7 Social Buttons That Any Blog Can’t Live Without
Social services and blogs are part of modern internet. Many blogs have special buttons in every post which give readers an ability to add the post to their favorite service. Almost every blog platform have plugins which add a lot of such buttons to posts. There are just one problem with those plugins - they add A LOT of buttons.
Of course you can customly delete some of them but than what for you need those plugins than? I think in some cases better solution is to add links to some of most popular services to your templates. There is also a fact that some blogs don’t have plugin systems (i.e. Blogger).
Every platform have its own template syntaxis. To add buttons you’ll need just two codes: one which gives a permalink (permanent link) to the post and another whick gives the post title. Here are codes for most popular platforms:
| Wordpress | |
| <?php the_permalink();?> | <?php the_title();?> |
| Blogger | |
| <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$> | <$BlogItemTitle$> |
| MovableType and TypePad | |
| <$MTEntryPermalink$> | <$MTEntryTitle$> |
Now, we knows the codes but what to do with them? I’ll show that on Blogger example bacause it need that more than others.
- Digg.
http://digg.com/submit?phase= 2&url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=
<$BlogItemTitle$> - Reddit.
http://reddit.com/submit?url= <$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>
- Del.icio.us.
http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&noui&jump=close&url= <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>
- Yahoo MyWeb.
http://myweb.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t= <$BlogItemTitle$>&u=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$> &ei=UTF
- Fark.
http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/edit.pl? new_url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&new_comment= <$BlogItemTitle$>
- Furl.
http://www.furl.net/store?s=f&to=0&ti= <$BlogItemTitle$>&u= <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>
- Magnolia.
http://ma.gnolia.com/beta/bookmarklet/add?url= <$BlogItemTitle$>&title= <$BlogItemTitle$>&description= <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>
You can put some images inside link tag and in the end you’ll get something like this:
P.S. You can download icons for servises above here.
Original source: Mike Yarmish’s blog
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