LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site.LinkedIn is a place where busy and on-the-go professionals rely on their network to stay informed and make decisions.Just like Twitter Retweet Button, Google Buzz button, Facebook Share Button, Digg share button, LinkedIn has launched their own share button, which gives publishers a way to spread their content on LinkedIn and enables users to easily share content with their LinkedIn network.So lets see how to add this new LinkedIn button on your WordPress blog. 🙂
The LinkedIn share button is available in three different styles:
- Horizontal
- Verticle
- No Count
1. Copy anyone of the following code,
Vertical Count
<div style=”float:right; padding:10px;”>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js”></script><script type=”in/share” data-url=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>” data-counter=”top”></script>
</div>
Horizontal Count
<div style=”float:right; padding:10px;”>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js”></script><script type=”in/share” data-url=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>” data-counter=”right”></script>
</div>
No Count
<div style=”float:right; padding:10px;”>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js”></script><script type=”in/share” data-url=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”></script>
</div>
2. Goto WordPress Dashboard –> Appearance –> Editor and select single.php file.
3. Paste the copied code into Single.php and save the file.
Note:
If you wish retweet botton to appear at left side change,
<div style=’float:right; margin-left:10px;’>
as
<div style=’float:left; margin-left:10px;’>
What’s your opinon about LinkedIn? Is it worth using this share button on your blog? 🙂
I’m dubious that people would use the linked in one, over the facebook equivalent.
People tend to use Facebook for fun, but linkedin for work.
The whole “like” thing, I think is used more for amusing sites than business ones.
thanks praveen for sharing this ..now after reading this i can easily fix a button at linked in