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Presenting yet another beautiful social media connect widget that lets your visitors to search your blog, subscribe to your RSS Feeds, follow you on twitter, follow you on Facebook andshare your blog with over 351+ Social Media Networks! This widget is an extracted code from a wordpress template provided by Pbloggertemplates. I have further edited the widget to make it a perfect social share tool. Please see the demo below,

Live Demo

Adding The Social Connect Widget To BlogSpot

Go To Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
Backup your template
Search for ]]></b:skin> and paste the following code just above it,

/* -------------MBT SOCIAL SHARE WIDGET-------------------- */
#search{width:350px; border:1px solid #E0DFD9;background:url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFb8P2zPViT70rgdsmQPk-2Hb5Fv_HFORsGk6W4p3_4JuzKVx2muGemCN77DQhm-Zb2xfu-0GZA-EksmDOyKfu1IMFR1VYVnO6nymawk8vSUBkz3wXknA4GbYHUUAoNJoVUxoV2bvMaF0/s1600/search-bg.png) left top repeat-x;height:32px;padding:0;text-align:left;overflow:hidden}
#search #s{width:80%; background:none;color:#3F3F3F;border:0;padding:4px;margin:3px 0 0 12px;float:left}
#search .search-image{border:0;vertical-align:top;float:right;margin:8px 4px 0 2px}
#search-wrap{padding:15px 0}
.topsearch #search{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px}

.social-connect-widget{background:#FFF;border:1px solid #E7E6DE;padding:10px}
.social-connect-widget:hover{border:1px solid #CBCBC2;background:#F5F4EF}
.social-connect-widget a{text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;color:#4B4D4E}
.social-connect-widget a:hover{text-decoration:underline;color:#F77C04}
.social-connect-widget img{vertical-align:middle;margin-right:5px}

To Change width of search box edit width:350px
To change width of search input area edit width:80%

4. Then Search for,

<div id='sidebar-wrapper'>

PS: In this part most of you will face problems as the coding for each template differ. If you could not find this code then do not panic and simply post your Blog URL in thecomments.
5. Now Paste the following code just below it,

<div class='topsearch'>
<div class='clerfix' id='search'>
    <form action='/search' id='searchform' method='get'>
        <input id='s' name='q' onblur='if (this.value == "") {this.value = "Search here...";}' onfocus='if (this.value == "Search here...") {this.value = ""}' type='text' value='Search here...'/>
        <input class='search-image' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYKlzUk9lAdHQ8486EKATC0oaibqvzIG3Hd6Bves5VL8K09h5DQAVSSsqsIa4qBmVyurb3Xqy2SWl14jdA7NYkthbLog71WgJSzs09lo5Vi1WfXmkvdLsDi0UycWhZ0eM5IvajDHD5x6I/s1600/search.png' title='Search' type='image'/>
    </form>
</div>
</div>
<div style='clear:both;'/>
<div class='social-connect-widget' style='margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;'>
<a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl + "feeds/posts/default"'><img alt='RSS Feed' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaAZfESqwvZ5kVut32t-O9LJIvKnMVViRYqbHMmFtYP-KtUPQNeirbeT4ZfD68TI2irlLrkhIuRD7zXOlO86JeqKQQXpLHZ06G8sEphpNKUXS_icSI6WevXr03Y3HX9jPm8erNGAaEmZ6A/s1600/social-connect-rss.png' title='RSS Feed'/></a><a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl + "feeds/posts/default"'>Subscribe to our RSS Feeds!</a>
</div>

<div class='social-connect-widget' style='margin-bottom:10px;'>
<a href='http://twitter.com/USERNAME'><img alt='Follow Us on Twitter!' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3nSVQToM4lYMVGaiNoNuK4-BOFyAwzuGrVhYfMxwSmXoBS-0MWN_vqY7IE09Is98lpQJF8l8esIXhPXJRtj3Kegg5WQdxTpfsx7sgskaUGXYzEzRKxHsWVFlZa7bVdOBCp3WuO5To17NT/s1600/social-connect-twitter.png' title='Follow Us on Twitter!'/></a><a href='http://twitter.com/USERNAME'>Follow Us on Twitter!</a>
</div>
<div class='social-connect-widget' style='margin-bottom:10px;'>
<a href='http://facebook.com/USERNAME'><img alt='Be Our Fan!' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5SjnAtphymVsnTvgDKaQOzMM2XrT8D1NIIAjxDTihKf2l5cB3uG68YGc_brgFpGemx0lp1DqbTjEN51SZPFJ60hspk20r1XqEjMVtoxAgv7ZsXmTyaEQhe3-2N3zMTwntbYBRUhJ9RCqh/s1600/social-connect-facebook.png' title='Be Our Fan'/></a><a href='http://facebook.com/USERNAME'>Follow us on Facebook!</a>
</div>
<div style='clear:both;'/>
<div class='addthis_toolbox'>
<div class='custom_images'>
<a class='addthis_button_twitter'><img alt='Twitter' height='32' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTxCdtNo5Ktuz8kHFAyAoRpP-KYWHovf5VmatJ_LGpqtQ4H6G6M-TJvTmXgC2lTadB2gJeO01Nb7sZfUe_Owe83u9XMqd2KfIKFuXCNEresWbJCgurTw3pvQoNfb_vqZ-q4y0JzYBPm1o/s1600/twitter.png' width='32'/></a>
<a class='addthis_button_delicious'><img alt='Delicious' height='32' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR5Air03et78QQIC_t4xZANnlCG4jROPAJMm6Ju8H45oswo2pMxVY_r2qKi6ZIJQx4hylJMKcNpqWoaKqXm8CET0X6zsbT54Al3LUUfdkVNhss1RcTpb4BOT67alpzAKftQ9zQ6KYBsbg/s1600/delicious.png' width='32'/></a>
<a class='addthis_button_facebook'><img alt='Facebook' height='32' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw5HR767UOaGaflBh7BUF8ve0gxjEn9QPZVqhkAEKr02YH6ZnU1X0H-TV1j9lkbKVKEHu_8Ph_bV3wcf6piQfakkV56xRxq0-97CJC_o_uMsCuqsjFC6wCFlJnB19m4F17hIEF_DN8nKQ/s1600/facebook.png' width='32'/></a>
<a class='addthis_button_digg'><img alt='Digg' height='32' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi70PCyO5tmlMJWWx0gtzxUpqD0RVlpO1DCffCU3jHRH95AVkcLLxs-w5GVuiEf-qwglPJvdjYZDr3GHsnry5f0Z06iFH1yTY2YYpZO9hxt3Xcn7Fcso6zJDux3uKDUuyFtQVUSEvXmPgQ/s1600/digg.png' width='32'/></a>
<a class='addthis_button_stumbleupon'><img alt='Stumbleupon' height='32' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiJGeA1tKORyDfcN2EpqpNb5EBTmpq-3mRYcbzlxPKQ4StuJEQtcKOqoQqDx8sv6_f3my6TPwOmvzZFK4chNIlsLFOS23YNey9_qDY0pbaTRZC4Qx66x5bQLSbaPApfHZuy0pAUEg804c/s1600/stumbleupon.png' width='32'/></a>
<a class='addthis_button_favorites'><img alt='Favorites' height='32' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfu7iPRcvLYkJPwOOY5acR2bSciwXq_xVS5t1scnajIz436BzzFNRMRbqhNnHskKqqmnd_FeTltcR3U0LDE1bDQRfq1cezOQquPM14WDkPFivxIityC8gd9fO5bCtGFedjJOFsuVle1-4/s1600/favorites.png' width='32'/></a>
<a class='addthis_button_more'><img alt='More' height='32' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK_HzvvpEJK-Ylxrel4MbkKwxiYO4Ktao6UO7M8Q7VD7J6tGfNDLiIIuw6ZlZr0cNCp23o9nT1CqwvnMwRjvtj974WZRz4b1adPqCVYEHGPL6Dcy2JB6EJkz6OVpJFjooSOrrajRUDmMY/s1600/more.png' width='32'/></a>
</div>
<script src='http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</div>
<div style='clear:both;'/>

Make these changes:

Replace http://twitter.com/USERNAME with your twitter profile link
Replace http://facebook.com/USERNAME with your Facebook Profile link

6. Save your template and Bingo you are done! :>
Visit your blogs to see a beautiful new change. Hope you liked it. Questions are always welcomed.
You will also like to view the previous version,