Can I add follow me button for NONE wordpress members to tool bar?

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  wonderingsoul25 · Member · Oct 27, 2014 at 6:27 pm

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  Tool bar is showing ‘follow me’ for wordpress members only. None wordpress members are having trouble realising that they are able to follow me as the follow me button is right at bottom of blog on widgets.
  Thanks

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 27, 2014 at 6:39 pm

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  The Admin bar belongs to the logged in WordPress.COM bloggers who visit your site and no you cannot add anything at all to the Admin bar.

  You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widgets by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  If you would like a follow button to appear on the bottom right hand corner of your site for those who do not have WordPress.com accounts go to > Settings > Reading and scroll down to Follower Settings:

  These settings change emails sent from your blog to followers.
  Logged out users __ Show follow button to logged out users.

  Checking this will present a follow button to logged out users in the bottom corner of their screen.

  You can create a Page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ and place a contact form on it for private communication with your visitors, or for opting into receiving a newsletter for example. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/

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  timethief · Member · Oct 27, 2014 at 6:49 pm

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  See also external follow button http://en.support.wordpress.com/follow-button/

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  wonderingsoul25 · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 11:48 am

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  Hey there, thx for getting back to me – much appreciated. I already have the widget set up at the bottom but the feedback that I’m getting is that many people don’t see it as it’s at the bottom instead of the top. As there are many posts on the blog, they have to scroll through all of the posts to even notice that a ‘follow me’ button exists. It seems that I am losing many potential followers due to this…
  Thx again

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  megz0114 · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 3:15 pm

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  I have a few ideas that may or may not work for you:
  1) Choose a new theme that uses a widget sidebar as opposed to a widget footer. That would move your “Follow” information to the top/side along with your other widgets.
  2) Use Excerpts (http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/) or the More Tag (http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/) Both will show a truncated version of your post. When the post title is clicked the full post will show. I’m not sure how these will work with your theme.
  3) Under Settings->Reading->Blog pages show at most, change the number of posts shown. It seems like you write long posts so people would still need to scroll to get to the bottom but there would be fewer posts to scroll through.

  Hope this helps.

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  wonderingsoul25 · Member · Oct 29, 2014 at 2:53 pm

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  Thank you very much for your help. I appreciate it and will look at all of your suggestions…