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Social Dropdown

This plugin displays several social bookmarks in a dropdown. Unlike other social bookmarking displays, this does not cause clutter.

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Tested up to WordPress 2.5
Current version2.0.1
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 2.5
Minimum stackWP 1.5 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update8 Jan 200917y ago
Active installations30Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Social Dropdown version 2.0.1 as active, updated 17y ago and tested up to WordPress 2.5.

Overview

About this plugin

This plugin displays several social bookmarking options in a dropdown. Unlike other social bookmarking displays, this does not cause clutter.

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0 features a new fresh look which is much easier to use and is extremely search engine friendly. Nonetheless, if you do not like the new layout, you can always use the old one via the administration panel. The new layout should go well with most layouts.

The new version also takes into consideration of non-JavaScript users and would downgrade gracefully to allow non-JavaScript users to utilize every other feature (exception of dropdown).

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Supported Social Bookmarks

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BlinkBits

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BlinkList

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BlogLines

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BlogMarks

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Buddymarks

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BumpZee

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CiteULike

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mments

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us

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Digg

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Diigo

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Facebook

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Fark

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Faves

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Feed Me Links

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Furl

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Gravee

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Google Bookmarks

  • Hugg

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Jeqq

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Linkagogo

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gnolia

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Mister Wong

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NetVouz

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Newsvine

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OnlyWire

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Propeller

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RawSugar

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Reddit

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Rojo

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Simpy

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Slashdot

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Sphinn

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Spurl

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Squidoo

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StumbleUpon

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Taggly

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Tagtooga

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TailRank

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Technorati

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Windows Live

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Yahoo MyWebs

In addition, you can customize the order of the bookmarks or choose to remove some of them without editing a file.

If you do not like Dropdowns, this plugin has the ability to show the bookmarks without the dropdown – similar to what other plugins display.

Remember to read the readme file to ensure that you have done what is needed.

Updating

You can check what version the plug-in is at via visiting the Options > Social Dropdown panel.

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Deactivate the Social Dropdown plug-in. You may want to back-up your existing plug-in files just in case if there are any errors while updating.

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Replace the files in the social-dropdown directory located in the WordPress plug-ins directory.

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Re-activate the Social Dropdown plug-in from the administration dashboard.

If you have modified the GenerateAll() function, copy the modified area and set $overrideoptions to true to preserve your changes. php.

Requirements

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A working WordPress install

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Your WordPress theme must contain a call to the get_header() function

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Your WordPress theme must contain the WordPress loop

Most WordPress installs and templates have these, so you need not worry about these.

To be able to use the dropdown, one must have JavaScript enabled in the browser.

Fortunately, users without JavaScript enabled will see a list of social bookmarks at where the dropdown is.

Customizing

php, these are some areas you can edit to influence how the dropdown appears.

In the GenerateAll() function, you can re-arrange how the items appear, add new items or remove them (after setting $overrideoptions to true ). You can already do this using the Options > Social Dropdown panel.

Creating bookmarks

Each social bookmark is generated using the GenerateLink() function, and the URLs used are created using the GenerateURL() function. g. Digg is represented as ‘digg’).

e. after break; ] in the GenerateURL() function. An example is shown:

case '[name of social bookmarking site]':

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[URL to social bookmark page]

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break;

In this example, when you call GenerateURL('yahoo'), the link for this item is generated. The link is the direct link to the submitting URL, usually available as an API on the social bookmarking site. Within the URL, there is some PHP code.

the_title() represents the post title, while echo get_the_permalink() represents the URL of the post.

php, find a variable called $all. Add ‘|[your bookmark name here]’ to the end of the string. For example, in the case of Yahoo, if $all contains “google”, then the result will be “google|yahoo”.

Credits

Several images are created or taken from the corresponding social bookmarking sites and edited to suit the plug-in. com/ and modified. us/.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • social bookmark
  • accessibility
  • post
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 2.5

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 2.5.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to2.5
Minimum requirementsWordPress 1.5 · PHP not listed
Update activity8 Jan 200917y ago

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