local languages, I had a ?zh_TW.po? file, but I don’t konw this file isn’t work? I put it into folder, but still isn’t work.

    So, what can I do? Please tell me!

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  19. Ajay / Dec 6 2008

    Does this work for other plugins?

    I think you need to call it twittercounter-zh_TW.po

    Reply
  20. Carrie / Dec 6 2008

    @Ajay, if I need to call it ?twittercounter-zh_TW.po? code, where add this code? In ?admin.inc.php? or ?ald-twittercounter.php? file?

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  21. Ajay / Dec 6 2008

    You need to translate the file and call the generated .po file as “twittercounter-zh_TW.po” instead of “zh_TW.po”

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  22. Carrie / Dec 7 2008

    @Ajay, yes, I were call the generated .po file as ?twittercounter-zh_TW.po? instead of ?zh_TW.po?.

    But, that still isn’t work,so I give up that, just use defaut file, that’s it.

    And still say thank you for your plugins!

    Reply
  23. Nonoy / Jul 30 2011

    This is good tip. I will try this plugin on my blog. thanks for this.:-)

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  24. erina / Aug 11 2011

    Hi, Ajay.
    i found your plugin when searching twitter button at http://twittercounter.com. and they recommended your plugin.
    i just ask you as i’m newbie, where i have to put in my theme?
    sidebar, or index, or header?

    thanks

    Reply
    • Ajay / Aug 14 2011

      Erina, you can put this anywhere you want in the theme. Or use can use the sidebar widget (Appearances > Widget) to add this

      Reply

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