Social Sharing Blog Buttons

[ Will be implemented on my blog: http://garyb.co ]

Problem: A wide variety of social sharing buttons are tacking. It ends up looking like the side of a race car. So many "stickers".

Solution: Upon rollover, and eventually tap / click if a touch device, the "featured image" in Wordpress will fold over and reveal sharing buttons for the post. These are my favorite three: Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.

There when you need it, hidden when you do not.

Update: Implemented the Google+ button did not end up so good looking. Google gives no control at all. Everything is rendered in an iFrame. No plain text link to use.

Posted on Jul 1, 2012
Gary Bacon
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