Sharing URL

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  gittefalkenberg · Member · Feb 28, 2012 at 3:22 am

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  Hi guys.

  I’m thinking of adding extra buttons to my sharing options.
  When I go support to see how this is done, here is what I read:

  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.

  As you customize the sharing services, you can see how they are ordered in the Live Preview section.

  Now, I’m not really sure I get this.

  What is the difference in using %post_title% or %post_url% ?
  I’m guessing both will link to the page, so I would think that the title would be preferred?

  The Sharing URL:
  Can anyone give some good examples I can follow, as I’m not really sure how I find these share url’s?

  Eg. examples from:
  Friendfeed
  Posterous

  Thx.
  Gitte

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 28, 2012 at 7:12 am

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  Hi, one of the Staff people have taken a lot of the pain out of this by already listing a number of other sharing services on his personal site.

  See here: http://ryanmarkel.com/2010/08/31/adding-specific-sharing-services-to-sharedaddy-or-jetpack/

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  gittefalkenberg · Member · Feb 28, 2012 at 2:22 pm

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  Hi Jennifer.
  That’s great.
  Thx for posting the link :-)