HOWTO: Adding a "Post to del.icio.us!" Link to Your Blogzerk Blog

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del.icio.us is a great resource for tagging and sharing blog posts, not to mention bringing visitors to your blog. To give your blog readers an easy way to post an article on your blog to del.icio.us, you can add a link to your category and article templates. For this example, we are going to put at "Post to del.icio.us!" link next to the Permanent Link and Cosmos links in both the category and article view.

To do this, first customize your category template. Edit the code for the template and find the block of code that looks like this:

Code:

{{if cosmos_url}}
&nbsp;|&nbsp; <a href="{{cosmos_url}}">Cosmos</a>
{{/if}}

After that code, copy and paste the following:

Code:

&nbsp;|&nbsp; <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url={{permalink_url}}&title={{if title}}{{var name=title escape=html}}{{else}}Untitled{{/if}}" target="_blank">Post to del.icio.us!</a>

Save your changes. You should now see a link next to your Permalink and Cosmos (if enabled) links in the category view. Repeat this change for the article template. The code to find and to add is the same in both templates.