Getting on a little bit of a technology bent lately…<\/p>\n
There are tons of plugins you can get for your website or blog that allow your readers to share your posts on a number of social network sites. But my experience has been that often those plugins can cause havoc on your servers for one reason or another – or bog your site down in general.<\/p>\n
But there are alternatives to using plugins — and these will work for WordPress site, or anywhere on any site that utilizes PHP. This code will give your readers the ability to quickly e-mail a link to your post or page. For WordPress add it to your single.php file, or page.php or any other pages you’d like folks to be able to share. <\/p>\n Allows your readers to quickly share the link within their FriendFeed feed. Hopefully spurring on more conversation and click backs.<\/p>\n Opens Twitter in the browser window and shares a link, along with “Currently reading:” If you’d like to change the pre-text on the tweet, you can do so easily within the code.<\/p>\n UPDATE: I’ve now added an additional “feature” to the Tweet this link. The link will also tag my Twitter name @jdblundell<\/a><\/span> in the Tweet as well. So it looks like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n Currently reading: http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/reflections\/the-dream-of-whats-next\/ from @jdblundell<\/em><\/p>\n To add your Twitter name, simply add this code within the a href tag:<\/p>\n So the code ultimately looks like this:<\/p>\n (of course be sure and change the Twitter name from mine to yours – would hate to get credit for all your great posts :-)).<\/p>\n So there you go, there are three social media hacks I use. You can also set some up with Digg and other sites, but I’ve never been too fond of Digg myself, so I don’t use it. <\/p>\n Getting on a little bit of a technology bent lately… There are tons of plugins you can get for your website or blog that allow your readers to share your posts on a number of social network sites. But my experience has been that often those plugins can cause havoc on your servers for one … Continue reading Social media hacks for your website<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[1169,1914,943,1965,2413,2018,221,1184],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno","tag-email","tag-friendfeed","tag-hack","tag-php","tag-share-on","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1dF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSo here are a few of the “hacks” that I’ve added to my site (thanks to Vandelay Design<\/a> for several of these):<\/p>\nE-mail this<\/h3>\n
<a href="mailto:?subject=<?php the_title();?>&body=<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="E-mail this
\narticle to a friend!">E-mail this<\/a><\/code><\/p>\nShare on FriendFeed<\/h3>\n
<a href="#" onclick="var e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text\/javascript');e.setAttribute('src','http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/share\/bookmarklet\/javascript?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title() ?>');document.body.appendChild(e); return false;">Share on FriendFeed<\/a><\/code><\/p>\nShare on Twitter<\/h3>\n
<a rel="nofollow" href="http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=<?php echo urlencode("Currently reading: "); ?><?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Share this article with your Twitter followers">Tweet this!<\/a><\/code><\/p>\n<?php echo urlencode(" from @jdblundell"); ?><\/code><\/p>\n<a rel="nofollow" href="http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=<?php echo urlencode("Currently reading: "); ?><?php the_permalink(); ?><?php echo urlencode(" from @jdblundell"); ?>" title="Share this article with your Twitter followers">Tweet this!<\/a><\/code><\/p>\nNow if I can just figure out how to use the built in “Get Shortlink” feature on WordPress 2.9 vs the “Get Permalink”…..<\/em><\/del><\/p>\nWhat about you? What social media hacks do you use on your website?<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"