So, instead of having 15 different icons at the end of every post that would take up a lot of space and just distract my readers I only have one link that does the same thing :) When people click the link a small box pops up giving people different choices for what they can do with this post.
Alex created a new icon (which you can see to the right) to represent the action of sharing a web page. You don’t have to display that icon but I think it’s a cool icon and I believe more and more people are going to use it which means more and more people will start to recognize it as the “share icon”. You can find more about the
What’s also cool about this plug-in is that you can customize it and add or remove social sites as you want. You can also customize the look of popup box. Also, you are free to put the “Share This” wherever you want – just add the special code to your template where you want it.
Feel free to try it out by pressing the “Share This” link and adding this post to some social sites. And if you want to send a link to this post to a friend this is what the e-mail looks like:
Subject: Check out this post on [name of blog, e.g. Hannes Johnson dot Com]
Greetings–
[Your name] thinks this will be of interest to you:
[permalink (URL) to the blog post]
Enjoy.
–
[URL of the blog , e.g. http://www.hannesjohnson.com/]
If you want to add this plug-in to your own WordPress blog you can download .
Are you using any other cool plug-ins on your WordPress blog? Let me know in the comments…
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8 responses so far ↓
// Feb 10, 2007 at 11:01 pm
I’ve been looking for something like this! Thank God you found it. ;-) I’ve found your profile at MyBlog and ends up here, which is very good for me indeed! I’m going to share this in my blog. Thanks mate!
// Feb 12, 2007 at 3:21 am
I am going to look into the link to this.Looks pretty cool.
Thanks
Steven Wilson
// Feb 13, 2007 at 4:56 am
Can I use this plug in with blogger? Anyway Nice plug-in
Hannes Johnson // Feb 13, 2007 at 11:43 am
Nirmal – No I don’t believe the Share This plug-in is available for Blogger right now. But I think Alex is willing to develop the plug-in for other blog platforms if somebody is willing to sponsor it.
// Feb 19, 2007 at 11:28 am
Neat! I’m off to give it a test!
Added A Few More WordPress Plug-ins | Hannes Johnson dot Com // Mar 16, 2007 at 4:22 pm
[...] When I installed the Share This plug-in 1.3 was the latest version. But Alex King published version 1.4 some time ago. So I decided to install the latest version. This version has StumbleUpon which seems to be pretty hot right now – it replaced Blogranks (which is certainly not as popular as StumbleUpon). [...]
// Sep 11, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Another great addition! I added this a while ago, but I’m just not sure how much it gets used…
Hannes Johnson // Sep 13, 2007 at 12:01 am
@Samanthon (Hack Windows): No, it’s difficult to track exactly how much this is used – but I know at least a few people have used it…
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