Recommendations by ‘word of mouth’ are extremely valuable for any business so why not make it easy for your blog or website readers to spread the word?
Whilst your readers are perfectly capable of cutting & pasting your URL into an email, instead there is a great wordpress plugin called ‘wp-email‘ which adds a clickable link at the end of each of your posts which not only makes the process simple, but also acts as a prompt or reminder.
The other useful things about this plugin is that it keeps a record for you of who has used the link & which post has been forwarded to whom.
If you are a Thesis theme user, then you instead of adding a line of code to the index file as detailed in the plugin instructions, you will need to amend the custom_functions.php file instead. Remember, before you edit the custom functions file always take a back up first as once you save, the simplest mistake can stop your blog from working!
The code you need is as follows:
/* Code for Email & Print Post / Page (requires plugins wp-print and wp-email) */
function print_icon() {
if (is_single())
?>
<?php if(function_exists(‘wp_email’)) { email_link(); } ?>
<?php if(function_exists(‘wp_print’)) { print_link(); } ?>
<?php }
add_action(‘thesis_hook_after_post’, ‘print_icon’, 1);
/* end */
This code also allows the wp-print script to work, which adds the ‘Print This Post’ link to the bottom of the post as well.
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