How to Add the “AddThis” Chiclet Icons

Go to http://addthis.com Click on Get AddThis

Sign-in using an OpenID so you don’t give the site your Facebook or Twitter username or password. I don’t think it’s wise to reveal passwords to unaffiliated sites. Create a new username and password, or … if that sort of thing doesn’t bother you, use your gmail username and password. Click Register.

You should now be at https://www.addthis.com/get/sharing where you choose the stuff you want.

(Above photo) You’ll now be taken to a bright page with all different colours of icons. In the left-hand column, tick Wordpress (default is A Website) and then in the same column midway down tick Wordpress.com (not wordpress.org). Now select the Style of icon you want. The page will generate the html code appropriate to Wordpress in the box to the right side of the page.

Next, highlight and copy the html code (or hit the “Grab It” Button), and then open a new tab (leave AddThis open in case you need to return there!) and go to your blog.

On the Wordpress toolbar (top left) click on the word Dashboard, and then Widgets.

If that option for widgets isn’t available, click Dashboard Appearance Widgets as shown below.

The Appearance/Widget page of your blog will open. Go down to the bottom of the page “Inactive Widgets”, and look for a widget called TEXT. Grab it with your mouse and drag it to the right-hand column, and then move it up toward to the top of that column so it appears in the top half of your computer screen. Mine is the second widget from the top.

Move (drag) the TEXT box near or at the top of the column. Mine is second from top, and reads “TEXT: Share This Blog”

Now click on the TEXT box down arrow to open the box, and paste the copied html code from AddThis into the TEXT box. Click Save, and then click Close. Now check to see if it’s displaying correctly on your blog’s pages.

Happy blogging!