Do you want to display Share or Follow icons on your website?
The following are basic instructions for using the AddThis site.
First consider what you want these icons to do and where and how you want them to be displayed on your website.
To consider:
1.
Share or Follow icons?
(You can have both and even more options on the one site.)
2.
Icons on every page or just certain pages?
3.
Customise the look and position and even what icons you want to appear.
How to use AddThis
1. Sign up to AddThis
You can have more than one website under your Login, websites are referred to as profiles.
2. Select the Dashboard Button
This will take you to the area where you add and access your websites
3. Add a Profile ( your website )
See top left menu
Decide what type of Tools (social media icons) you want and what you want them to do.
You can go back and change these tools any time you like under settings.
Go to Tools in the menu
Use Add New Tool button to select the type of tools you want
Select a Tool eg Share buttons
Select Tool Type Select Continue
For Share icons: Style and customise your tools using choices of Sharing Services, Design, Share Counter, Position and Behavior
For Follow icons: Style and customise your tools using choices of Follow Services, Design, Position and Behavior
Activate your tools, you must do this for your tools to show
4. Get the Code
Go to "Get the code" in your menu. The code should look something like the following:
<!-- Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools --><script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-5b47f75d75f56186"></script>
Copy it.
Now decide what pages in your site you want the icons to appear:
ON ALL PAGES
If you want the icons to appear on all pages email this code to yvonne@flightdec.com Let her know that you want it to appear on all pages.
ON BLOG, EVENT OR NEWS PAGES ONLY
If you want the icons to appear on all Blog pages, Event pages or News pages etc
ON SELECTED PAGES ONLY
If you want the icons to appear on a selected page only: