How to make ShareThis button

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Yo everyone! Today I will try to teach you how to add Share This button under each of your posts. The button allows other people to share your posts on social websites like Facebook, Digg, Technoratti, MySpace, Twitter.... So it can get you some more traffic.


Step 1

Open this page in your browser. Customize your button how ever you want, but make sure that on 'Step 2: Chose your service' you chose 'Any website', even if you will use it for other 3 services.

Step 2
When you're done, click 'Get Share this code'. The page should reload and code should appear. Copy the code or save it somewhere.

Step 3
Go to Dashboard - Layout - Edit HTML. Check 'Expand Widgets'. Find the following line of code:

<data:post.body/></div>

under the tag, paste the code you got before on Share This website.

Step 4
Now visit your blog. Under each post there should be a Share This icon. If something's wrong please leave a comment.

Note: If you want some more space between your post and Share This icon, between '<data:post.body/></div>' tag and button code type following line:

<br/>

If it's still not enough, keep adding '<br/>' line, until you think it's good.

7 comments:

On 6 August 2009 at 02:32 , sampaguita said...

great post ^^ thanks a lot Luka ^^ keep up the good work

 
On 7 August 2009 at 17:08 , editor said...

Thanks for this info. It's good to know this. I don't know how much you need to share, lol!

I followed you to keep up with your next post.

See you around!

Steinar Arason
www.healthexerciseandgym.blogspot.com
"The Truth About Six Pack"

 
On 8 August 2009 at 14:30 , LazyKing said...

I want to know how to make the Share buttons like you have. Especially the Digg button

 
On 11 August 2009 at 13:59 , Chris Mollo said...

Awesome post! Very informative. I'be been trying to figure this out for a long time. Thank-you.

 
On 20 August 2009 at 11:05 , Shawn De Costa(ubuntusl) said...

hey great post. very informative and very useful too. im ubuntusl. thanks
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On 18 September 2009 at 15:27 , Chris said...

The only problem is that the button displays a link for my blog, not the specific blog post. If I tweet the link, I want it to be the link to the blog post and not my blog. How can this be corrected?

 
On 1 November 2009 at 13:11 , R V said...

Thank you for sharing this wonderful tutorial. It is fo great help to me and the rest.