Sociable WordPress Plugin
This afternoon I installed a WordPress Plugin called Sociable that automatically adds icons that link to different social networking/bookmarking sites such as Twitter and Facebook to post. Neat little tool since it allow people to share your post with others on these networks by basically just clicking on the icons. Just check out the Share & Enjoy icons at the bottom of this post.
I regularly post to Twitter and it updates my Facebook status. Anyway the Sociable plugin works well but I found another version Sociable-Italia that has a feature that creates TinyUrls to help you keep to the 140 character limit of twitter. Other than TinyUrls and the settings page being in Italian in Sociable-Italia, I think the plugins are basically identical.
Anyway I added the code that generates the TinyUrl from Sociable-Italia to the Sociable plugin by editing sociable.php in the wp-content/plugins/sociable directory. Find the line
$url = $site['url'];
and add this after it
if ($sitename == ‘TwitThis’) {
$twitperma = file_get_contents(‘http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=’.$permalink);
$url = str_replace(‘PERMALINK’, $twitperma, $url);
} else {
$url = str_replace(‘PERMALINK’, $permalink, $url);
}
I also added the title of the post to the twitthis icon. Find the line:
‘url’ => ‘http://twitter.com/home?status=PERMALINK’,
and change it to this
‘url’ => ‘http://twitter.com/home?status=PERMALINK :: TITLE’,
Of course if I have to update the plugin in the future this will stop working unless I remember to redo this, perhaps the author of the plugin will add this to a future release.
Great little plugin – download it here.
Related posts:
Comments
3 Responses to “Sociable WordPress Plugin”
Leave a Reply
Welcome
Thanks for dropping by! Feel free to join the discussion by leaving comments, and stay updated by subscribing to the RSS feed. Enjoy!
Not into geek stuff? Check out The VABiker.Net or SuffolkSky.com.
Why not Follow Me on Twitter?
-
Geek Reads
VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive
This technical guide covers the basic steps needed to create a VMware HA and DRS cluster, but even more important explains the concepts and mechanisms behind HA and DRS which will enable you to make well educated decisions. This book will take you in to the trenches of HA and DRS and will give you the tools to understand and implement e.g. HA admission control policies, DRS resource pools and resource allocation settings.
Mastering vSphere 4 by Scott Lowe
Install and manage one or one thousand virtual servers in your enterprise with the latest generation of VMware virtualization software, vSphere 4, and this comprehensive guide.
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide continues from an idea started several years ago by a few engineers. The idea was simple, provide an easy to use reference guide for all level administrators, consultants and architects.
This was hugely helpful. I tried to convert it to work with tr.im, but evidently I am not getting the api call quite right. It literally hangs my whole blog. I have gone back to TinyURL. It is working like a charm!
For tr.im I think you just need to replace ’http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=’.$permalink with ’http://api.tr.im/api/trim_simple?url=’.$permalink in the file_get_contents call.
If you have a username and password for tr.im try this
’http://api.tr.im/api/trim_simple?url=’.$permalink.’&username=yourtrimusername&password=yourtrimpassword’
If you try it and it works, let us know.
Thanks
Hersey
FYI – went ahead and tested using tr.im – works with out username and password, don’t have an account so I didn’t try that.