Beginner: Help with shortcodes please!

That guide is only for blogs hosted at WordPress.com, very different from your self-hosted www.ads-software.com blog.

On your blog, you can get embed code for a Twitter Follow button from https://about.twitter.com/resources/buttons and then simply add that into a Text widget.

Hey,

It worked. thanks a lot. I’m also looking for the same thing, except for Google+ follow and Facebook Like. Similar to the one https://www.phonearena.com has, (if you scroll down you’ll see their stay connected widget)

The gist is, I want to have sidebar social media buttons that don’t require people to navigate to another window, just clicking the button will automatically let them follow me, so it makes it easier.

If you search for them, you’ll find them. ??

https://developers.google.com/+/web/follow/

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button

Hey, thanks a lot. I’ve already put them up on the site, but about the twitter widget, how can I get it so that it shows beside the follow button my follower count? I noticed mine only has the button but no count.

You can’t, because Twitter is killing the count unfortunately: https://twittercommunity.com/t/a-new-design-for-tweet-and-follow-buttons/52791

Actually, I got it to work. https://www.droidfeed.net I did a little bit of modifying and got it to work.

Excellent, they’re still going to shut it down next month though, sadly.