Slide Out Social Bookmarking Gadget With jQuery For Blogger ~ Help Blog Tricks and Tips

Slide Out Social Bookmarking Gadget With jQuery For Blogger

How To Add Slide Out Bookmarking Gadget To Blogger?

For better understanding I am dividing this tutorial in 3 simple steps,just follow them carefully and you will add this gadget very easily to your blog.

Step 1 : Adding jQuery Plugin
Step 2 : Adding Google +1 Button Script
Step 3 : Adding the Gadget

Step 1 : Adding jQuery Plugin

Note - Ignore this step,if you have already added jQuery plugin to your blog.

Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template
Click Edit HTML
Hit Proceed
Now find below code in your template

</head>

add below code just above it

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Step 2 : Adding Google +1 Button Script

Find below code in your temlate

<head>

add below code just below of above code

<script src='http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js' type='text/javascript'> {lang: &#39;en-US&#39;} </script>

Step 3 : Adding the Gadget

Now go to Page Layout
Click on Add a Gadget
Select HTML/JavaScript
Leave title field blank
Paste below code and save it
Drag the widget to bottom of your page.
Finally save your changes

<script type="text/javascript">
    /*<![CDATA[*/
    jQuery(document).ready(function () {
        jQuery(".hbslidebox").hover(function () {
            jQuery(this).stop().animate({
                left: "0"
            }, "medium");
        }, function () {
            jQuery(this).stop().animate({
                left: "-70"
            }, "medium");
        }, 500);
    });
    /*]]>*/
</script>
<style type="text/css">
    .hbslidebox {
        background: url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg74NNWt6eTPJhTFFoI8-MRkQjT7woqnLMu8QltPpX8WrTttBquxkRYQ3LznbWFD9Qa4lrNnLBGh0gKB0nIR-3I4rsGULaoMhMX7yImRNaaxMX2-0DkZ_6lKExLb0OECVre4K0sapoLbNY/s1600/helperblogger.com-tab_left_vertical.png") no-repeat scroll right top transparent !important;
        display: block;
        float: left;
        height: auto;
        padding: 0 45px 0 0px;
        width: 65px;
        z-index: 99999;
        position:fixed;
        left:-70px;
        top:20%;
    }
    .hbslidebox div {
        border:none;
        position:relative;
        display:block;
    }
    #floatingbuttons {
        background: #fff;
        border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
        border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
        float:left;
        padding:0 0 3px 0;
        bottom:15%;
        z-index:399;
    }
    #floatingbuttons .floatbutton {
        float:left;
        clear:both;
        margin:5px 4px 0 4px;
    }
    .addbuttons {
        clear:both;
        text-align:center;
        padding-top:5px;
    }
    .addbuttons a span.getfloat, .addbuttons a span.sharebuttons {
        color:#000;
        background:none;
        font-family:arial, sans-serif;
        display:block;
        font-size:9px;
        font-weight:bold;
        text-decoration:none;
        line-height:11px;
    }
    .addbuttons a:hover span {
        color:#fff;
        background:none;
        text-decoration:underline;
    }
</style>
<div class="hbslidebox" style="">
    <div>
        <div id='floatingbuttons' title="Share this post!">
            <script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1">
                
            </script>
            <script type="text/javascript">
                (function () {
                    var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'),
                        s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0];
                    s.type = 'text/javascript';
                    s.async = true;
                    s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js';
                    s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1);
                })();
            </script>
            <!-- Medium Button -->
            <script src='http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js' type="text/javascript"></script>
            <div class='floatbutton' id='facebook'>
                <fb:like layout="box_count" show_faces="false" font=""></fb:like>
            </div>
            <div class='floatbutton' id='google+1'>
                <g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone>
            </div>
            <div class='floatbutton' id='stumbleupon'>
                <script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5"></script>
            </div>
            <div class='floatbutton' id='digg'>
                <a class="DiggThisButton DiggMedium"></a>
            </div>
            <div class='floatbutton' id='twitter'>
                <a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="vertical">Tweet</a>
            </div>
            <div class="addbuttons">
                <a href="http://www.helperblogger.com/" title="Add floating social media share buttons to your blog!"><span class="getfloat">Get buttons</span></a>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Help Blog Tricks and Tips

Thursday 18 October 2012