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Artiss Social Bookmarks adds icons to your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them on social bookmarking and network sites.
Description
If upgrading from a version before 3.2 and you have used your own bookmarks then you must move the folder from your theme folder to wp-content - see the FAQ for more details
Artiss Social Bookmarks (previously Simple Social Bookmarks) is an easy but powerful way to implement social bookmarking on your WordPress blog. Features include...
- Links to over 270 social bookmarking networks - more than any other plugin!
- Many non-English bookmarking sites are included - particularly Russian, Chinese and Japanese
- Fully XHTML standards compliant
- No administration screens and no translation therefore required
- Displays links to useful tools as well as social services
- Style and alternative image options allow for various animation effects
- Output can be cached to minimise impact to your website
- Icons provided for all bookmarking services, but you can specify your own
- Shortcode available for adding inline within a post or page
- And many, many more...
The plugin will display a row of social bookmarking icons wherever you add its code - for an individual post and page or in a sidebar. They are split between bookmarking services and tools (e.g. printing, converting to PDF, etc).
For full information on how to add the bookmarks to your site please read the "Other Notes" tab.
Adding the function to your theme
The code for Artiss Social Bookmarks should be added to your theme's code, where required. In the case of posts this should be within "the loop". Here is an example on use...
<?php echo social_bookmarks( 'iconfolder=24x24', 'padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px' ); ?>
There are 5 parameters in total that can be specified, but all are optional.
The first parameter can contain a number of options, all of which are separated by an ampersand. These options are as follows...
default= : This should be on, off or basic and defines which social bookmarks should display by default. on means all should display, off means none should be displayed and basic shows a basic few. Not specifying this sub-parameter will cause the basic set to be displayed.
iconfolder= : If not specified, a default set of 16x16 pixel icons will be used. If, however, you'd like to use your own icons then you will need to add a sub-folder in wp-content and then use this parameter to specify the sub-folders name. In the above example, I am specifying a sub-folder named 24x24. Icons should all have a .PNG extension and the file names must match the bookmarking service name, as specified below. Bookmarking services are shown first and tools afterwards.
priority= : Allows you to specify whether a bookmark link should be via AddThis (1), Shareaholic (2) or AddtoAny (3) (if a link via more than one is available). This is defined by providing a series of numbers representing the order of the services. So, a priority of 231 would be Shareaholic first, followed by AddToAny and then AddThis. The default priority is 123.
nofollow= : By default, REL=NOFOLLOW will be added to all links. However, if this is specified as NO then this will be deactivated.
target= : Allows you to specify a TARGET. By default this is not used.
separator= : If you wish to display a separator image between the bookmark and icon lists then you must specify separator=Yes. An image named separator.png will then be displayed. If using your own folder for images then this image will be required as well.
id= : If using the animation option (see the later section) then a unique ID must be specified for each set of social bookmarks on the screen. If there is only one set of bookmarks per post and page, then the best option is to pass the post ID via get_the_ID(). By default, no ID is specified so animation is turned off.
cache= : This indicates how long, in hours, to cache the output. If nothing is specified, 24 hours is assumed. To switch off caching set this to false.
There are also options for EACH of the social bookmarking services allowing you to specify whether they should be turned on or off. So, for example, to turn Digg off, you would specify digg=off.
So, as a further example, if you ONLY wanted the Delicious and Digg bookmarks to appear, it would be best to specify the default as off and then turn Delicious and Digg on individually, like so...
<?php echo social_bookmarks( 'default=off&delicious=on&digg=on' ); ?>
The full list of social bookmark services are listed separately. However, the basic set of services are as follows...
Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Email and Print Friendly (Print)
The second parameter is a style definition which applies to the bookmark icons. This should, where possible, not be used in preference to using CSS definitions. Instead each element generated has a class of ssb so that it can be defined via your own stylesheet. The separator class is ssb_sep.
The third parameter is the URL that you wish the social sites to bookmark. If left blank (and this is probably the default for most people) it will use the URL of the current post or page.
The fourth parameter is where you can specify a shortened URL to bookmark (if you have one available). To maintain backward compatibility with previous version of this plugin, the URL must begin with "http" to be accepted. At the moment Twitter, Identica and Blip will be passed shortened URLs. If you think any other services should be included, please let me know. If no short URL is specified then the post/page short link will be used - if this is not available then a short URL will not be used. Alternatively, set the short URL to No to prevent a short URL from being used at all.
Finally, the fifth parameter is an optional title - if this is not specified the title of the current page or post is used.
Using the shortcode
If you wish to add social bookmarks directly into a post or page you can use the shortcode [bookmarks]. All the same parameters as the PHP function are available and are named url, shorturl, style, options and title.
An example would be...
[bookmarks options="iconfolder=24x24" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px" url="http://www.artiss.co.uk" ]
Adding To Your Feed
It's possible to add the Social Bookmarks to your WordPress feed. Open up your functions.php file within your theme folder and add the following code...
<?php
function insert_rss( $content ) {
if ( ( is_feed() ) && ( function_exists ( 'social_bookmarks' ) ) ) {
$content = $content . '<p>' . social_bookmarks( 'iconfolder=16x16', 'padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px' ) . '</p>';
}
return $content;
}
add_filter( 'the_content', 'insert_rss' );
?>Obviously, you will need to modify the parameters that are passed to the Artiss Social Bookmarks plugin, to make it appropriate for yourself. In the above example you may notice that I'm using an alternative set of icons with a small padded space between them.
Animation
A basic animation option is available and is switched on by providing a unique ID parameter (see earlier details).
Once specified, hovering over a bookmark option will switch it from the standard icon to another with _hov on the end.
For instance, hovering over twitter.png will switch the image to twitter_hov.png. When you move away, it will return to the original image. This extra image will need to exist in the same folder as the first.
However, although basic, it can be used for all sorts of effects, such as black & white icons becoming coloured when hovered over or icons that expand in size.
Here is an example where I'm switching on the animation option by specifying a unique ID...
<?php echo social_bookmarks( 'separator=Yes&id=' . get_the_ID(), 'padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px' ); ?>
Animation can also be performed by modifying the stylesheet. The following example will cause the images to move up by 5 pixels whenever they are hovered over, in a similar way to the SexyBookmarks or Simple Social plugins.
.ssb img, .ssb_sep {
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-left: 5px;
padding-right: 5px
}
.ssb img:hover {
padding-top: 0;
padding-bottom: 5px;
} Installation
- Upload the entire
simple-social-bookmarksfolder to yourwp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
- There is no options screen - configuration is done in your code.
Available Bookmarking Services
Any of the following bookmarking service codes can be used...
100zakladok, 7live7, a1webmarks, addthis, addtoany, adfty, adifni, allvoices, amazon_ca, amazon_de, amazon_fr, amazon_jp, amazon_uk, amazon_us, aollifestream, armenix, arto, azadegu, baang, baidu, balatarin, barrapunto, bebo, bibsonomy, biggerpockets, bitacoras, bland, blinklist, blip, blogger, bloggy, blogkeen, bloglines, blogmarks, blogpoint, blogtercimlap, blurpalicious, bobrdobr, bolt, bonzobox, bookmark_it, socialbookmarkingnet, bookmarks_fr, bookmarky_cz, boxdotnet, bryderi, businessweek, buzzurl, care2, choix, citeulike, comments, connotea, corank, cosmiq, current, dailyme, dealsplus, delicious, designbump, diaspora, digg, diggita, diggitsport, dihitt, diigo, dipdive, domelhor, dotnetkicks, douban, draugiem, dzone, edelight, efactor, ekudos, elefantapl, evernote, ezyspot, facebook, informazione, fark, faves, favoriten_de, fc2bookmark, flaker, folkd, formspring, thefreedictionary, fresqui, friendfeed, friendster, funp, gamekicker, ghidoo, givealink, globalgrind, govn, godudu, googlebookmarks, googlebuzz, reader, googleplus, grono, gwar, habergentr, hackernews, hadashhot, haohao, hatena, healthimize, hedgehogs, hellotxt, hotklix, hyves, icio, identica, igoogle, iwiw, jamespot, jappy, jolly, jumptags, kaboodle, kaixin, ketnooi, kledy, laaikit, ladenzeile, latafaneracat, linkninja, linkagogo, linkarena, linkedin, linkter, linkuj, livedoor, livejournal, mawindo, meinvz, mekusharim, memori, mendeley, meneame, messenger, misterwong, misterwong_de, mixx, moemesto, moikrug, mototagz, msdn, msnreporter, multiply, muti, mymailru, myaol, myhayastan, mylinkvault, myshare, myspace, n4g, netlog, netvibes, netvouz, newsing, newsmeback, newstrust, newsvine, niftyclip, ning, naszaklasa, nowpublic, nujij, odnoklassniki, oknotizie, oneview, orkut, pfbuzz, pingfm, pinterest, plaxo, plurk, pochvalcz, posterous, pratiba, preferate, proddit, pusha, quantcast, readitlater, readwriteweb, reddit, rediff, redkum, researchgate, scoopat, scoopit, scoopeo, sekoman, select2gether, shaveh, shetoldme, sinaweibo, skyrock, slashdot, smiru, socl, socialdust, sodahead, sonico, soupio, sphinn, sportpost, springpad, spurl, squidoo, startlap, strands, studivz, stumbleupon, stylehive, supr, svejo, swik, taaza, tagmarksde, tagvn, tagza, techmeme, technet, technorati, thinkfinity, thisnext, tuenti, tulinq, tumblr, tweetmeme, twitter, typepad, upnews, urlaubswerkde, viadeo, virb, visitezmonsite, vk, vkrugudruzei, vodpod, vybralisme, webmoneyru, webnews, webnews_de, wikio, wikio_fr, wikio_it, winlivespaces, windycitizen, wink, wists, wordpress, wykop, xanga, xing, yahoobookmarks, yahoobookmarks_jp, yahoobuzz, yahoomessenger, yandex, yardbarker, yemle, yigg, yuuby, zakladoknet, ziczac, zilei, zingme and zootool.
In addition, the following tools can be specified....
2tag, bookmark, aolmail, aviarycapture, bitly , cleanprint, clickyme, clipdo, curateus, domaintoolswhois, email, gmail , googletranslate, hootsuite, hotmail, instapaper, isgd, jmp, joliprint, kindleit, osxdashboard, page2rss, pdfmyurl, pdfonline, printfriendly, qrf_in, qrsrc, tidyread, tinyurl, toly, w3validator, windowsgadgets and yahoomail.
Reviews & Mentions
"David Artiss brings version 3.0 of the Simple Social Bookmarks plugin" at WPCandy.
"I think this is the best social plugin at this very moment, keep up your good job, and thanks for sharing." - Miguel, a happy Social Bookmarks customer!
Licence
This WordPress plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 (or later).
The banner image is courtesy of quickonlinetips.
Frequently Asked Questions
I'm upgrading from a version prior to 3.2. What do I need to do?
If you don't use your own bookmark icons, nothing. Otherwise, the default folder location has changed - this is so that upgrading a theme doesn't cause them to go missing. Simply move your icon folder to your installations wp-content folder for it to continue to work.
The Social Bookmarking site is not appearing
If you've not specified default=on then new sites will not appear - you will need to specifically switch it on.
Here's an example of switching on LinkaGoGo...
<?php echo social_bookmarks( 'linkagogo=on', 'padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px' ); ?>
Where can I find some alternative icons?
The icons provided with the plugin are the standard icons for each of the sites (usually the site's favicon). There are many good, free collections available. However, none have the full set that this plugin uses, which is why I use this generic group.
None-the-less, most people will probably only want to display a few, popular, sites and therefore various icon collections will be ideal.
My favourites include Vector Social Media Icons by IconDock and Social Network Icon Pack by Komodo Media.
Alternatively, read 75 Beautiful Free Social Bookmarking Icon Sets from Blog Godown or 21 Sets of Free Social Bookmarking Icons for Your Blog from wpzoom.
You haven't included my favourite Social Bookmarking service
I keep a huge database of over 500 bookmarking services. However, I only use those that appear to be the most popular, based on Google search results. If you think I have missed one of great importance, please get in contact with me and plead your case!
Now that this plugin doesn't have its own URL shortening, how can I do this?
Artiss URL Shortener"). Simply call one of these first and get the shortened URL - you can then pass this as the second parameter into Artiss Social Bookmarks.
Here is an example of how to get a is.gd short URL with Artiss URL Shortener...
if (function_exists( 'url_shortener') ) { $shorturl = url_shortener( '', 'service=is.gd' ); }Which version of PHP does this plugin work with?
It has been tested and been found valid from PHP 4 upwards.
Changelog
3.2.4
- Maintenance: Added Microsoft's So.cl
3.2.3
- Maintenance: Fixed Google+ AddThis link - it would be helpful if AddThis documentation was correct!
- Maintenance: AddThis has withdrawn their bookmark to their own site! Removed and replaced with a URL script that will do it instead!
3.2.2
- Bug: Key used for caching wasn't using the final URL and title, but only the one passed (if one was passed) - this mean that the same cache could be used for multiple posts
3.2.1
- Bug: Deprecated functions hadn't been included
3.2
- Maintenance: Brought code up to standards, including splitting code
- Maintenance: Reviewed all bookmark services from scratch. There are now 275 services and 33 tools. Add to Bookmarks, Google+ and Pinterest have been added as defaults
- Maintenance: Modified some of the code in preperation for the next big release
- Enhancement: Plugin would not work on WP before version 3. Improved this to 2.6 and documented
- Enhancement: Default image folder is now wp-content/social-bookmarks
- Enhancement: Added option to not have short URL generated
- Enhancement: Added Google Analytics tracking
- Enhancement: Added option to add to your own bookmarks (service name
bookmark) - Enhancement: Added caching of output
3.1.2
- Added child theme compatibility - users own icon folder can be added to the child theme
- Fixed Google+ - previous link was a temporary solution after Google+ was initially released
3.1.1
- Enhancement: Added Elefanta.pl, Fresqui, Gamekicker, Google+, Hao Hao Report, Hellotxt, Hyves, LaTafanera, Link-a-go-go, meinVZ, Netvouz, NewsTrust, She Told Me, Sportpost, Springpad, Strands, Tagmarks.de, Tagza, Techmeme and Zilei. There are now 238 services available
3.1
- Bug: Corrected ampersand in AddToAny URL to ensure code is XHTML valid
- Enhancement: If no short URL is specified the WordPress shortlink will be used
- Enhancement: Ability to specify own titles as well as URL
- Enhancement: Added a shortcode option
3.0
- Maintenance: Another re-write of the base code
- Maintenance: Split bookmark service definition function to a separate file
- Maintenance: Improved the instructions and spell checked them for once!
- Enhancement: There are now 218 bookmarking services and 23 tools available
- Enhancement: Now uses AddToAny, AddThis and Shareaholic for the majority of links
- Enhancement: Removed use of Simple URL Shortener plugin - you now pass the shortened URL yourself, allowing any shortening plugin to be used
- Enhancement: Output HTML comments containing plugin information
- Enhancement: Added new parameter - priority - to allow user to give priority to one sharing service
- Enhancement: New default icons
- Enhancement: Existing icon filenames changed (ffeed is now friendfeed, ybuzz is now yahoobuzz, gbuzz is now googlebuzz and print is now printfriendly)
- Enhancement: The bookmark service previously named ping.fm is now named pingfm
- Enhancement: Removed Twitter text parameter (no longer used) and replaced with the ability to pass a shortened URL
- Enhancement: Propeller has been removed as it is no longer available
- Enhancement: Separated bookmarks and tools - added optional new separator icon
- Enhancement: Used smush.it to compress images (23% average reduction)
- Enhancement: The default is now for
REL=NOFOLLOWto be on for all links generated to ensure maximum SEO optimisation. - Enhancement: The default for the
targetis now for it not to be specified (and therefore be XHTML valid) - Enhancement: Added a default CLASS to all elements plus an ID to the images
- Enhancement: Added basic animation effect, allowing you to switch between two images
2.0
- Maintenance: Re-written base code
- Maintenance: Help file re-written
- Enhancement: Added LOTS of new social services
1.8
- Enhancement: Added new, official, link for Google Buzz
1.7
- Enhancement: Icon folders are now stored in the theme directory, to prevent them from being deleted whenever the plugin is updated
- Enhancement: API key and user details can now be passed to shortening services
- Enhancement: Added new 'default' parameter setting - this should not impact existing installation unless you've explicitly requested 'default=on'
1.6
- Enhancement: Added Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Buzz and Google Buzz to the list of providers. By default these will be turned off (including using the default=on option) so as to not to suddenly appear on existing installs
1.5
- Enhancement: Use different encoding for email links
- Enhancement: Added Technorati to the list of providers. By default this will be turned off (including using the default=on option) so as to not to suddenly appear on existing installs.
1.4
- Maintenance: Removed caching, as this is now handled by Simple URL Shortener. Please ensure you update to the latest version of this plugin to ensure that caching continues to work - once you know it does, the cache folder for this plugin can be removed
- Maintenance: Tidied code and updated shared functions
- Enhancement: Added additional parameter - cache=
1.3
- Enhancement: Updated default icons to a set kindly provided by komodomedia.com (With the exception of the AddToAny and Ping.FM icons)
- Enhancement: Added AddToAny, Ping.fm, Google Bookmarks, Google Reader and email to the list of providers. By default these will be turned off so as to not to suddenly appear on existing installs and cause problems!
- Enhancement: Further improvement to blog title issues
- Enhancement: Removed URL shortening on all services with the exception of Twitter, as it was not required and may have even have caused some issues (such as some services not being able to get hold of thumbnails and general page content).
- Enhancement: Now using Simple URL Shortener plugin to provide URL shortening
- Enhancement: Caching of short URLs now takes place providing large performance improvements
- Enhancement: NOFOLLOW and TARGET parameters added
- Enhancement: Compressed default icons
1.2
- Bug: Fixed issue with ampersands (and probably other characters) in the blog title causing linking issues
- Enhancement: Added su.pr as another URL shortening service
1.1
- Enhancement: Now XHTML compliant
1.0
- Initial release
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I would use it on my site, but it’s not valid xhtml, please fix that and I will be more than happy to use it.
Done! Version 1.1 is now available…. (grumble, grumble) I normally make a habit of checking the XHTML too. Thanks for letting me know!
Thank you very much David, I’ll be sure to check out more of your plugins!
After trying all the plugins on bookmarks I could find! THIS ONE is my absolute favorite! Easy, clean and good looking
I’d love to use it but I can’t figure out where in my single post template it goes. I keep getting errors no matter where I put it.
It’s hard to give an answer as different themes have their templates organised different. If you want to contact me via the contact form, attaching the relevant template file, I’ll take a look and let you know.
I am thrilled this plugin exists but for some reason the icons are not showing. I just get text links. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. All I did was upload the plugin and activate it and then drop in the first simple strip of code. help.
In the plugin folder the icons should be in there as well – ensure they are. Also, the code you used to use it – does it have a
iconfolder=parameter in it? If so, this is overriding the default folder to elsewhere – remove it and it will use the default icon set.I figured out the problem and thought I would give a shout out for anyone that ran across the same issue. If you want the icons to show verses just text links you will still need to create a new folder within the simple-social-bookmarks folder labeled 24×24 and place the default icons in it. These of course can be swapped out for custom icons but I feel the default ones are very nice.
I saw you message after I added the latest. Perhaps I did it wrong but I got the desired results. Thanks for you help David!
Thank u! This is a great plugin, that worked right off the bat. Thx Naomi for the tip about the icon folder, otherwise I might have gotten into problems.
Thanks for such a great plugin. Just installed Simple Social Bookmarks and Simple URL Shortener on WordPress 2.9 and I think they’re great!
I like this plugin the most because:
It doesn’t require yet another javascript It doesn’t have an external stylesheet just for the plugin
Ran into a snag with Simple URL Shortener on V2.9 though, the plugin didn’t create a cache folder, which caused an error. Went into the plugin folder and added one and all is well.
Thanks for everything
Ok, yes, that’s my fault – I forgot to include the empty cache folder in the plugin download package. I’ve now included it.
Hi, I like the simple social bookmarks plugin, but I can’t get the simple url shortener to work. I have uploaded it in the right directory, changed the cache to CMOD777, but my URL’s don’t get shortened. After some testing it seems like it is not recognised that simple url shortener is activen (though my plugin panel says it is). Can you help me out?
And I have another question. If I add e-mail to the social bookmarks the spaces are replaced by +, so it reads something like “I+have+read+something+on:URL” With Twitter it works perfect.
After further discussion with Bas, and an exchange of emails, I am about to release a new version of Simple Social Bookmarks with an improved encoding method for email links.
I have also found an issue with Simple URL Shortener (it doesn’t work if you have PHP 4!) and will release a new version of that too!
Thanks to Bas for helping me get to the bottom of these.
David, it was a pleasure to help you. I really appreciate all the effords you have made to make it work for me. And all the things you are doing to keep this great plugin doing a very good job. So thanks to you!
David, I love how simple & fast the plugin is. However, I’d like to include it in my footer (outside of the loop) rather than at the end of every post. This works fine on posts & pages, but not so well on the home page & category archives, etc. In those locations the URL and title are of the last post referenced, not of the homepage or archive themselves. Any suggestions?
Yes. The first parameter you pass is, if required, the URL that you want it to use. If using it outside of the loop to represent, for example, the entire site, simply specify your site URL as this first parameter.
David, It was a bit more complicateds, but in case you’re interested here’s what I did to make it work. First, I checked if I was on the home page or a category page, in which case I set the url & title by adding this just above your //Check URL:
if (is_category()){ $cat=get_query_var(‘cat’); $yourcat=get_category($cat); $url = get_category_link( $yourcat ); $title = single_cat_title(“”, false); } if (is_home()){ $url = get_bloginfo( url ); $title = get_bloginfo( name ); }
Then I modified your setting the URL and title to only happen if it’s a single post:
if (is_single()){$title=urlencode(html_entity_decode(get_the_title($post->ID),ENT_QUOTES,’UTF-8′));}
I got some of the info to make this work from http://www.bestwpthemez.com/wordpress/code-to-get-current-category-slug-in-wordpress-blog-1434/
I might need to do a little more cleaning up, but it seems to work for me.
hi, this is a great plugin, but i need to include the email function and icon – the instructions doesn’t detail how except to say it won’t appear by default. can you please let me know?
thanks!
When specifying the sub-parameters, simply add email=on (with an ampersand before it if tagging on the end of existing ones). For example…
<?php echo simple_social_bookmarks('','','','email=on'); ?>Hi David,
Thanks for getting back so quickly. I have tried that and it didn’t work.
Here’s my bit of code:
And this is the page that I’m working on.
http://www.grassrootsjourneys.com/explore/south-america/ecuador/akangau-tours/
I can see that default icon are up, I just want to add the email as well. I haven’t altered anything else but for the above code.
Thanks!
As you can see, you code has gone from the comments (I don’t allow embedding within the comments). I’ve attempted to email you but the email address you’ve supplied isn’t working. Please contact me via my contact form, sending me the code in question. Thanks.
looking for a plug for my site http://www.vehix411.com on word press it sounds intersting but to bad no photos of how its gona look
Dan – the good thing about this is that it looks how you want it to! You can specify which bookmarks to use, your own icons and CSS to style them.
This site uses the bookmark under each post, which should give you an idea of how they can be used (I only have a basic set in use, but my own larger icon set).
Hi David,
Just a newby question. I’d like to put the name of the sharing service right to the icon, but that name must be the same link as the icon gives, coud you help me?
Thx.
This plugin is entirely icon based and there is not (currently!) an option to display the results as text. However, there is an option to supply your own folder of icons – there is nothing to stop you creating a graphic for each which includes the sharing services name!
upgrading seems to delete the folder I created to hold images, easily sorted tho’. love the plugin, many thanks
That’s a good point – when upgrading plugins it overwrites any extra folders with the plugin folder. I’ll be looking, for a future release, of moving the icons folders into the theme folder so that this doesn’t happen.
Hi David. Phew. I don’t get it buddy. I have installed both plugins and tested the URL Shortening using bit.ly and my API key
That works – it displays a short URL and the same one each time I load the page. No problems there.
So now I installed the Social Bookmark plugin and set it up and it displays the icons on my pages (Posts) but – how do I connect the 2 plugins? My Twitter link gets a brand new short URL – not the one already associated with that post.
But then I started looking at the code and I can’t see how the two plugins are working together – and they don’t seem to be at all. So I must have missed something completely.
I have not added any code anywhere except on my single post PHP:
).
Please help – I’ve only got a little bit of hair left.
Cheers.
As per my previous response to a user, I’ve not yet implmeneted the API key facility into this plugin, so that may be the issue.
Where the two plugins meet… if you open up simple_social_bookmarks.php, look at line 34 – this is where it calls Simple URL Shortener.
David.
Hi David,
I love this plugin and have been extremely happy with it for quite a while now. However, I’ve been trying to use bit.ly+key for my shortener, and perhaps I’m not reading carefully, but I’m not sure where to put my login and API key in the script. I’ve tried copying the Simple URL shortener format, but it did not work. Any recommendations?
Hi Jason,
I added the API key, etc, in more recently to Simple URL Shortener and have not had the opportunity to add the same into Simple Social Bookmarks. However, look out for an update in the next few days that should resolve this!
Hi David,
In my case, the icons show vertically not horizontally. When I view the source code, there is always a <br> between the bookmarks. I use iDream/1.0.2 Theme for my blog, and I use this code in “Append to Post Content” widget:
<p><?php echo simple_social_bookmarks('','Currently reading a blog post titled %title% - %url%','','default=on'); ?></p>Coud you help me?Thanks a lot.
Your contact page wasn’t working. I wrote this there:
Here is a sample post: http://www.collegetocareers.com/uc-tags-uclas-tap/
Just above the tags I have your plugin…however, the icons are not showing up…
I’d like to give this plugin a shot, can you help? I would like it to appear just as you have it on this page below this field.
Thanks,
Nohel
Apologies for the delay in authorising your comment – it had fallen into “spam”, for some reason.
Looking at your site it now appears to be working, so can I assume you’ve resolved the issue?
This is the page that is highly ranked, when I search for “simple social bookmarks.” So naturally, I was hoping to see what they looked like, either here or from some page clearly linked from this page.
After each post and page on this site, is a strip of social bookmarks produced using the plugin. In the case of pages, it is above the comments. However, how they look is up to you – you can apply CSS changes and modify the icon set.
I’ve tried several plugins on bookmarks, and this is a nice clean and simple implementation and doesn’t distract from the page content.
If would be nice to have the option of having text only links. I’ve use the default image links on my single posts and pages, but on listing pages (categories & archive) a find the icons a little repetitive and want just text links. If I specify an unknown iconfolder, it will work in Firefox and give me the alt text but in Safari, Chrome etc I get broken image links shown instead of the alt text.
Thanks for the comment Tony, and I’m glad you like it. You’ll be glad to hear that I’ve been intending to implement a text only option for a while, so I’ll include it in the next release.
After trying all the plugins on bookmarks I could find! THIS ONE is my absolute favorite! Easy, clean and good looking
Why can’t this be a widget, or at least short code?
It can be – it’s just not a a feature I’ve yet added. I intend to add the shortcode option in the next release, though.
Is there a way to sort the icons? I dont like the standart order, but delicious is always first
No – the icons appear alphabetically. However, if you set the default to display no icons and then specify them individually, they will appear in that order.
Hey,
Thanks for wonderful plugin. Its very simple and cool look. I used on my website dealsbell.com. Is there any way we can check which post has been shared a most. who has shared? on which dates and all. if you can provide that then it would be wonderful help.
Thanks again.
I have plans to add Google Analytics tracking to the next version of the plugin which should do what you need.
Hi,
not like google analytics we need who has publish my post in facebook, his id, his country, on what date etc.. I am ready to pay for it..
Google Analytics would give you separate details for each bookmark used, including country, date, etc. However, I can’t log Facebook specific information without using the API, which I don’t.
Ok. thats fine…
Thank you for your quick answers.
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