With the explosion of social media, networking, and bookmarking services, there are a zillion ways to add “Share This Post” functionality to your WordPress-powered sites. In addition to the myriad services and plugins, we can also add these links directly, using nothing more than a little markup and a few choice PHP snippets. Such individual links provide full control over the selection, layout, and styling of each link without requiring the installation of yet another WordPress plugin.

This article shares SEO-friendly code snippets for ten of the most popular social media sites using completely valid XHMTL-Strict markup. All of the following code snippets feature:

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Before today, the extent of my concern with tags involved local post tags via UTW and meta keywords via Autometa. Wanting to dive deeper into tagging, I added metadata Technorati tag links as icons appearing after each local tag link, generally located within post meta information. Adding the icon links is easy. Go to the UTW Options panel and in the “Global Formatting Settings” section, select the Technorati Tag. Then simply add the following (or something similar ¹) to your index.php WP loop:

<?php UTW_ShowTagsForCurrentPost("iconlist") ?>

More display options include:

<?php UTW_ShowTagsForCurrentPost("commalist") ?>
<?php UTW_ShowTagsForCurrentPost("technoraticommalist") ?>
<?php UTW_ShowRelatedTagsForCurrentTagSet("commalist") ?>

References

• ¹ UTW Documentation