The Beginners Guide on How to Add Twitter Cards in WordPress

• To control the display of content in tweets;
• To attract more traffic to the site;
• Increase the number of your Twitter followers by reference to the source.

The biggest advantage of these cards is that people will be able to give links to your content with an indication of the source. If someone re-tweeted your message without links to your Twitter, if new interested users most likely do not subscribe to your Twitter, someone who re-tweeted without reference. This is often done to reduce the length of the message and thus to ensure retweets own messages. On Twitter Cards, this problem is solved, because you get an increase of confidence in your site with every tweet your article.

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1. SEO in WordPress plugin via Yoast

Yoast plugin has built-in integration of Twitter Cards, so you can include it in just a few clicks. To do this, go to the WordPress SEO page titled as Social and see the settings. Click on Add Twitter Card Meta Data. And insert the name of your site with WordPress theme in Twiiter account. The next thing you need to do is go to your profile - Users - My Profile. There you will see several fields for Contact Info for your username on Twitter. Enter your user name. If your site has several authors, then allow authors to customize this part of your profile. This method is the simplest.

2. Add Twitter Cards to your WordPress template with coding

To use this option, you need to do some manipulations with the code. Open the header.php file and paste the following code before the closing tag: <? php #twitter cards hack if (is_single () || is_page ()) { $ twitter_url = get_permalink (); $ twitter_title = get_the_title (); $ twitter_desc = get_the_excerpt (); $ twitter_thumbs = wp_get_attachment_image_src (get_post_thumbnail_id ($ post-> ID), full); $ twitter_thumb = $ twitter_thumbs [0]; if (! $ twitter_thumb) { $ twitter_thumb = 'http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8eb9ee80d39f13cbbad56da88ef3a6ee?rating=PG&size=75';} $ twitter_name = str_replace ('@', '', get_the_author_meta ('twitter')); ?><meta name = "twitter: card" value = "summary" /> <meta name = "twitter: url" value = "<? php echo $ twitter_url;?>" /> </ meta> <meta name = "twitter: title" value = "<? php echo $ twitter_title;?>" /> </ meta> <meta name = "twitter: description" value = "<? php echo $ twitter_desc;?>" /> </ meta> <meta name = "twitter: image" value = "<? php echo $ twitter_thumb;?>" /> </ meta> <meta name = "twitter: site" value = "<a href =" http://twitter.com/libdemvoice "target =" _ blank "rel =" nofollow "> @ libdemvoice" /> <?if ($ twitter_name) {?> </ meta> <meta name = "twitter: creator" value = "@ <? php echo $ twitter_name;?>" /> ?> </ meta>

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If you do not know how to work with PHP, then you should stick to the first method.

3. The application for participation

What you have just added support for Twitter Cards to your site with a WordPress theme does not mean that they immediately begin to appear on the website Twitter. In order for the system to work, you need to apply for its activation. To do this, you need to test your site using the Preview Tool. And then complete the application form. In this form, you do not have to provide the URL for the Photo Card or URL for Player Card. Simply enter the example URL Summery Card, which contains a sample of any article from your website built with a WordPress template. If you have any questions about Adding Twitter Cards on a website with WooCommerce theme or WordPress theme, then you can ask them on our forum or via the Technical Support.