Sociable: WordPress Plugin for Social Bookmarking

January 26, 2006 · 16 comments

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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1 Luke January 26, 2006 at 12:09 pm: Heh, I can see you installed it, instead of your handcrafted one?

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2 Dennis Bullock January 26, 2006 at 1:31 pm: Cool, this is an excellent example of shared information taken to the next level.

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3 Paul Stamatiou January 26, 2006 at 1:55 pm: Luke, I’m still using my handcoded one. Haven’t gotten around to installing the plugin yet.

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4 Ben January 26, 2006 at 2:16 pm: 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.

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5 Pat Collins January 26, 2006 at 2:47 pm: This is brilliant. I was just looking for something like this. It’s great that I don’t have to code it myself :)

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6 George January 26, 2006 at 4:42 pm: 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.

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7 Maxpower January 28, 2006 at 11:40 am: 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.

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8 Luke January 28, 2006 at 12:58 pm: 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…

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9 Logan Lindquist February 8, 2006 at 3:41 pm: 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.

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10 Lumpy March 7, 2006 at 11:08 am: 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…

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11 Joost de Valk February 4, 2008 at 7:34 am: Development on Sociable seemed to have stopped, so I have taken it upon me and given it a new home: WordPress Sociable 2.5.

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12 benny November 24, 2008 at 1:58 am: I think this is the very useful for every one.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.
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