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layout: post
title: "Add Flattr to Octopress"
date: 2013-01-20 11:35
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description: "how to add flattr button and flattr payment link to your octopress"
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categories:
- flattr
- octopress
- feed
---

**Update** add payment relation to header, thanks to [@voxpelli](https://twitter.com/voxpelli)

In this article I will show how to add [{% img left https://flattr.com/_img/icons/flattr_logo_16.png 14 14 %}Flattr](https://flattr.com/)
to your [{% img left /favicon.png 14 14 %} octopress](http://octopress.org) blog and feed.

First of all add your flattr user name (also known as user id) to the
configuration:

```yaml _config.yml
# Flattr
flattr_user: YourFlattrName
```
To add a flattr button to the sharing section of your posts, add this template:

{% include_code source/_includes/post/flattr_button.html lang:html flattr/flattr_buttom.html %}

and add the following javascript to your custom head.html

{% include_code source/_includes/custom/head.html lang:html flattr/head.html %}

Now include it in your sharing template:

{% include_code source/_includes/post/sharing.html lang:html flattr/sharing.html %}

The result will look like this:

<div>
<a class="FlattrButton" style="display:none;"
    title="{{ page.title }}"
    data-flattr-uid="{{ site.flattr_user }}"
    data-flattr-tags="{{ page.categories | join: "," }}"
    data-flattr-button="compact"
    data-flattr-category="text"
    href="{{ site.url }}{{ page.url }}">
    {% if page.description %}{{ page.description }}{% else %}{{page.content | truncate: 500}}{% endif %}
</a>
</div>

To make flattr discoverable by programs (feed reader, podcatcher, browser extensions...), a [payment relation link](http://developers.flattr.net/feed/) is needed in html head as well as in the atom feed.

First add this (lengthy) template...

{% include_code source/_includes/flattr_param.html lang:html flattr/flattr_param.html %}

... then include it in your feed ...

{% include_code source/atom.xml lang:xml flattr/atom.xml %}

and in your head template:

{% include_code source/_includes/custom/head.html lang:html flattr/head2.html %}

Because not (yet) all feed reader support this feature, you can add a dedicated flattr link.

Therefor create a new template:

{% include_code source/_includes/flattr_feed_button.html lang:html flattr/flattr_feed_buttom.html %}

Compared to the other button, this one will not require javascript, which isn't
always available in feed readers.

Finally add it your feed template:

{% include_code source/atom.xml lang:xml flattr/atom2.xml %}

This will add a flattr button to each entry in your feed.

Preview:

{% include flattr_param.html %}
[{% img left //api.flattr.com/button/flattr-badge-large.png Alt Flattr this %}](https://flattr.com/submit/auto?{{ flattr_param }})

That's all folks! I hope you will become rich by your flattr income.