Social Linking

Social Linking is a feature lacking from WordPress.com at the moment. I’ve had a look at Oddiophile’s Technorati Tags Bookmarklet and I think I can modify it to produce simple Social Bookmarking bookmarklet. This page is part of an experiment to see if it works.

What the thing is, is a link you can drag to your toolbar or your favourites or whatever. When you’ve finished writing a post on WordPress.com you then:

  1. Type in an entry to the post slug box. This forms part of the final URL. In this case the slug is social.
  2. Click on the bookmarklet
  3. Type in the slug at the prompt
  4. Copy the code it gives you, by pressing CTRL+C
  5. Paste it into your entry where you want the links to appear

The bookmarklet can connect to these sites.
del.icio.us del.icio.us
blinkbits Blinkbits
blinklist Blinklist
blogmarks Blogmarks
blogmemes Blogmemes
bluedot Bluedot
connotea Connotea
digg Digg
furl Furl
magnolia magnolia
Newsvine Newsvine
onlywire Onlywire
reddit Reddit
searchles Searchles
shadows Shadows
simpy Simpy
spurl Spurl
stumbleupon Stumbleupon
tailrank Tailrank
technorati technorati
que …and a link to this page explaining what this is.

You can get your bookmarklet by visiting this page. You’ll need to type in your domain as my bookmarklet is set for my page.

I highly recommend looking at Lorelle’s page on the subject for other methods. As she points out this method isn’t so good if you want to post to the future. She also says why you might not want to list all the sites on every post.

If anyone can think of any other must have links then a comment would be helpful.

5 Responses
  1. 2007 April 2
    goldcoaster permalink

    Thank you for this.

    http://goldcoaster.wordpress.com

  2. 2007 April 12
    disembedded permalink

    This has been wonderful! Is there any way to add a Netscape social linking button?

  3. 2007 October 13
    Sakib Al Mahmud permalink

    thanks

  4. 2008 March 22
    Netty Gritty permalink

    thanks for sharing. :D
    here are some more ways to generate social bookmarking codes for wordpress.com, if you are interested.

  5. 2008 July 24
    noclegi Ustka permalink

    This has been wonderful! Is there any way to add a Netscape social linking button?

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