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

Bluedot

Connotea

Digg

Furl

magnolia

Newsvine

Reddit

Spurl

technorati

…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 subdomain as my bookmarklet is set for my page.

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

I’ve used it to produce the code below. You’re welcome to click to see if it works, but I’d be grateful if you didn’t actually submit this post to any sites. It’s very boring if you’re not on WordPress.com and it’s still work in progress. If it still works on January 10 then I’ll announce it in the WordPress forums.

Social Bookmarks: