Last week Google released Buzz to the masses — with mixed reviews.
Love it or leave it, it’s another avenue to help share your content with others.
You can add a simple “Buzz This” link to your blog (WordPress or not — as long as it runs on PHP) with a simple code addition to the preferred spot in your template:
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=<?php echo get_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title();?>&snippet=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>&srcURL=<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>" Title="Share this via Google Reader">Buzz This</a>
I’ve added the link to the mixture of “share this” links below each post. These appear on both my main page, single.php and several others pages throughout the site.
And of course if you want to get really fancy, you can create a graphic to go in place of “Buzz This” text.
So the code would look something like this:
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=<?php echo get_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title();?>&snippet=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>&srcURL=<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>" Title="Share this via Google Reader"><img src="mybuzzthisbutton.jpg" alt="Buzz This" /></a>
A caveat about this, is it’s not truly a link for Buzz. It’s actually a link to share a post in Google Reader (so the user must be a Google Reader user as well) but if Reader is linked to Buzz it will show up in both places for their social network to see.
To find out how I’ve added other “share this” links — without plugins read: Social media hacks for your website
HT to TechLifeWeb for the code.
And BTW – if you like this post…. Buzz it! 🙂
