ADDTOANY is a service that will allow you to offer both “email post” and social bookmarking options under your wordpress.com blog posts.
An even easier method is available than the one listed below. Read how you can create social bookmarking and email post options in just one click for wordpress.com blog posts!
When you choose a button and get it coded (we will get to that in a while!), the visitor is taken to a page that shows a list, like the one below:
Addtoany offers "email a friend" and tons of social bookmarking options for wordpress.com blog posts
Now is the time to learn how to code the button.
Visit Get the button page in the Addtoany website.
Now select the options as shown below:
Customize the Addtoany button code for wordpress.com blog posts
Before you can use the button, you have to publish a post first.
A few things to remember
- You have to choose the Share/Save/Bookmark widget, and NOT the Subscribe widget.
- You can choose any button style you like.
- You should copy and paste the page title in the “Page name” field, although it is optional.
- You must copy the post title and NOT blog title from the address bar of your blog and paste it in the “Page url” field.
- You can choose any language from the list. To do that, first click the link “More options” next to the button that says “Get the button”.
- You can choose the number of services you want in the list.
- Please check the no-script (no drop-down menu option) – or else the button will NOT work in a wordpress.com blog.
- Do NOT choose the option “Menu colors”, because then your button will not work in your wordpress.com blog.
- When everything is taken care of, click the button that says “Get the button” and copy the code produced.
- Come back to the edit mode of the post where you have to put the button and paste it using the HTML editor, and NOT the visual editor.
- Update the post and enjoy the new button!
- If you are going to use Addtoany, consider bookmarking the Get the button page (link already given in this post before). When you want to use it, just open a new tab and access that page from your bookmarks.
It is possible to use Addtoany in other blogging platforms other than wp.com – but that’s beyond the scope of this article.
A time to give back
If you think this post is useful, just give it some link love or please click the button below to promote it!
Related posts
How to use Addthis to offer “email post” and social bookmarking options for wordpress.com
How to use Addinto to offer social bookmarking and email post options for wordpress.com blogs
![shoyong [at] gmail.com](http://gickr.com/results3/anim_9c7960ac-8183-28d4-4596-dd90f72a69c9.gif)
[...] The easiest way to insert “email post” and social bookmarking options under wordpress.co… (02:02:26) : [...]
[...] The easiest way to insert “email post” and social bookmarking options under wordpress.co… (02:02:21) : [...]
Hello Netty Griddy I found a easier method for wordpress.com blogs http://www.addtoany.com/buttons/for/wordpress_com
Great tutorial! But to echo T3CK’s comment above, definitely check out the share button inserter for WordPress.com (link in T3CK’s comment). Here’s our blog post about it: http://www.addtoany.com/blog/share-button-for-wordpress-com-blogs/
Cheers!
Thank you both T3CK and Pat!
Actually I knew about the other easier option even before I wrote this post, but somehow I was not doing it the right way and it so it didn’t work for me. Now that I know how it works, I am sure gonna promote it as soon as I have time to do so.