Add This! social bookmarking button and rss suscribe button
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I have been trying out a new little social bookmarking button on my blogs that others may be interested in. It’s called Add This! http://www.addthis.com/
“Simple and recognizable widgets to help your visitors save and promote your website or blog to the social bookmarking and feed reader services!”
You can check the social bookmark out on my blog here and see if you’re interested.
Simply copy-and-paste the code into your pages or posts.
<!– AddThis Bookmark Button BEGIN –>
<img src=”http://s3.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif” width=”125″ height=”16″ border=”0″ alt=”AddThis Social Bookmark Button” />
<!– AddThis Bookmark Button END –><!– AddThis Feed Button BEGIN –>
<img src=”http://s3.addthis.com/button2-rssfeed.png” width=”160″ height=”24″ border=”0″ alt=”AddThis Feed Button” />
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Hi TT,
Do you need to open an ADDThis account for the button to work? or can we copy and paste from here and it will still work?
Does the viewer of the post need to have an account as well for it to be clickable/added?
I ask because once I click on the button, it seems to go to the site. But what is the person to do once there? Open an account?
Maybe you could explain it a bit more?
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I’m only exploring right now. I did not create an account. I simply copied and pasted the code for the button at the end of my posts. Now what I’m looking for is for someone to click the button and tell me what they experience. Would you do that for me please?
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I did do that and it took me to the site. Once there, I really did not know how to “submit” your page.
It shows all the feed sites, then down at the bottom it shows a box, don’t ask again or something, but there is no submit button.
I will add the code to my page, you can click from there and see what I mean.
BRB, when added code. -
The site also says that you do not need to add it to all your pages for this to work, but I did not see any other alternative.
I think maybe the code is to go into a widget???
Would seem logical, but I am no wiz that’s for sure LOL. As you will see nowI added th code at the bottom of http://gottabkd.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/thank-you-sir-richard-branson/#more-170
does not look pretty like yours?
Check it out -
TT,
I even put it in a text widget and labeled it Add Me (bottom right of blog.
Nothing.
I must leave for a while, but will try to come back later. I will leave it up on the site for a day so anyone else can look (and help) if they want OK.
Hope it helps as I am very interested in this also.
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(1) I don’t understand why you didn’t end up with a button like mine. The code below produced a button on my blog.
<!– AddThis Bookmark Button BEGIN –>
<img src=”http://s3.addthis.com/button2-bm.png” width=”160″ height=”24″ border=”0″ alt=”AddThis Social Bookmark Button” />
<!– AddThis Bookmark Button END –>(2) When I click the social bookmarking button code you have put up on your post I end up in my delicious account ready to add a bookmark. Do you have a delicious account or one of the other social bookmarking accounts? If you don’t then maybe that’s why you end up on the Add This! page.
(3) The Add Me you put in the text widget does not work.
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update:
sunburntkamel has tried the Add This! widget out also and has pronounced that it works and he likes it. -
wow, i didn’t know my opinion had that much weight :P
anyway, when you paste in the code, only paste the stuff in between the comments. wordpress has serious problems with HTML comments. paste this:
<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"><img src="http://s3.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button" /></a>should work better.
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I have other reports from readers saying they like it too. The cool thing is that there’s no javascript involved – it’s just html. Your stripped down code is also better as the original leaves a lot of blank space above and below the button. Thanks :)
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The only thing I don’t like about this is that in order to bookmark a specific topic you need to go to that particular posts individual page. Any ‘bookmark’ button on the main page, regardless of the entry will try and bookmark your main site URL…..any workarounds anyone can think of (short of only displaying 1 post per page).
Trent
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you could put it under a
<!--more add this!-->
tag. it’s still not perfect, since it’s still possible to click the link from the blog surfer.i say ‘not perfect’, but really, it’s about people being able to find and recommend your site. i doubt it’s too problematic if they bookmark your front page instead of the specific article.
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Thanks adam, I will do that for all the new entries…..better than nothing! Cheers.
Trent
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Actually I just mark them as resolved. if you mark them as “This is not…”, it shows up under the unresolved search.
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that’s kind of a glitch, dontcha think? if it’s not a support question, semantically, it can’t be unresolved. probably best to send in feedback come monday ;)
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