Update: See > GetsocialLive Customization, Toolbars, Buttons
From time to time WordPress.com bloggers post to the support forum asking if there is an automatically appearing icon for an “email to a friend” feature they can use on their posts. WordPress.com does not support this feature at this time but may in the future.
A very simple text link or linked image workaround provided by a fellow WordPress.com blogger, Richard that you can use to add this feature to your posts manually using the HTML editor.
In order to post this code here without having it execute I will use an image. Please click the image for greater clarity.
email a friend text link HTML code
Replace the “http://wordpress.com” with the link to your post, and then replace the “Email This to a Friend” with the text you wish.
This is what the text link will look like, but do not forget that you will be linking it to your post. Email this to a friend
You could also do it with an image if you wished by adding the img src etc. to it.
Email to a friend The result will look like this.
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joer223
May 22, 2010
@TiTi
This is a very useful tip. Another way to reach out and touch someone with what they find as a helpful post. Thank you for this!
Continued Success…
timethief
May 22, 2010
I’m just making sure we all have an awareness of these workarounds. You’re welcome. :)
Mark Armstrong
May 22, 2010
Amazing!– meaning both this tip and you, TT!!
Cheers, Mark
timethief
May 22, 2010
Hi Mark,
I’m not amazing I’m amassing a collection of useful tips, tweaks and workarounds. :)
Cheers
izaakmak
May 22, 2010
Thanks! I wondered how that worked.
timethief
May 22, 2010
It’s easy and you’re welcome. :)
Zeenat{Positive Provocations}
May 22, 2010
HI TT,
this is such an awesome tip! Just yesterday i was googling away to find out how to add an email to a friend link..and see here you are giving it away so simply. In fact yesterday..when i couldn’t really understand half of the stuff I read about this(my technically challenged side), i thought i would just post a question in the forums here on WP.com…but see now i dont need to do that.
Am gonna try it..and will be back if i get stuck some where :)
Thank you so much for this. Youre the best!
Much Love,
Z~
timethief
May 22, 2010
Hello Zeenat,
Well that’s serendipitous. I have a little collection of tips and tweaks to share and weekends seem like a good time for posting them. If there’s anything your are particularly looking for please let me know. Thanks for the praise. You’re the best too. :)
Love, TiTi
Zeenat{Positive Provocations}
May 22, 2010
TiTi,
I had read on a post here, on the getsociallive bookmarks..that they were going to add an email to a friend link to their lovely button bookmarks collection. Do you have any word on that as yet?
Jonie
May 23, 2010
Hi! I subscribed some time ago. Just wanted to pop in and tell you how useful your blog is and how much I appreciate all the help you give us on the forums. I also read about your loss – I am very sorry, life can be very tough at times. Hugs, Jonie
timethief
May 23, 2010
@Jonie
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave me this comment. I really appreciate receiving positive feedback – who doesn’t? I visited your blog and it’s lovely. Best wishes for happy blogging.:)
Zeenat{Positive Provocations}
May 23, 2010
TiTi,
I got it…I downloaded the getsociallive software from their site ..and it has an option to “email to a friend”…just added in my post title and link and wallah there was a code to enter in the html editor. Its got a pic too….I have just added it to my latest post. Check it out :)
p.s. the first comment ran twice by mistake sorry about that.
timethief
May 23, 2010
Hi Zeenat,
Yes I have been to your blog and I see the email to a friend icon from getsociallive. It looks great.
Re: your second comment. No problem I deleted the duplicate comment.
izaakmak
May 23, 2010
I’m a bit confused. I use GetSocialLive all the time and I can’t find a “email to a friend” function. When I go to Zeenzat’s blog, I do see such a feature added beneath the GetSocialLive buttons, but my browser’s status bar show’s the that the linked address refers to AddToAny instead. I’m not very familiar with AddToAny, so my confusion persists. :???:
timethief
May 23, 2010
@izmaakmak
You are right – it’s confusing. They “email to a friend” icon does not appear on the getsociallive generator page. The difference is that Zeenat downloaded the software to her own computer and apparently that version includes the “email to a friend” icon which is linked to AddtoAny. If you do not want to download software then you can use the workaround. I hope the “email to a friend” icon will appear on the getsociallive generator page soon.
cathryn marshall
May 29, 2010
timethief,
Hi, and I’ll take this opportunity to say Thanks for all you do. I am always reading your input whenever I go to the web with an issue. As now…I followed your instructions about emailing friends. Was able to do that for myself (actually, it’s me writing this: spirit2go, not cathryn), but I was able to add the data to a text widget. Mine is great, but when I go into Cathryn’s dashboard and test sending the email, it shows that it’s coming FROM arlene1[at]bellsouth.net (me) rather than Cathy’s email address. I can’t find anywhere to change this. I created her blog for her and set us both up as administrators. Have been able to do everything else fine this way. Also, a side question, you have to actually do this manually on each blog post, or it will just email the whole blog site, correct?
timethief
May 29, 2010
@Cathryn
I can’t help with the first issue. The answer to the second one is “yes” you do have to insert the code into every post.