Suggestion
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Just a thot but when a user selects a Tweet of mine from my blog (right panel, icon and text) they ‘leave my site’. I would rather their selection open a new window (like when they select ‘follow’, for example).
(Same with the pinterest, facebook, twitter icons top right panel. I would rather a new window open when selected).The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
For the icons at the top right on your blog, you can actually change the code in your sidebar widget (under Appearance > Widgets in the dashboard) to make those links open in a new window. This tutorial has more information about how to write the HTML code to do that using a target attribute:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp
For your Twitter widget in your sidebar, I’d recommend switching to the Twitter Timeline Widget. That allows more customization, and the old Twitter widget you’re using now will be going away in the future.
Please let me know if I can do anything more to help with that. :)
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The Twitter Timeline Widget works like a charm. Thanks.
The (Target) HTML code worked just fine for the ‘add this’ link which now opens in a new window. Again, Thanks.
The (facebook, twitter, rss feed) icons top right on my blog remain a mystery. I don’t think they are widgets. At least I don’t have widgets for them in ‘Appearance > Widgets’ and the ‘Appearance > Widgets’don’t provide an option to ‘open a new window’. (Odd, because usually there is that option).
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The (facebook, twitter, rss feed) icons top right on my blog remain a mystery. I don’t think they are widgets. At least I don’t have widgets for them in ‘Appearance > Widgets’
Oops, sorry about that! I thought they were included in the same widget as your Pinterest icon, but I see now that they are separate.
Those links are built right into your theme, and you can manage them under Appearance > Theme Options in the “Subscribe links” section. However, there isn’t a way to change those links so they open a new window — since they are built into the theme itself, the option to have them open in a new window would also have to be built into the theme.
If you prefer, you can disable those built-in social media icons and add your own in a widget with this guide: Add Social Media Buttons to Your Sidebar or Footer
If you put them in your own widget, you can use the same “target” attribute in the HTML code to make them open in a new window. Let me know if I can lend a hand with that!
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Thanks.
The ‘Twitter timeline’ as you suggested is slick. Like it a lot.
The ‘follow’ option(s) I think we’ve got covered.
I’ll keep looking for a simple, clean (one click) way for a reader to ‘share’ should they decide to do so. I’ll look thru your suggested link (adding buttons to sidebar). -
Apologies in advance for this, but, one more time …
I would like to add ‘sharing buttons’ (right sidebar, below ‘theme icons’ and above ‘Twitter timeline’). I have tried and cannot make work (by using a text box for the sidebar) this:
1. A single ‘addtoany’ share button.
http://www.addtoany.com/buttons/for/wordpress_com
(see below the ‘share/save’ icon … the ‘change button’ yields code for the text box). (I have successfully added this ‘addtoany’ button with the sharing options at the bottom of my post(s)).
Suggestions for my sidebar?– or – If that won’t work then:
2nd choice. A floating share button (kinda’ cool but don’t really know how it would look to the user).
http://geek.ng/2012/01/how-to-add-floating-share-buttons-to-wordpress.htmlSuggestions?
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Hey Doug,
I wanted to let you know we haven’t forgotten about you here. The Geek.ng method is out as it requires the use of script tags within the HTML. Those aren’t allowed at WordPress.com for security reasons as mentioned here:
In general, a floating sidebar likely won’t be possible.
With regards to the addtoany share button, I’m having trouble getting the sharing link to work within a text widget.
I’m still working on this. I’ll reply back for sure within the next few hours. There’s likely a way to do this. I just haven’t found it quite yet!
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Hey Doug,
I’ve done quite a bit of research here, and the results aren’t promising I’m afraid. All of the services I checked out making use of the script tag for creating sharing icons. This is most evident in the collection here:
I created both a Twitter and a LinkedIn script that would work, but script tags are stripped from WordPress.com for security reasons like I mentioned before.
I’ll continue to keep my eyes peeled on this one, but for right now, I don’t have a solid suggestion for you. I’m sorry!
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Hi, Jeremey.
There is a way to add an addany/all ‘share’ button. (I had one one my blog in a text box top right sidebar … but deleted it when I started doing my ‘maintenance’ work {july 23rd}. Duh, me.
It looked like this http://feeds.feedblitz.com/bcaresearch/blog [lower left rectangle share button].But I’d be happy with somethink like this for sharing. http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/the-art-of-crafting-a-15-word-strategy-statement/
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Success! I was able to get the following to work on my sidebar:
<a href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save"><img src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_171_16.png" width="171" height="16" border="0" alt="Share" /></a>I generated the code using the form here:
http://www.addtoany.com/buttons/for/website
Can you give this a try on your side?
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