addthisWhen I was presenting my Keynote at Media140 I put out there my thoughts on "share" widgets, you know those clever little buttons that allow you to share a page with a wide range of services.

I found that out of all the "Share" services and widget providers that the AddThis ShareBar provides the highest number of share actions by a long way.

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Here is how to get yours:

Head over to Addthis.com and create a new account, note your username you will need this in a moment.

In your websites template paste the following anywhere in your code (Tip towards the bottom of the code before </body> is best

<script src="http://sharebar.addthiscdn.com/v1/sharebar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<div class="addthis_sharebar_config" style="display:none;">
* username: ####
</div>

Where you can see the * username: replaced #### with the username you just registered.

Save the page and upload it, job done your new ShareBar should be appearing on your site.

It comes with a default "Share" loadout if you want to change this to some specific sites or rearrange the order add the following under the *Username:


* default services: facebook, twitter, email, favorites, print

Your code would look like this:

<script src="http://sharebar.addthiscdn.com/v1/sharebar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div class="addthis_sharebar_config" style="display:none;">
* username: MYUSERNAME
* default services: facebook, twitter, email, favorites, print
</div>

For a complete set of customisation options check out the AddThis ShareBar documentation

 

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