Published: Thursday, June 01, 2017, Updated: Thursday, December 29, 2022

Add Custom Social Share Buttons to Blogger Post or Pages

Blogger platform is now becoming more popular blogging platform. In 2020, it gets several updates to make this platform more user friendly and helpful. If you are using customized Blogger Theme, adding custom social share buttons will make your theme more attractive and user-friendly.  Getting traffics from Social sites is definitely effective and helpful to rank your website in search engines.  Here are some customized social buttons have been updated in 2020, you will like.  We have used Font Awesome 5, HTML & CSS.
Add Custom Social Share Button after Blogger Post Footer With Font Awesome Hey guys, today we will see how to add social media buttons to blogger posts.

Remove Default Share Buttons

If you are using Blogger default share button you have to remove this. To remove go to Blogger Dashboard → Layout → Choose Blog Posts Gadget → Edit and unchecke the following → Save

Remove Default Share Buttons

Installing Font Awesome


Font Awesome is popular Font Icons plugins. 

To install Font Awesome in your Blogger,

Go to Blogger Dashboard → Theme → HTML and paste the following code in your HTML Template.
<link href='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.11.2/css/all.min.css' rel='stylesheet'/>

Insert HTML code to Post Footer


Search for post-footer-line post-footer-line-1 from your Blogger HTML and after hitting Enter from your keyboard, you will get a div of given attribute.

Paste the following code just after the given div. If you don’t show the share buttons or blogger share buttons not showing then hit Enter again and you will see another div of given attribute, paste the following code after it.
<b:if cond='data:view.isSingleItem'>
  <div class="social-share">
      <ul>
          <li class="share-now"><i class="fas fa-share-alt"></i></li>
          <li>
              <a expr:href='"https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=" + data:post.url.canonical' target="_blank" title="Facebook"><i class="fab fa-facebook-f"></i></a>
          </li>
          <li>
              <a expr:href='"https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=" + data:post.url.canonical + "&amp;text=" + data:post.title' rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Twitter"><i class="fab fa-twitter"></i></a>
          </li>
          <li>
              <a expr:href='"https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=" + data:post.url.canonical' rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Linkedin"><i class="fab fa-linkedin-in"></i></a>
          </li>
          <li>
              <a expr:href='"https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=" + data:post.url.canonical + "&amp;media=" + data:post.featuredImage + "&amp;description=" + data:post.title' rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Pinterest">
                  <i class="fab fa-pinterest-p"></i>
              </a>
          </li>
          <li>
              <a expr:href='"https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=" + data:post.title + " | " + data:post.url.canonical' rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Whatsapp"><i class="fab fa-whatsapp"></i></a>
          </li>
          <li>
              <a expr:href='"https://reddit.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url.canonical + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Reddit"><i class="fab fa-reddit-alien"></i></a>
          </li>
          <li>
              <a expr:href='"mailto:?subject=" + data:post.title + "&amp;body=" + data:post.url.canonical' rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Email"><i class="fas fa-envelope"></i></a>
          </li>
      </ul>
  </div>
  <!--./social-share-->
</b:if>

You can customize the above code what button you want to keep or remove.

Insert CSS code


Search for ]]></b:skin> from Theme HTML and paste the following CSS code just before it

1. Square Social Share Buttons CSS

Square Social Share Buttons CSS
.social-share{display:block;overflow:hidden;margin:1rem 0}.social-share ul{margin:0;padding:0;list-style:none}li.share-now i{font-size:25px;padding:1rem;height:45px;width:45px;text-align:center}.social-share ul li{float:left;margin-left:1rem}.social-share ul li a i{color:#fff;font-size:25px;padding:1rem;height:45px;width:45px;text-align:center;opacity:1}.social-share ul li a i:hover{opacity:.7}.social-share ul li a i.fa-twitter{background-color:#1da1f2}.social-share ul li a i.fa-facebook-f{background-color:#3b5998}.social-share ul li a i.fa-whatsapp{background-color:#25d366}.social-share ul li a i.fa-envelope{background-color:#222831}.social-share ul li a i.fa-reddit-alien{background-color:#ff4500}.social-share ul li a i.fa-linkedin-in{background-color:#0077b5}.social-share ul li a i.fa-pinterest-p{background-color:#e60023}

2. Round Social Share Buttons CSS


Round Social Share Buttons CSS
.social-share{display:block;overflow:hidden;margin:1rem 0}.social-share ul{margin:0;padding:0;list-style:none}li.share-now i{font-size:25px;padding:1rem;height:45px;width:45px;text-align:center}.social-share ul li{float:left;margin-left:1rem}.social-share ul li a i{color:#fff;font-size:25px;padding:1rem;height:45px;width:45px;text-align:center;border-radius:50%;opacity:1}.social-share ul li a i:hover{opacity:.7}.social-share ul li a i.fa-twitter{background-color:#1da1f2}.social-share ul li a i.fa-facebook-f{background-color:#3b5998}.social-share ul li a i.fa-whatsapp{background-color:#25d366}.social-share ul li a i.fa-envelope{background-color:#222831}.social-share ul li a i.fa-reddit-alien{background-color:#ff4500}.social-share ul li a i.fa-linkedin-in{background-color:#0077b5}.social-share ul li a i.fa-pinterest-p{background-color:#e60023}

3. Bar Social Share Buttons CSS

Bar Social Share Buttons CSS
.social-share{display:block;overflow:hidden;margin:1rem 0}.social-share ul{margin:0;padding:0;list-style:none}li.share-now i{font-size:18px;height:30px;text-align:center}.social-share ul li{float:left;margin-left:1rem}.social-share ul li a i{color:#fff;font-size:18px;padding:6px;height:30px;width:100PX;text-align:center;border-radius:3px;opacity:1}.social-share ul li a i:hover{opacity:.7}.social-share ul li a i.fa-twitter{background-color:#1da1f2}.social-share ul li a i.fa-facebook-f{background-color:#3b5998}.social-share ul li a i.fa-whatsapp{background-color:#25d366}.social-share ul li a i.fa-envelope{background-color:#222831}.social-share ul li a i.fa-reddit-alien{background-color:#ff4500}.social-share ul li a i.fa-linkedin-in{background-color:#0077b5}.social-share ul li a i.fa-pinterest-p{background-color:#e60023}@media (max-width:767px){li.share-now{display:none}}


If you think you need more customization, you can customize your share button from the CSS code.  Cheers! 😎
Elliyas Ahmed
Elliyas Ahmed
Elliyas Ahmed, founder of COMPROMATH, is a Computer Science and Engineering graduate who excels in Blogging, Website Development, and SEO. He offers freelancing services to help clients succeed online. Learn more about Elliyas Ahmed.