How to Adding a Facebook Share & Tweet Button to Tumblr?
By Suhail Ahmad
Facebook and Twitter each
offer a way for readers to share your company's Tumblr posts. Facebook offers
the "Like" button and Twitter offers the "Tweet" button.
When readers click either button, they automatically post on Facebook or
Twitter, sharing a link to your Tumblr post. All of their social networking
followers can see the link and may click it, driving more potential customers
to your site. The buttons also each display a count of how many readers have
previously clicked them, which may further encourage new clicks. Follow the
below Step to Complete Adding a Facebook Share & Tweet Button to Tumblr.
Step No 1
Log in to
Tumblr and click your blog name in the dashboard's navigation bar.
Step No 2
Click "Customize
Theme" and click "Edit HTML" to display the code for your
template.
Step No 3
Paste the following code
for Facebook's JavaScript SDK directly after the template's opening "tag:
Step No 4
Paste the following code
immediately after the previous block to enable Twitter buttons using
JavaScript:
Step No 5
Open Facebook's Like
Button page in a second window or tab (link in Resources).
Step No 6
Customize your button
using the page's options. Type the button's width in the "width" box,
choose the button's text using the "Verb to display" menu, choose the
button's layout using the "Layout Style" menu and choose the button
label's font using the "Font" menu.
Step No 7
Click "Get
Code" to open the button's code and then copy the code from the code
pane's second box.
Step No 8
Switch back to the Tumblr
window. Paste the copied code after the template code that reads "{/block:
Posts}" to add a Facebook share button after each post.
Step No 9
Open Twitter's Buttons
page in a new window or tab.
Step No 10
Customize your button using
the page's options. Type the tweet's text in the box labeled "Check out
this site" click the check box labeled "Show count"
to display how many people have clicked the button, click the check box labeled
"Large button" if you want to enlarge the button, and type an
optional hashtag value in the "hashtag" box.
Step No 11
Copy the button's code
from the page's code preview box.
Step No 12
Switch back to the Tumblr
window. Paste the copied code after the Facebook button block to add a
Twitter share button after each post.
Step No 13
Click "Update
Preview" and then click "Save" to save the edited
code.
We hope this article will contribute to an
increased awareness of its existence.
We
hope this article has helped you learn
about some of the better social media tools available today.
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