HOW TO ADD A PINTEREST HOVER BUTTON TO YOUR WORDPRESS IMAGES

Today I will show you how to get the “Pin It” button hover above your blog image. Pinterest is so far one of the best tool I use to bring in traffic to my blog. To make it easy for reader to share your post on Pinterest, there are 2 essential steps you need to do:

1. You need to create an Pinterest graphic ready to go.
2. A “Pin It” hover button to your image.

Take a look at the example below:

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To create an Pinterest image:

1. Create an account with Canva. I choose Canva because it is user friendly, so many selections to choose from and their graphics are amazing.  
2. Under Create a Design, select Pinterest Graphic as shown below

3. 

4. Customize your own or select from thousands of pre-made templates. 
5. Download the image once you are done.

To get that “Pin It” button, follow these steps:

1. Install and activate the Pinterest Pin it Button for Images plugin.
2. On the left side bar, go to Settings » Pinterest Pin It page to configure the plugin.

You can display it only on single posts, pages, category pages, or everywhere on your site. This is just an example of my current setup.

On the Default Description, you can just leave it as Post Title. Select SAVE after you done setting it up. 

That’s is all folks. Hope this tutorial about Pinterest button is helpful. With this “Pin It” button hover above your image, it is so much easier for any one to share your post with just a click of a button.