"Follow Me" Options

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  justinharrishr · Member · Jul 12, 2013 at 1:40 am

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  My site is is through wp.com, not wp.org. I cannot find a definitive answer regarding being able to add buttons in my sidebar that will allow people to follow me on different social networks (twitter, linkedin, etc).

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 12, 2013 at 1:56 am

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  What’s the question? We have a Facebook widget, two different Twitter widgets, and some themes have social follow buttons built into the header. If we don’t have a prefab widget for whatever site it is, you can put it in a Text Widget.

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  justinharrishr · Member · Jul 12, 2013 at 2:45 am

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  Can a bar of social icons (with links) be added to the sidebar? If icons can be added with a text widget, how? I have the graphic saved in my library.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 12, 2013 at 2:55 am

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  You just have to write it in code. I use the New Post page to compose my widgets. Once it looks more or less like I want it to, I click to the Text editor, copy all the code, and put that code in the Text Widget.