Socialize Plugin Page – Social Bookmarking for WordPress
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I created socialize to satisfy a few problems I had with current social bookmarking plugins. I believe that using actionable social bookmarks in your posts will get you more shares. Actionable social bookmarks are usually created by the service they post to and always contain a number representing the number of shares or views that entry has.
Furthermore, I believe that by selectively displaying the bookmarks that perform best you will get even more shares. Why is this? Because if it seems like a lot of people are sharing something than it must be important. It’s our human nature.
Here is a video demonstrating how I optimize my own website with Socialize.
What is Socialize?
Here is a video explaining what Socialize is in detail. Basically, Socialize is the easiest way to selectively add actionable social bookmarks to your posts. All of the bookmarks included with the plugin display a share count.
You can add bookmarks in two places:
- Inside the content
- In a box below the content
The plugin was designed to make adding and changing social buttons 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 and in what order. 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.
There are all sorts of display settings for the buttons and button types. You can also change the color and look of the Call to Action box from within the Socialize settings.
Check out some screenshots of Socialize on WordPress.org
Supported Services
- Twitter
- Official
- Tweetmeme
- Topsy
- Backtweets
- Facebook
- Official Like
- FBShare.me
- Digg
- Sphinn
- Dzone
- StumbleUpon
- Delicious
- Google Buzz
- Yahoo Buzz
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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Have you considered a way to cache the Twitter results so that we’re not hitting Twitter all the time? I blow through my 150 calls per hour in the blink of an eye, which puts me in permanent “error mode” with Twitter. I really need a way to solve this problem. So far I haven’t found any plugin that addresses it. Thanks for your consideration.
Very good plugin Jon. Firstly I’ll thank myself for coming across your plugin and more thanks to you for sharing such a simple and easy social sharing plugin for WordPress. I’ll be using this plugin soon in my site.
Hello! I also vote for shortcodes.
So far, I really like this plugin, but I would REALLY, REALLY like to see Pinterest included!
Jon, I absolutely love your plugin but since a few days ago, it is not allowing me to share on LinkedIn. It gives me an error message. Can you please help me? Thank you!!! Havi
Congratulation jon , I think this is a great social plug in but i have one problem after the configuration.. when someone like on Facebook the excerpt metadata is missing.. am I wrong with the configuration?
I have create an application on facebook and i set the ID into socialize configuration..
thanx 4 suggestions
Jon, really nice social plugin! I’ve tried a lot of them, but I keep coming back to this one. My only challenge is the lack of shortcode support. Shortcode would allow us to order the presentation of content. Unfortunately, my theme (or WP iteself) places the call to action box too far below my content. I’d like this plugin to be displayed ahead of Facebook Comments and others. Can you help us with a shortcode?
Hi,
I have added this wonderful plugin to my site. Works great on my posts, but it doesn’t show up under my posts on my homepage only on the post(permalink) pages.
How can I have it show up under the posts in the homepage line up too.
Oh and I want to add one more vote to the pinterest button being added too.
Marianne
Will you add a Pinterest add feature to this plugin?
It is great ,but i am having difficulties to remove the yellow box
I love this plugin but was wondering if there are plans to add Pinterest to the list of InLine Social Buttons? I would love to see a Pin It button! Thanks!
I’m hoping someone can help.
I’m not understanding the Facebook APP ID. It appears to be associated with an app. But which one? Do I need to create a specific kind of app. I’m not understanding the association/relationship between the Facebook button on my site and the app id at all.
Please advise!
thanks.
Hey guys, any way to add a comment count through this plugin? I saw this guys website — MichaelHyatt.com — and I’d love to have that sort of functionality. Any ideas?
Hi,
Can you tell me how can I put the box “call to action” at the top on my post please ?
I would be extremely excited if you added support for buddypress and, in particular, bbpress (now part of buddypress 1.5)
I have spent several days looking for a solution and can only find one – Buddypress Share It – which does NOT support bbpress forums.
This looks to me to be a significant hole in the market and an OPPORTUNITY for a talented programmer like yourself!
It is very ironic that Buddypress does not have social sharing integration right out of the box – because it’s meant to add social networking to WordPress. Are you feeling the irony here? Ridiculous. Nevertheless, their recent massive release (1.5) STILL does not integrated social sharing tools.
What would be great would be for Socialize to have an all-in-one solution that offered sharing buttons to:
Buddypress Activity Streams
Buddypress Member Profiles
Buddypress Group Profiles
Buddypress Group Forums
Buddypress Site-Wide Forums (aka bbpress) – Main Topics & Replies
Sounds like a lot of work, I suppose – but I’d even pay for that! Plus, I doubt I’m the only one in the world using this stuff….
Do you have any plans in adding a Pinterest Pin It button? Would love, love that addition!!
I had my web programmer do it, he had to add some code.
Can you share the final code snippets? Thanks!!
I’m not sure what exactly was changed and I’m not a programmer myself so I can only guess:
He added this to the socialize.css in /frontend
.google_plusone_button {
padding-right: 12px;
}
and in the socialize-frontend.php this:
if(in_array($serviceID, $socializemeta)){
return $before_button . $this->get_button($serviceID) . $after_button;
} else {
return false;
}
}
was changed for this:
if(in_array($serviceID, $socializemeta)){
if($serviceID == 24 || $serviceID == 25) {
return preg_replace(“/class=\”(.*)\”>/”, “class=\”google_plusone_button $1\”>”, $before_button) . $this->get_button($serviceID) . $after_button;
}
else {
return $before_button . $this->get_button($serviceID) . $after_button;
}
} else {
return false;
}
}
Hope I could help. I paid for it so if it works and you’re running a business I’ll be thankful for a donation
I was wondering if there was a way to have the share buttons horizontally aligned on the pasts and vertically aligned on the pages? Thanks and love your plugin!
Hi, how can I position the buttons individually? Google+ is off (not aligned) by about 6 pixels. In socialize.css? Where? Thanks!
site: cinema5d.com/news/
Why can not I align horizontally?
Will there be any Floating buttons “bar” options in the near future? Would be awesome with a floating bar at the home page only aswell. I know there are other plugins for that, but i want to use one plugin for social bookmarks only.
Anyways, awesome plugin.
It is now working. Thanks. Please delete previous comment
Can you tell me how you got it to work? (I know it’s been a while I hope you remember!) Because I am having the same problem. It only posts the post title and via @twittername but no link. Thanks!
Just installed and the Tweet comment generated by the button does not include the post’s url. Please advised.
I have just upgraded to Socialize. However, the post to twitter function does not capture the URL of the article although it does capture the article title.
Hi,
I’ve just installed your plugin in my website and it works great. I’m new to wordpress and an amateur in coding, but I would like to know if it would be possibile to show social buttons in a lightbox. I’ll explain with an example:
I have pages that shows galleries of products, like here.
When you click on a img a lightbox opens and shows the big picture. What I want is to add social buttons below the big picture so people can share a single product instead of all the page.
If this is even possible, I assume that I should add some sort of code in the “caption” of an image.
If this can be influent: I’m using nextgen gallery plugin and slimbox2 for lightbox effect.
Thanks for any possible help, and great plugin, by the way!
Ricroma
I am using socialize and love it. This morning I went to edit a page (nothing fancy and just added a paragraph) and got this error when I saved it.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/eyeonann/public_html/wp-content/plugins/socialize/admin/socialize-admin.php on line 88
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/eyeonann/public_html/wp-content/plugins/socialize/admin/socialize-admin.php on line 88
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/eyeonann/public_html/wp-content/plugins/socialize/admin/socialize-admin.php:88) in /home/eyeonann/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 934
But, the page appears to have saved correctly with the changes.
Any possibility of including/adding Pinterest to the list of InLine Social Buttons? Would love to see a Pin It w/ count added!!
Somehow Iost the 200+ facebook share count and now it is 0 after adding the digg and stumbeupon sharing buttons on one of my posts. Also on new posts facebook share count is not displaying the shares although I have shared it more than 5 times in facebook. Do you have any idea on how to solve this problem?
Is there a not-so-complicated way to add the Pinterest Pin-It count button to the list of buttons?
(scroll down http://pinterest.com/about/goodies/ )
I was just going to ask about this too!!
Hi, First of all thanks for this great plugin. I have installed it at www[dot]wishcreditcard[dot]com. But I am unable to rearrange the icons by dragging in the dashboard. It shows dotted lines while I try to rearrange but the icon never sit on the dotted spot no matter how hard I try. Any help would be great. Or let me know if I can do it by editing the core files- which file to edit for the sequence of icons.
Thanks
Tweet button is not working? It tweets but tweet counter remains at zero..:/ Why? In your page It works..:/
I have installed on several websites and on all the counters remain at zero. A real shame as they look great but in fact make the site appear redundant.
Hi guys
Was just wondering if there’s a way to install a separate LIKE and FB Share button?
Right now the two is just under Facebook Social Button and it’s really 2 separate entities doing 2 separate things.
The FB Share lets users post a short description while their sharing while the LIKE automatically just posts the article on their fb profiles.
hey guys! first of all awesome plugin!
I installed the plugin on my website, www,swimbikerun.ph and it’s working fine except for a couple of things..
1. the share, tweet count is back to zero. any chance the count before could be restored?
2. also the plugin slows my site down always to a halt. i uninstalled the plugin and the site loaded fast again.
3. also i disabled the open graph part as it doesnt seem to work. everytime i share only the site title shows up and not the post title and its description :)
I’ll leave the plugin installed overnight so hopefully you can view it :) thanks guys!
How to i manually add the buttons? any code for that? the buttons only gets on top of the page and i dont want them inside the yellow box. how can i get button at bottom of the post?
It would be really nice if we could insert the PHP code manually anywhere in our WordPress theme where we want the buttons to appear. Several Social Media plugins do provide this and they are my favorites. Keep up the good work!
Hey Jon-
Looks like the ‘Retweet’ button is now no longer picking up the URL of the post once you hit it.
Also, the box for ‘Like’ has just turned into a small button.
Not sure what’s going on? Seemed fine pre-update a few days ago.
Thanks!
I was seeing this Tweeter problem a couple of days ago but thought it might be a problem at bit.ly’s end or maybe even with my firewall. What I’ve noticed is that once you can get into a mode where the URL isn’t picked up, it’s a side-wide problem. You can’t get the URL on any post. They suddenly it all starts working again but I haven’t figured out why.
yea, yet to see that fix actually come through on my end though…it’s still just hitting that bad URL.
recommendation to undo Bit.ly integration?
I feel strongly that we need bit.y, otherwise any post with a long topic with fail (too long) and people won’t take the time to post it. I talked to bit.ly about this and they insist there is no problem on their end. The fact that it works for a while and then fails makes me think it’s a plugin issue, but I’d be glad to help test any fixes that Jon wants to try.
I did an experiment and added a different Tweet program called WP Tweetbox. I configured it to use Bit.ly and both it and Socialize were both working fine. Later on I came back and they both stopped working (they were omitting the bit.ly URL from the Tweet). Later on the both started working again. So now it looks like this must be some other issue. In the meantime, I reconfigured Tweetbox to use the option of the WP post ID, which is a little longer, but not much, and you don’t have to rely on a third-party shortener.
As a side issue, I’m unable to add, delete or rearrange buttons. The changes don’t get saved.