How to Add - A Vertical Static Share Buttons side bar to Blogger?

Share buttons are very much important on blogger as they would help us popularize our posts to multiple social networking sites. If we have the post content that is very useful, then the visitors will definitely want to share the posts with their fiends. If we have the share buttons added to the blogger, then the visitors can straight away click the corresponding button and share the posts with their friends and family. So adding share buttons to the blog makes the posts popularize and reach a large number of people. Also, if we have Static share buttons which are always available to the visitors (i.e even upon scrolling through the blog content) makes blog powerful as visitors can share the post content from any page and any where on the blog as the share buttons are static.

Let us see the process of adding a vertical Static share buttons side bar to Blogger.


Step1: Go to Dashboard -> Template -> Edit HTML -> find </head> and Paste the below code just before </head>

<script type="text/javascript">var switchTo5x=true;</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://s.sharethis.com/loader.js"></script>

Step2: Save the template.

Step3: Now Go to: Dashboard -> Layout -> Add Gadget -> HTML/JavaScript

Step4: Add the below code to HTML/JavaScript gadget content area and save the gadget.

<script type="text/javascript">stLight.options({publisher: "b1881b79-c5c9-4044-9307-94082c38219e", doNotHash: false, doNotCopy: false, hashAddressBar: false});</script> <script> var options={ "publisher": "b1881b79-c5c9-4044-9307-94082c38219e", "position": "left", "ad": { "visible": false, "openDelay": 5, "closeDelay": 0}, "chicklets": { "items": ["facebook", "twitter", "linkedin", "pinterest", "email", "sharethis"]}}; var st_hover_widget = new sharethis.widgets.hoverbuttons(options); </script>

Step5: Now click "Save Arrangement" and view blog to see the changes.



Now we have added the static vertical share buttons bar to the blogger.

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