The great social media blog Mashable is always an inspiration in whatever they do. I came across a great wordpress plugin created by insp...
The great social media blog Mashable is always an inspiration in whatever they do. I came across a great wordpress plugin created by inspiredmagz and they named it as mashable social bar. We downloaded their plugin and converted it to a blogger compatible form. We also managed to solve its compatibility issues for IE and further strengthened its HTML structure. This widget can now be used in every blogspot blog just with an extremely easy installation step. As you can see this widget contains links to your Facebook Fan page, Google+ page and recommendation button, twitter follow button, RSS and LinkedIn links and most importantly an attractive subscription form that will further increase the number of your Email subscribers. The conversion didn't took me very long and I am pleased to present it to all of you. Kindly see a demo first:
Add Mashable Sharing Widget to Blogger
- Go To Blogger > Design
- Click on "Add a Gadget"
- Choose HTML/Javascript widget
- Paste the following code inside it
<style>
/* Social Widget */
#MBT-mashable-bar {
border: 0;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin: 0 auto;
width:300px;
}
.fb-likebox {
background: #fff;
padding: 10px 10px 0 10px;
border: 1px solid #D8E6EB;
margin-top: -2px;
height:80px;
}
.googleplus {
background: #F5FCFE;
border-top: 1px solid #FFF;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ebebeb;
border-right: 1px solid #D8E6EB;
border-left: 1px solid #D8E6EB;
border-image: initial;
font-size: .90em;
font-family: "Arial","Helvetica",sans-serif;
color: #000;
padding: 9px 11px;
line-height: 1px;}
.googleplus span {
color: #000;
font-size: 11px;
position: absolute;
display:inline-block;
margin: 9px 70px;}
.g-plusone { float: left;}
.twitter {
background: #EEF9FD;
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid #C7DBE2;
border-top: 0;}
#mashable {
background: #EBEBEB;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
border-top: 1px solid white;
padding: 2px 8px 2px 3px;
text-align: right;
border-image: initial;}
#mashable .author-credit {}
#mashable .author-credit a {
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: bold;
text-shadow: 1px 1px white;
color: #1E598E;
text-decoration:none;}
#email-news-subscribe .email-box{
padding: 5px 10px;
font-family: "Arial","Helvetica",sans-serif;
border-top: 0;
border-right: 1px solid #C7DBE2;
border-left: 1px solid #C7DBE2;
border-image: initial;
height:35px;}
#email-news-subscribe .email-box input.email{
background:#FFFFFF;
border: 1px solid #dedede;
color: #999;
padding: 7px 10px 8px 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
-o-border-radius: 3px;
-ms-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
border-image: initial;
font-family: "Arial","Helvetica",sans-serif;}
#email-news-subscribe .email-box input.email:focus{color:#333}
#email-news-subscribe .email-box input.subscribe{
background: -moz-linear-gradient(center top,#FFCA00 0,#FF9B00 100%);
background: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0,#FFCA00),color-stop(1,#FF9B00));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(center top,#FFCA00 0,#FF9B00 100%);
-pie-background: linear-gradient(270deg,#ffca00,#ff9b00);
font-family: "Arial","Helvetica",sans-serif;
border-radius:3px;
-moz-border-radius:3px;
-webkit-border-radius:3px;
border:1px solid #cc7c00;
color:white;
text-shadow:#d08d00 1px 1px 0;
padding:7px 14px;
margin-left:3px;
font-weight:bold;
font-size:12px;
cursor:pointer;
border-image: initial;}
#email-news-subscribe .email-box input.subscribe:hover{
background: #ff9b00;
background-image:-moz-linear-gradient(top,#ffda4d,#ff9b00);
background-image:-webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,from(#ffda4d),to(#ff9b00));
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(startColorStr=#ffffff,endColorStr=#ebebeb);
outline:0;-moz-box-shadow:0 0 3px #999;
-webkit-box-shadow:0 0 3px #999;
box-shadow:0 0 3px #999
background:-webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0,#ffda4d),color-stop(1,#ff9b00));
background:-moz-linear-gradient(center top,#ffda4d 0,#ff9b00 100%);
-pie-background:linear-gradient(270deg,#ffda4d,#ff9b00);
border-radius:3px;
-moz-border-radius:3px;
-webkit-border-radius:3px;
border:1px solid #cc7c00;
color:#FFFFFF;
text-shadow:#d08d00 1px 1px 0}
#other-social-bar {
background-color: #D8E6EB;
box-shadow: 0 1px 1px #FFFFFF inset;
padding: 0px;
font-family: "Arial","Helvetica",sans-serif;
font-weight:bold;
overflow: hidden;
border: 1px solid #B6D0DA;
height:37px;
}
#other-social-bar ul {list-style: none outside none; padding-left: 4px;}
#other-social-bar .other-follow {
float: left;
color:#1E598E;
overflow: hidden;
height:20px;
padding:5px;
width: 270px;}
#other-social-bar .other-follow ul {
list-style: none outside none;
padding-left: 4px;}
#other-social-bar .other-follow ul li {
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
display:inline;
border:0;
text-shadow: 1px 1px white;}
#other-social-bar .other-follow ul li a {
font-size: 12px;
color:#1E598E;
font-weight: bold;
display:inline;
text-shadow: 1px 1px white;}
#other-social-bar .other-follow li {
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
display:inline;
border:0;
text-shadow: 1px 1px white;}
#other-social-bar .other-follow li a {
font-size: 12px;
color:#1E598E;
font-weight: bold;
display:inline;
text-shadow: 1px 1px white;}
#other-social-bar .other-follow li.my-rss {
background: url('https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivLRGhnDfKZOUnlZ0iYHEOEqrgVpUu7RgjVNCSmj0qu9KkvY_TAHUbU49Ir6Vkr4VdUWQOPJK9VxZOoYzJ9uTpR2PO4AII5JiYX_n0CDNjWTf1IkHTDOnoghg8g1gGjWuFKnqn9JPloGo/s400/rss-16x16.png') no-repeat transparent;
line-height: 1;
padding: 0px 3px 1px 20px;
width: 60px;
margin-bottom:0px;
margin-left:5px;}#other-social-bar .other-follow li.my-rss a, #other-social-bar .other-follow li.my-linkedin a, #other-social-bar .other-follow li.my-gplus a{
text-decoration:none;
}#other-social-bar .other-follow li.my-rss a:hover, #other-social-bar .other-follow li.my-linkedin a:hover, #other-social-bar .other-follow li.my-gplus a:hover{
text-decoration:underline;
}#other-social-bar .other-follow li.my-linkedin {
background: url('https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW536Y-y3e2DNPRSNaTyVsutrj2PEMsxRV0x7HsAJ5llfUETFzCKmEz7WrL94RbLtS8p7VYLNfmtuDqrchXXnMkuZW8XMYpnchI7NKKj8NozdoXiV6t_mttgIwue9sUeBnYLxLY8gjgXM/s400/linkedin-16x16.png') no-repeat transparent;
line-height: 1;
padding: 0px 3px 1px 20px;
width: 60px;
margin-bottom:0px;}
#other-social-bar .other-follow li.my-gplus {
background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp9s9K4Dv96sR_o4TBZ67qCSoWbn8F2cbcS2MAXZuxqeGoYQs1uEcUJV6yhGo7gB2Yi-HO6pu49fQp_DdTkyrbH1lpW44WhFAuCRpsgJaMYyTzZ6sYwgwye0YKf7aFuZlQrva4HsAyPWo/s400/gplus-16x16.png) no-repeat transparent;
line-height: 1;
width: 60px;
padding: 0px 3px 1px 20px;
margin-bottom:0px;}
</style>
<!--[if IE]><style>
#email-news-subscribe .email-box input.subscribe{
background: #FFCA00;
}
</style><![endif]-->
<!--begin of social widget--> <div style="margin-bottom:10px;"> <div id="MBT-mashable-bar" > <!-- Begin Widget --> <div class="fb-likebox"> <!-- Facebook --> <iframe src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://facebook.com/bloggertricks&send=false&layout=standard& width=200px&show_faces=true&action=like&colorscheme=light&
font&height=100px&appId=234513819928295" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; "></iframe> </div> <div class="googleplus"> <!-- Google --> <span>Recommend us on Google!</span><div class="g-plusone" data-size="medium"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> </div> <div class="twitter"> <!-- Twitter --> <iframe title="" style="width: 300px; height: 20px;" class="twitter-follow-button" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.html#_=1319978796351&
align=&button=blue&id=twitter_tweet_button_0&
lang=en&link_color=&screen_name=mybloggertricks&show_count=&
show_screen_name=&text_color=" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> </div> <div id="email-news-subscribe"> <!-- Email Subscribe --> <div class="email-box">
<form action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" method="post" target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=tntbystc', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">
<input class="email" type="text" style="width: 150px; font-size: 12px;" id="email" name="email" value="Enter Your Email here.." onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;" />
<input type="hidden" value="tntbystc" name="uri" />
<input type="hidden" name="loc" value="en_US" />
<input class="subscribe" name="commit" type="submit" value="Subscribe" />
</form></div> </div> <div id="other-social-bar"> <!-- Other Social Bar --> <ul class="other-follow"> <li class="my-rss"> <a rel="nofollow" title="RSS" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/tntbystc" target="_blank">RSS Feed</a> </li> <li class="my-linkedin"> <a rel="nofollow" title="linkedin" rel="author" href="LINKEDIN PROFILE LINK" target="_blank">linkedin</a> </li> <li class="my-gplus"> <a rel="nofollow" title="Google Plus" rel="author" href="http://plus.google.com/44448117245314564536" target="_blank">Google Plus</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="mashable" style="background: #EBEBEB;border: 1px solid #CCC;border-top: 1px solid white;padding: 1px 8px 1px 3px;text-align: right;border-image: initial;font-size:10px;font-family: "arial","helvetica",sans-serif;"> <span class="author-credit" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com" target="_blank" >Blogger Widgets »</a></span></div></div>
<!-- End Widget --> </div> <!--end of social widget-->
Make these important changes:
- Replace bloggertricks with your Facebook username
- Replace mybloggertricks with your twitter username
- Replace tntbystc with your Feedburner title. Your Feedburner title is the word added at the end of your Feedburner link. Example: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tntbystc
- Replace http://feeds.feedburner.com/tntbystc with your feedburner link.
- Replace LINKEDIN PROFILE LINK with your Linkedin profile link
- Replace http://plus.google.com/44448117245314564536 with your Google Plus profile link
5. Hit save and you are all done!
Visit your blogs to see it working just perfectly. :)
Further Customization
I have set the width of the widget to 300px. If in case your sidebar is small or big, you may then have to adjust the two width values in brown highlight color. The first will set the width of the entire container and the second value will set the width of the subscription input box.
Credits
You are most welcomed to share this widget with your readers. You will have to give credits to MBT blog by attaching a link back to this post. You may also give credits to the author for the wordpress version of this sharing plugin.
You can also check 7 other sharing widgets with different look and style:
Do let me know if you needed any help. I am sure this new sharing widget will add a new life to your blogs. Peace and blessings pals! :)
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