Title: Social Buttons
Author: alexpooley
Published: <strong>May 11, 2008</strong>
Last modified: May 18, 2008

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# Social Buttons

 By [alexpooley](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexpooley/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/social-buttons.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/social-buttons/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/social-buttons/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/social-buttons/#installation)
 * [Development](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/social-buttons/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-buttons/)

## Description

Selectively add social network buttons such as digg, sphinn, etc to your posts or
theme design.

I wrote this plugin because I wanted finer control over where and which buttons

were placed on my site and in my posts.

Sometimes I have marketing posts so I want to link to Sphinn, but sometimes I have

technical posts so Reddit would be a better choice. This plugin is flexible enough
that if you want the same button in every post, then you can still modify your theme
very easily to accomplish this.

You may place as many buttons, in as many places in your posts as you like.

This plugin handles:
 – Digg – Reddit (all button styles) – Delicious – Sphinn –
Dzone (all button styles) – StumbleUpon

#### For Your Posts

Use the following in your posts: [SB button 1, …, button N]

Here’s an example post…

    ```
    Hey, check out my new buttons!
    Here they are: [SB digg, delicious, reddit]
    And look
    Here's some more:
    ```

 [SB reddit, sphinn]

The different button types are:
 – digg – delicious – reddit – reddit1 (same as 
reddit) – reddit2 – reddit3 – sphinn – dzone – dzone1 (same as dzone) – dzone2 –
stumbleupon – stumble (same as stumbleupon)

#### For Your Themes

    ```
    <?php echo sb_make_button('digg', 'http://www.alexpooley.com') ?>
    <?php echo 'I'm in a post now:'.sb_make_button('reddit', get_permalink()) ?>
    ```

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

 1. Upload `social-buttons.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

There are so many other social networks that I could add to this plugin. If you 
want something
 added then please contact me through [my blog](http://www.alexpooley.com).

Enjoy!

## FAQ

Please feel free to ask questions by contacting me through my blog.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Social Buttons” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ alexpooley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexpooley/)

[Translate “Social Buttons” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/social-buttons)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-buttons/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/social-buttons/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/social-buttons/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/social-buttons/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **18 years ago**
 *  Active installations **60+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.2.5**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-buttons/)
 * Tags
 * [Delicious](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/delicious/)[digg](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/digg/)
   [reddit](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/reddit/)[social networks](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social-networks/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://vec.wordpress.org/plugins/social-buttons/advanced/)

## Ratings

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[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-buttons/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

 *   [ alexpooley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexpooley/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-buttons/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://www.alexpooley.com)