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How To Add The ReTweet and Facebook Share Buttons to Your Blog

by Darryl Kraemer on February 19, 2010 in Wordpress with No comments

If you are looking for ways to help your readers share your content with their social networks, then these two WordPress plugins are a must every blogger. If you’ve been to Mashable, or TechCrunch, you’ve probably noticed that they are using them as well (along with the Google Buzz button, a topic for a future blog post). If two of the most successful Social Network blogs online are using them, there’s probably a good reason why.

Simple FB Share Button

This adds a button to each of your posts, and has a couple of options for the style that you want to use. If you look at my posts, I’ve chosen this style:

Installation is pretty straight forward. Just click this link and follow the instructions they provide. Once you’ve installed and activated the plugin, you’ll see a new item under the Settings Menu on the left-hand side of your WordPress admin page called “Simple FB Share Button.”

There are a couple of options you can set:

  1. Whether you want to plugin on or off.
  2. What style of badge you want to use.
  3. Where you want the badge to show up in your posts.

That’s it. 3 steps and you’ve now given your readers an easy way to share your content with their facebook network, without having to leave your blog.

TweetMeme

As you’ve probably guessed, this plugin adds a twitter ReTweet badge to your blog posts. You can grab the plugin by clicking this link and following the installation instructions. This will add a badge to your blog posts that looks like this:

Once you have the plugin installation and activated, you’ll see a brand new menu item on the left side of your WordPress Admin page called TweetMeme. In the Settings menu, there are options for you to configure the style and positioning. One key setting to ensure you update is the Source setting. Make sure you change this to your twitter username so when you’re users are ReTweeting your posts, they RT you, and not tweetmeme.

If you’ve used these plugins let me know what you think of them in the comments. Or, if you have better alternatives for doing the same job, I’d love to hear about those too.