With all the hotness of sharing things in a viral nature these days it’s almost a requirement to have some of the newest sharing mechanisms in order.
So, enter Google’s new Buzz-It!
It’s actually really easy to add this feature to your WordPress blog. Just copy and paste the following code anywhere in your the “WordPress Loop” or your single.php file!
You can see a live example right on this blog below the content area!
<a href='http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&snippet=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>&srcURL=<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>&srcTitle=<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>'><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/buzz-icon.png"/>Buzz it!</a>
And that’s that. Make sure to grab the little icon below and make sure to put it your “images” folder in your theme file.
Booya.
Nice!
Is the Buzz-it button going to make its way through whole 8bit network, or is it still on probation?
that’s a great question. what do you think? i’m testing it here… but wondering if we lose too much…?
Well, the old Share button had FB, twitter, and delicious in there. To me, delicious has lost its luster it once had.
Personally, I might think of dropping the delicious and bringing back the “Share” button that had delicious in there. That way you keep all the ‘extras’ and focus on social media sharing.
But really, it all depends on what you want to focus on. I’m sure that eventually the “Share” will include Buzz as well.
I like it
I like the snippet function – the Intense Debate Buzz plugin does not seem to have that
Yeow!
like a glove.
w00t!
Now if I could just get buzz to actually pull in my tweets like it says it will… ::sigh::
oh, it doesn’t? sad.
Thank you TechCrunch… er, I mean ChurchCrunch.
puaha.
Awesome work – adding it now. I’m more excited than many about Buzz, can’t wait to see what it brings.
Sweet!
Boo-ya….!
sweet… but i couldn’t get it to work. I added it to the loop and got the following showing up on the page: &srcTitle=’>Buzz it!
Oh cool, I actually looked for the code earlier and could not find it. Thx.
I’m sure it is that easy – if you knew where to find the beginning of the WordPress Loop. I just went through several files in my directory and never found the code referenced on WordPress.com as the beginning of the loop.
whoops. sorry..?
awesome, gonna try it out
I had to add an improved trim excerpt function that stripped javascript from the snippet – otherwise I was getting var fbShare … in the text.
if you have the same problem, I found the solution here: http://www.aaronrussell.co.uk/blog/improving-wordpress-the_excerpt/
philip… are you signed in over here on the network sites? your comments keep getting in my spam filter…
Bro:
I’m not sure what the wordpress loop is, so I couldn’t figure out where to paste your code! Sorry I am new to this and would appreciate your help!
Andy
what’s your blog? where are you trying to put it? try this plugin instead: http://www.clickonf5.org/google-buzz-button-wordpress