Delicious counter buttons are quite essential for every blogger, but there are many counter buttons out in the field which actually doesn’t work. It was my experience, when I was in search of delicious counter buttons. Finally I found a way to make our delicious button. The tutorial which I am going to teach you was made by Mike. So, this is going to be a little detailed version of what he has written on his blog.

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WordPress

Step 1: Go to header.php on your WordPress dashboard and insert the below code within </head>.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://delicious-button.googlecode.com/files/jquery.delicious-button-1.0.min.js"></script>

Step: 2 Now go to single.php and paste this code after <?php the_content(); ?>

<div style='float:right; margin-right:10px;'>
<!-- {
   url:"<?php the_permalink() ?>"
   ,title:"<?php the_title(); ?>"
   ,button:"wide"
   } -->
   Save on Delicious
</a>
</div>

For horizontal button, remove ,button:”wide” from the step 2.

Blogger

Well, I don’t want to miss Blogger platform and here we go to the installation.

Step 1: Go to Edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard and paste the below code within </head>.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://delicious-button.googlecode.com/files/jquery.delicious-button-1.0.min.js"></script>

Step 2: Search for <div class=’post-header-line-1’/> if you are not able to find search for <data:post.body/> and paste this code below to that

<div style='float:right; margin-right:10px;'>
<a class='delicious-button'  href='http://delicious.com/save'>
   &lt;!-- {
      url:"<data:post.url/>"
      ,title:"<data:post.title/>"
      ,button:"wide"
   } --&gt;
   Save on Delicious
</a>
</div>

For horizontal button remove ,button:”wide” from the step 2.

Hope this tut is helpful to add a beautiful delicious counter button. Finally thanks to Mike for making this awesome piece of work.

Published by Franklin Manuel

Franklin is a web designer, front-end web developer and the Editor in Chief of Bloggermint Network