Add Social Media Sharing Buttons - Easy
Site: ShareThis.com
This is what I am using to add social media share buttons. The instructions are at the ShareThis site of course. And here's a quick rundown, if you want to add buttons to your posts and/or pages.
( 1 ) Click: Manual installation
( 2 ) Download. Install
( 3 ) Activate
( 4 ) ShareThis is in your plug-ins. You just need to do search: ShareThis
( 5 ) When it shows, then click DETAILS
( 6 ) The details are your choices of which social media share buttons you want in your blog posts and/or pages.
( 7 ) On the left are the standard social share buttons.
( 8 ) You can click "x" if you don't need that social site share button
( 9 ) The right side is = You can choose button you want to add
(10) Just place your mouse over the button you want and slide to the left. You will see a blank rectangle and you will set your choice in there.
(11) Do as many social media buttons as you wish. Using your mouse to move from the right side, and place into where you want it to be and in the order you want it to be. Do this as many times as you want, and for however many social media sharing buttons you want to use.
(12) When you have selected (or deselected) the sharing buttons that you want, then click save.
(13) It will ask you to create an account. When you do, then immediately your share buttons are locked in and saved nicely.
(14) You can choose if you want the buttons showing at the top or at bottom of your posts/pages.
(15) If you chose Twitter, then you just need to put your @____ (Twitter name) and your username. If you want you can create a new twitter for each niche.
(16) Now to place the code. ShareThis code is located near upper right of your ShareThis account. It's a code with lower case letters and numbers.
(17) Copy the code into your mouse and
(18) Go to your WA websites, and log into wordpress there, if you need to.
(19) Pick out the posts and/or pages you want to use the social media sharing button in.
(20) At your blog, click your mouse to where you want to put the social sharing buttons.
I clicked down at the bottom of my blog posts and pages.
(21) Then see the [CODE] button in the choices of your toolkit above where your blog main body is. The [CODE] button is clicked and then you paste the long alpha numeric code. Make sure it's directly touching the right of the [CODE]
(22) You will see this after you click [CODE] .. <code>
(23) Place your special long alpha number code next to the <code>
(24) Then click [CODE] one more time to the right of the alpha numeric code.
(25) Then you will see this after you click [CODE] the 2nd time ... </code>
(26) Click UPDATE
(27) Your social sharing buttons should be all set and you can do the same steps of [CODE]alpha numeric number[CODE]
(28) The instructions I've given are long, but the steps are really easy thankfully!
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME.
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Social Media and Share Icons (Ultimate Social Media)
this is what im using right now..should i change? use something simpler?
of you are using Ultimate Social Media share icons and it is working for you and you know how to use them. you don't have to change.
If doesn't matter what plugin you use for social share as long as you know how to use it and set it up. The biggest difference between them of the look and layout of the icons.
no probs,
just use what ever is easier and has the feature that you want. I use sumo me plug in for social share buttons.
Thanks a lot for this useful information. Adding those buttons can greatly improve our site's presence and SEO.
Blessings,
Hilda
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I don't like using ShareThis because the javascript takes long to load on the page... I'm looking for something lighter weight.. I like the way jetpack has it, but again - too bulky and not enough features :-(
Oh well, I'll keep looking