Socialize
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Socialize is the easiest way to selectively add actionable social bookmarks to your posts.
You can add bookmarks in two places:
- Inside the content
- In a box below the content
The plugin was designed to make it very easy to manage. Instead of adding new meta keys, like other plugins require, there is an additional panel in your posts admin page that allows you to select which bookmarks you want to display. This is to encourage people to choose more relevant bookmarks for their posts.
You are also provided with a box at the bottom of your posts that asks readers to subscribe and comment. This text can be edited in the ‘Socialize Admin Page’. You can also selectively display social bookmarks in this box the same way you go about inserting bookmarks in content.
Furthermore, you can choose to display bookmarks in the content on all pages or just on single pages. You can also choose to hide the box that displays beneath the posts by default.
Check out some screenshots of Socialize on WordPress.org
Installation
- Upload the ’socialize’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Tweak your settings under ‘Socialize’ in your settings panel
- (optional) Choose some default bookmarks to display on existing posts
- Selectively display bookmarks at your will
Download Socialize
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Good Stuff, is there a way to set it so that by default (for old posts or posts with authors that are not good at following instructions), there are a set of chosen sharing icons in the box below the post for all posts?…
There are two things I want to do.
1) Exactly what you said
2) Make it easy to switch from other popular plugins to mine (ex: WP-Digg-This to Socialize)
I’m hoping to have the first feature up and running by the end of the weekend. Would have been handy for my own blog but I just went through manually and updated over 100 posts …. not expecting others to go through the same.
Cool, let me know… Id love to know when that works cause I cant update my 1600+ posts ;-)
Love the fact that it looks like you added this functionality in the new update. However, for some reason, it has slowed down the single pages tremendously…. In fact, they wont load unless I deactivate the plugin. Any ideas?
It might be because the new Facebook button I integrated as the default (fbshare.me) is currently down so the javascript that displays the button might be getting hung up. Try switching to the other facebook button in the settings panel
Nope, Tried it but no luck. I even deactivated the facebook button entirely… hm….
It’s always something with WordPress. I’ll try and dedicate some time tonight to try and figure out what’s going on.
Thanks for the heads up.
So I just installed your plugin … It added the links to all old posts, but doesn’t use the default settings for new posts. I have to go in a check off the boxes when I create a new post. What am I missing?
That’s on my list of to-dos. I should have that working properly by 0.3
Any updates? I cant figure out why the pages wont load….
I uninstalled until the fixes are implemented. Please keep me updated.
Also, could you possible add Yahoo Buzz?
Thanks!
-Stacy
I’m going to try and release a small fix tonight that takes care of some of the bugs mentioned.
I’ve been pondering Yahoo Buzz for awhile now, all I need was a little reinforcement and I think this is it. I’ll see if I can roll it into the release tonight.
Using it on my site and look forward to the future features discussed in the comments.
Just want to thank you for your efforts; keep it up.
My suggestion: Feed integration like TweetMeme has.
Thanks.
I’m hoping to get a major release out soon with a new control panel and more control over placement.
Jon: You’re doing some big things here ! Glad I found your work. I just put your socializer plugin on 2 of my blogs.
Great work !
Great plugin!
Could you please add Yahoo Buzz?
Thanks,
Sudha C Reddi
Oh, man! I thought I had this all set up but I don’t see anything in my posts. Not sure if I still have to manually add this to old posts?
If you set up “default” buttons in the settings then they should be showing up. I do know of a few glitches I’m still trying to work out but overall the plugin is very functional.
Anything else that might give me a better idea as to where to look?
If not, no worries, I’m still constantly testing the plugin and might be able to figure it out on my own.
I was running into the same problem that the site wont load or gonna very slowly, what I did was deactivating wp-minify plugin.
After that the site loaded in the normal speed.
Thanks for this great plugin.
Hi! I just installed your great plugin. The buttons show up when I preview the post, but they don’t show up on the actual post. Any ideas why that might be?
Nevermind, I think it is working now.
Great plug-in. It’s working fine for me but I do have one small issue.
When I use another plugin, let’s say Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, it pulls the first line or so from a related post BUT, instead of the first few words of the post, it displays something like this: “tweetmeme_url = “http:/…”
The same goes for when using this with Thesis teasers. Any of the teasers display the code instead of the content. Is there something I’m doing wrong?
Hey Andrew,
This is currently a problem with the plugin. I need to edit the content filter to fix this but certain fixes would remove it from the home page altogether.
I’m still trying to figure out the best way to approach this problem.
Looking forward to it! If I find a workaround in the meantime, I’ll be sure to let you know. Thanks again for a great plugin.
If you hide the script variable definitions using then it works. Very easy fix:
http://www.javascripter.net/faq/hidingjs.htm
I just added them to the createTwitter() function where tweetmeme_url and tweetmeme_source are defined.
“If you hide the script variable definitions using <– and //–> then it works.”
Hey,
just installed the plugin and I can’t seem to find a way to add custom icons for the different share buttons. Any help?
Thanks,
Sanja
Hey, Great plugin! I love it. 2 issues though.. If I schedule a post the buttons don’t appear until I go into the post and manually select and save the socialize buttons. Also, if I quick edit a post it resets the socialize button defaults. Do you know how I can address these problems?
Mine does the same thing. Kinda a pain. But great plugin!
Anyone found a fix?
I still need to figure out when the meta data is getting reset … it’s happened to me a few times too and it is pretty annoying.
first of all, congrats and thanks for the awesome plug-in!
i have a question can the alert box parse php? i want to add the date, category and tags to the box.
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Your best bet might be to override the code .. I can send you a custom version of the file if you like with direction on where to edit.
:) that would be great, thank you
Thanks for the plugin. I always tried to use social media icon manually on my theme. I saw only a minor issue.. In this plugin social media links are do-follow links. Search engines can see those extra links doesn’t exist… You can add no-follow for those social media widgets to get optimize seo. Thanks again for the plugin.
This is very cool, Jon! I had previously used both the Backtype Tweetcount and Facebook Sharecount plugins; but upon your above advice, I deactivated them and installed Socialize. I like how each post can be configured to selectively show inline or alert box options. Nicely nice.
You can see this in action, for instance, on my tips to use LinkedIn.
great work you’re doing here, the only thing is that for my fotoblog the fbshare.me option doesn’t give me an image for the link?
maybe an option to override the fbshare.me and go just with the original facebook link?
Work has kept me busy but I’m going to be looking into the new facebook button for my next release
tried downloading this plugin on my iblog2 theme but no joy. am I missing something?
If you share your blog here we can take a look
I tried a bunch of plugins too and like this one the best by far. Only one request: I’d like the in-content button to be able to float:right instead of float:left. A checkbox or a text field for putting in my own CSS would be great.
For now, I just updated socialize.css directly.
I’ll keep this in mind for the next update. Glad you enjoy the plugin.
How do I fix this??? the code for the tweet count shows up in my feed?
tweetcount_url = “http://asiteforwomen.com/free-offers/share-tips-for-saving-time-money/”; tweetcount_src = “RT @@redkathy:”; tweetcount_via = false; tweetcount_links = true; tweetcount_size = “large”; tweetcount_background = “80b62a”; tweetcount_border = “CCCCCC”;
I know it’s probably my template but I’m a newbie so any help will be greatly appreciated. I so love this plugin, Thank you
Go into the socialize settings and uncheck “Display Inline Buttons On All Pages”. That will remove the buttons from everywhere except posts.
Thank you Jon for the response. I did that with no luck. My feed still shows all that code. Any other ideas
What’s your website. It shouldn’t be inserting it if you have that option unchecked.
It worked, duh I didn’t clear my browser! Thank you again.
Thanks for great plugin!
I have some suggestions though. In my blog .post img is styled so the icons of Delicious and Stumbleupon are messed up. There should be way to fix that.
I’d wish the plugin to be more accurate in layout of buttons and icons as well.
Awesome piece of social marketing. It actually makes a difference and is very well thought from the beggining.
Few flaws I’ve found:
1. it doesn’t show in the blog’s home page.
2. Icons are a liiiitle bit too big. Try 2/3 of the actual size and more resolution. Contact me and I’ll help you gladly.
3. More services available would be great.
LOVE this plugin — thanks for all your hard work.
My dilemma: I want the buttons to show up on both the single post page as well as the index page, and if I check “Display Inline Buttons On All Pages” in the plugin settings, this of course works. However, on the Category and Archive pages (and I suspect anywhere where there is an excerpt), I get:
tweetmeme_url = “http://example.com/2009/12/permalink/”;
tweetmeme_source = “tweetmeme”;
The only way to avoid this is to comment out $text = strip_tags($text); from the excerpt creation in formatting.php, but then I get the buttons on the category and archive views, and I don’t really want them there because they extend far below the length of the excerpt.
Help! Is there a solution? I really love this plugin and want it to work!
Is there any way i can place it other in different location.. For example i want to call the plugin from wordpress theme manually, or want to place it on the right side ??