How To: Blogging Information Archives | Vodka Infused Lemonade

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I worked all weekend, so today is really my weekend. Ok, well no day is really my weekend, because when you’re a mom, everyday is work day. But work that I love and cherish.

Thank you to everyone who linked up on Thursday. I forgot to mention that the link up starts each Wednesday at midnight PST and ends the following Sunday at midnight PST. I hope to get even more fabulous posts next week.

I also wanted to thank you guys again for all your great comments. You are the reason why I keep blogging. I appreciate that you appreciate what I write and the work that goes into each and every post. I do put my heart and soul into each of them and spend many hours planning my posts. So thank you for all your support.

This is what I am wearing today: a striped jersey dress, leggings, Hunter boots and my jean jacket. It’s rain yet again. I hope it doesn’t rain tomorrow, my son has his end of the year Preschool field trip tomorrow. God, I can’t wait for Summer to arrive. I decided to show this look with 2 different shoes: my Hunter Boots and my flats. When this picture was taken, on Friday, the sun was shining. But they do say rain for Monday.

Dress & Jean Jacket (Gap). Hunter Boots. Flats (Aldo). Fedora (Aritzia). Leggings (Jacob). Purse (Coach). Watch (Michael Kors). Necklace & Bracelets (Stella & Dot).

After posting the pictures, I realized that the dress looks a little psychedelic!!!

So what’s “Grab Button” you ask? If you look above, you can see the name of my blog and some code underneath it. That’s what a grab button is. It’s the graphic and then the code underneath. The purpose of it is so that others can take it and place it in their blogs or you can send it to people to advertise your blog.

Why am I sharing this? I’m sharing this because a few weeks back I was struggling with how to do one and I searched and found some great free tutorials. Although they were helpful, I found some errors in the code. Thank God my husband is a Computer Programmer. I thought it would be nice to share it with you guys to make it easier for you to do it yourself. It’s actually quite easy, once you have the proper code.

To start you need 2 pieces of information:

1. You need the exact email address of your blog: ie mine is “http://vodkainfusedlemonade.com”.

2. You need the code of your graphic. To find that, it’s quite easy. If you’re using WordPress go to

Media and then click Library.

Find the picture you are looking for. If you haven’t already added it to your library add it now
Then once you’ve either found the picture or added it, click on Edit.

Under the Save portion on the right hand side of the screen, you will see File URL. Copy that. That is what you need. That is what you need to put into the code.

3. Those are the only 2 pieces of information you need.

4. Under Appearances, find Widgets. Below is what the screen looks like once you have opened Widgets.

5. Under Widgets find Text.

6. Drag text to the right side and place it somewhere under Main Sidebar.

7. Give the Text a title. I named mine “GRAB A BUTTON”. Quite easy.

8. Now you are going to need a code:

Add the exact link of your blog where it says “the exact link to your blog”.
Add the title of your blog where it says “Title of your blog”.
Add your blog link minus the “http” where it says “your blog link”.
Add the url of the picture you are using to where it says “the url of the picture you are using”.

In this code I have preformatted it to 250 x 100. You can change that where it says “width” and “height”. Play around with it, until you get it to the correct size you want.

9. Once you’re done, click save and then check and see if it’s correct.

Once you have the code, it’s pretty easy to create your own “GRAB BUTTON”. I hope this helps make this easier and less confusing. Good luck and please let me know if you have any questions.

I will post the winner of the Stella & Dot earrings in tomorrow’s post.

May this blog inspire you to create your own “Grab Button” and to pair a jean jacket with a dress for a great Spring casual look.