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Wordpress social bookmarking plugin

Just installed a neat little plugin for Wordpress called Sociable which outputs image based social bookmarking links on various Wordpress pages to allow my blog readers (all two of them :-) ) to quickly bookmark and share interesting posts. A tonne of social bookmarking sites are supported as shown by the following partial screenshot of the options interface, click the image to view a full size version.

 

All the supported Social Bookmarking sites
 

You’ll see that at the moment I’m outputting links to about 20 social bookmarking sites (out of a total of about 60) which is more than enough really. I’m really conscious of not having excess flair on my blog by having too many widgets and icons cluttering up the place. Jeff Atwood on his excellent Coding Horror blog lists excess flair as #4 on his list of thirteen blog clichés so I certainly want to avoid that, in saying that though I want to make sure I’m linking to all the most popular social bookmarking sites. Since I’m a complete social bookmarking notice perhaps you guys could tell me if I missed any of the big players in the SB market.

As usual with Wordpress plugins the install is a piece of cake which everyone should be able to handle, anyhow if your in the market for a social bookmarking plugin for Wordpress I definitely recommend you check Sociable out.

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • Digg
  • Furl
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Reddit
  • Simpy
  • De.lirio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • Netscape
  • Spurl
  • blogmarks
  • blinkbits
  • SphereIt
  • Slashdot
  • Ma.gnolia
3 Comments on “Wordpress social bookmarking plugin”
1| Paul Browne - Technology and People said,

Yep, Sociable is a pretty nice plugin if you don’t go too mad with it.

Another option , if you’re using Feedburner, is to enable to the feedflare ; this gives you a range of social bookmark links , including Digg, Del.icio.us and Facebook. Unlike Sociable, this also works within the RSS feed.


Example of feedflare in action at the bottom of Paul’s blogpost

2| David Callan said,

Hi Paul thanks for the reply, what’s your opinion of my current amount of SB sites? I’ve actually removed two/three since the post but still thinking I might have too much.

Yes I tried to get feedburner working the other day without success however. I may try again when I get a moment over the weekend.

3| David Callan said,

I noticed feedburner goes with the full service button rather than an icon, this will perhaps ring home more with readers. Another reason why I will give feedburner another shot.

Do you find it actually increases your traffic though?

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