How To Easily Add Social Share Buttons To WordPress Blog
So, you have heard all the hype about how you can stay at home and make some big bucks right? If you haven’t started a blog yet. Start here. You got so excited dove in, now your thinking,’ hey this is not what I thought it would be.’ Yes, you will have to get hands-on and get a little techy with some aspects of your blogging journey. But let’s start at square one: ‘How To Easily Add Social Share Buttons To WordPress Blog.’
What is social media following buttons?
Have you ever gone to an article or blog post and they had those rectangle boxes that says follow me or tweet this and so on?Well those my dear are social media buttons.
Why are social media buttons important?
Social media buttons are important because its a way for your readers to stay in the known with what you post. This means if someone follows you one Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn, or any platform they will get notifications when your post.
So if you make a post about your latest gadgets every parent needs. They will click on the post. Which will gain you a view. And if they use one of your affiliate links that is a commission for you. So see promoting your blog/site via social share buttons is very important. It’s the key to success(in my DJ Khaled voice ☺)
Can I customize my social media sharing buttons?
Heck yeah, you can! Mainly with any social media sharing buttons, you can customize. However, I have gone through my trial and error with a few of them and none worked for me. They either didn’t show upright. Was too hard to set up. Or just not the right fit. Therefore, I tried Social Warfare which is a free plugin and I have yet to look back. Social Warfare Features: (free plan)
- Ability to change the color to match your brand or keep the original social media icon color
- Add as many or as fewer icons as you wish
- Ability to display the number of shares or not
- Place the buttons wherever you like (the sidebar, after post, before post)
- You can have a pop of your social media icons
- Last but not least They have an affiliate program.
If your not familar with what an affilate program is. It is where you partner with a company and they pay you to refer people to them. (Sometimes even free trials). Here is a related post more in depth about affiliate marketing.Get yours started right here for free
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How To Add Social Media Icons To Your Site
I will be giving you a step to step tutorial on adding the Social Warfare Social Media Sharing Buttons to your wordpress site. If you have site ground or another platform I’m sure it’s a bit similar. However, you can still use the same plugin for any hosted site that you have.
Step One:
Login into your bluehost site.This will take you to your wordpress.org site.You should now be in your dashboard.Now click on the little plug icon on the left hand side.Click Add New
Step Two:
You will now type Social Warfare in the plugin search box
Step Three:
Locate the Social Warfare plugin which will look like this below.Now click install.Now click activate.
Step Four:
Now you will see the red S icon on the left side panel of your dashboard. Click that.
Step Five:
You should be looking at a screen similar to this. You can now freely customize your settings.
Do you want some extra glam for your site?
I use a rare beauty app called Milotree. It is an app so you would set it up on their website and it will install itself on your site.
The point of Milotree is to also add more followers to your lists.
My favorite thing about Milotree is you can customize it to match your site’s color. And it displays all of your Pinterest pins so pretty in a pop form that says follow me.
Cute huh?
This one is not a plugin so it saves space on your site meaning it won’t add to the load time.
You can try it out for 30 days free here. And after that it’s only 9 bucks.Try Milotree for free for 30 days here.
Finally, you are all set up and ready to start promoting your page.
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