Adding the Buffer Share Button to WordPress Using Jetpack

Adding the Buffer Share Button to WordPress Using Jetpack

I started investigating the addition of the Buffer button to my social sharing bar, and as I’m currently using Jetpack and its sharing features, I wanted to ensure I could add the Buffer button for visibility on my posts. Jetpack does allow the addition of additional sharing services through its Sharing configuration page, and I’ll be documenting the steps to add Buffer as a new service.

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Adding Rich Snippets Using Schema.org

Adding Rich Snippets Using Schema.org

It is becoming increasingly more apparent that web sites need to leverage rich snippets to help quantify and describe their data for the major search engines. All of our database driven applications typically start with well defined and structured data, and when we format that data into an HTML page it becomes increasingly difficult to recover the original structure. Rich snippets are an attempt to help provide structure to the data in a format that the search engines can understand and define.

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