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WordPress: Creating a Custom Social Top Bar for your Blog


I had a client who needed a custom made top bar for his blog that included social icons and branding. Now there is a WordPress plugin which will do the trick at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-topbar/  Though it requires PAYMENT to fully utilize it. Rather than worrying about buying licenses I pulled together my own version that doesn’t require any extra plguins, or alot of hard coding. (Plus I can customize it better to my own specifications

The following works just using basic html and a few custom graphics
(the following examples are presented in 3 basic forms)

1- Open your “header.php” file and place the following code beneath yourtag

See below (the first coding is just a basic top bar you can add your own link to) Continue reading WordPress: Creating a Custom Social Top Bar for your Blog