How to Put a Retweet Widget on a WordPress Blog
Twitter can be a valuable source of traffic for a blog. Twitter can enable a post to go viral; a reader enjoys a post and forwards it to her Twitter followers, some of her followers do the same, and within hours a post can receive thousands of visitors. With any luck, some of those visitors will become regular readers. Although a Twitter user can send a tweet with an embedded link without your help, you can make the process simpler for your readers by adding a Retweet button to your posts.
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Instructions
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Click the "Plugins" menu on the left side of your WordPress dashboard, then click "Add New."
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Type "WP-Twitter Retweet Button" in the search box at the top of the page, then press Enter.
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Click the "Install Now" link under "WP-Twitter Retweet Button" on the result page.
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Click "Ok," then click "Activate Plugin."
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Open the "Settings" menu on the left side of the dashboard, then click "Twitterbutton."
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Click the "Position" drop-down menu to select whether you want the Retweet button to appear before or after the text of your posts.
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Click a button after "Type" to select how you would like the Retweet button to look.
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Click the text field after "Source," and type your Twitter username.
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Click the drop-down menu after "Language," then select the language of your WordPress website.
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Click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the page. Readers can now click the "Tweet" button on any of your blog posts to retweet the post to their followers.
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