Social Bookmarkings
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@TimeThief: Maybe I didn’t need the same thing as you did but, as it turns out, I was able to add an AddThis button in a Text widget in one of my sidebars and it seems to work. If I’m in a post and I press this AddThis button, it leads me to a page where there’s a long list of social bookmarking services (including Facebook) and it keeps the complete original URL for the post from which I clicked.
One issue, though, is that the title of the post is replaced with that same URL. But I can probably live with that. -
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THANKS TO OPTIONS!
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btw, it is futile to post the code that addthis provides under each post. you must modify it for the reader to be able to bookmark a blog post, and not the whole blog.the link contains both the original and modified code. see for yourself what they do!
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However, rather than all this fiddling about with icons and links on each post wordpress.com could simply introduce the “share this” plugin by Alex King or a similar widget that would add social bookmark icons at the end of each post. I’m sure that if they did it would be appreciated by many bloggers. http://alexking.org/blog/2007/09/24/the-future-of-share-this
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The Share This widget icon is so small and unobtrusive that it generates far fewer recommendations in my experience than those icons laid out in a line underneath the text. I’ve tested it, and I wouldn’t use Share This if I had the choice to use the individual icons. The plain fact is, it’s just too skippable.
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Setting aside the limitations of “share this” it would appear that wordpress.com coders could come up with a social bookmarking widget that would automatically produce the icons at the end of all blog posts just like the icons you have been manually placing at the end of your posts on your blog. Perhaps what we need to do is ask them to do that. What do you think?
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I’d love it, but they’ve said in the past they won’t do it because they don’t want to have to decide which ones to put in and which to leave out, and you know those things are very subject to trends.
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Ahhh … yes. It does appear that I forgot that. Thanks for reminding me. It also appears to me that sunburntkamel’s solution (ie. the one you use on your blog http://raincoaster.com) is the best and easiest social booking marking approach to use on wordpress.com blogs http://archgfx.net/blog/2006/geek/blogging/social-bookmarks-on-wordpresscom
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One really helpful feature of the “Share This” plugin is the ability to email a post. It would be great to have an “Email This” option at WordPress.com, but I imagine it might be something the spammers could somehow exploit, I don’t know.
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I’m afraid I didn’t make myself clear. We do offer the email subscription option via Feedburner in the qarrtsiluni sidebar, and at another WP.com site I administer, we use Feedblitz. Both services work fine. What I’m talking about is the utility common to online non-blog periodicals which allows visitors to the site to email a post to another person. I would imagine that “Email this” links are used at least ten times more often than social bookmarking links.
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The one forum thread I can find that addresses this need is https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=11709&page&replies=5
And as I suspected, drmike says “it’s way too easy for spammers to abuse.” -
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This might be a very good and easy way of having an alternative email a friend thing under blog posts.
this is the only thing i know that gets the job done for us. if anyone has any other suggestion, do let us know.
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oh! i didn’t see options’ post here before i posted, but, if the myth is about the mailto: tag, then i’m afraid it is true. i had it in a blog post on a test basis and my friend’s email to me sent in this way met the akismet fate.
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