Social Bookmarking: Add Links to Your Blog Posts Automatically

I was at a networking event last week when another Solopreneur Blogger asked me how to add social bookmarking tools to each post.  I had to admit that I didn’t know how to do it, but that I wanted to add it to my site too.  Well, I just spent like the last 15 minutes researching and setting it up!  Of course, I promised my colleague that I would blog about it,  so…

Here are step-by-step instructions for how I automatically add social bookmarking links to every post I publish using Wordpress.org:

1. Download the Socialable Plugin {I download it directly to my desktop for easy retrieval}
2. Go to the zip folder and “Extract all files” {remember where they are on your machine}
3. Open your FTP {I use FireFTP which you can download for free here}
4. Add the unzipped Socialable folder (this includes all files) to your wp-content/plugins folder
5. Go to the Plugins page in Wordpress admin
6. Find the Socialable plugin and “Activate”

To pick the social bookmarks you’d like to display:

1. From your admin page, go to Settings/Socialable
2. Click on the ones you’d like to add or subtract
3. Drag and drop to change the order
4. Click “Save Settings”

Voila!  Go to your latest blog post to see the plugin in action.

This is one of the easiest plugins I’ve used and the set-up instructions built into it are straight forward.  Have fun and feel free to use them right now to share this article!

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