Social Share Buttons Without a Plugin

Most sharing plugins are too loaded with options, and tend to slow down my sites.

I wrote this simple script to counter that.

Create this file and name it “sharebuttons.php”. Upload it to your theme directory.

<div id="sharethis">
<h3 class="sharethis">Share This:
<a style="margin-right:5px;margin-left:10px;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php the_permalink();?>&amp;t=<?php echo urlencode(get_the_title($id)); ?>" title="Share this post on Facebook" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') ?>/images/fbuser.png"></a>
<a style="margin-right:5px;" rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=<?php echo urlencode("Currently reading: "); ?><?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Share this with your Twitter followers" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') ?>/images/twuser.png"></a>
<a style="margin-right:5px;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') ?>/images/liuser.png"></a>
<a style="margin-right:5px;" rel="nofollow" href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') ?>/images/gplususer.png"></a>
<a style="margin-right:5px;" href="javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());"><img src="<?php echo bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') ?>/images/pinuser.png"></a>
</h3>
</div>

You will also need to create your images, and style the div as you like.

Then, to add the div to pages or posts, just put this in your template file, immediately following (or just before) the_content() — or wherever you want the buttons to appear:

<?php
include('sharebuttons.php');
?>

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