I recently opened an Account with Pinterest and immediately I wanted to add a Pinterest button to my Sharebar.
But how?
It’s very easy. All you have to do is add a small chunk of code to your Sharebar settings.
Add New Button and Enter this Code into both the Big and Small Button Fields:
<code><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/" class="pin-it-button" count-layout="vertical">Pin It</a> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"></script></code>
The Long Version
- Settings >Sharebar >Add New Button
- Name Your Pinterest Button
- Enter the Code into the Big and Small button fields
- Click the Add Button down at the bottom left
- Be Sure that your new Pinterest Button is enabled
- Enable your Pinterest Button
- Click the Update Button at the bottom left
Add a New Button in Sharebar
Add Code to Both Small and Big Button Sharebar Fields
Don't Forget to Enable Your Pinterest Button and Click the Update Button
Once you have done all that you should have a working Pinterest button in your Sharebar!
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I’ve just signed up for PinInterest, I’ll give you a ‘pin it’, but at this stage I’m pretty sceptical about the site – guess I’ll have to explore PinInterest more to see if it looks valuable.
Hey Sam,
I haven’t had much time to explore Pinterest too much, but it looks pretty cool. I’m hoping to upload some photos very soon.
What are you skeptical about?
Cheers.
Sceptical about spreading my time over yet another site, not sure if its worth it.
Hey I pressed the ‘pin it’ button, selected my category (so it connected to my account) however don’t think it added it and hasn’t effected your ‘pin it’ counter… Not sure if its working.
Hmmm..I gave it a test drive and it seemed to be working. I’ll take a look at it, thanks.
Yeah, I know what you mean about spending more time on another site. There is a lot of hype surrounding Pinterest so it might not hurt to get a head start if it really takes off.
Hey just had another glance at Pinterest today and the emphasis on photos is pretty cool. Couldn’t find your account to follow though, what’s your name on it?
Hey Sam,
it’s tical (Cal and iCal were taken, go figure). I’ve also added another Pinterest button at the top left, next to the YouTube, Twitter and RSS Feed icons.
Super helpful! Thank you, I’m gonna go try it! Pinterest has a lot of potential
Thanks Jason, glad I could help.
Cheers.
This may have worked at one point, but no longer. It doesn’t let you select an image to Pin or even the current page URL. The one on your page doesn’t work either.
Thanks Kane, I’ll look into it.
Cheers.
This doesn’t work for me.
I cut and pasted the code above but it doesn’t work.
Hey Gary,
Sorry about that. It did work at one time. I will look into it and amend the post accordingly.
Cheers.
Well that was easy! Thanks Cal for the good instructions and the code to add the Pin It button to my ShareBar!!
You’re welcome Lynn. It seems like it works for some and not others. I hope it works for you.
Cheers.
Oh you are right Cal, it doesn’t seem to work. You can click on the button in my post, it pops up the Pinterest screen to add the info, but there is no image. And I checked my board, it did not get pinned. That is a bummer. Wonder if there is part of code that is missing?
Hi Lynn,
Sorry about that. I will try to find a better solution.
Cheers.
It “kinda” works…I think. It doesn’t look like it picks up an image from the page…I tested it on yours first. There appears to be a big white blank space where a counter bubble would be but even yours doesn’t seem to have one. Is that right?
No, I don’t think that’s right. I’m looking for a better way.
Cheers.
That was fast
im install that on my website
check my website
thanks
Hey Leo,
Please make sure that it works as it works for some and not for others.
Cheers.
Well
it doesnt work when using firefox 11
all sharebar item dissapear
but your sharebar still have pin it button
i wonder why?
Yeah, not sure why. I’m still looking around for a solution.
I’m still looking for a solution to this. A temporary workaround is the Pinterest WordPress Plugin. It adds the Pinterest Button to your pages and posts. You can get it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pin-it-on-pinterest/
Thanks for the tip. It worked perfectly! Yours is the only tutorial I’ve seen that works so simply.
Hey Robert,
Make sure to give it a test run as some have reported that it does’t work. When I wrote the tutorial, it worked and I could select whatever image I liked to Pin. Now I just get a blank square.
I’m still looking for a solution but have not found one yet.
Cheers.
Cal:
I replaced the code you provided with the following code from the Pinterest website:
And now it works perfectly!
P.S. I also run a travel website, one that deals largely with saving money for travel. We should do some guest post and/or link action!
Hey Robert,
Yeah, I tried that, but still have the same result.
Guest posting/links sound great. Shoot me an email and we’ll arrange something.
Cheers!
I think. It doesn’t look like it picks up an image from the page…I tested it on yours first. There appears to be a big white blank space where a counter bubble would be but even yours doesn’t seem to have one.
Thanks, we’re still looking for a solution.
Cheers.
I replaced the code you provided with the following code from the Pinterest website: And now it works perfectly!
I’m glad it worked for you. I think there has been some changes made somewhere because it doesn’t work for everybody. Sorry!
I got the email that says I have been added to the waitlist, but I heard it could take months!!
Is it true that if someone already belongs to the site that I can be added automatically? And if so can someone please add me so I am not waiting forever? I would really appreciate it! Thank you!!
It doesn’t take months, maybe a 2 or 3 weeks at most.
Cheers!
Thank you for the instruction, but I see some people have the vertical button, do you know how to do it?
Hey Ferb,
I’m not sure about that – sorry.
It doesn’t look like it picks up an image from the page…I tested it on yours first. There looks like it’s a big white blank space where a counter bubble would be but even yours doesn’t seem to have one.
Yeah, at one time it worked – it no longer does. I’m looking for a solution.
Cheers.
This post has a lot of information about how to add Pinterest Button to share bar for WordPress. This is really very useful for me.
Hey Harold,
Thanks for the comment. I’m glad you found the content useful.
Cheers!