Add Cool Social Media Icons to Your WordPress Sidebar

I’ve had “social media icon envy” for a while now.

You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? I’m referring to those neat non-standard social networking icons all the “cool kids” have on their sites. Yeah, the ones that practically jump off the page and demand that you follow, Stumble, Digg, or become a fan of that site…

The problem is I had no idea how to add them to my own site. (Ok, I could add them, just didn’t know how to make them work!) Plus, I didn’t want to spend a ton of money for someone else to do it for me. (To be honest, I kept thinking if I ignored the whole social media thing long enough – especially Twitter – it would go away and I wouldn’t have to tackle it).

No such luck.

If you are in the same boat, I have a couple cool things to share with you today!

First is a link to a post that walks you through how to add social networking icons to a WordPress sidebar.

You can read the full post here:
http://internetmarketingformommies.com/adding-social-networking-buttons-to-your-blog-or-website/

I think you’ll agree, this is about as simple and straightforward as it gets.

(To make # 3 even easier, you can create a “sandbox” page (privately published) within your admin panel and upload the images there instead of creating a new folder in the public_html area of your site. While you are uploading the image, fill in the “Link URL” with the web address where you want visitors to land – i.e. your social media url for that particular site). Once you do that, switch to html view and copy and paste the code for the image into your text widget).

Also, I fell in love with some very cool, non-traditional social media icons (check out the sidebar to the right) – and best of all, they are FREE!

You can find (and download) them here: http://www.dawghousedesignstudio.com/archives/2009/free-social-media-icons-old-bottle-crowns-icon-set/

Enjoy!

Til Next Time,

PS If you like this post, please share it on your favorite social networking site (and by all means, let’s connect through my new social media icons!)