Adding Floating Social Media Sharing Buttons

Adding Social Media Sharing Buttons | Social Media Buttons | Social Sharing


As promised to some of my readers, here’s a tutorial on how to add a floating social media bar to a blog. I made it into a widget, so you don’t have to go into your template HTML to install (or remove) them. Just drop the whole code into a HTML/Javascript gadget.
I have included Facebook ShareLike, Retweet, StumbleUpon,Google Buzz, Digg This andGoogle+1 buttons in the bar and each of them comes with a live counter. You can add more social bookmarking or sharing buttons later if you wish.

Social Sharing

I. Adding the buttons

  • Adding to Blogger
    1. Go to Layout (old interface: Design > Page Elements).
    2. Click Add A Gadget.
    3. In Add A Gadget window, select HTML/Javascript .
    4. Copy the code below and paste it inside the content box.
    5. Save the gadget.
    6. Drag the gadget and reposition it under Blog Posts gadget.
    7. Click Save button (top right hand corner).
  • Adding to WordPress
    1. Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Available Widgets.
    2. Drag Text widget into a sidebar.
    3. Paste in the code.
    4. Save.
<!-- floating share bar Start bloggersentral.com-->
<style type="text/css">
#pageshare {position:fixed; bottom:15%; margin-left:-71px; float:left; border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;background-color:#fff;padding:0 0 2px 0;z-index:10;}
#pageshare .sbutton {float:left;clear:both;/*bs-fsmsb*/margin:5px 5px 0 5px;}
</style>
<div id='pageshare' title="Get this from BloggerSentral.com">
<div class='sbutton' id='like' style='margin-left:8px;'>
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";
  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
<div class="fb-like" data-send="false" data-layout="box_count" data-width="40" data-show-faces="false"></div>
</div>
<div class='sbutton' id='rt'>
<script src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js" type='text/javascript'></script>
</div>
<div class='sbutton' id='su'>
<script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5"></script>
</div>
<div class='sbutton' id='digg' style='margin-left:3px;width:48px'>
<script src='http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<a class="DiggThisButton DiggMedium"></a>
</div>
<div class='sbutton' id='gplusone'>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>
<g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone>
</div>
<div style="clear: both;font-size: 9px;text-align:center;">Get <a href="http://www.bloggersentral.com/">widget</a></div><!-- Do not remove this link -->
</div>
<!-- floating share bar End -->



II. Customizing


    

  1. Vertical alignment 
Change the value of bottom in code line 3. The code positions the button relative to the bottom of your browser window. To fix the distance even when window is resized, specify the value in px (pixels) instead of %.
    2. 

  2. Horizontal alignment 
Change the value of margin-left in code line 3. Negative value pushes the button to the left of the main blog column, positive value pushes it to the right. 
To position the button relative to the left or right edge of browser window, replace the margin-left with left (as in left:10px;) or right (as in right:10px;) respectively.
    3. 

  3. Replacing and removing buttons 
You can replace existing buttons with your own. Each button is represented by this code: 
    4. 





<div class='sbutton'>
BUTTON CODE
</div>




    

  1. To replace the button, simply replace the button code with the new code. 
To remove the button, delete the whole div. 
    2. 




Update (for Blogger): If somehow your Google +1 button doesn’t appear despite other buttons appear successfully, try this workaround:


    

  1. Go to Template > Edit HTML (old interface: Design > Edit HTML) and find this line:
<body expr:class='&quot;loading&quot; + data:blog.mobileClass'>
or 
<body>
    2. 

  2. Copy the share bar code and paste it right below the line.
    3. 

  3. Replace the margin-left:-71px; in code line 3 with left:10px;.
    4. 

  4. Preview before saving.
    5. 




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  1. pslvseo a9February 8, 2019 at 1:41 AM
    Filament
    In a single WordPress plugin, Filament contains a group of useful features including Flare, a social share button plugin that makes it easy for others to share your blogpost on Twitter, Facebook, Buffer, and more—even spots like Hacker News and Reddit. Other Filament apps include: MailChimp subscribe form, Google Analytics tracking, all-in-one profiles, code management, and share highlighter.
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