Blogger adds Share buttons officially on Blogspot blogs
Sharing on Social networking sites is a vital element of Web 2.0 and there’s hardly any site left which does not provide option to share their story on Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, etc. Blogger aka Blogspot which is widely used Blogging platform has finally launched official support for sharing buttons on Blogger posts.
The share buttons allows you to share blogger articles on social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Buzz or mail it your friend right from the blog using the share buttons at the bottom of every article on Blogspot blog.
How to Add Share button on Blogspot articles
To add Share button to your Blogspot blog, Go to Design >> Page elements. Click edit link on Blog posts element. Configure Blog Posts in new window will open, Now check the “Show Share button” check-box to start displaying Share buttons on blog posts. It’s position can be arranged but recommended to be kept at the bottom of article.
Although, we had an alternative to add share buttons manually by adding codes into template but it was not easy for all the bloggers who are not so geeky. So, this new feature as a default feature integrated into Blogger system is great move.
Update: In some Blogger templates, the buttons may not appear even after applying the settings so, you follow the steps below:
If this does not appear in your blog, you have a modified template, so you have to add the code manually. In the code of your template (Design ? HTML ? Expand Widget Templates), looking something like the following:
<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>Add the following code there:
<!-- Buttons --><div class='post-share-buttons'><b:include data='post' name='shareButtons'/></div>I hope now, everyone will be able to get those cool share buttons below each article on Blogger.com Blogspot blogs.
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Rohit Langde is editor-in-chief and owner of Blogsolute. He is Born-Geek and Technology Enthusiast. Being a blogger, he is also Mechanical Engineer who believes in simple Living. You can Follow @maholSubscribe
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hi there…please help me to move my share buttons up. i want the footer to be smaal but now the share buttons dont want to arrange the way i’m placing them in my ‘configure blog posts.’ i wanted to just move it below the post-footer.
i also need to have my images align exactly under my post’s body. on the left. do you have advise? (i cant find padding that is not 0px)
anyone with advise? im so desperate
thanks so much
I have the same question concerning the padding. Did you find a solution?
Thank you, for information..
Thankyou so much
Awesome tip. Thanks so much for the second part on adding the buttons manually. I’ve finally got it. THanks again.
very nice tip, thanks a lot
I’ve visited your blog today nice blog
Hi,
This feature is indeed a great addition to Blogger. I was wondering if there is a way to configure what is being shared. For example, the Facebook share button will use my profile photo as thumbnail, the title of the post and its web address. It would be cool to be edit what is being shared. Do you have any idea how you could do this? Thanks!
Oh nice blog by the way!
Do you know how to put Twitter, FB and Yahoo BUzz buttons like those in WordPress plug-in called Digg Digg?
Nice info…thanks…
I couldn’t find the below code(in Design —> HTML —> Expand Widget Templates)
Thanks in advance!~
Hello, I just want to ask on the side-bar widget share buttons. I want it to blend the color to my blog. How ill I do that? Thanks!