Adding a Badge to Your Blog
27. Jul, 2011 
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Old Mining Town
I don’t know about you, but lately I have been joining various sites for a number of reasons. Recently I joined a site that provided a badge, but the image code the site generated for the badge would not download properly for either of my blogs. I had to figure it out and here’s what I discovered.
If you want to add a clickable badge or photo or button there’s a couple of ways to do it.
- First you need to have an account with Photobucket.com or other photo sharing site to generate a picture ‘code’
- Second you must have a ‘snipping tool’ option available on your computer
- Third you need an adventurous and ‘can do’ attitude
Adding a badge, button or picture to Blogger:
- With a ‘snipping tool’ make a screen shot of your badge then save it in a file
- Open YOUR page from the site you want to link to the badge
- On your blog add a PICTURE gadget
- Download the screen shot of your badge from the file in which you saved it
- Be sure to add the URL address for YOUR badge page and save
Adding a badge, button or picture to a WordPress.com blog:
- Upload the screen shot of your badge to Photobucket to get a picture code
- Go to your WordPress blog and grab an IMAGE widget
- Copy/Paste the DIRECT LINK code into the Image URL space and copy/paste your badge page URL address into the space for URL link when clicking on image.
This will do it. See mine here
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Thank you! Wanted to know how to do this!
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Always glad to help whyte! FYI: I often share what I learn on the Life on Mars: Hide A Heart Begins blog too, so c’mon by some time. http://hideaheart.wordpress.com
MCatherine
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Great, something for WP!!!!!
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couldn’t you write this one week before?
i figured it out, there are lots of different ways to make it and many bloggers that try to explain it actually don’t know, what they’re doing.
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Sorry about the timing of the post masha, but glad you figured it out for yourself too! Congrats!!
MCatherine
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Just in case you had not thought about it, this approach works for adding a PINTERST button to your blog too! http://hideaheart.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/adding-a-pinterest-button/
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