Guyem Social Bookmark Plugin
Posted on | May 26, 2010 | 6 Comments
So, last night before going out on a second date with the most charming Southern bell, who I probably wont be seeing again due to the fact that she has 7 older brothers, who if I may add, happen to be huge, and don’t seem to like my accent much, or the fact that I’m not big on eating meat?
Anyway, I wanted to install a social bookmarking plugin so I browsed the web and checked out a few top 10’s/20’s lists on mashable and other sites, and none were what I was looking for. They were either over the top with huge social bookmark icons, or users had to click on them to view the social bookmarks. An extra click in order for my users to share my posts is the last thing I want to add, so i made note of making myself a Social Bookmark Plugin that was tailored to my every need in the AM.
And here we are, woke up an hour or so ago and cooked up this plugin, you can see it in action at the bottom of my blog (screen shot also available below). It’s simple, subtle, and does the job perfectly, for me anyway. I figured I would go ahead and just share it with you guys.
INSTALLATION:
Upload the folder named guyem_bookmarks (default plugin folder is called “wordpresss guyem-bookmarks-plugin) in your wp-content/plugins of your public_html (hosting), then activate the plugin from your Dashboard (Wordpress Panel) in the Plugins tab. If you have more questions about the installation you can post a comment and ask.
The installation of the Guyem Bookmarks Plugin is easy, simply add the following code (at the end of the post and before the comments) in the document single.php on your blog (or main index .php page on some other themes):
<?php bookmarks (); ?>
For example, for a blog with the Wordpress default theme, the code (shown in bold) would be inserted as follows:
<?php the_tags( '<p>Tags: ', ', ', '</p>'); ?>
<?php bookmarks(); ?>
<p>
Some extra things I kept in mind:
- W3C validation and clean code
- Added social bookmark for Designers – Design Float.
- Optimized / SEO friendly outgoing links to bookmarks (rel = “nofollow”)
- Bookmarks open in a new tab or window (target = “_blank”)
Added an easy to customize option panel that you can access directly from within you WP Admin Panel under Settings, a screenshot is provided below and is pretty self explanatory.
Download Guyem Social Bookmark Plugin
Visit Wordpress.org to download the plugin
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May 26th, 2010 @ 6:48 pm
[...] Comes with my Guyem Bookmark Plugin [...]
May 27th, 2010 @ 1:30 am
Downloaded and installed. It works perfectly and I got to make the bg a nice teal color to match my blog, wonderful!
May 27th, 2010 @ 9:01 am
Just got this working, I love how light weight and simple it is, thanks Guy.
May 29th, 2010 @ 6:50 am
[...] Guyem Bookmarks von Guy kann man eine Leiste mit Bookmarkung Diensten und Social Networks in das Blog [...]
July 5th, 2010 @ 6:40 pm
Hello and thank you for your bookmark plugin,but the images are not showing up for the different bookmarks. I put the code in my main index php, and they are on my pages but without the images, and I did it on several different sites, any suggestions?
July 6th, 2010 @ 2:45 pm
Hi Edward, not sure why that should be happening, unless you didn’t upload all the files to the proper directory, check and let me know, if it’s not the case i’ll revise the code again for you and see what’s up. Link me to one of your blogs with the plugin enabled so i can have a look too, please.