How To Add Social Media Icons to Your Blog | For Blogger & Wordpress | Includes a Hover Version

Having links to all of your social media pages front and center on your blog is very important. It let's readers know what pages are really your's and links them directly so they don't have to go searching. And when the code is right they can be linked to your social media without ever leaving your blog!

Today I'm going to show you a code that works for both blogger and wordpress blogs. Any blog that allows you to add HTML gadgets really. I'll show you how to add regular buttons and buttons with a hover effect.

How to Make Your Blogger Blog Look More Professional

My blog is hosted on blogger. Can you tell? Probably not. I have removed the blogger navbar, the attribution that says "powered by blogger" and I changed my favicon to my own logo instead of blogger's logo. 

I also removed almost every blogger gadget on my blog and replaced them with HTML gadgets that give me more customization and are easier to edit and from my point of view I got rid of those annoying little wrenches and pencils called "quick edit" tools. 

How to Start a Blogger Blog

Blogger is a bit of a hit or miss with the blogging community. Some people love it. Some people hate it. Some people deal with it because they don't want to make a switch and risk losing everything.

I've been on blogger for 2 years now and I have grown to love it. When I started I didn't know anything about CSS or HTML. After a couple years and a lot of helpful tutorials I have learned a lot and I can edit just about anything on my blog now!