Add a Twitter Follow Button to Your Page

Twitter provides a page on which you can generate a "follow" button for your Twitter account. This button can be added to any page in your CMS website by pasting the code generated by the Twitter page into the source of an HTML web-part on the page.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Generate Your "Like" Button Code a the Facebook Developers Website
  1. Go to https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons#follow

  2. Follow the instructions.

  3. Copy the code in the "Preview and code" box.

  4. Keep the code so that you will be able to cut and paste the code when needed. 

Add the Button to Your CMS Website Page
  1. Go to the page in the CMS where you want to place the button. 

  2. If you have not already done so, add an HTML web-part to the page. 

  3. Click the Edit link on the HTML web-part to open the WYSIWYG editor. 

  4. Click the Source button. 

  5.  Back in the Facebook configurator where your code was generated, copy the IFRAME code.

  6. Paste that code into the Source of the WYSIWYG editor in the CMS. 

  7. Click the Update button. 

  8. Refresh the screen and your "Follow" button should be operational in the position you placed it on the page. 


Printable View | © 2008 - 2024 FrontEdge Inc