{"id":99460,"date":"2012-10-26T18:39:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T22:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=99460"},"modified":"2013-05-14T15:23:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:23:02","slug":"increase-your-sites-social-media-exposure-with-sharethis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/increase-your-sites-social-media-exposure-with-sharethis\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase Your Site\u2019s Social Media Exposure with ShareThis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you lack exposure on social media networks, you\u2019re losing out on <strong>100s of millions<\/strong> of potential customers. <a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ShareThis<\/a> is a tool that allows your users to <strong>easily<\/strong> share your posts and pages to the major social media networks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99467 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ShareThis-IMG1.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"528\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Step 1: Install the Plugin<\/h2>\n<p>ShareThis is extremely easy to work with. Just click <strong>Plugins -&gt; Add New<\/strong> and <strong>Search<\/strong> for <strong>ShareThis. <\/strong>Install and activate.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 2: Configure the Plugin<\/h2>\n<p>From <strong>Settings -&gt; ShareThis<\/strong> change the settings for the social media networks that you want to share with. It is strongly recommended you <strong>include<\/strong> the following networks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook<\/li>\n<li>Twitter<\/li>\n<li>Google+<\/li>\n<li>Pinterest<\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>ShareThis<\/strong> option lets users select from a broad range of additional social media networks, so try to limit your buttons to no more than <strong>7.<\/strong> 7 Fits with most themes without causing width issues within the column templates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99468 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/social-network-fi.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Not all Themes are created equal, so test the theme with ShareThis to confirm the numbers of buttons you can use.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ShareThis is an extremely simple plugin that works with <strong>most<\/strong> themes. It can be embedded above or below each post. I recommend that you place the plugin <strong>below<\/strong> the page so they can share it as they finish reading but <strong>before<\/strong> they comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increase Social Media Success with UI WordPress Plugin ShareThis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132058,"featured_media":99468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[982],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-99460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216439,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99460\/revisions\/216439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99460"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=99460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}