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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
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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.
This entry was posted on and is filed under .like that
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/â€;
tweetmeme_source = “tweetmemeâ€;
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 ??
Hey everyone! Jon, LOVE the plugin! I just got started with blogging, and this makes updating everything easier. My question is, new posts don’t have the buttons next to them – I have to edit the posts, and manually check which social sites I want to list. I do my post externally and upload them, is this the problem? I just prefer to use my own program vs. WordPress online editor. I do have the inline thing checked, but have the alert box unchecked, as it was taking up too much space. Any ideas as to how to get it to automatically update each post with the social links? Thanks a bunch!!!
All working beautifully up to a point. Every page and every post has an in-body tweetmeme icon. Every page but one: http://www.cdpcelebration.com/when-advertisements-were-better-than-the-programmes-they-interrupted/tv-cinema/Looking at the source code for the page it seems to have included only part of the socialize code:
Whereas on other pages it includes the full script:
tweetmeme_url = “http://www.cdpcelebration.com/when-advertisements-were-better-than-the-programmes-they-interrupted/”;
tweetmeme_source = “tweetmeme”;
Any clues to what’s going on?
Looks like the message box has made scrambled egg of my lastcomment. In a nutshell Socialize code isn’t being inserted properly into one of my pages: http://www.cdpcelebration.com/when-advertisements-were-better-than-the-programmes-they-interrupted/tv-cinema/ Whereas it is working fine on all other pages and posts. I wondered if you could shed some light on what might be going wrong.
when i edit a post the socialize buttons dissapear…
any way to make this not happen?
Hey Jon,
Your plugin is awesome, i went through 30+ plugins and finally shortlisted and am using your plugin. Its serving my needs very well indeed, however i have one problem, as mentioned earlier, the buttons don’t show up when a scheduled post gets posted.
On my site, i schedule posts months in advance and getting back to every new post and editing it is a big pain.
Is there any solution?
You can even reply to me via mail or i’ll frequent this page for a reply. The site in question is the one attached to my name on this comment.
Thanks.
Syd.
Great plugins. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Jon,
There’s something faulty with Socialize — with Thesis version 1.7, though I can’t imagine the theme is to blame.
But when clicking the retweet button at the bottom of my posts, for instance, I now see:
http://twitter.com/home/?status=RT%20@ariherzog:%20Why%20the%20News%20Sucks:%2083%%20is%20Not%20New%20%E2%80%94%20AriWriter%20http%3A%2F%2Fbt.io%2FEnFuHey Ari.
Just looked into that quickly and it looks like its a problem with the BackType TweetCount Button. For that specific post you tested with, your title seems to break when being passed through to backtype because of the % sign. Backtype goes as far as trying to send the improperly coded data to twitter which breaks when it gets to the % sign. There’s nothing I can do about this. You can change to TweetMeme if its really a problem or change your title. I will send a note to BackType and hopefully theyll look into it some more.
Hello, nice plugin!
One strange thing: I check “twitter” and “Facebook” when writing a post but if I delay the publication the box will be published unchecked.
Any idea?
Are you using the most recent version? I though I addressed this problem in the last update.
Yes I’m using the most recent version downloaded here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/socialize/
Ah and the download link: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/socialize.0.4.zip is 404 file not found
Oh dam, thanks for the heads up. Fixed the link.
I’ll go back and see what I can do.
Good plugin… very useful
Hi Jon,
I’m building a new blog, and I LOVE the sociable plugin. It’s really fun. I was wondering if you’re going to update it to include the new Facebook Like button? I’m using a different fb like plugin, and it’s putting the fb button next to the Tweet button, with no option to move where it’s displayed. If you put the like button in an update, having it display as the first button in the series so it displays on top of the tweet button, that would be perfect. Just a suggestion.
Hi John! I’m just curious, is there a way to disable the alert box in other pages? Because even in contact/about page, the alert box is still there. I want it in my posts page only..
Not currently but this is something I would like to add.
Great plugin. Am using it on my site and have also included it in one of my posts about essential wordpress plugins
Great plugin,but it will be good if can incluse Google Buzz & Yahoo Buzz Up.
Hi John, great plugin!
Is there a way to put the icons in the top right corner of the post instead of the top left corner?
I wrote down all of your changes and added them all to the plugin. Let me know what you think.
Hey Jon,
I’ve commented earlier here and am waiting for you to fix the bug in which the box doesn’t show up when scheduled posts are published.
My site highly depends on this as i schedule my posts weeks in advance and have to literally go everyday and ‘check’ the social bookmarks to be added from the backend.
I’ve subscribed to the comments and will wait for a reply.
-Sydney.
Sorry about that Sydney, I thought I addressed this problem in previous version. I’ll try and recreate it on my test blog and see whats going on.
Hi Jon, just wanted to let you know I just added the socialize plugin to my new site (running WP 3.0 w/ the “intrepidity” theme) and as soon as I activate the socialize plugin, the homepage of my site displays “Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_post_thumbnail_id() in /home/content/23/6312823/html/wp-content/plugins/socialize/socialize.php on line 55″
This is without making any other changes besides activating it and then re-loading my page. If I deactivate it, the page goes back to normal (which, admittedly is pretty empty since it’s a brand new “shell” for me).
Just thought you should know.
Thanks for putting this together – I’m looking forward to being able to use it.
I’m not sure about your level of development skill but if you try adding “global $post;” right below “function createBuzz(){” it might make it work. If it does let me know and I’ll commit the changes and go to version 1.1.2
Never mind, I figured out what was wrong and made the edits. Version 1.1.2 should be available in the plugin repository shortly.
Hi Jon, why is that after I upgraded to the latest version, the alert box stopped working.. Is this a bug?
Hi, you know what. It’s weird.. The alert box is showing again after I checked the box that says add buttons in posts. Because before, I only have to check the checkbox for alert box, but it doesn’t work now. I still have to check the buttons checkbox even though i don’t really use the buttons..
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I just updated the plugin to fix this.
Hi John,
Thanks for responding on Twitter. I downloaded the plug-in but I think perhaps there’s another step I need to take to activate…? Or perhaps I’m just overlooking something.
Anyway, thanks for your feedback.
http://www.tayloryou.com/blog
Seems to be working fine now. Are there still any problems?
Hey Jon,
Looks like a great plugin, thanks much for putting up the effort to do this. Unfortunately, I have to ask for help… For some reason, I’m getting this error line when I tried to activated Socialize…
Fatal error: Call to undefined function current_theme_supports() in /home1/nikolast/public_html/wp-content/plugins/socialize/socialize.php on line 55
Any ideas why? Tried quite a few permutations of checks and ticks already but none seemed to work. For now, am taking it off the site because it makes the rest of the page below it no longer visible…
Cheers, and thanks much!
-Nik
The plugin works best on WordPress 2.9+. You are using WordPress 2.7.1. Unfortunately I cant help you until you upgrade.
Ah I see that’s the problem! Thanks much Jon, I’ll update and try again.
And…. that works like a charm. Thanks so much! Great plug-in!
Hey, just installed Socialize, and love the plugin, but for some reason Google Buzz does not work. I can’t get it to show up in either inline or the alert box, it acts as if I have it not selected. Facebook and Twitter worked just fine for me, however. Any idea why this may be happening?
I already found the issue, thanks for pointing this out. You should be able to go into posts and enable/resave it and the button will display. I will fix it so the default functionality will work in the next version.
Hi again Jon, thanks for the help earlier. The plugin works like a charm now on my site, and it looks great! Thanks so much…
There are however, a few instances where… weird things happen. It’s no big problem, just some aesthetics… But it got me wondering and curious, is there something wrong that I’m doing?
Here’s a screenshot of the “weirdness” that happens every now and then… they’re just random as far as I can see…
I’m not able to attach images it seems…
Here’s a link to the screenshot…
http://unearthingasia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/plugin-question.jpg
The issue with Google Buzz is there is a problem in the code where if you have Google Buzz checked to be displayed by default it wont display automatically. This is because of an ID conflict when I added the new buttons. This will be fixed soon and should prevent it from displaying when it is not supposed to.
The Facebook problem is Facebook’s fault. Their button doesn’t display a number if there are no shares. This is why I included the alternative fbShare.me button. You can switch between the two in the settings
I’ve turned on the error_reporting to E_ALL for development reasons and your plugin seems to spew lots of Notices in the dashboard.
Take a look into it
Hi,
thanx for the wonderful plugin.
I had some problems and I hope I’ll find help here:
I just updated to the new version and then realized, that with the update all my option was overwritten. That cant be right. Did I forget to set a switch that my options are kept on updating?
I use the “Follow Widget”; when the mose is over the icon/link there is no tooltip. Is this correct? It’ll be great if the title-tag is integrated into the links of the widgets. It should be the text of the links you are using in the widget.
Bye Marc
Hi I love the plugin
I just want the thing to work its so annoying. When I attempted to share posts from my home page it attempts to share from my products page. this only happens from my home page, everything else is cool. My home page (posts) is the most important to me. what shall I do? Please help?
my blog http://www.deanferracho.net
Thanks
Love your plugin :)
I am having an issue since installing it earlier yesterday. I’ve published two posts since installing it and Tweetmeme doesn’t seem to be counting how many retweets there are. It just shows zero.
The other thing is that Facebook share is collapsed until one actually hits the button. It is counting shares however one can not see the number of shares until one hits it.
I am using the alert box setting only.
Happily, all my previous posts are showing the proper numbers of shares and retweets except for any new posts that I create.
I am using WP 3.0 and the Thesis Theme 1.7.
Thank you for help in advance and for creating such a wonderful plugin!
Sometimes TweetMeme can be a bit buggy as can any javascript. I personally use the backtype tweetcount button instead and am very happy with it.
The facebook button issue is also facebooks deal. The button is displayed at 1/3 of its height until it has a number to display. Its quite a bummer. I personally use the fbShare.me button instead to combat this problem.
Both of these settings can be switched under Settings -> Socialize
Thanks so much for the quick response Jon. I’ll try switching to the other buttons instead. Have a great day! :)
Jessica, we are having the same experience with the official facebook share button where it shows the number of shares only immediately after you hit the button to share. Once you come back into the post or page, the button is collapsed, not showing the number of shares.
We know we have shares because the fbShare.me button shows the shares when it is turned on.
There wouldn’t be in some kind of lag in reporting with the official facebook button, would there? Surely, the version of wp is not a factor, if using a current version.
We’ll probably continue to use the fbShare.me button, but I am curious as to why fbShare.me will show the shares but the official button won’t.
Thank you Jon for the great work that you have done with plugin.
don’t think fbShare.me actually knows how many shares that a post has on Facebook. I’m pretty sure it relies on its own click-throughs to figure out how many times something was probably shared.
Jon, more accolades for sure. Nice and simple. I am having one issue however. The plugin doesn’t seem to display on the homepage when excerpts are enabled. Are you seeing other feedback like this? I’ve flipped through a few themes to test and they all recreated the issue. Bizarre. Thanks!
Im having the same issue as Jade. Home page with Excerpts only showing has no icons. Displays in full Post ok though. Also not showing in Feed.
Hi, I use this plugin in one of my blog actually work in progress. I have a problem with your plugin.
http://twitmix.oneden.net/2010/07/14/hello-world/
I activated inline social button for Twitter, Facebook (with fbshare) and Buzz but I can see only Twitter. If i deactivate Twitter, I see however only Twitter. If i deactivate all… I see always Twitter.
What I have to do? Thank you
Solved. Was my fault in single article Socialize settings.
Bye.