Post update: There’s an even easier method than the one described in this post. Please read
How to add an “Email a friend” button in a wordpress.com blog in ONE click! for
the improved version.
This simple and efficient "Email a friend feature" can be added to your wordpress.com blog!
What you see above is an “Email a friend” form that can be provided for your wordpress.com blog post. As you may know already, there’s no built-in “Email a friend” feature for wordpress.com and we have to depend on a third-party service. I have previously covered all the third-party solutions and how to use them. But the solution that will be available to you below takes the cake. It’s easy, the interface is nice and clean and it even allows you to pick email addresses from your address book.
The Address Book integration bit is cool! I mean, how many email addresses do you have in your memory, anyway.
To be able to have this feature easily in your blog, just follow these simple steps.
1. Download the “Email a friend for wordpress.com” .zip file.
2. Extract the .zip folder.
3. Open the newly created folder and open the email-a-friend.html file in Firefox.
You will see a link that says “Email a friend”.
4. Drag the link in your browser’s “Bookmarks Toolbar”.
Now you will see “Email a friend” in your Bookmarks Toolbar.
You have to do the above four steps only once.
5. Write and publish a post.
6. Click the “Email a friend” link in your Bookmarks Toolbar.
And Bingo! A button is created under your post!
7. Now go to the HTML editor and sift through the button code. (In case you are a novice, don’t sweat. Take a deep breath instead and focus!)
8. Spot the bit share_save in the first line of code.
A little tweaking will add the "Email a Friend" super power to this button
9. Carefully select only share_save and nothing before or after it.
10. Delete it and write email in its place.
Tweak the code and write email
11. Update and view the post
12. Click the button and email yourself your newly published post.
After all, you do need to check if it worked out alright, no? 
Note: This code is built upon the social bookmarking code for wordpress.com by Addtoany. While the Addtoany social bookmarking service does offer “Email a friend feature” it is not the first stoppage. For someone who regularly shares webpages in emails, the process is cumbersome. If “Email a friend” is a top priority for your blog post, then I recommend the solution given in this tutorial. Your visitor will (unknowingly) appreciate the ease.
If you want to have “email this button” AND other sharing options for your wordpress.com blog, then check out the post below!
Any Social Bookmarking for wordpress.com
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This is really cool!
Thanks Juan!
Wow, it feels really great to wow YOU!
(Like, I’m geeky, but you are a real geek!)
That was a cool tip i never thought it can be that much easy
Hi John,
Thanks for your compliment!
Me neither!
Hey, you have a great blog here! I’m definitely going to bookmark you! Thank you for your info.
Thanks rusti!
This is a neat little tool. I plan to make full use of it! It did take me a couple of failed attempts, however, before I realized that I had to click inside the editing area between steps 5 & 6 before it will actually work. Thanks!
Thanks much!
I am glad it was helpful!
This is a great tool! And your instructions were so easy to follow. I just added the button to my latest posts. Thank you for sharing — what a HUGE help all of your content is. I am definitely bookmarking your site for future reference. I’d love for you to visit my blog (local food & gardening) and tell me what you think of it. http://www.togetherinfood.wordpress.com
This is a great tool! i love it.