Skype button for your website

Got Skype and want to get the word out on how to contact you? Try adding a Skype link to your website. The Skype button website will give you the HTML code needed to create the button in eight different styles. Of course, you will have to either remember the file name for each button or visit the site to create the code again if you want to change the button. You can even get the code to put the button into HTML formatted email.

If you have a WordPress blog, putting a Skype button on your site is easy and you can change the button style on the fly. Go here and download the WP Plugin. If you’re a Windows user, and you don’t have anything to extract the tar.gz file, you can get the zip file here.

Extract the skype_buttons.php file and the skype_buttons directory into your Wordpress wp-content/plugins directory. Activate the plugin via your Plugins panel (Admin console) in WP. Next, go to the Options panel and click Skype Button to setup the button to display (Skype name and button style).

The final step is to add the following code to the page (index.php, sidebar.php, etc.) where you want the button to show up.

< ?php skype_button_get(); ?>

Note: Remove the space between the less than sign and ?php. WP added the space when I published this post. It does it even if I use the code tags.

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. – Joseph Priestley

05.Dec.05 Tech Tip, WordPress Comment (1)