You can add the ShareThis widget to your Blogger by following these steps:
- Visit http://sharethis.com/blogger
- Follow through each step on the configuration tool to customize your ShareThis widget
- Click the “Add to Blogger” button. This will navigate you to the “Blogger:Import Page Element” site if you’re already signed into Blogger. If not, sign into Blogger to get to this page.
- Select which blog you wish to add the ShareThis widget to from the drop down menu
- Click the “Add Widget” button. This will will take you to the Blogger template Layout manager
- Click the “Save” button or “Preview” if you like
- After you save the template, your ShareThis button will appear after each post
Each ShareThis button will enable your users to share a link to the blog post that corresponds with the button.
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You can customize your Blogger widget using the configuration tool at http://sharethis.com/blogger. If you have an existing ShareThis widget you first must remove your existing SharetThis widget from your Blogger page before proceding. For instructions see: How do I remove the ShareThis Widget from my blog? You can then recreate your ShareThis widget at http://sharethis.com/blogger.
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You first must remove your existing SharetThis widget from your Blogger page before proceding. For instructions see: How do I remove the ShareThis Widget from my blog? You can then recreate your ShareThis widget at http://sharethis.com/blogger.
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No, the ShareThis button will only appear in the footer of every post regardless of where the element is on the template. You can however use the ShareThis API (STAPI) to place the button where you wish on the page (but not use the Blogger Layout manager to do so).
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Yes, the ShareThis API (STAPI) can be used within the Blogger template. The following steps will guide you how to manually insert the ShareThis button into your Blogger template using the STAPI. This button will appear at the end of each post’s content before the footer and share a link to the corresponding blog post.
- Visit http://sharethis.com/publisher and follow the steps to customize your ShareThis widget and to get the widget code
- Sign into the Blogger Dashboard and select “Layout” from the “Manage” listing
- Select the “Edit HTML” tab
- Check the “Expand Widget Templates” checkbox
- Paste the ShareThis widget code just before the closing </head> tag
- Locate the following lines of code within the template:
<div class=’post-body entry-content’>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
- Insert the STAPI code between the lines above. This will create your ShareThis button. For example:
<div style=’clear: both;’/> <!– clear for photos floats –></div>
<div class=’post-body entry-content’> //The div that contains the blog post
<p><data:post.body/></p> //This is the body of the post
<script type='text/javascript'> //Sharelet code
SHARETHIS.addEntry({
title: '<data:post.title/>', //ShareThis Object Properties
url: '<data:post.url/>'
});
</script>
<div style=’clear: both;’/>
</div>
- View your blog and try out your new ShareThis button
*The ShareThis Object Properties above are assigned to the title and permalink of each post using the Blogger template tags. You can find more information on Blogger template tags here.
*If you copied and pasted any of the code above, please double check and ensure that all of single quotation marks did not copy as backticks ” ‘ ” as this will cause validation errors.
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The ShareThis widget is added as an element to your Blogger template. Follow these instructions to remove the ShareThis widget element:
- Sign into Blogger and navigate to your Blogger Dashboard
- Select “Layout” from the “Manage” listing of the blog you wish to edit
- Find the ShareThis element on “Page Elements” tab and select “Edit” on the element you wish to remove
- Click the “Remove” button on the popup
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