How To Add A Skype Button To Your WordPress Blog

Have you ever seen one of those cool “Connect With Me” Widgets on other people’s WordPress blogs and wondered how you could get one set up yourself? Or better yet, have you ever wondered if it was possible to add someone directly to your Skype contacts from your sidebar Widget?

Well that is EXACTLY what you are going to learn how to do today my friend. I am going to walk you through the whole process right now.

Let’s kick things off with a video tutorial to get you up to speed on how this works.

This is the exact code I used to create the skype button on my blog. Simple just copy and paste this code into your Text HTML sidebar Widget.

Everything you need to change has been highlighted in red. The first red text is where you need to delete my Skype user name and add yours. The second is where you add the custom URL of your Skype icon. Or if you’d like to use mine you can probably just leave it as it is. However, I would highly recommend download the icon off my blog and re-uploading it to your WordPress blog.

<a href=”skype:MatthewNeer?add” onclick=”return skypeCheck();“><img src=”http://matthewneer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/skype-icon.png” height=”100″ width=”100″ ></a>

This is the JavaScript code you need to place at the bottom your your header.php file found in your blog theme’s wp-content folder. Make sure you pop this code in at the end of the page, after all PHP tags. Otherwise it will not work.

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js”></script>

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