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How to change AddThis Follow button settings for a gadget on blog or website

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This article shows how to change the accounts presented in an AddThis Follow gadget which has already been set up on a Wordpress-based website . (Note:   this is only relevant for Wordpress.org users.   Wordpress.com users do not have the same freedom to add or configure plug-ins.) The AddThis plug-ins for Wordpress provide several functions.  One is a Follow gadget, which lets you offer links to your account on other platforms (eg on Twitter, Facebook and Instragram), so that people who are interested can subscribe to you there, and get updates from you even if they don't visit your blog or website regularly).  When you install and activate this plugin, there is a screen where you can choose which other platforms to show, and say what your address on those platforms is.    After you have set up the plug-in, then you an add the AddThis Follow widget to your site,   This gadget displays an icon for each tool which you selected, and each...