This article covers three types of blog and therefore covers three ways in which you can add
Social Sharing Widget to your blog post. If you have created your website and your blog
manually, then inserting a social sharing widget bar will simply be a case of adding code into
the relevant area of your web page.
There is no further installation needed for a social sharing widget bar because it is a fairly
unsophisticated widget. Asocial sharing widget it is more commonly known as a share
button. It is a shortcut method, which allows people to share some of your blog post.
It is an alternative for users, instead of them highlighting pieces of your post and copying it
on to another medium so that they may share it. It is a quicker way, which allows people to
share your contents through clicking a box or by simply clicking a button. Sometimes you
have the choice as to which parts they are allowed to share, and sometimes you do not.
Add Social Sharing Widget Below Post-
1)Your own Website Blog
If you have a blog, which is created entirely by you (manually), then all you need to do is
insert the code for a social sharing widget. Then at all you need to do is look at the source
code and steal it from their site. There are other websites, which allow you to If you see
a share widget that you like on someone else website see how the share bar works and
allow you to pick your own.
There are many sites that allow you to see share bar code and many of them are free. Some-
times however the free widget code comes with a web address attached-in which case it is a
prudent to remove to the web address from the code before you insert it into your website,
otherwise you will be inadvertently advertising another website.
2)WordPress
WordPress have made it a decidedly easier for you to install a social sharing widget. All you
need to do is search the very many WordPress plug-ins to find the right one to suit your
blog. They have a wide variety of choice in the way the share button looks and how it works.
Also Read- Top 10 WordPress Plugins You Must Install
A fun thing about WordPress is that you can install and uninstall plugins quite easily. So if
you have a social sharing widget that you do not really like then you can download a new one
and delete the old one. If you would like more functions on your share button then you can
simply download a new one. It is simple, and WordPress have made it so that their approved
share buttons are optimized so that the information shared will affect your blog ranking
positively and not negatively.
3)Blogger
Firstly log in to the Blogger dashboard, go to the drop down menu, and select templates. Click
on the edit HTML option and the proceed option, and tick the box that says, “Expand widget
Templates”. Search online for the code for your share bar/button. Once you have the code
for your share button you can then move back to your blog the screen on your browser.
You must bring up your search bar. You can do this on your browser menu, or with Firefox and
Internet explorer, you can press CTRL + F.
Search for this: <data:post.body/>
Just below or after the <data:post.body/> or <div class=’post-footer-line post-footer-line-1′/>,
paste your share bar/button/widget code. Once you are done click save template.
There are quite a few websites that show you how to put code on to a Blogger blog. Many of them
offer code with multiple choices for share button icons. You will also find that the blogger website
has quite a few links to share button code, as well as other widget codes, which you should really
look into, because they tend to be more reliable websites and social sharing widget codes.
Finding your Share Bar/Button/ Social Sharing Widget Code
The Internet is littered with people who are offering in the code for share buttons/social sharing
widget for free. Some people do it out of fine motives whilst others do it with a hidden agenda.
Some people just want higher traffic, where as others want to use your share bar as a way pointing
to their website.
Please be sure not to download anything from these sorts of websites because you can get the
code by simply copying and pasting it onto your website or blog. You should also be aware that
they might sometimes embed links and domain names into their share buttons.
I hope this post on “How to Add Cool Social Sharing Widget” helps you to choose the best sharing
bar for your blog.
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