Update 16/03/06: Download the latest version of Sociable at its new home. This is a full blown version 1.0 with many new features. Namely, no template editing. Wow! Good job PH!

Sociable Screenshot 1Paul Stamatiou has contributed several interesting tutorials on how to customise K2, a theme for wordpress. One of his customisations is a set of icons at the bottom of a post that allow you to quickly bookmark the current page at a number of social bookmarking sites (Digg, Del.icio.us, blink, furl, etc.). You can see it in action on his blog, www.paulstamatiou.com, and here at MaxPower on the bottom of every page that is a post. He credits this idea to Mr. Veloso.

Features:

  • Wordpress 2.0 compatible
  • Produces XHTML vaild code
  • Easy to install
  • V 0.8 plays nice with Digg (forthcomming)
  • Images can be styled using CSS class=”socialbkmark”
  • Automatically generates appropriate submit links for:
    • Del.ici.ous
    • Digg
    • Blinklist
    • Furl
    • Reddit
    • Fark
    • Yahoo My Web
    • Spurl
    • Simpy
    • Newsvine
    • Wists
    • Blogmarks

You really should just head on over to the new sociable home page. This page is now depreciated.

Be sure to read this entire page, and espicially the best practices and usage sections, they will answer many of your questions.

Table of Contents

Download | Requirements | Installation | Usage | FAQ | Changelog

Requirements
This plugin should work on any recent (1.5+) version of Wordpress as it requires only a few template tags that have been around for a long time. That said, I am running on V2.0, and have only tested it on V2.0 — YMMV. If you are using an older version, I personally recommend that you to upgrade to the latest version. You can get it at the WordPress Download Page.

Installation
Simply download the Zip-Archive and extract the entire folder into your wp-content/plugins/ directory. Then go into your WordPress administration page, open the Plugins menu and activate it. Now you need to determine where you would like your links to appear. See the usage section below.

Usage
WP-Sociable requires that it be placed within the loop because it requires various template tags to function. Perhaps, later versions will allow the plugin to operate outside of the loop and for example, within the sidebar. File that under future features.

The simplest way to get your social bookmarking links to show up is to call the function like so (remember, this must be in the loop):

[code lang="php"]< ?php wp_sociable(); ?>[/code]

With no options specified, all the bookmarking sites will be displayed. You can customize which sites are displayed using the following syntax. Make sure to separate your sites by commas, and enclose everything in single quotes.

[code lang="php"]< ?php wp_sociable('simpy,delicious,yahoo,digg'); ?>[/code]

Sociable Screenshot 2In the above example, only the bookmarking sites of digg, simpy, delicious, and yahoo will be shown. The following words will cue the plugin to produce the desired bookmarking link:

  • delicious
  • digg
  • blinklist
  • furl
  • reddit
  • fark
  • yahoo My Web
  • spurl
  • newsvine
  • simpy
  • wists
  • blogmarks

You really should just head on over to the new sociable home page. This page is now depreciated.

Placement suggestions:

Below are several examples of where to place the code. They are just examples. If you have found something better, by all means suggest it. Also, I have a real problem trying to show code in posts, I haven’t found a method yet that works. If you have any ideas, let me know. For now, I use the iframe method to pull up a text file.

V0.35 & lower placement positioning and CSS examples

Usage example image:
Sociable Screenshot 3


 
FAQ
Q: My favourite social bookmarking site XXXXXX.org.tk.ru is not listed! Can it be listed?
A: Absolutely… in order to add your site I need the complete url with the story link and title as template to start off from. This allows me to correctly format the new link. Feel free to contact me.

Q: The link to site XXX stopped working! Why?
A: From time to time I expect sites like digg and delicious to alter the way they work. You should too. When I become aware of a change on their side I will fix it on mine. You can help by sending me the complete url with the story link and title as template so I can correctly format the new link.

Q: Can I change around the order that the sites are listed?
A: As of version 0.2 you cannot. I tried to place the sites in order of popularity, but I may be wrong.

Q: I noticed that whenever sites are submitted to Fark, they fall into the Misc category. Can I change this?
A: Absoutely… although I am just a hack, I did think of this situation. Unfortuneatly, as of V2.0, you must go into the plugin and edit one variable. The default setting is ‘Misc’ — other examples include: Business, Game, News, Politics, Sports, Science/Technology, Website, and Weird News. Examples are shown within the plugin, just use a text editor to make the switch [I recommend PSPad]

Q: Are you some kind of PHP guru?
A: Absoutely… not! I am a hack at best. One thing I can do well is follow patterns. There are a lot of patterns in PHP. You might be interested in some of the other things I have written for wordpress, namely The Dynamic Sticky and the Sawchuk Scheme for K2 [still in heavy development]

Q: Do you have more features planned?
A: Absoutely… I am open to suggestions. Drop me a line or leave a comment.

Q: Why Sociable?
A: A ’sociable’ is analgous to having a party. A sociable is also what one might yell at a party/ bar on the east coast of Canada in order to get all his or her friends to raise their glass, yell “sociable!!!!” and then take a few slugs. You can also do this when being simply around easterners too. Try it with your friends, but do you really need an excuse to bring the glass to your lips?

Q: Can Sociable be integrated with the Noteworthy plugin?
A: Yes. The code example is shown above (at the bottom of the examples txt file) and checks to see first if the wp_sociable plugin is active and second if the current post is in category X (your noteworthy plugin category) by using the category ID. In the example shown in the text file above, the noteworthy category is #51.

You really should just head on over to the new sociable home page. This page is now depreciated.

Changelog

  • V0.35 | 02/04/06 — Fourth version released.
    • Added support for blogmarks and wists, fixed minor syntax issue with the title tag, all graphics are now pngs, and the title and alt tags now are not urlencoded for easier human reading.
  • V0.31 | 01/27/06 — Third public version.
    • I got a newsvine account so I added that option too. In addition, some suggestions by CountZero and m3nt0r led to complete XHTML validity — thanks!
  • V0.25 | 01/27/06 — Second public version.
    • Now produces XHTML valid output, thanks Azmeen!
  • V0.20 | 01/26/06 — First public version.
    • Now allows users to specify which sites they would like to link to.
  • V0.15 | 01/25/06 — Second version un-released.
    • Uses far fewer queries for improved performance
  • V0.10 | 01/24/06 — First version un-released.

License and Warranty:

This plugin is licensed under the GPL and should be considered BETA. I do not accept any responsibility for any damages, direct or indirect, that may arise from using the plugin. This software is provided “AS IS” without warranty of any kind. See the full version of the GPL for more details.

Download

This plugin is currently in Beta

Beta is the name given to a pre-release version of a software product. This beta version is used for testing purposes, is often problematic and thus only available to specific users who are encouraged to provide feedback for improvement. [via]

Download Sociable V0.35

Social Bookmarking Link List:

There are many social bookmarking sites that this plugin could theoretically be extended to include. The following (exhuastive) list of social bookmarking services was put together by Lorelle:

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View Them

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This post has 181 comments.

  1. [...] 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. Socially Bookmark Sociable: WordPress Plugin for Social Bookmarking                                 [...]

  2. Very nice, especially for those of newer to Wordpress who do not wish to get their hands dirty too much i.e. writing this themselves.

  3. [...] Sociable is a WordPress 2.0 (should work with 1.5 though) plugin to add a list of social bookmarking site icons at the bottom of your posts. There are very complete instructions on the page linked. Search [...]

  4. [...] WP Plugin: Quick Social Bookmarking This plugin creates a set of icons that allow you to quickly bookmark the current post/page at a number of social bookmarking sites. Features Wordpress 2.0 compatible, easy install, CSS styling, automatic generation of appropriate submit links for: Del.ici.ous, Digg, Blinklist, Furl, Reddit, Fark, Yahoo My Web, Spurl, and Simpy. Via Email Technorati Tags: social bookmarking wordpress plugin   [...]

  5. Great plug-in. Thanks.

  6. [...] WP-Sociable 0.20 Beta: Works fine [...]

  7. [...] A new plugin - WP-Sociable - is out at MaxPower, and this one has almost the same ease of use as ak-bookmark, but instead displays the various icons (rather than text links) for all the social bookmarking services, as seen in the example given by the author below. [...]

  8. Ka-Meng
    26 Jan 06
    7:47 pm

    Great idea for a plugin. A question on Digg though, is there a way to convert your Digg submit link to a Dugg link for your post to avoid duplication of “Diggin”?

    I have been tackling with this idea in my head as to how to get a workaround this, instead of having to manually hack the link. No luck so far.

    Cheers.

  9. Azmeen
    26 Jan 06
    8:50 pm

    Really cool plugin! However, I noticed that ampersands in the URLs wasn’t converted into &amp;’s thus making the code not XHTML valid. I’ve done the conversion, and hope you can integrate it in your future releases: download it here.

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  11. deepthought
    26 Jan 06
    11:36 pm

    Thanks Azeem, your changes have been implemented and a new version released! This is how a good idea can steamroll into something big.

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  14. Lovely plugin, thanks ever so much for your work. - I’ve just taken the freedom to add some html to have the Digg etc. pages open in a new window. Works flawlessly!

  15. CountZero
    27 Jan 06
    4:29 pm

    while embedding full support for your plugin into my theme “Binary Blue” I ran across the fact that the plugin does not generate proper url-encoded links - resulting in NOT generating valid xhtml code. Additionally I have moved the link’s titles away from the images to the links for better support of the usual fany tooltip stuff which is trendy nowadays ;)
    If you get in touch with me via email, I will gladly send you a fixed version 0.30 of your plugin, so you wouldn’t need to reproduce these changes on your own ;)
    regards!
    CountZero

  16. I would recommend adding a Newsvine.com link. It should be fairly easy to add to the plugin. I discussed it a little while back on my blog.

  17. David
    27 Jan 06
    6:32 pm

    Thanks, great plugin, works excellent.

  18. deepthought
    27 Jan 06
    6:34 pm

    Christopher, I added newsvine almost at the same time you left your comment… freaky!

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  21. Mark
    28 Jan 06
    1:14 am

    Works great! Thanks!!!

  22. Stu
    28 Jan 06
    4:31 am

    Thanks muchly for putting this together. Much appreciated.

  23. [...] 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). [...]

  24. [...] Sociable: Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress at MaxPower Sociable is a set of icons at the bottom of a post that allow you to quickly bookmark the current page at a number of social bookmarking sites (Digg, Del.icio.us, blink, furl, etc.). (tags: bookmarks wordpress icons plugins) [...]

  25. Melissa
    29 Jan 06
    12:50 pm

    Hi there! Great app, it’s the best of the plugins for tagging that I’ve seen thusfar. Clean implementation, easy to configure. I did notice one thing that I wanted to tell you about. If you hover over the icon, the link title that pops up has a double quote at the end of it. I ended up taking out the escape char and quote at the end of the line. Keep up the great work!

  26. deepthought
    29 Jan 06
    5:00 pm

    Melissa,
    Thanks for the feedback. I’ll double check things and make the change.

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  31. New stuff…

    So I’ve made a few changes here.. First you’ll notice the little icons at the bottom of each post. Thanks to the Word press Social Bookmarking plugin by the people at Maxpower.ca .  If you’re a user of digg, delicious, Furl , my yaho….

  32. [...] The answer I discovered, is a social bookmarking plugin for Wordpress 2.0 that is hot of the press at Maxpower and called, suitably enough, Sociable: Quick Social Bookmarking plugin for Wordpress. It’s very easy to use and works in just 4 steps: [...]

  33. Lorelle
    31 Jan 06
    8:09 pm

    Hey, deepthought, are you going to provide icons for ALL of those social bookmarking services? ;-) Just wondering. Then I’d call what you are doing totally exhaustive. hee hee.

    Good work.

  34. [...] Sociable Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress at MaxPower (tags: wordpress wp plugin social) [...]

  35. [...] WP SociableAdds support for a certain amount of social bookmarking services to your blog, like digg, delicious, and so on. Officially Binary Blue supported. [...]

  36. Soulmind
    02 Feb 06
    7:56 pm

    Hey, first of all: This plugin seems to be exactly what I was looking for - Thank you!
    Also, the documentation is pretty damn detailed and nice which is also appreciated. But unfortunately, I can’t get it to run on my blog with the right text displayed on the link symbols. Help is greatly appreciated. I’m a coding loser, BTW. I’m running WP 2.0 RC3.
    The simple version

    works (can be seen on any post page at the location I’d want it to). But replaced with

    it won’t work. Same with my preference:

    Quickly bookmark “;
    the_title(’’, ‘ at’);
    wp_sociable(’simpy,delicious,yahoo,digg’);
    echo “”;
    }
    ?>

    The second one says:
    Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CLASS, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in single.php on line 44

    BTW, Line 44 is the line
    echo “Quickly bookmark “;

  37. This is most likly a user error on my part but I keep getting
    Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘>’
    for this line:
    the_title(’’, ‘ at’);

    I copied your code directly

    Quickly bookmark
    ’, ‘ at’);
    wp_sociable(’newsvine,delicious,yahoo,digg’);
    ?>

    I can remove the 3 line and it works fine but with it I can not get it to run. I am running 2.0.1 any suggestions?

    Thanks for your work

  38. deepthought
    03 Feb 06
    8:34 am

    Josh,

    I have to run, but the problem you experience is from cutting and pasting the code samples on this page. Turns out the method I used to show the code substitutes the proper quotes for fancy ones which *look* correct but don’t mean the same thing in php. For now, if you can, just replace all “ with ” and ’ with ‘ (look closely!). I’ll change this when I have a chance later today. Thanks for bringing the problem to my attention.

    Update: looks like you can’t see the difference unless you cut and paste this comment into a text editor. So just replace all the quotes using your keyboard for now.

  39. Diwaker
    03 Feb 06
    5:42 pm

    Nice plugin, very timely. Could you use PNGs instead of GIFs for the images? GIFs are patent ridden, PNGs are free and more functional, portable and efficient than the GIF format.

  40. Soulmind
    03 Feb 06
    9:45 pm

    Well, could get my favorite - the longest and second last version in the examples above, the one before the Noteworthy one, the one incl. CSS - ro run, but unfortunately, the text that gets displayed on the logo’s link (mouse on) seems to be a little rugged.

    Two examples:
    1.)
    Madlib Biography
    becomes
    Madlib Biography”

    http://www.soulmind-online.com/2006/01/24/madlib-biography/

    2.)
    Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek “Reflection Eternal” Review
    becomes
    Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek “Reflection Eternal” Review”

    http://www.soulmind-online.com/2006/01/24/reflection-eternal/

    Can somehow maybe help me out, I don’t think I can fix this. Is greatly appreciated. Thanks from Berlin,
    Karsten

  41. deepthought
    04 Feb 06
    1:20 am

    To all those who have had questions and comments recenlty: to my knowledge, all issues and tweaks have been dealt with as of V 0.35 — this release should be bug free (eeek!). Thanks for all your questions and tips!

  42. Soulmind
    04 Feb 06
    11:11 am

    Well, the new 0.35 version seems to work really nicely (link titles are cleaned up). New PNG icons are great. Thank you! Maybe with a future update, Sociable will even allow some widely used “special” characters in post titles and display the full post title in the link instead of cutting it of before the “special” character comes (which it does now to avoid problems, I guess). Maybe I’m also doing something, if that’s the case, let me know. Example:
    http://www.soulmind-online.com/2006/01/24/reflection-eternal/
    The most notable example I’ve experienced so far is quotation marks (which I unfortunately use a lot in post titles). Anyways, thanks again for reacting in such a timely manner! The plugin is really appreciated.

    Karsten, Berlin

  43. [...] Actualizado: He encontrado un plugin más completo. Se trata del sociable plugin que permite añadir el artículo a un montón de sistemas de favoritos compartidos. La instalación se reduce a subir el directorio sociable entero a la carpeta de plugins de wordpress. Activar dicho plugin y añadir dentro del bucle < ? php wp_sociable(); ? > por ejemple en el mismo sitio que pusimos el plugin anterior. Espero que os sea de utilidad. [...]

  44. [...] Sociable [...]

  45. That was the problem, works great now.
    Thanks Deepthought

  46. deepthought
    06 Feb 06
    5:24 pm

    Unfortunately, I am no PHP mastermind. I understand why quotes could screw with the output of this plugin, but I don’t know exactly how to deal with it. I will ponder… thanks for your input!

  47. [...] I have to admit, I was totally overwhelmed by the number of plugins available for Wordpress when I first started using it. I was reluctant to use any non-standard plugins until I discovered the rather groovy Sociable links generator. I always check my posts with the XHTML validator too. [...]

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  49. [...] As you can see I am testing a new plugin for Wordpress (for me) by Paul Stamatiou. Essentially it allows you to put quick links in your posts to social bookmarking sites; delicious, digg, simpy etc, and except for a couple of niggly little things like the post title not being posted through to digg.com seems to work just fine. [...]

  50. 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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  52. Marc
    09 Feb 06
    9:31 pm

    I have installed the latest ver (0.35) and have had no luck getting the images to display.

    All the links are there and work as they should but minus the images for each service. BTW the plugin ws uploaded with the same dir structure as unzipped.

    Thanks for any help you can proved. Cranial Cavity is the site.

  53. I’ve been looking for this plugin for a long time. This post is the best and easiest to use . Thanks.

  54. [...] Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin (in single.php) [...]

  55. I have the WordPress files located in a subdirectory and I had to manually change the image path. The plugin should know better though. I’d suggest this code which uses the WordPress URL rather than the blog URL (which can be different):

    // Combine the URL and image directory
    $wpsoc_the_imgurl = get_bloginfo('wpurl') . $wpsoc_the_imgpath;

  56. deepthought
    12 Feb 06
    3:24 pm

    Viper,

    Thanks for your input. I’ll incorporate that change in the next version, which will be released very shortly.

  57. Diwaker
    15 Feb 06
    2:36 am

    Some more suggestions:

    Instead of using anchor tags, put the links in a list. Its easier to style.

    DO NOT use hard spaces — the 4 nbsps that you have in there are not really required.

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  59. Your download link is not working, plz help me find the download link to this plugin

    http://www.maxpower.ca/sociable/2006/01/26/#DL-Link –> this is not working

    I can’t wait to try out this plugin

  60. deepthought
    15 Feb 06
    1:40 pm

    The download link functions fine. I think you may have been fooled by the table of contents approach used on this post. Look for the bright green area ;)

  61. Download | Requirements | Installation | Usage | FAQ | Changelog

    The above download button does not work, plz post the download link as a comment.

  62. deepthought
    16 Feb 06
    11:12 am

    Hi John,

    I see where you are confused. You are confusing the table of contents links at the top of the article (which take you to the various sections of the article) with the actual download link — please check carefully. The download link posted at the top of the page simply takes you to the bottom of the page. There, in a bright green background you will find the words “Download Sociable V0.35″. Immediately to the right is an icon of sorts showing a file with a green arrow. I have added the words, Table of Conents so that no one else makes this mistake.

    Kirk

  63. You did a great job, I’m looking forward to version 1.0.

    I was thinking though, most of these “social websites” follow a simple pattern as such:

    http://something.com/something?url={Post URL}&title={Post Title}.

    What if you had some sort of XML definition file where these patterns could be defined? For example:

    Digg
    /images/digg.png
    http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url={PostURL}
    0

    Del.ico.us
    /images/delicious.png
    http://del.icio.us/post?url={PostURL}&title={PostTitle}
    1

    If you wanted to get really fancy, you could even include a “Definition Update” feature in the plugin where the admin would click a button and download the latest of this file.

  64. deepthought, I the ‘Download’ achor link on the bottom does not work. I use Opera. The only green thing I see is your logo.

    Plz post the download link in a comment such as

    http://www.maxpower.ca/sociable/2006/01/26/social.zip

  65. deepthought
    17 Feb 06
    1:28 pm

    John,

    Indeed, this page when viewed in opera gets cut off. Strange, thanks for finding this quirk out for me. By the time you read this, the problem should be fixed. I hesitate to post the download link, I don’t want people to download an old version once a new one has been released.

    – sorry for the trouble! But hey, I don’t get paid for this!

  66. Thanks, I see you added it now. So what was the problem… was it with Opera?

    I see you have enlarged the text a lot

    Thanks Deepthought for the plugin, can’t wait for the next release

  67. deepthought
    17 Feb 06
    10:00 pm

    For some reason, Opera didn’t load anything after an iframe which simply showed a text file. You could spend your whole day figuring out why, or, you could just do something different… Cheers!

  68. [...] WP-Sociable - Online bookmarking site are being the source for traffic. Here, there is a plugin lets your visitors bookmark theirs favorite posts on their favorite bookmarking system. [...]

  69. Handy
    19 Feb 06
    10:16 am

    Any updates on when the 1.0 version is coming? The suspense is killing me ;-)

  70. Loving version 0.35 so far - I can’t wait until Version 1.0!

    Thanks,

    Tom.

  71. This suspense is killing me, I can’t wait fot the next release

  72. [...] At first I had a few problems downloading the plugin as the page had issues when viewed with Opera. I contacted the author and he fixed it in a few days. [...]

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  74. zeth 1337
    26 Feb 06
    8:36 pm

    Working great at http://idahofallz.com, a great social bookmarking tool for our locally-focused social site.

    One thing, I want to make the part that says ‘quickly bookmark (title) at:’ into a simple h3 format, since my css creates a nice red bar like the noticeable text that says ‘What do you think? Leave a comment’ It just breaks it up into digestible sections easier.

    However, everywhere I put in the h3 tag, it won’t display the entire page. the only time it would show was when I wrapped the entire thing in an h3 tag, but then the little icons also displayed in the red bar (not pretty and not what I wanted).

  75. deepthought
    26 Feb 06
    9:10 pm

    Zeth,

    Try this:


    <?php if (function_exists('wp_sociable')) {
        
         echo ‘<h3>Quickly bookmark ‘;
         the_title(’<em>’, ‘</em></h3> at’);
         wp_sociable();
         echo “</div>”;
        
    }
    ?>

    PS The quotes are wrong in the above text so don’t copy and paste without changing them. I still have a problem showing code… grrr

  76. zeth 1337
    28 Feb 06
    2:04 am

    Thanks for the quick reply, that’s awesome.

    But nah, it didn’t work, resulted in a blank page and parse erorr.

    But then I’ve saw another spot I wanted to put it in that works great just the way it is now, so nirvana is closer now.

    thanks

  77. sarathy
    28 Feb 06
    6:00 am

    Is there any layman help :(.

    Iam always getting:

    Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/jmuruga/public_html/indianjobs/wp-content/themes/default/single.php on line 41

    i pasted the code :

    In my script :(

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  80. Nitwit
    05 Mar 06
    8:05 am

    I get a BLANK page as well, whether or not I put variations of the code in the index.php, comments.php or single.php they all give the same blank page as a result :( HELP!

    Seriously, you need a guide for dumb people like me, or at least I feel pretty stupid after trying to get it to work on various sites for an hour, without success. I don’t know anything about the CSS, so I don’t feel comfortable editing it without clear guidance.

    Thanks for anything you can do to make this easier, maybe some others can post how they got it to work after activating the plugin… what code did you use and where did you put it exactly?

  81. deepthought
    05 Mar 06
    10:50 am

    Can you post the code that you are using? This seems very strange.

  82. Nitwit
    05 Mar 06
    3:35 pm

    Hi deepthought. I figured out what was happening a minute ago.

    I was using this code mainly (tried all the others unsuccessfully as well):
    Quickly bookmark “;
    the_title(’’, ‘ at’);
    wp_sociable();
    echo “”;
    }
    ?>

    Now that I’m using this code it’s working perfectly (I adjusted it myself):
    Quickly bookmark “”

    So I removed the EM’s and changed the_title tag to the one Wordpress used itself for the title.

  83. [...] WP-Sociable 为Post增加提交到众多流行的书签的链接。 [...]

  84. Lumpy
    07 Mar 06
    10:57 am

    Great Plug-in but as Azmeen pointed out it creates invalid XHTML. The modified file posted by Azmeen looks for GIFs and PNGs. I also noticed that the modified file did not contain all of the bookmark sites. An easy fix and I put it up here. (It is in the form of a text file. Save it and change it to php.)

    I installed the modified plugin on my site and it tests valid XHTML 1.0 transicional at the WCS validator site. It also works for the bookmark sites I use and takes me to the log in page for those I do not use. I hope it helps.

    Great Job on the plug in. Kudos!

  85. [...] Sociable is an nice Word Press Plug in. It is how I get all the buttons in at the bottom of each post. [...]

  86. Chris
    07 Mar 06
    11:30 am

    This plugin is AWESOME! Thanks for making it avail. The plugin itself works perfectly, but my images aren’t showing. My WP install is in a subfolder, to be uploaded to my primary domain once I get everything working (test first, then install). I tried changing the image path a couple of times, and I tried Viper’s code as well, nothing worked. Any suggestions? Thanks again.

  87. [...] I contacted Paul and asked him if it would be ok if I turned his idea into a plugin, to allow wider access to the wordpress community. He replied shortly to say that indeed, go ahead and spread the good word. I spent many hours, learning my PHP, and turning his idea into a plugin which I released to the Wordpress community under the GPL as WP-Sociable. Over the course of a few days, I worked out a few minor kinks and added some functionality. The latest version, 0.35 does the job great — but it could have been better. I knew this, I wanted a back-end menu where users could check off the websites they would like to display, I wanted users to be able to determine the order of bookmarking sites as they appeared. I intended to use a method of making sure that users had the latest and greatest version of the code. A great idea and a simple plugin. [...]

  88. Jon
    10 Mar 06
    8:58 am

    Thanks for putting this plugin together!

    I made the images a standard 18×18px and made a couple of mods to allow the links to use CSS image rollovers. I also added a little color to the poor Digg icon, which was the only one that was black and white. If you’re interested, a quick explanation and a zip of the files are available from right here.

    Thanks again!

  89. Danno
    11 Mar 06
    6:52 pm

    Awesome XHTML Jon, hope 1.0 is as clean as your code.
    Validated perfectly!

    Danno

  90. Danno
    11 Mar 06
    7:06 pm

    woops sorry that was Lumpy’s code. Credit where
    credit is due :)

    Dan

  91. Lumpy
    12 Mar 06
    6:23 am

    Thanks for the mention. For the record though, it is not really my code at all. I just modified it a bit and built on the work of others. All I really did was a few find and replaces with Xint. I am more than happy to contribute a few drops to the ocean but still think kudos should go elsewhere. I am happier that people can easiy pool resources in this manner and make a great idea even better.

  92. Ajay
    12 Mar 06
    12:41 pm

    Hi,

    I just installed Sociable on my blog and ran into a lot of W3C Validation errors.

    These were mainly cases where & was used instead of &amp; and the a was closed in the opening tag itself.

    I have them all corrected and if you would like I can send you the php file so that you can update the same here.

  93. Mike
    12 Mar 06
    6:26 pm

    Very nice… Guess I’ll try it… once

  94. Additionally,

    I notice that you have 25 icons while only 12 are available through the plugin?

    How do I get the remaining 13?

  95. deepthought
    13 Mar 06
    12:55 am

    Version 1 is about to be released. Its awesome. Just working out a few minor kinks and feature additions.

  96. [...] The other day while looking for something new to read online I googled “SEO blog“, but without the brackets. On the second page I found SEO Blackhat and one of his postings, was about social bookmarking. He even came up with a little HTML/PHP to make adding buttons to your WordPress blog to enable people to bookmark your postings in the many competing services. As cool as that is, somebody is working a full fledged plugin, which just may be added to blog.muschamp.ca in the near future. [...]

  97. [...] Source     Add to del.icio.us    Digg it    Fark it! [...]

  98. [...] I have also added links to the bottom of each post on the site to post the article to Digg, del.icio.us and/or Newsvine. The links are provided by the Sociable plug-in for Wordpress, which I must highly recommend. It’s easy to install and customize, and can display boomkarklets for about a dozen social bookmarking sites. I don’t think I put up much that’s worth posting there at the moment, but I hope to in the future. [...]

  99. deepthought
    16 Mar 06
    9:49 pm

    A new version of sociable has been released. Get it here. The long wait is over!

  100. Ajay
    18 Mar 06
    10:26 pm

    Not really over.

    I just installed it and it is not compatible with WP1.5x

    You need to have 2.0 for it!

  101. [...] I only provide a facility on AffiliateBlog for del.icio.us tagging. There is a terrific WordPress plugin called Sociable that allows direct tagging for tons of Social Bookmarking sites. If you don’t have it as part of your blog you should get it and install it today. This blog is being redesigned and should be done in a few weeks. The new design will incorporate Sociable. [...]

  102. Smarking
    27 Apr 06
    10:38 pm

    Sociable: Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress at MaxPower…

    Someone at Smarking has bookmarked your post….

  103. No. This page is deprecated, meaning “no longer considered normative.” Depreciated means its monetary value has declined.

  104. Ja
    05 May 06
    1:00 pm

    Well, the monetary value of the page has declined since it has become deprecated. Assuming that we assign monetary value to a page based on the volume of incoming traffic it generates (which leads to monetary gain through advertising), then in an indirect manner the page’s value has depreciated.

    “Depreciated means its monetary value has declined.”

    Depreciated means *that* its monetary value has declined.

    Hey, I’m a grammar nazi, not a typo nazi, but I like your style. ;) If we had more people capable of critical analysis then maybe the web wouldn’t be the huge mess that it is these days.

  105. deepthought
    05 May 06
    8:27 pm

    de·pre·ci·ate (dĭ-prē’shē-āt’) pronunciation

    1. To lessen the price or value of.
    2. To think or speak of as being of little worth; belittle

    dep·re·cate (dĕp’rĭ-kāt’) pronunciation

    1. To express disapproval of; deplore.
    2. To belittle; depreciate.

    USAGE NOTE The first and fully accepted meaning of deprecate is “to express disapproval of.” But the word has steadily encroached on the meaning of depreciate. It is now used, almost to the exclusion of depreciate, in the sense “to belittle or mildly disparage,” as in He deprecated his own contribution. In an earlier survey, this newer sense was approved by a majority of the Usage Panel.

    All vis answers dot com. Given all that, and my original intent of signaling that this page and plugin are devalued, I think i’m happy with depreciated. Also, I don’t mean to disaprove of sociable, nor belittle it. I’m still proud! It was my Hello World PHP mountian. TY 4 the 3ngl1sh l3550N…. / sarcasim

  106. Ja
    05 May 06
    9:30 pm

    def·e·cate (dĕf’ĭ-kāt’) pronunciation

    v., -cat·ed, -cat·ing, -cates.

    v.intr.

    1. To poop
    2. To depreciate or deprecate one’s own self-value by pooping oneself

    I know, I know, go post in my blog…. bah

    I’m gonna go replace my digg icon with DigDug ’cause he’s cooler, hehe. Then if I do ever post again, maybe the one reader I have will be enticed to click on zee DigDug. Man I really need to sleep more often.

  107. [...] WP-Sociable 為Post增加提交到眾多流行的書籤的鏈接。 [...]

  108. tom harkin
    24 May 06
    7:23 pm

    where is fantacular.com on this list? i love that site.

  109. Jonathan
    26 May 06
    12:46 pm

    I think I love you.

    I’ve been looking for this for a while.

  110. BiZwiKi.CN
    04 Jun 06
    11:47 am

    Oh, Great job, and I’ll gonna refer myself to Sociable’s Home for more info. Thank you!

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  112. [...] WP Sociable [...]

  113. Petzine
    30 Jun 06
    10:40 am

    I just downloaded the current version of the plugin but it generates many W3C Validation errors. Does anyone have a version that does not generate these errors?

  114. Ahmed
    12 Jul 06
    9:14 am

    Excellent job and excellent plug-in. Very useful

  115. [...] Sociable: Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress at MaxPower (tags: wordpress plugin social) [...]

  116. Prashant
    22 Aug 06
    5:20 pm

    just what i was looking for, thanks will download it right away

  117. Mila
    18 Sep 06
    9:08 pm

    I added the WP Sociable plug in to display social bookmarketing sites with every blog post… now I’m having trouble customizing them. In particular, I’d like to get rid of the annoying borders around the images:

    http://www.iwantmyess.com

    I tried playing around with my stylesheet, but I’m not proficient enough with PHP and all that to really get it to work… hence, the borders around the bookmarking sites are still there.

    Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

  118. deepthought
    18 Sep 06
    11:08 pm

    Mila,

    How the images are styled is controlled by the CSS file of the theme that wordpress uses. Find that and open it up. CSS files are read by the browser from top to bottom, so if you put information about how you want the borders on images displayed at the top, but then say you want images on borders again somewhere below the top, then you’ll have borders. In other words, priority is given to items at the bottom of the file.

    In the CSS, scroll down to the bottom and paste this:

    img.socialbkmark{
    border: 0px;
    }

    Save, then (if you use firefox) hold Shift and hit refresh to tell your browser to completely reload your website.

    Good luck.

  119. Thanks for the great plugin Max. My social plugin looks pretty lame right now, so I’ll be looking forward to running yours.

    TZ

  120. Praca
    27 Sep 06
    2:08 am

    Hi:)
    Good job! very useful plugin thanks also for tutorial and faq - it’s realy helpful!!

  121. precharge projectnet
    05 Oct 06
    4:54 am

    Ths is a nice plugin but I was wondering if you might be willing to make it usable with squible. I love those templates but everutim I try th esociable code in there it doesn’t work. Or if anyone has figured out how to use this plugin with squible please let me know.

    Thank You

  122. [...] Source: Sociable: Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for WordPress at MaxPower Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

  123. [...] Digerati Spouse: NO @#(%%$&^ WAY!!!! That can’t be!                      Me: Yeah check out this funtastic Sociable thing and this equally cool Socializer thing. [...]

  124. [...] Social Bookmarking, das Ablegen, Verschlagworten und Kategorisieren der eigenen Favoriten im Web ist eine gängige Methode, sich Informationen anhand der eigenen Tags (Schlagwörter) zu merken und mit anderen zu teilen. Es kann durchaus nützlich sein, den Besuchern eines Blogs die Möglichkeit zu bieten, Artikel die ihm gefallen, zu “bookmarken”, sofern er bereits bei einem der Social Bookmark-Portale Mitglied ist oder durch den Versuch des “Bookmarkings” Mitglied wird. Das erhöht die Wahrnehmbarkeit der Blog-Einträge und sorgt für eine größere Verbreitung der Inhalte. Für die Blog-Software “WordPress” gibt es das PlugIn “Sociable“, dass dem Besucher eines Blogs eine Auswahl von “Bookmarking-Portalen” bietet, deren Service er in Anspruch nehmen kann. Wer ein “Bookmark-Tool” in deutscher Sprache bevorzugt, sollte einfach mal das Portal Mister Wong besuchen. Bleibt nur zu hoffen, dass man noch die Übersicht behält! Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

  125. Nox
    06 Dec 06
    7:25 pm

    I’m using Sociable (and I LOVE it), but I’ve found that with some themes the list of icons gets served up as a standard unordered list, with each icon on its own bulleted line.

    I know the CSS class I need to edit is “sociable_tagline” but I’m not sure what attributes to give it.

    You can see what I mean at http://www.noxdineen.com/vlog/ (I’ll be adding that theme to my main blog, at http://www.noxdineen.com, once I figure out the Sociable link issues).

    Many thanks for the great plugin and for any help you can offer.

  126. [...] Installation of Sociable plug-in. This is a great little plugin but I found that it took up a lot of real-estate on the screen (especially since I didn’t want to limit the buttons to just a few social bookmarking sites). So I’ve recently removed it and replaced it with… [...]

  127. [...] Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress Posted in blogging If you are one of the fans of WordPress and want to establish more traffic then use the plugin “Sociable“ to bookmark it some high traffic social networking sites like del.icio.us and digg.com. There are so many social networking sites supported by this plugin. And also it adds icons to your WordPress site posts. [...]

  128. [...] If you are one of the fans of WordPress like me and want to establish more traffic then use the plugin “Sociable“ to bookmark it some high traffic social networking sites like del.icio.us and digg.com. There are so many social networking sites supported by this plugin. And also it adds icons to your WordPress site posts. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

  129. [...] WP-Sociable 为Post增加提交到众多流行的书签的链接。 [...]

  130. I found using Wordpress to design my web sites a great time saver and with plugins for automatic sitemap generation and SEO optimisation and easy changing of themes its such a web design time saver. If fact i just made a template from the theme i’m currently using and after veiwing the souce code i just saved as html and with a bit of copy and pasting moved all the content on my older html pages to the new template now my older pages all look the same as the blog template. On a new site this isnt a problem but this one has been around a while before i used Wordpress. Still have a load of article pages to move over but i should be able to automate some of it with a few block text replacer programs i have.

  131. WP-Sociable…

    Social bookmarking sites allow websurfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online. The Sociable plugin appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blog’s posts, increasing your potential audienc…

  132. laurie
    27 Feb 07
    10:33 pm

    i’ve got the latest version of this, but only 2 of the little icons show up? i’ve e-mailed push, but have gotten no response. how do i get the images for the other icons?

    thx

  133. [...] The icons show up easily with the Social Bookmarking Plugin. Simply upload it and pick from a huge list of places that people can vote at or submit your posts to. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

  134. Fantistic i will use your plugin in my Website.
    Thanks and hope you can add more Social Bookmarking options.
    John Watkins

  135. Infonavit
    01 Mar 07
    10:36 am

    I put in my weblog and is great your script thanks for all fo your hard work.
    Sincerely
    Raul Gonalez

  136. Rock
    03 Mar 07
    11:13 pm

    I want to indent the placement of my sociable bookmarks to match the alignment of my posts and was wondering if I modify sociable.css or sociable-admin and then what area do I modify?

    Thanks.

  137. [...] I somehow managed to delete my huge collection of plugin’s in my favourites. Here are some I am using: Fuzzy Recent Posts Plugin For WordPress | Semiologic Other Posts from Cat plugin for WordPress Dagon Design SEO Title Tag: A WordPress Plugin for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Neato Blog Archive Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.14159265 Sociable: Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress at MaxPower __________________ Ireland SEO Online Marketing [...]

  138. Sociable…

    Sociable
    Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress
    ……

  139. [...] Sociable 2.0 is a Wordpress plugin developed [mostly] by Peter Harkins and Kirk Montgomery. I haven’t read all the legalese, but the fact that it’s distributed freely and available on sourceforge tells me that it’s pretty safe for me to fix bugs in it and post my changes. (Peter, please contact me if I’m incorrect and I’ll adjust this posting as you direct me to.) [...]

  140. I am really glad i ran into your article. I was hoping some kind of blog service would end up doing this. Wordpress sure does always seem to come through. Social bookmarking is th in thing right now so just seems fitting that they provide this service.

  141. [...] Visit [...]

  142. [...] Sociable - The Sociable wordpress plugin will add social bookmarking icons to the bottom of your posts so your readers can easily bookmark and share posts on sites such as Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit, Furl and others. There are several alternatives to Sociable such as this social bookmarking plugin. [...]

  143. arry
    07 Jun 07
    2:00 am

    wow! cool plugin, many thanks!
    :razz:

  144. [...] Easy and Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress! Download Sociable Plugin [...]

  145. [...] Installation Simply download the Zip-Archive and extract the entire folder into your wp-content/plugins/ directory. Then go into your WordPress administration page, open the Plugins menu and activate it. Now you need to determine where you would like your links to appear. See the usage section below. [...]

  146. [...] If you have a wordpress website, like this one, there are options you can download as plugins to help you.? We use a product called Sociable.? It allows you to add a social bookmarking sites listing to each of your posts for both the authors and users to submit to.? It comes with many (to many) as enabled, we have cut it down to 3.? This way, users are focused to make each submission stronger, rather than having 10 week ones. There are other products out there, do a Google Search if you would like. [...]

  147. [...] WP-Sociable 为Post增加提交到众多流行的书签的链接。 [...]

  148. Cive
    15 Jul 07
    12:08 pm

    neat bookmarking widget - good job!

  149. Compliments, very good

  150. [...] Henri van den Hoof’s (marketingland) Nederlandse Social News Sites plugin toegevoegd in plaats van Sociable. Daarnaast Twitthis functionaliteit toegevoegd en geoptimaliseerd voor Wordpress theme; [...]

  151. [...] WP-Sociable - Cria os links de divulgação do del.ici.us, digg. O botão de divulgação do Rec6 eu adicionei manualmente. [...]

  152. super plugin :)
    and i’m using it in my blog…

  153. [...] Sociable : Automatically adds linked icons of various social bookmarking sites like del.ici.ous, Digg, Reddit, Furl etc after every blogpost. So the reader can share the post with their friends. Share This Also works good. [...]

  154. [...] - The Sociable wordpress plugin will add social bookmarking icons to the bottom of your posts so your readers can [...]

  155. Davey
    05 Dec 07
    10:53 am

    Just found this page through Google, searching for “social bookmark plugin wordpress”, and Google warns me that your site could be potentially harmful. Just a heads-up!

  156. acyclovir
    07 Dec 07
    1:45 pm

    acyclovir…

    countersinking deadline…

  157. [...] Sociable: Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress at MaxPower (tags: wordpress plugin social bookmark) [...]

  158. [...] Sociable: Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress at MaxPowerPublished by deepthought January 26th, 2006 in Code, MaxPower Features, Tools, Wordpress, blog. Update 16/03/06: Download the latest version of Sociable at … [...]

  159. [...] plugins will help anyone to increase the traffic or as others call it , daily unique visitors. 1) Sociable: Social bookmarking sites allow web surfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find [...]

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

  161. [...] removed. The big one in this category is social bookmarking plugins. I have played with AddThis and Sociable, but I’m not using anything right now. I guess I feel like if you already use a social [...]

  162. [...] removed. The big one in this category is social bookmarking plugins. I have played with AddThis and Sociable, but I’m not using anything right now. I guess I feel like if you already use a social [...]

  163. [...] removed. The big one in this category is social bookmarking plugins. I have played with AddThis and Sociable, but I’m not using anything right now. I guess I feel like if you already use a social [...]

  164. Tag
    23 Mar 08
    5:27 am

    social bookmarking?

  165. Thanks, great post

  166. aj
    05 Apr 08
    10:26 pm

    Hi…

    I’m able to install the plugin but nothing shows up on the blog posts. Can you please explain what I need to do? I’m not familiar with programming and would appreciate further guidance.

  167. thanks for this plugin..

    i’d download it today, not use it yet.. ;)

  168. [...] nl "social bookmarking" siteleri tamam ben vereyim Sociable: Quick Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress — MaxPower bide autosocial __________________ http://www.yuxelmurat.com [...]

  169. Dan Nappi
    15 Apr 08
    12:30 am

    Great plug in but when I add a pic to my post in wp 2.5 the sociable plug gets pushed to the right doesnt anyone know why this happens?

  170. [...] you are one of the fans of WordPress and want to establish more traffic then use the plugin “Sociable“ to bookmark it some high traffic social networking sites like del.icio.us and digg.com. There are [...]

  171. hmm, seems interesting for beginners bloggers like me.

  172. [...] Integrated support for WP-Sociable [...]

  173. [...] Sociable - Easily or automatically inserts social bookmarking icons to your posts. [...]

  174. [...] Sociable - Easily or automatically inserts social bookmarking icons to your posts. Share: [...]

  175. Yes its fine

  176. [...] to do this. Put Social Bookmark buttons below your article. If you have a blog, then you can use Sociable Plugin. If you have a Html page then you can use [...]

  177. xaer8
    09 May 09
    2:22 pm

    those warnings instructing people to go to other sites really annoying. Anyway, this sociable most useful. Great plugin.

  178. [...] Sociable - Easily or automatically inserts social bookmarking icons to your posts. [...]

  179. [...] Sociable - Easily or automatically inserts social bookmarking icons to your posts. [...]

  180. Great plug-in. Thanks.