Social Bookmarks
Social Bookmarks is a WordPress plugin that adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts that allow your visitors to easily submit them in a number of different social bookmarking sites. It features an AJAX front-end interface. You can see the plugin in action at the end of the article (just before the comments section). Furthermore, the plugin adds a page in the WordPress admin section that lets you customize it. See the Customization section below for details.
The plugin supports more than fifty sites and that is without including the sites of the available Site Packs. A complete list of the supported sites is available.
AJAX Interface
Version 4 introduces a new front-end interface based on AJAX. It allows you to hide the links displaying only a “Bookmark Page” label which when clicked makes the links visible. This action is performed without reloading the page since it uses AJAX. A “Hide Sites” label is also present to allow your readers hide the displayed links. You can set from the Dashboard Option page whether the links will be visible or not when a page loads.
Note that the default AJAX functionality is configured so that the presentation of the version versions is retained. This feature can be extremely useful to WordPress blogs where a big list of social bookmarking sites is displayed through the plugin. In this case, the links can be set to be hidden when the page loads, so that it does not feel too “heavy” on the reader’s eyes.
Site Packs
Site packs is another new feature of version 4. The plugin out of the box offers support for more than 50 international English (since English is an international language) social bookmarking sites. You can now download additional site packs from the download section that add more sites to your Social Bookmarks installation.
Note that a template pack is also available for download in case that you want to develop and release your custom language pack. I am actively looking for volunteers to develop and maintain site packs. if you are interested, drop an email through the contact form.
Download
The plugin is provided as a compressed zip file. You can use any program that can uncompress zip files (like IZArc or StuffIt) to extract the plugin. 
Latest version: 4.1.2
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Submit a Problem or Feature Request
If you have downloaded the plugin and either you spotted a problem with it or have an idea for a new feature, then please use this bug tracking system to report it rather than a comment in this page. Don’t forget to include as much information as possible and check whether someone else has submitted the same issue before you press the submit button.
Release Notes
When a new version of the plugin is made available, the release notes are updated.
Updating
If you are updating from a previous version then it is advisable to remove the installation of your previous version before you install the new one (your setting will be retained):
- De-activate the plugin from the Plugins menu of your WordPress admin section.
- Delete the plugin directory from wp-contents/plugins.
- Extract the plugin on your computer and upload the social-bookmarks directory to wp-contents/plugins.
- Finally, activate the ‘Social Bookmarks’ plugin from the Plugins menu.
Installation
- Upload the social_bookmarks directory to your wp-content/plugins/ directory so that you have a new directory ’social-bookmarks’ within your plugins directory.
- Finally, activate the plugin from your Plugins page on your WordPress administration page.
Customization
The plugin features an Options page in the WordPress admin section. You can select which sites are displayed, whether the links will open in a new window or in the current page. Also, you can change the heading that appears above the links which can be really useful to non-english sites. If you have pages in your site then you can select a sub-set of them (or even all of them) where the links won’t appear.
You can also specify to display the links in up to five lines. The AJAX interface can also be customized. It can be disabled, change the initial state and also alter the speed of the AJAX collapsible interface. You can set the plugin to be visible in the blog listing (index.php) and/or in the single post page.
The plugin uses a stylesheet (social_bookmarks.css) which you can modify to integrate it further with your theme.
Credits
Special thanks goes to Guzzo The Contrarian for helping out with the plugin testing.
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Hello, i would like to know HOW TO put my bookmark’s bar on my homepage trough a function call to put in index.php
Do you know what I mean.
A function like to show my bookmarks bar on my homepage, I didn’t find in your website how to do this !
Thanks !
Currently, there’s a little typo that breaks XHTML compatibility (and overall HTML syntax): line 115 of sites_EN.xml should read
http://www.maple.nu/cgi-bin/search6/usa/ss_submit.cgi?fct=100&url={link}&title={title}
…and not
http://www.maple.nu/cgi-bin/search6/usa/ss_submit.cgi?fct=100&url={link}&title={title}”
(note the extra quote after ‘title}’).
Hope your comment system does not swallow my XML tags…
But apart from this: thanks for this little gem!
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Thanks for the plugin it works great. But I was wonder if there is way to make it so that it does not show up on the index page, I’d also like to be able to remove the “Bookmark It” all together, I tried leaving it blank but it just defaults back to “Bookmark It”. Is there any to set it up like this? I’m trying to apply it to the site that attached to my name.
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hello there. I would like to display this plugin at the top of my post instead. Is there a way to modify the code so it wont print automatically at the bottom ? and another way to call the function from the top of the post?
thanks a lot !
Hi, how to use a custom field instead of the permalink and content instead of the excerpt?
Thanks.
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Social Bookmarks does no longer play nice with my site. It doesnt tag headlines anymore.
This is what I get in About:
¨Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/michael/public_html/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarks/social_view_admin.php on line 193
Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.michaeljackson.no/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarks/social_about.html) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/michael/public_html/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarks/social_view_admin.php on line 193
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/michael/public_html/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarks/social_view_admin.php on line 200
Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.michaeljackson.no/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarks/social_faq.html) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/michael/public_html/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarks/social_view_admin.php on line 200
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Hey there — great Social Bookmarking plugin! Question: I have a client that really wants the bookmarks to appear just below the post title rather than in the footer. Possible to do? Thanks for any suggestions. I may have to modify my theme??
Yes you need to get your hands dirty. I suspect that you may need to modify the plugin source and not the theme code. Contact me for further info
Hi and sorry for the dumb question but I use your great plugin to feed my facebook. But I now would like the feeds to be redirected to the new fan page I created.
any suggestions ?
Many thanks
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It would be really nice if you added LinkedIn and myspace. I’m not sure I’ll continue to use it.
Sure I will add them as soon as possible. Watch out for the update!
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Hi,
Thanks for the great plugin. Everything is working as expected except for the Stumble Upon link. Once you click the Stuble button it takes you to a “Sorry, That Page Doesn’t Exist” error page! Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Ok, I found the problem. In the sites_EN.xml plugin file you had the code for Stumble Upon like this:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit.php?url={link}&title={title}
When it should be like this:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url={link}&title={title}
Note the “.php” extension that was corrupting the link.
Thanks again for this great plugin.
Hi
Love the plugin but have a problem
The wording “Bookmark It” is shown in a font color that doesnt suit my site and I want to change it. I have tried editing social_bookmarks.css but with no success, the plugin doesnt seem to read it as even when I delete the file no change appears on my site.
How can I change the appearance of the text?
Many thanks
Mike
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Can you please answer this problem with your plugin?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/345187?replies=11
I just installed this plugin and the admin panel is very easy to operate. However, the bookmarking links are showing up twice on each blog post page. Once right below the Excerpt section and then again below the full post. Just to test I tried moving all content to only within the excerpt area. The bookmarks then just displayed twice, stacked on top of each other, below the full text.
Have you seen this issue before and is there an easy fix?
Thanks in advance.
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Hello, first just wanted to say that the plug-in is working great. However I do have one question and can’t seem to figure it out. How can I move were to social bar is displayed in a post? I want to move it down a few lines and display it differently. Please let me know, Thanks.
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Hi
Love your plugin. However I am finding I am having issues with the stumble upon button. When I click it I get a 404 issue.
The format of the stumbleupon link is slightly wrong
“social-bookmarks/sites_EN.xml” should read
Stumble Upon
http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url={link}&title={title}
stumbleupon.png
stumbleupon_en
Thanks for a nice plug in.