How to add social bookmarking icons in thesis and other wordpress themes

Giving an option for your readers to share your content is very importent.Also it will improve and boost up the rank of your website.So adding social bookmarking icons in posts is a must.Twitter,digg,yahoo buzz,mixx,reddit,del.icio.ous are some common bookmarking websites.

How to add social bookmarking icons/links using plugin:
There are many plugins that help you add social bookmarking links and icons in wordpress themes.It is possible to add those icons using plugins in thesis wordpress theme also.The plugins that we use here in senshow.com is Digg Digg by yong mook kim.

So if you dont want to use any plugins and you need to do it yourself then follow the steps below

step 1:This step is to create a widget in the right side of your posts in content area.so to create the widget copy the below code and paste it in custom_functions.php file in the custom file editor of the thesis theme

/***BUILD bookmark WIDGET side of the post paste in custom_functiom.php***/

register_sidebars(1,
array(
'name' => 'bookmarkpost',
'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s">',
'after_widget' => '</li>',
'before_title' => '<h3>',
'after_title' => '</h3>'
)
);
function widgetized_icons() { ?>
<div id="post_icons">
<ul>
<?php thesis_default_widget(4); ?>
</ul>
</div>
<?php }

add_action('thesis_hook_before_post', 'widgetized_icons', '1');

Note:If you have already 3 widget box in the widgets sidebar of wordpress dashboard then you have to change thesis_default_widget(3) as thesis_default_widget(4).

step 2: Now to customize the style of your bookmarking widget copy the below code and paste it in custom.css file of the thesis custom file editor.

/*WIDGET side of the post paste in custom.css file***/
.custom #post_icons ul.sidebar_list li.widget h3 {text-indent:0; padding-top:0.2em; color:#111; font-size:15px; font-family:georgia; background:none;}
.custom #post_icons ul.sidebar_list { margin:0em;}
.custom #post_icons ul.sidebar_list li.widget  {font-size:1em;}
.custom #post_icons{ width:7em; float:right; }

step 3: Now upload the bookmarking icons to the images folder.
step 4: Now go to appearance>widgets>Bookmarkpost and drag an text widget into it.Leave the title empty and paste the links for your bookmarking icons and the image paths in the description area and save it.