New visitors will likely find your website by searching for something they are interested in using a search engine. You should not neglect social media while trying to reach new audiences. This time we will focus on Twitter and show you how to get the most out of one of its built-in functions, Twitter cards.
Twitter cards can be added to your WordPress website with relative ease and have a variety of aesthetic and functional benefits. But what exactly are Twitter cards? Do you really need them and why? All that together with the tricks of how to add Twitter cards to your WordPress website is the subject of this tutorial. Here are the things we will cover:
Simply put, Twitter cards rich results, but for Twitter. But let’s take a step back. On Twitter, a tweet is the basic unit of interaction. The user posts tweets that other users can comment, like or share. Initially, tweets were only textual, but Twitter’s developers have since added images, gifs, polls, and other media.
If you’re using Twitter, you’ll see that much. content shared from websites on social platform includes more more than just a bridge. The format of such tweets is called Twitter card and looks like this:
There are four types of Twitter cards:
The easiest way to think of Twitter cards is from the Twitter user’s perspective. A Twitter user is used to seeing links and similar rich content in a specific format, which is a Twitter card. Now, of course, you can share a link or image as a perfectly ordinary tweet, but that can leave a bad impression. much better look professional by using the appropriate format to share this type of content. This will likely mean more visits and more retweets.
Also, even if you’re not trying to maintain an active Twitter presence, your website may have visitors. You can use Twitter cards for Providing Twitter users with more information about your website without having to do it yourself for each post – your visitors will share your rich content every time they click on your Share link.
Now that you know the benefits of Twitter cards, let us show you how to get your visitors to share your rich content on Twitter.
The easiest and completely coding-free way to add Twitter cards to a WordPress website is to use a plugin. The plugin we will show here JM Twitter Cards. It’s free and while even novice users find it very easy to use, it still offers you the functions you need.
After installing and activating the plugin, you will need to configure it. To do this, go to the plugin’s configuration screen by selecting it. JM Twitter Cards/JM Twitter Cards From your WordPress dashboard menu.
here, in Options In the tab, you will find the configuration options. your Twitter username creative and Domain fields.
Also, you need to select below. Card typewant it Summary, Summary below Big Pictureor Application card.
next, Quotation change. if set to Yupwill show your post’s excerpt as your card’s meta description. Similarly, Open Chart if the toggle is set to Yes, it uses the Open Graph protocol for social sharing.
Inside Image Return In the field, you must enter the URL of the default image that will be used if the featured image is not used in the post shared on social media. Click to upload a new image or choose one from your media library. choose file. If you wish, you can add the alt text of your image to the section below. picture bottom domain.
Scroll down and you will find Home meta description domain. This is where you can enter a custom description for your homepage card – you can have a Twitter-specific homepage description.
Also a Custom field header and one Custom field description if you want your cards to use them. Again, this overrides any title and description settings you might have by default or through an SEO plugin, but only for Twitter.
When done, click Save Changes. These will be your default settings.
Inside Custom Post types tab, which post types have a custom Twitter Cards tab adjacent to the main body of your content in the editor.
For posts, they will be accessible by clicking. excitement The icon next to the settings (Gear) icon. You can use it to override the default settings for any particular post.
if you are using Classic Editoryou will find yourself Twitter Cards the box is below the main body of your content.
Once you’ve configured your plugin to your satisfaction, you can check if it’s working properly using the following. Twitter card validator. Simply login to Twitter, follow the link to the validator, enter the URL of the page you want to share on Twitter. Card URL select the field and then preview card.
Twitter’s bot then crawls your website and gets the information it needs to generate a card. You’ll be able to see a preview of your card here: Card preview In the window you can follow the bot’s action. Record under.
Each time a link to this content is shared on Twitter, the entire Twitter card will be displayed as configured.
Sometimes because your website can prevent Twitter from accessing it (which logically makes Twitter cards impossible), your website robots.txt file. To allow Twitter bots to crawl your website, enter the following lines in your robots.txt file:
User-agent: Twitterbot Disallow:
And the plugin should work properly.
As a result
As you can see, adding Twitter cards to your WordPress website may take some time if you decide to have different settings for each page, but it doesn’t really matter: It can be done in a few minutes with the basic settings. Twitter cards are an important function of one of the most popular social networks, and the benefits are obvious: they make your shared content richer and therefore more professional and easier to click. There’s really no reason why you shouldn’t make it easy for your Twitter users to make your content look good while sharing it.