WPSNIPPET:Automatically link twitter name into wordpress posts

Twitter widely used for social networking, social marketing and web promotions. After creating profile at twitter you invite people to follow you. If you have a huge follower base it is difficult to kept all names in mind but today's snippet help you lot.

If you use twitter lot and If you want that your readers know about your followers profile then this simple wordpress snippet help you to link followers name automatically into your blog posts, pages and comments...

With this snippet you can link follower name directly and after click the link you can tweet directly into their profiles.

How to link automatically twitter follower names in post/pages/comments in wordpress.

1. Open your functions.php file and paste following code at the end .

function twtreplace($content) {
$twtreplace = preg_replace('/([^a-zA-Z0-9-_&])@([0-9a-zA-Z_]+)/',"$1<a href=\"http://twitter.com/$2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@$2</a>",$content);
return $twtreplace;
}
add_filter('the_content', 'twtreplace');  
add_filter('comment_text', 'twtreplace');

2. Once you saved the file all twitter usernames in posts and comments will automatically be linked to their Twitter profiles. Usernames have to be written under the form @username.

Thanks to ederwp (snipplr) this awesome snippet.  Pl consider sharing it with friends.

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