Beginner's Guide to Adding Twitter Cards in WordPress

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Beginner's Guide to Adding Twitter Cards in WordPress

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Enhancing your WordPress website with Twitter Cards can greatly improve your social media presence and user engagement. Twitter Cards provide images and descriptions that appear on X (formerly Twitter) when someone shares your content.

On WPBeginner, we use this feature to control the design of our tweets and encourage user interaction. Using Twitter Cards (or X Cards) also ensures that we get recognition for our content.

In this article, we'll show you how to add Twitter Cards in WordPress to make your tweets stand out.

Beginners Guide on How to Add Twitter Cards in WordPress
Why use Twitter cards in WordPress?
Twitter Cards allow you to add a title, summary, image, list of switzerland cell phone number and video or audio to your tweet, making you more likely to get more clicks and retweets.

You can see a live example on our WPBeginner page on X.

twitter card example
The biggest benefit of Twitter Cards is that they increase the number of followers of your X accounts through content attribution. Often times, your links get tweeted without you getting proper credit.
alkhi retweets a post by @wpbeginner without attribution, and other people retweet @syedbalkhi, users who see those retweets are more likely to follow @syedbalkhi than @wpbeginner.

Often, content curators do this to keep tweet length short and ensure retweets of their own tweets.

Twitter Cards solves this problem because you get credit for your WordPress website for every tweet that mentions your article .

Now that you know the benefits of Twitter Cards, let's look at how to implement them in WordPress. We'll cover two methods and show you how to test and validate your Twitter Cards:
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