Whoo! Hoo! I’m trying the “Sharing Settings” feature of WordPress.com. As a result of this discovery, I managed to free up one sidebar widget – “AddThis” and bump an extra sidebar widget – “Google translate” to the bottom bar instead! Now the side bar looks cleaner with one “Search bar” on the very top, followed by my “Blogroll” links below.
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Available Services
Drag and drop the services you’d like to enable into the box below.
[The available buttons are: Digg, Facebook, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Email, Press This and Print. I used the “Add a new service” link to add my “AddThis” button and my RSS feeds for posts and comments.]
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Enabled Services
Services dragged here will appear individually.
[It’s a small white button with a light-blue colored plus sign to the left of the word “Share”. Your services with appear underneath in a drop-down menu. This feature only works if you have Java enabled! Otherwise, clicking this button doesn’t link anywhere!]
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Live Preview
[This section allows the admin to view how their buttons will look underneath each post AND/OR page.]
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Show a like button and who has liked my post on all of my blog posts above the comments section.
[By checking the box to the left of this sentence, a small white box will contain a yellow star to the left of the word “Like”. The hover message is “I like this post.” To the outside of the box and on the right are the words: “Be the first to like this post.”]
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Default button style:
- Icon + text
- Icon only
- Text only
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Sharing label:
[The words “Share this:” is the default message. I over-rode this field and replace those words with the following catchy one: “Click me!’”]
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Open link in:
- New window
- Same window
[The “Same window” is the default.]
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Show sharing buttons on:
- Posts and index pages
- Posts only
- Index pages only
[The “Post only” is the default.]
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[Save Changes].
[Don’t forget to save changes. However, whenever you move your buttons with the “Enabled Services” section, that stuff is saved automatically. But you are free to click the “Save Changes” button on the bottom of this “general option” page.]
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Check out my posts and/or pages now and start sharing or else, I’ll be an unhappy blogger! Waahh!
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