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Many blogs have links to add the current post to various social bookmarking site like Digg, Reddit, Delicious, etc. This blog don’t have it – but my LinDesk blog<\/a> does. This effect is achieved using wordpress plugins like…<\/p>\n For those who are new, this is part three of the Plugin Killer series<\/a>. This series will show you how to duplicate the functionality of the a few wordpress plugins without having to install it using custom code in the wordpress theme. The earlier posts in this series are…<\/p>\n You can add social bookmarking button to your post by editing the Of course, you don’t have to do it like that – a better way of doing it is by putting the links in a li\/ul list and then styling it. The point is, you don’t need a plugin to do this.<\/p>\n Another thing I would recommend is get the images – in the above code, I just used text links. If you get the favicons of the sites you’re linking to, it will look a lot nicer. Example<\/a> (go to the end of the post). You can use bigger images as well – example<\/a>. Or use some kind of effect – example<\/a>(here the icons are a bit transparent by default – but when you hover over them, it shows up clearly – its completely opaque).<\/p>\n Here only the four big ones are given. You can find code for more social bookmarking sites<\/a> elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
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single.php<\/code> file in your theme<\/strong>. Go to the place in the file where you want the buttons to show up – then add this code at that location…<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>\">del.icio.us<\/a>\n | <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&url=<?php the_permalink() ?>\">Digg it<\/a>\n | <a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>\">reddit<\/a>\n | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>\">StumbleUpon<\/a>\n<\/code><\/pre>\nDifferent Implementations<\/h2>\n