Implementing an “Email this” button?

Question

We've inherited a customer with a good looking Wordpress site but the previous agency didn't fully implement the "Email This" feature. I mean, their theme has a link for "Email this" on every page but there's nothing underneath it.

We've been instructed to make it work.

So, the ideal would be for a solution which retains the existing button (which has been styled quite nicely), but just supplies the plumbing work underneath.

AFter a quick search for a plug in which will implement this, I found:

• email2friend
• WP-Email

But it's not clear whether these will add their "own" button to the article (which will presumably not look as nice as the existing themed button) Can we plumb it into our existing button? Also, in each case, can we tweak the mini form it throws up to make it match our theme?

Finally, if there's a plug in that's better than either of these two, please advise.

Update:

Went with WP-Email in the end which was fully featured and easy to configure and as mireille raad said, it was easy enough to tweak the CSS and images to make the button fit our site 100%. The form that came with it immediately picked up the colour scheme and fonts used in our theme, without us having to do anything at all.

Answer 1

well wouldn't it be easier to get any plugin working - then go into plugin folder/code and search for the image it uses and replace it with the nice image/themed one ?

Answer 2

This code is designed to allow readers to click on the button and have it open up their default email software and create a subject and link that point to the post the reader is currently visiting.

<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- Begin
function isPPC() {
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("PPC") != -1) return true;
else return false;
}
if(isPPC()) {
document.write('<a class="contact" HREF=\"mailto:\?subject\=Take a look at this page I found, ' + document.title + '?body=You can see this page at: ' + window.location + '\" onMouseOver="window.status=\'Send your friends e-mail about this page\'; return true" TITLE="Send your friends e-mail about this page">Email to a Friend<\/a>');
}
else { document.write('<a class="contact" HREF=\"mailto:\?body\=Take a look at this page I found titled ' + document.title + '. You can see this page at: ' + window.location + '\" onMouseOver="window.status=\'Send your friends e-mail about this page\'; return true" TITLE="Send your friends e-mail about this page" rel="nofollow">Email This!<\/a>');
}
// End -->
</script>

Found it here : http://wphacks.com/how-to-add-email-this-button-wordpress-blog/