How to add a Bookmark icon to Posts on your Blog
Social Bookmarking is a hot topic and I have been wondering how some people manage to get a BOOKMARK button added to the end of all posts on their Blogs.
Searching the internet I found a free WordPress Bookmark plugin supplied by AddThis and have installed it on this Blog.
This Plugin (the new drop-down version) will automatically insert the AddThis widget below each post in your blog (see it below this post). It’s very easy to install, you don’t even need to change anything in your templates. Here are the instructions:
1) CLICK HERE to download the software onto your computer
2) Unzip the file
3) Upload its contents into your wp-content/plugins directory
4) Log into your Wordpress blog, click on the ‘Plugins’ tab, and click ‘Activate’
This Plugin supports Stats. If you want to get bookmarking statistics (e.g. top bookmarked posts over various time periods), open the .php file and set the ‘addthis_username’ variable to, well, your AddThis username.
Note that this free software is not just restricted to use on Blog Posts; you can also use the Bookmark icon on a normal website, MySpace page or in a newsletter. You can get the code for these other uses from within your AddThis account area.
Have fun!
