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Want to add a Twitter Tweet button to your WordPress posts? It’s super easy:

Horizontal Button:

Tweet

[php]
<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" data-count="horizontal" data-text="Check out <?php the_title(); ?> on < ?php bloginfo( ‘name’ ); ?>" data-via="cdharrison">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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Vertical Button:

Tweet

[php]
<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" data-count="vertical" data-text="Check out <?php the_title(); ?> on < ?php bloginfo( ‘name’ ); ?>" data-via="cdharrison">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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Simple, No-Count Button:

Tweet

[php]
<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" data-count="none" data-text="Check out <?php the_title(); ?> on < ?php bloginfo( ‘name’ ); ?>" data-via="cdharrison">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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Customizing Output:

• Change out data-via="cdharrison" to your your own Twitter handle.
• The inclusion of data-text="Check out < ?php the_title(); ?> on < ?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?>" isn’t necessary, but it’ll give you greater control over the intial text.
• I’ve added these to my sidebar.php (and are only displayed on pages using my single.php template) but this can be customized to be included on pages, archive pages, etc.

Updates:

• rawurlencode(get_permalink()); isn’t necessary and can actually cause the widget to report incorrectly if placed outside of the loop. Fixed code examples.

Based on this quick tip from WPRecipes, I was able to quickly figure out how to count and display the number of Custom Posts (of a particular type) that I had on a site.

[sourcecode language=”php”]
<?php
$numposts = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE (post_status = ‘publish’ AND post_type = ‘listing’)");
if (0 < $numposts) $numposts = number_format($numposts);
?>
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Simply replace post_type = 'listing' with whatever you’ve named your custom post type. Then, to get the number to display somewhere on your page, simply insert the following code where appropriate:

[sourcecode language=”php”]
<?php echo $numposts ?>
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