green "shareThis" button – how do I add this to widgets?

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  mysoulinshoes · Member · Oct 21, 2011 at 12:18 am

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  I am trying to add the green “shareThis” button to my sidebar

  http://sharethis.com/publishers/get-hovering-buttons

  Every time I add the html code to the “text” widget, all it does is shoe the actual html code on the sidebar – not the icon.

  Please tell me how do I do this?

  Thank you!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 21, 2011 at 12:24 am

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  You can’t. There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we cannot install individual plugins. Those found on the internet are for WordPress.ORG installs only. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  See here for enabling sharing buttons. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/

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  mysoulinshoes · Member · Oct 21, 2011 at 1:32 am

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  Thanks for your answer. Does that mean I can’t do a “Christmas Countdown” animated picture or anything like that?

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  mysoulinshoes · Member · Oct 21, 2011 at 1:35 am

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  So then I can’t do this to add a shareThis button?

  Adding Your Own Service

  If you would like to add a sharing service to your blog that is not available in the standard set, you can add it using the Add a new service link in the Available Services section.

  You will need to enter:

  Service name
  Sharing URL
  Icon URL
  The Service name is the name you would like to use for the sharing service. It will appear in the link to the service and in the blog sharing stats, i.e. Buzz

  The Sharing URL is the URL address to the sharing service. You can use the variables %post_title%, %post_url% (short URL), %post_full_url% and %post_excerpt% in the URL, i.e. http://www.google.com/buzz/post?url=%post_url%

  The Icon URL is the URL address to the icon image you wish to use for this service, i.e. http://www.someserver.com/images/buzz.png

  Save the service and the new service will appear in the Available Services section.

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 22, 2011 at 2:14 am

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  To my knowledge, you can’t insert that button here. It looks like it contains JavaScript, which is also not allowed here at WordPress.com.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

  The instructions you see in the Sharing support document…
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/
  …are for adding a specific service that is not part of the default ones (such as MySpace).

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  mysoulinshoes · Member · Oct 22, 2011 at 3:23 am

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  Thanks folks!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 22, 2011 at 6:17 pm

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  Does that mean I can’t do a “Christmas Countdown” animated picture or anything like that?

  There are free Christmas countdown tickers/banners that can be used on WordPress.com blogs available at Ult-Tex All Occasion Countdown Banners.

  Also, you’re welcome from me. :)