Although the third party bookmarking and sharing tools are quite useful to analyze the sharing trends on your blog, they do slow down the whole process of sharing. Also, as mentioned in my Sharing and Bookmarking Tools post, I was not comfortable with the small icons available with Bookmarkify and Socialable. WP ShareThisPost is a small custom wordpress plugin which provides large icons along with the flexibility to add your favorite sharing and bookmarking sites (if not included by default).
WP ShareThisPost includes the following sharing and bookmarking sites, by default:
- del.icio.us
- Digg
- Google Bookmarks
- StumbleUpon
- Technorati
Go through the readme.txt file to know how you can customize WP ShareThisPost to include more of your favorite sharing and bookmarking sites.
WP ShareThisPost, by default, only adds the sharing and bookmarking links at the end of posts. You can see the readme.txt file to see how you can change that to include pages, archives, feeds, etc.
Installation
Upload the unzipped folder into the plugins folder of your wordpress installation (usually /wp-content/plugins), activate it and you are ready to go. You will see the desired links below each of your posts:
WP ShareThisPost
Styling
I use this CSS to style my WP ShareThisPost, adapt as you wish of course by changing the wp_sharethispost.css file:
display: inline;
margin: 12px !important;
padding: 0 !important;
}
#content .wp_sharethispost ul li {
background: none;
display: inline !important;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 2px 0 2px 15px;
}
#content .wp_sharethispost li:before { content: ""; }
#content .wp_sharethispost img {
float: none;
width: 48px;
height: 48px;
border: 0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#content .wp_sharethispost .wp_sharethispost_tagline {
font-size: 1.5em;
color: #486472;
margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}