How to Add Social Sharing Buttons to Your Wordpress Website
It's time for your daily dose of Wordpress Wisdom! In today's quick tutorial I'll show you how to add social sharing buttons so your audience can quickly and easily share your content to their social media platforms. There are several free and easy plugins to choose from to get this accomplished and with just a quick customization of the plugin settings, you're off and ready to go!
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If you want to see how to place social FOLLOW icons in the content area of your site, check out that tutorial here:
How Do I Add Social Follow Icons to my Wordpress Website?
And if you want to see how to put those social FOLLOW icons into the main header and menu area of your site, check out how do that here:
How Can I Add my Social Follow Icons to the Header or Menu
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Instagram is a photo and video based platform. You can't really share a website post to instagram the way you would to Facebook or Twitter.
That's totally up to you whether you want to use any social media platform. Use the ones you like :) The reason it's not there as a sharing button in this video tutorial is for the reasons I mentioned, but Instagram is a great social media platform. I use it all the time to share all my travels.
Okay Eric, I will keep it and just post each new topic i write about, as I am getting some followers already.
This is an excellent class and a way of gaining FREE Traffic from your readers! Thanks again Eric.
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Hey Eric,
Just getting caught up with these tutorials and they are great thanks.
So I now know that you can have social media icons that link to your own social media accounts or icons so that viewers can share your content but is there are recommendations on which ones to have and where on your site.
I would like to have both but think it might be confusing if it is really clear which ones are for the different purposes
Cheers
Pete
They’re really not that confusing at all. Normally the share buttons that are within the content are typically for people to share to their social media. When you see social media icons somewhere in the header or the footer these are understood to be follow icons as opposed to share icons since they’re not in the content. You can also add text like Follow Me or Share to differentiate. 👍🏼
Cool, thanks Eric