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Simple Social Bookmarking With WordPress

Posted by Andrew Lindstrom / Tutorials / August 17th, 2008

The other day I finally got my act together and added some social bookmarking links to the bottom of my blog posts. Being a WordPress user I was presented with a lot of options to make this process easier. Plugins like Sociable and ShareThis will have your blog going viral within minutes.

But what about us hand-coding control freaks who want pixel-perfect placement? Or us plugin-phobics who try to avoid excessive use of plugins if at all possible? I just didn’t find these plugins flexible enough to meet my admittedly over-demanding needs.

With a little (and I mean a little) PHP you can have the perfectionist’s control over your social bookmark links.

An Example

To place a bookmark link to delicious try pasting the following code in your single.php file:

The Code:
Bookmark This Post With Delicious

The Result:
Bookmark This Post With Delicious

Easy, right? From here all the bookmarker has to do is enter their desired notes and/or tags and they’re set. Of course delicious isn’t the only social bookmarking site out there, so I’ve included some code snippets for some of the other culprits below.

Now go forth and network socially!

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Yo, I'm Andrew Lindstrom. I am a freelance web designer based in Vancouver, Canada. When not geeking out over design, I'm likely geeking out over film, technology or pretending to play the guitar.

6 Responses to This Post. Leave Your Own.

Hey Andrew,

Thanks for the ideas, i fell into the same problems when I try to add all the different plugins to my blog. It made my blog look just plain silly if you ask me.

I will be working on a few of my blogs thanks to your advice! 🙂

Social Bookmarking Guy / October 1st, 2008
favorited this one, bro

mypeSymneagep / October 5th, 2008
Hey Andrew, I like how you did the spread the good word section. I want to learn how to do that. Can you please let me know how to recreate something like that?

Thanks so much

Joey / December 30th, 2008
продам Форд-Фокус 2008 года за 200 тр. торг возможет. срочно!!!
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KeestGelm / March 7th, 2009
I used to rely on plugins for this sort of stuff.
Thank you for this

Michael Soriano / April 16th, 2009
I use plug ins for my social bookmarking tools.

Liz / July 13th, 2009

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