Add a Blogarithm form or button to your WordPress.com blog:
If your weblog is managed through WordPress.com, adding a form involves creating a Link Category, then adding a link within that category. The following steps show how to do that.
Please note, WordPress does not have the ability to add arbitrary HTML to your blog, but it does let you add links tied to images. This means you cannot add all of our forms to your WordPress blog, but you can add the two buttons. This example will show adding the large, animated button, but it works just as well for the small button.
- Go to http://wordpress.com/wp-login.php and log in:
- This takes you to the Dashboard page. From the top navigation bar, choose "Links."
- You want to add a Link Category, so choose "Link Categories" from the sub-navigation bar.
- You will add a category called "Blogarithm". Fill in the "Name:" box. Check the box marked "Image," which will allow images to show up for this category. (This step is very important.)
- Click on "Add Link" in the sub-navigation bar.
- Because WordPress doesn't allow you to add arbitrary HTML to your blog, you will have to create the button by taking two pieces from the code the Blogarithm site generated. Looking at the Blogarithm button code, you will see two lines that have text starting http://, surrounded by quotes (URLs). You are going to take each of these in turn to construct the button.
- Copy the first URL (the one with subrequest.php), and paste it into the URI textbox on the WordPress link page. Be sure to get the whole URL, up to but not including the second ".
- Set the category to be "Blogarithm."
- Scroll down to the section labeled "Advanced". Paste the second URL (the one with images/external) into the textbox called "Image URI:" Again, be sure to get the whole line, from http:// to .gif.
- Click any of the "Add Link" buttons to save your work.
- That's all there is to it. The button will appear on your blog.
Click the "Add Category" button in the lower right.
