Insert interactive Twitter sharing buttons on your Webflow webpage

Important: This guide utilizes Webflow’s embed component to incorporate personalized code. The embed element is accessible with any paid Site scheme and on Core, Growth, Agency, and Freelancer Workspace schemes. 

Utilizing dynamic embeddings allows you to design personalized Twitter share buttons for content on your website — such as material from a Compilation of blog posts, music critiques, events, etc. 

In this tutorial, you will discover: 

1. The procedure for obtaining your embed code from Twitter
2. Embedding an interactive Twitter share button on your Webflow webpage

How to obtain your embed code from Twitter 

To acquire your embed code from Twitter: 

1. Visit the Twitter Embed Generator
2. Press Twitter Buttons
3. Select Share Button
4. Hit Set customization options
5. Input any sample text (e.g., “Trial text”) in the Do you want to prefill the Tweet text? section — later on, you’ll replace this with vibrant text
6. (Optional) Configure other customization options (e.g., button proportions, etc.) 
7. Press Update 
8. Press Copy code to duplicate your embed code

How to insert an interactive Twitter sharing button on your Webflow webpage

Important: Ensure you’ve shaped a CMS Compilation (e.g., “Blog posts,” “Music reviews,” etc.) and made at least 1 event Compilation element. The CMS offers helpful templates to aid you in structuring your Compilation.

Here, we’ll examine inserting an interactive Twitter sharing button on your webpage to disseminate content from any CMS Compilation. 

We will carry this out in 2 steps: 

1. Establish a Compilation field for your tweet text
2. Generate a dynamic embed 

Establish a Compilation field for your tweet text

You can either design a new clear text field for your tweet text (i.e., the text you wish to incorporate in tweets when site visitors click your integrated Twitter share button), or employ an existing Compilation field. 

To construct a new Compilation field for your tweet text: 

1. Uncover the CMS panel
2. Hover over your Compilation and tap the settings “cog” icon that gets displayed 
3. Press Add new field
4. Pick Plain text
5. Assign a designation to your field (e.g., “Tweet text”) 
6. Press Save field

Generate a dynamic embed

Dynamic embeddings solely operate with dynamic content, implying you can solely append them on Compilation pages or within a Compilation list on a fixed page. You’ll need to merge your Twitter share button embed to the Compilation page linked with the content you wish to share (e.g., “Blog posts,” “Music reviews,” “Recipes,” etc.), or join a Compilation list to the Compilation from which you intend to share content on Twitter.

To append your dynamic embed:

1. Navigate to Add panel > Advanced
2. Include an embed element to the canvas
3. Paste your Twitter share button embed code in the code editor 
4. Spot the sample text you inputted in the Twitter customization options after the “data-text=” in the code
5. Highlight the sample text within the quotation marks
6. Press Add field
7. Select the Compilation field from which you wish to share content (e.g., “Tweet text”)
8. Press Save & close 

After preparation, debut your site to unveil your novel Twitter sharing button publicly. Once site visitors click your Twitter sharing button, their tweet will auto-complete with the value of that Compilation field for each item in your Compilation. 

Pro tip: You can utilize conditional visibility on Compilation pages and in Compilation lists to obscure the Twitter-sharing button for Compilation elements without tweet text.

‍Important: Your Twitter sharing button will not display on the Designer canvas — in other words, you won’t be able to anticipate the sharing button in the Designer, and a placeholder will be displayed instead. Post publication or export of your site, the Twitter sharing button will be showcased (i.e., exhibit) where you positioned it. If you necessitate previewing the sharing button before making your site live on a personalized domain, you can launch your site on the webflow.io staging subdomain.