Implementing social sharing capabilities

Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest provide another medium for content to be shared with family, friends, and coworkers. Most websites provide a mechanism for sharing content, and our Blog detail page is no different.

Based on our mockup, we allow users to share a post as well as see the number of likes, tweets, or pins. In fact, there are a number of different third-party libraries or APIs that make this functionality easy to implement. Services such as Share This, http://www.sharethis.com/, or even Add This , https://www.addthis.com/, provide either a library or contributed modules to implement this functionality within Drupal.

The Add This buttons

For our particular page, we will be using the Add This service. There are various button options and configurations that can be created, so to avoid any confusion with adding this service to our template, we will be using the standard buttons. The implementation of the Add This button...