I’ve just fixed a few more WordPress 1.5 bugs to create Sociable 1.2. There are also some css changes so that weird themes do fewer weird things to the display of Sociable (and man, do they do that a lot).
This release of Sociable owes a lot of thanks to Ajay D’Souza for working with me to debug Sociable.
Want more? I'm not as good at forgetting to update @pushcx on Twitter.
Hello!
I took a crack at adding Technorati to the sociable plugin. Solution here: Ed’s Design. Feedback always welcome.
Eddie, this looks like a search to me, not code that would bookmark the current post.
Peter: I really like your code. I was thinking of using it on my own WordPress blog, but instead I ended up porting it to my forum software, NextBBS, creating the first bookmarkable message board ;)
You can see the modification in action at http://www.nextbbs.com
-Chris.
Eddie: left a comment at your blog.
Chris:
Cool, GPL code wins again. I looked around your forums but couldn’t see the plugin in action, could you give a direct link?
If you really want your forum code to take off, write a good spam filter and a plugin to import from phpBB. With all the bots that sign up and spam in spite of captchas and mail verification, I know a few people who’d jump over right now.
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the link. Great plugin. I am using it on my Humble Reviews site.
One thing I forgot to ask is that have you put the height and width of all the images that are being used?
This should be done for better accessibility. Can tell you more over Gtalk later.
Btw, my name is Ajay D’Souza ;)
Ajay: I’ve added the height and width attributes, thanks for pointing out the oversight.
I’ve also fixed the spelling of your name, sorry about that.
WordPress Social Bookmark Plugin- Sociable 1.2…
I recently came across a Social Bookmark Plugin for WordPress called Sociable 1.2 by Peter Harkins. It allows you to easily add social bookmarks (Define) to your posts and categories. Sociable is perfect for WordPress bloggers that are code savvy, …
For Technorati, use this code instead of the earlier posted code, it will add your post to the new ‘Favorites’ instead of doing a search:
‘technorati’ => Array(
‘favicon’ => ‘technorati.gif’,
‘url’ => ‘http://technorati.com/faves?add=PERMALINK',
),
Thanks for that fix for Technorati, it’ll be in the next version.
[...] Link: http://push.cx/2006/sociable-1-2 Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
Thanks so much for the sociable widget. It works well!
Peter, I just saw your reply:
The plugin is “hiding” under a link accessible in all topics:
“Share Topic!”
Actually, it can be re-used anywhere in the software by app developers as it’s now behaving like a regular NBBS module.
(www.nextbbs.com)
Yup, total hurray for GPL, you said it!
(Sorry, minor thread hijack):
BTW, Peter, how about this captcha: http://www.nextbbs.com/labs/challenge/
Hello,
I ported the Sociable plugin to the LifeType blogging platform. I added a page to the LifeType wiki
http://wiki.lifetype.net/index.php/Plugin_sociable
–Paul
[...] Sociable 1.2 Original WP Plugin von Peter Harkins ©2006. [...]
After activating this plug in I could no longer bring up the configuration popups for any widgets. I disabled it and widget control went back to normal. Any ideas what’s happening?
[...] Sociable Bookmark plugin allows you to bookmark your blog post in different sites. It can be easily customizable using the options provided in the admin section. You can choose the sites you prefer and the bookmark icons will appear only for those sites. [...]
I tried adding a bookmark site in sociable.php as follows (but I don’t see the icon in the admin list for me to click and make it active)
1. Socialble.php::: below MyYahoo I added:
‘IndiaGram’ => Array(
‘favicon’ => ‘indiagram.png’,
‘url’ => ‘http://www.indiagram.com/mock/bookmarks/desitrain?action=add&address=PERMALINK&title=TITLE',
),
and in image array i added just below the myyahoo image link: ‘images/indiagram.png’,
2. Updated the file and moved the new image to the image folder of sociable.
3. Nothing happened. The indiagram icon does not show up in the admin screen of sociable. Any clues as to what I’m doing wrong?
Visual.SpellCheck And Sociable Fix…
For those who use the WordPress plugin Visual.SpellCheck and Sociable, i don’t know whether this happen to you or not, but for me if i enable both plugin i will get this strange problem where the “Check Spelling” in my editor doesn’t show up.
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hi Peter,
i’m using your plugin, thanks! it’s good, with very user friendly configuration compare to others.
however your plugin have some conflict with Matthew Delmarter’s spell checker plugin, i found out that it’s the javascript from line 355 in your plugin that caused the problem. anyway i did a very simple fix, i removed the javascript block and paste it just before the social site list in admin option page. i hope that you could include this fix this in your next release :)
sorry if i couldn’t explain cleary, i have a very bad english :P
Added a Social Bookmark Plugin…
Today I added a great plugin called “Sociable”, this WordPress plugin automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites.
Social bookmarking sites allow websurfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they fi…
I added Google and Slashdot into the Sociable plugin, you can check it out at hwa2u.com
Hope that my instruction is clear, any feedback are welcome :)
PS: Sorry Petter for my previous post, did something wrong, please delete the comment for me, thank you :P
Hello,
if interested in (I hope so) you can add LinkARENA.com – a german (and as well english spoken) social web service – to your plugin (which i use myself in my private blog.. thanks :))
You can find the options here: LinkARENA.com/tools/ or just use this:
Hope not spamming this comments with this…
kind regards,
Dominic Roesmann, LinkARENA
[...] Links zu einigen “Social Bookmark”-Diensten (siehe auch de.wikipedia.org) habe ich hier schon einige Zeit im Blog. Angeregt durch den Artikel bei Mike unter http://www.sichelputzer.de habe ich mich nun dazu entschlossen, hier im Blog auch die Links zu Mister Wong (www.mister-wong.de) zu integrieren. Weiterhin habe ich nachfolgend die “manuelle” Integration der Links zu den Social Bookmark-Diensten (und zur Integration des RSS-Feeds) ins Blog beschrieben, da mir die verfügbaren Plugins (z.B. Sociable, push.cx) nicht zugesagt haben. [...]
thanks, nice plugin
I like you plugin. Saves a lot of work in figuring this out. How can I add the text name of the social bookmark site next to its icon?
[...] Wenn man seine Suche auf WordPress-Extensions beschränkt, dann wir man beispielsweise beim Social Bookmark Creator fündig, der Textlinks oder ein Dropdown für rund 50 wählbare Dienste generiert. Wer es mit Logos mag, greift zu Sociable. Wem das dann aber doch wieder zuviel ist, sollte die Variante Peaceful CSS Extended Edit ausprobieren, das die Logos dezent in einem DHTML-Dropdown unterbringt. [...]
[...] socialble – i think most of the user who know about these service should have the related bookmarklet ? [...]
[...] Sociable 1.2 Social bookmarking plugin. It allows your readers to bookmark your blog post or page in various social bookmarking sites like digg, del.icio, furl, stumble etc. [...]
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