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.
brett barner says
Nice!
Is the Buzz-it button going to make its way through whole 8bit network, or is it still on probation?
John Saddington says
that’s a great question. what do you think? i’m testing it here… but wondering if we lose too much…?
brett barner says
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.
PhillipGibb says
I like it ๐
I like the snippet function – the Intense Debate Buzz plugin does not seem to have that
Scott Magdalein says
Yeow!
John Saddington says
like a glove.
Eric Murrell says
w00t!
Now if I could just get buzz to actually pull in my tweets like it says it will… ::sigh::
John Saddington says
oh, it doesn’t? sad.
Aaron Melton says
Thank you TechCrunch… er, I mean ChurchCrunch. ๐
John Saddington says
puaha.
Brandon Cox says
Awesome work – adding it now. I’m more excited than many about Buzz, can’t wait to see what it brings.
Graham says
Sweet!
Josh Miles says
Boo-ya….!
eddie says
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!
LoriK says
Oh cool, I actually looked for the code earlier and could not find it. Thx.
friendcal says
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.
John Saddington says
whoops. sorry..?
PhillipGibb says
awesome, gonna try it out ๐
PhillipGibb says
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/
John Saddington says
philip… are you signed in over here on the network sites? your comments keep getting in my spam filter…
Andy Yi says
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
John Saddington says
what’s your blog? where are you trying to put it? try this plugin instead: http://www.clickonf5.org/google-buzz-button-wordpress