Noel Jacksons Tweethis Button

Recently I had been debating whether to stick a tweetmeme button on this blog but the one thing that kept constantly putting me off was the fact that the button used an iframe.

I didn’t really like the idea of slowing down page load times for something so trivial as a button, so I decided to live without it. However, earlier today I was catching up on some of my favourite blogs when I noticed that Noel Jackson had developed his very own Twitter button, which didn’t use an iframe. It was perfect, it was exactly what I was looking for.

It turns out that it’s ever so simple to incorporate into your wordpress theme, all you need to do is follow the link above and copy and paste two pieces of code. The first part is pasted into your functions file and the second part is pasted wherever you wish the button to appear on your site. I’ve stuck my twitter button on my single page, so to view it please click through to the comments section or click back to another post using the navigational arrows above.

All in I probably spent a little over two minutes putting this into my theme and another fifteen fiddling about with the CSS, which I’m still not entirely happy with.

If you were like me, thinking about putting a Twitter button on your site but not wanting to slow down page load times by having to use an iframe then I can’t recommend this one enough, it’s simple and very effective.