Happy feet, winter edition.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Sunburst Granny Blanket: Some Progress
If I’m going to be sick at home, I might as well get some work done on my sunburst granny blanket. Right?
Pin-it button for blogger - with count!
If you don’t already know Pinterest, you should. This uprising star of social networks is the next big thing. Personally, what I like about it is that it’s driven by content - I don’t know most of the people I’m subscribed to, and they don’t know me. But the pictures are big and colorful, and repining is so easy… The virality factor is awesome! After I pin anything from my blog, I automatically see a spike in my stats, it can double the visits to my blog instantly.
Pinterest works on images, that’s the main content driver and posting without an image is just missing the point. Unfortunately for us, unlike the post title and url which are available through blogger data properties, the post doesn’t expose an “images” property (and it really should).
OK, so we all want in on the action, but the “pin-it” button Pinterest supplies doesn’t take into account dynamic content. I’ve seen a few solutions which take the pin-it bookmarklet (i.e. a short cut for your browser) and embed it on the page. That works fine and allows you to chose an image to pin, but then you don’t get the nifty count of how many people have pinned this page, and that’s a big loss.
Lucky for us, and as opposed to how the facebook like button works, we can control the image (or: media) property via javascript.
Note and warning: Before you do this, please back up your template. If you don’t know what that means, don’t even try.
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