Turns out I was just silly about all this. ShareThis for Blogger works, and just adds an extra empty widget to your sidebar (so you can remove it later).
I've been looking around for a Blogger widget to let readers share and bookmark posts. ShareThis.com has a nice little widget, but their "Blogger integration" only adds it to my sidebar. Of course, this means it won't show up for each individual post.
They do have a javascript API with a few goodies, though. I did a little bit of tinkering with the Blogger Layouts tags and got it working.
There are two main steps here. First, I added their button code to the <head> of my template. Second, I inserted data:post.title and data:post.url into their ShareThis code and pasted it into the post footer.
Instructions:
(Do not follow the "Blogger" instructions at ShareThis.com. You will simply get a widget in your sidebar, and not for individual posts)
1. Create an account at http://sharethis.com/publisher
2. Customize your button options
3. Copy the button code
4. Sign in to Blogger.com and click "Layouts"
5. Click over to "Edit HTML"
6. Check the "Expand Widget Templates" box
7. Scroll down and paste the button code before the </html>
8. (Almost there) Copy the code below:
9. Paste the code below <div class="post-footer">
10. Click "Save Template" and view your blog
Or test it out below...
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1 comments:
Hello,
Thanks for the post!
We also have a Blogger plugin that will append a ShareThis button to the footer of each of your posts that shares the permalink of that post.
You can get it at http://sharethis.com/blogger .
It's designed to work with new blogger templates.
For further instruction to add a ShareThis button to each post see: http://support.sharethis.com/publishers/publishers-faq/blogger/83
Thanks again for the post and for using ShareThis!
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