Social bookmark website plug-in for wordpress.
Ever see Digg, de.lici.ous and other social bookmarking websites icons which link back to those sites included in blog post and wonder how it was done. Follow these instructions to include social bookmark website linking into your blog.
WordPress social bookmark information here!
NOTE:
These instructions assume that you are using the default WordPress Theme for version 2.1.2. and “Digg” for social bookmarking. These instructions may work on other themes and versions but were not tested and may require other efforts.
Process:
- Goto you social bookmark website and copy the linking code. This should be available somewhere on the website. For Digg its, http://digg.com/tools/.
- From the Wordpress Admin area, click “Presentation”–>”Theme Editor”–>”Single Post”
- Locate the tag “<p class=”postmetadata alt”>”
- Paste the code from your socialbookmark site BEFORE this tag. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE. You many want to get spacing around the insert. I used the <p> Tag for this (i.e. “
<p><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></p>“) WITHOUT THE OUTER QOUTES. - Save - click on the “Update File” button.
- Thats it. When you click on one of your blog post, you should see the socialbookmark icon at the end of the post, prior to the
Now, if you want a solution that provides, several social bookmarking websites and an option for sending an email to the customer, I found a great WordPress plugin that does just that. Its called “Share This” and it was authored by Alex King.
