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Sociable: WordPress Plugin for Social Bookmarking

Jan 26, 2006 in

You have probably noticed the quick social bookmarks at the bottom of each post. I’ve had these around for a while now and have shown you the code to do the same in Customizing K2: Part 3. Kirk Montgomery has taken this and created a fantastic WordPress plugin to easily add this functionality to your blog. The plugin, Sociable, is currently in beta but supports many social bookmarking services off the bat. Any suggestions received will go to further the development of this plugin. Download it at Kirk’s site, MaxPower.ca, and read his great instructions for implementing it. Let us know what you think and don’t forget to spread the word.

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14 Comments

  1. Heh, I can see you installed it, instead of your handcrafted one?

  2. Cool, this is an excellent example of shared information taken to the next level.

  3. Luke, I’m still using my handcoded one. Haven’t gotten around to installing the plugin yet.

  4. That sounds like a cool plugin. Personally I prefer to code that part of my blog by hand but 6 months ago, before I knew how to tweak K2 I would have jumped all over this plugin.

  5. This is brilliant. I was just looking for something like this. It’s great that I don’t have to code it myself :)

  6. Thought: It would be great if this played nice with the Noteworthy plugin, or had some kind of category filter (perhaps it does? I haven’t installed it) that controlled which posts it appeared on. That way a blog author wouldn’t need to foul up even their asides posts with 7 odd links to social bookmarks for posts that aren’t appropriate for that treatment.

  7. George,

    I have updated the documentation of Sociable to include one method of integrating it with the noteworthy plugin such that the bookmarking links will only appear when the post is noteworthy. Great idea.

  8. Oh…my mistake. Now that I look again I can see your Newsvine icon, which the bookmark doesn’t have. Maybe I should go mention it to him…

  9. I got it working on my site. Thanks for the plugin. if anyone needs help installing it feel free to contact me. My info is listed on llbbl.com.

  10. The downloaded version I had did not produce valid code. It was a simple fix and I put it up as a text file here. A great plugin though…

  11. Development on Sociable seemed to have stopped, so I have taken it upon me and given it a new home: WordPress Sociable 2.5.

  1. [...] In my browsing of blogs, I found a post on Paul’s blog about Sociable, which led me to … Sociable. It’s a pretty simple, but very sweet, plugin. Satisfies, to me, the basic goodness of what plugins do. Enables me to have cool functionality without me having to create that functionality from scratch (no matter to what degree I understand said functionality). [...]

  2. New blog features…

    Got a little time out this evening to make some additions to kenmc.com, whether you’ll notice them or not! I’ve added a nice Social Bookmarking plugin which covers the likes of Del.icio.us, Digg, Yahoo and a few other spots which comes cou…

  3. [...] I've also overtly linked, using nice colourful icons, to the different versions of the site's feeds to make subscribing easier. I've also included links to various social bookmarking services to the archived version of each post, to make linking individual posts via those services easier on the odd occassion that someone chooses to do so. I will at some stage revise the selection to better target what I consider useful services - which may also include the addition of new services as they become available to the plugin used. I've also expanded the metadata aspects of the site by the inclusion of links to aspects of the Technorati service that apply to this site, as well as the inclusion of a Friend of a Friend profile. [...]

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