Shoto Azikuri

Many bloggers ask how they can to get people to bookmark their posts. We can talk a lot about it , but in this post I want to show you one inevitable thing for it. This is social bookmark buttons, you will agree that if reader see nice buttons there is more chance that reader bookmark your post and if buttons aren’t in fact there is a very little chance to remember bookmark post.

How to make such buttons?

Those buttons are very nice and easy to see, so how to make such buttons? It is easy:

1. Find buttons in .gif, .jpg or other format and upload them to your ftp.

2. Go to WP-Admin>Design>Theme Editor>Main Index Template (index.php) and find this code:

<?php the_content(’Read More…’); ?>

and you must add here code of social bookmark buttons, you must search urls from where you can add your post to social bookmark site and edit it, for example http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url= this is url where you can bookmark page in SU so you must edit this code http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?> the_permalink menas link of your post, so there is final code you must add :

<a href=”http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><img src=”http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/32×32_su_shadow.gif” alt=”Stumble It!”></a>

<a href=”http://digg.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>”>
<img src=”http://digg.com/img/badges/32×32-digg-guy.png” width=”32″ height=”32″ alt=”Digg!” />
</a>

<a href=”http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>”><img src=”http://azikuri.com/wp-includes/images/delicious.png” width=”32″ height=”32″ alt=”Bookmark!” /></a>

You have already added buttons on main page of your blog.

3. In the end you should add buttons on post’s page in single.php instead of index.php. Find this code:

<?php the_content(’Read More…’); ?>

and add the same code below.

Now you can see social bookmark buttons on your blog, if you want another social media site’s buttons on your blog find image of buttons, submit url and make it as others.

So if you like this article you can bookmark it with nice social bookmark buttons :))