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Add youtube subscriber button into your site

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In this post we will see how we can create and place youtube subscribe button in your site [sites like blogspot, wordpress or self hosted] as shown in the preview.

Prerequisite :

Create your own youtube channel, if you don’t have a youtube channel, watch here

Create a youtube subscriber button

Find the channel id as shown in the below screenshot

  • Select appropriate Layout, Theme and Subscriber count [to show or not]
  • As per the options selection, preview and code will be generated

Place the button on site
  • Log into your site admin page.
  • Navigate to the Widget section
  • Create a text widget and paste the above code generated, and place on the site where you want to display the youtube button.

Facebook like button – add to your site

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In this post, we will know how to add a tiny facebook like icon as shown here…

This tiny like icon will attract users to simply like your page on facebook.

For this, 1st thing you need to create a facebook page for your site.

Like mine is https://www.facebook.com/techreciter/

and navigate to facebook developers page https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button

Enter details and click on get code

Now navigate to your site wp-admin page, Add a text widget [From Appearance | Widgets] and paste the code generated.

 

WordPress official follow button on self hosted sites

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If you want to add wordpress follow button (on your self hosted sites) as shown hereFollow steps

Navigate to follow-button-creation and enter

  • Blog to follow – your site URL
  • check options as you need [refer below screenshot]
  • Click on Generate

Note: Make sure you will have jetpack plugin installed.

  • Now navigate to your site wp-admin, and Appearance | Widgets | Text widget, paste the above generated HTML code.