Blogging Mints

Adding a signature to your blog posts

I was admiring Lorelle’s handwritten signature she had at the end of every blog post. And one day she told the secret behind it!
So I decided to make my own since I think it gives a nice personal touch to the blog. And you know what? It actually almost looks like my real life signature!

Here is how to do it!
Surf over to MyLiveSignature and choose to create a new signature in the menu. Then choose the “signature creation wizard” and follow the simple steps to make your own. There are many fonts to choose between, 120 to be exact.

You will also be able to choose the size, color and slope. When you are done you may choose to animate the signature (costs money), to download the signature to your computer or to generate HTML or BB code to direct link your signature.

I chose to download it to my computer and then upload it to my Photobucket account.

How do I add it to my post?
You can either use this Wordpress plugin called LiveSig that adds it automatically for you (then you have to save the code that MyLiveSignature gave you when you were done). I haven’t tried this plugin because I thought it actually were easier to add it manually (easy if you know how to work with Wordpress’ coding).

You can add it manually by, after uploading your signature to your own server/Photobucket/etc, open up the theme viewer (in your WP admin panel, Presentation -> Theme Editor), choose the Main Index Template (or index.php, depends on your theme), and then add a normal img tag wherever you want your signature to appear.

I chose to do it a bit differently. I added it through pure CSS. That means that I added an element called “postfooter” and then added the signature as a background in the CSS file.