Adding a Spurl Me Button to Your Blog

March 3, 2005

I have been using Spurl.net for more than a month now and I wanted to add a button to my site that a user could click to add me to their Spurl bookmarks. I know that most Spurl users already have the bookmarklet installed in the browser, but a button would let me control how I was Spurled.

<a href="http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?title=YOUR TITLE &url=http://YOUR.BLOG.COM &blocked=YOUR DESCRIPTION">

As you can see the code is nothing; I pulled it out of the official Spurl bookmarklet. The next thing I wanted was on of those cool CSS buttons, so I went to Adam Kalsey’s Buttonmaker, and after a little fiddling I came up with this:

Now, all you need to do is drop the link and the image reference into your blog’s template.

That is pretty much it.

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  1. Hi, I’m Hjalmar Gislason, founder and lead programmer of Spurl.net.

    I just saw this. Great stuff.

    Now, how about a next step that works its way into the blog template (WordPress in your case) and allows spurling a single entry?

    Comment by Hjalmar Gislason — May 25, 2005 @ 10:27 am

  2. Hi and thanks–first for stopping by, and second for giving the world Spurl.net.

    For me, since I am using Wordpress, adding the Spurl button to each post was a simple as going to the POST template and adding the following code:


    <a href="http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?title={the_title} &url={permalink_link}">

    <img src="http://lesliesrussell.blogsome.com/uploads/lesliesrussell/button.php.png" alt="" />
    <br />
    <b>Spurl this post: </b>{the_title}</a>

    Comment by Administrator — May 25, 2005 @ 4:45 pm

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