Adding twitter and facebook buttons to your squarespace blog

Some months ago I moved from blogger.com to squarespace when blogger stopped supporting FTP to personal domains.  I had been contemplating a move for some time since blogger was getting quite slow and restrictive.

I am so pleased that I made the move - squarespace is a hosted blogging service with incredible templates, great feedback and stats, and it just seems to meet my blogging needs.

Today I added two more features to my blog - a retweet button that will allow readers to easily send a post to twitter and a facebook like button. Social networking and social media sharing are a key part of my communication strategy!  As such it is critical to make it as easy as possible for readers to interact with the content on this blog in order to save it, forward it, retweet it, or like it on facebook.

Squarespace has a built in 'share' function (see the bottom of this post for the 'share' button - if you click on it you'll see that it allows you to share a blog post to multiple social networking locations and platforms).  However, since it is an embedded service very few people make use of it.  Quite simply, most of us look for the familiar blue icons of twitter and facebook to share content.

If you have a squarespace blog (or even a wordpress or blogger blog) you can add these buttons to your blog as well.  Simply follow these links:

• How to install a twitter button to squarespace
• How to install a facebook like button to squarespace

Now, here's where I would like to ask for your help!  Please could I ask you to find one article on my blog and test the facebook 'like' button or the twitter 'retweet' button?  I'd love to see how they work!  Any feedback is welcome (I made the retweet text a simple reference to my twitter username, the reader can add his or her own text to describe the post).

Thanks! 

Dion

Comments

[Todd]

Has anyone else had the problem of what content gets shared with facebook? For some reason, when anyone "shares" my posts to facebook, it pulls not the post content but the content from my right sidebar! Even when I go to facebook directly and click "share link" and put my own url in there, it pulls the sidebar content! So frustrating.

[Dr Dion Forster]

Hey Todd,

I'm so sorry for the slow reply!

The problem is most likely that your 'share' button is set up so that it points to the content listed under a URL that populates your right side bar. Be sure that the HTML code in your facebook share button points to the correct URL for the post it is linked to. If you follow this link it highlights one particular problem with the facebook button settings. So have a look to see which URL your button points to.

I hope that helps!

Regards,

Dion