I’ve finally made bookmarking easy for my readers by adding an “Add This” book marking button.
I was thrilled to discover this because there are now so very many bookmarking services. I didn’t want to pick one bookmarking service and leave the others out; I also didn’t want to litter the bottom of my post with hundreds of icons. Now, with one bookmark, I give readers a choice. Plus, when they click, “Add This” will add in the title and url, saving them time.
I have been looking for something that would do this for the longest time. I’ve seen them on a few websites, and figured they must come from *somewhere.* The where of it all has been elusive.
Thanks!
I spoke a little too soon. These (you are showing two separate plugins) are something that the http://www.adthis.com website is calling widgets. Downloading the social bookmarking “widget” reveals that it’s PHP code, and not just a simple line of code that I could play around with entering into The_LOOP in WordPress. It looks like a bunch of PHP coded functions. Other than entering the requested ID from the web site, which I could probably figure out, I’m lost. If it’s PHP code, not a widget, perhaps I actually *could* put it into my WordPress version 2.0.4 blog. What do you think?
Both AddThis buttons work, on WordPress 2.1.2 and on WordPress 2.0.4 sites-no doubt about it. The two buttons work in different ways, though.
I downloaded the AddThis! Social Bookmarking “widget” — more like a button — as I said, uploaded it to my site(s)in the WP Content/Plugins directory. There is no file, the way many plugins have, just the PHP text file. What all those function calls seem to do is set up the material in the plugin directory. You activate it, and there you are.
In contrast, the AddThis Feeds Button is simple html code. I can’t find exactly the right place for it in The_LOOP of the Main Index Template for the http://www.selfhelpforibs.com/ web site, and will probably take it out.
On the other hand, my two memoirista.com sites do not have any feed links, and also don’t have that distracting “meta” stuff cluttering up the end of posts, so I’ll add the “Feed” Button to each of these, The Reviews, and The Process.
Thanks for telling us about it, and reassuring me through the process of using it.