Sociable WordPress plugin take-over

31 January 2008 Joost de Valk 52 comments, leave your own!

Several people have noticed, most notably Andy Beard, that the Sociable WordPress plugin is, next to be being a cool plugin, kind of a dead project. I had modified it quite a bit for Mel's blog, and my own later on, to include Sphinn, Facebook, Mixx, Google Bookmarks, Live and Twitter (the latter inspired by Andy Beard). I've emailed the author a few times, and didn't get any response, and since it's released under the GPL license, I've decided to give it a new version number and do a "take-over".

I've also:

  • Fixed the StumbleUpon issue which multiple people have been dealing with
  • Removed the auto-update stuff because that's now dealt with by WordPress itself
  • Nofollowed all links
  • Added the plugin to the WordPress plugin repository, find it here.

You can download it here: Sociable - Social Bookmarking for WordPress.

If you have any suggestions, social bookmarking sites I should add or other stuff: drop them in the comments!

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43 Responses to “Sociable WordPress plugin take-over”

  1. By BrewGin Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 12:47

    Good stuff!

    And welcome back... I've missed my regular dose of "Yoast" last week. ;-)

  2. By Joost de Valk Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 12:48

    Thx :) I'm insanely busy at the moment with, well, making money ;)

  3. By Andy Beard Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 12:54

    Hi Joost,

    You have made a lot of the changes I was going to do for some kind of official upgrade, I just didn't have time.

    Did you also change the default options.

    I never made a big thing about it, but some of the default options were paid for by sponsors previously, and the programmer refused to add nofollow to the links by default.

    That effectively made all the links paid links, including to a company where Jason Calacanis sits on the board of directors.

    I would hate to see that remain as a default option

  4. By Joost de Valk Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 13:04

    Yeah I changed the defaults to: Digg, Sphinn, del.icio.us, Facebook, Mixx and Google. Quite randomly chosen, to be honest.

  5. By Ricardo Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 13:57

    Thanks for the update, Joost. Going to replace it with my actual social bookmarking plugin really soon.

  6. By Joost de Valk Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 13:58

    Good to hear Ricardo :) Please let me know if you encounter any issues!

  7. By Ricardo Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 13:59

    I will, I surely will :-)

  8. By Kevin Gibbons Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 14:28

    I haven't seen this plugin before but it looks like a much easier way of setting up bookmarking buttons so agree that it should become very popular.

  9. By Fred Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 14:32

    Hi Joost,

    Just joined subscribed to your feed 2 weeks ago. Today I read this post and decided to drop the individual technorati and stumble it code for your Sociable plugin at my site on How to Trade Share in Bursa Malaysia
    Will you be able to include "Share It" to the list?

    Fred Chan

  10. By Fred Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 14:33

    Please forgive the typo error in my earlier comment. My English isn't that bad. I press the submit button too fast.

    Fred

  11. By Joost de Valk Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 14:34

    @Ricardo: cool thx
    @Kevin Gibbons: thx for the compliment :)
    @Fred: good to hear you're already using it! Have a link to "Share it" handy?

  12. By Feydakin Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 14:39

    Thanks Joost!! I added the anti-social patch to my latest blog but now I can take it all down and just push the complete version from you out..

    Awesome..

  13. By Joost de Valk Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 15:10

    After a great comment from Fedaykin through e-mail, I just updated the plugin to 2.5.1 to switch Netscape for Propeller.

  14. By Kyle Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 17:40

    Thank you! This has been long overdue and all the credit in the world for taking the initiative! Guess this means the "anti-sociable" plugin is outdated too?

    You added all my gripes with the old one which means I can finally drop that share this plugin! :)

  15. By JLH Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 18:19

    Thanks Joost, installed another one of your fine applications.

  16. By Frank Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 18:26

    Hi Joost,

    Great plugin!!! very nice and will be installed this week. Question, what program did you use to create your avatar (cartoonish like)??? I really like it and it's one of the more "cleaner" ones I've seen.

  17. By Ricardo Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 18:30

    Wow, it even has german translations. Respect once again :-)

  18. By Mikael Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 19:41

    Absolutely great work. I'm so amazed that you are able to do these kinds of things (as I'm not). I'm installing it on several of my blogs as we speak. Thanks!

  19. By Karel Geenen Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 19:58

    Nice one Joost. Just installed it on my (our) new blog Yargon.com, works perfectly!

  20. By Joost de Valk Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 20:25

    @Kyle, JLH, Ricardo, Mikael & Karel: thanks for your kind words :)

    @Frank: a friend of mine, SEOIdiot, made it.

  21. By Mike Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 21:48

    I will downloading and installing this Wordpress plugin now to see how it works. Thanks for all the great work you do.

  22. By Charles Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 22:31

    Hey Joost - the plugin looks awesome, much better than what I was using before.

    Quick question: The style of the images is different on my Front Page and my Single Page. On the Single page the images are spaced out really well and have a border around the image, on the Front page there is no border and the spacing is a little off. Could this be my theme or different CSS for Front and Single page within the plugin?

  23. By Stephen Foskett Thu, January 31st, 2008 at 22:56

    Thanks for taking this up, Joost! I actually just started doing the exact same thing since Sociable was so out of data, but never finished my work. You saved me some effort!

  24. By Ben Fri, February 1st, 2008 at 00:15

    Great updates. I have installed it and works great. Good job.

  25. By Allan Stewart Fri, February 1st, 2008 at 10:33

    Hi Joost,

    Good news, I have tried this plugin but I actually uninstalled it, either because the HTML didn't validate or it was two resource hungry / bloated. It would be nice to have a pluging that gives you all the bookmarks, all the agregators and full API integration with digg and sphinn, possibly also technorati all rolled into one and with options admin to select move them around. Do you know when your first release will be? I would like to install and write a review on it for you.

  26. By Joost de Valk Fri, February 1st, 2008 at 10:35

    @Mike, Charles Stephen and Ben: thx for the kind words guys :)

    @Allan: well if this version isn't giving you validating HTML, let me know where it breaks, I've fixed some ampersands already, but perhaps there's some other stuff too? Regarding the API integration: that's a LOT harder to do, and I'd advise installing separate plugins for the sites you're likely to reach. Remember that huge plugins can slow your WordPress down :)

  27. By INDERT Sat, February 2nd, 2008 at 15:33

    Thanks for the update. I will use it on my new blog which I am optimizing at the moment.

  28. By Erno Hannink Sun, February 3rd, 2008 at 10:19

    Thank you Joost. I am using it again including the latest additions (main Dutch social sites).

  29. By Joost de Valk Sun, February 3rd, 2008 at 13:59

    @Erno & Indert: glad you like it! Let me know if there's any other features you'd want!

  31. By gadget Mon, February 4th, 2008 at 10:35

    Joost - u da man! Thx for doing this, much needed.

  32. By Jeremy Wed, February 6th, 2008 at 18:05

    I'm so glad to find this plugin, I'm just starting, well actually switching from Blogger to Wordpress, so this will be helpful to start with.

  33. By Scott at Realepicurean Thu, February 7th, 2008 at 00:02

    This plugin doesn't validate to XHTML1.0 Strict...But that's easy to fix. I'm not sure if I can post code here (so won't try) but basically there's one too many PHP linefeeds on one line (87, if I remember correctly) of the plugin - removing it fixes the validation issue and doesn't seem to affect the display in either IE or Firefox...

  35. By Joost de Valk Thu, February 21st, 2008 at 20:06

    Fixed that Chris, thx for noticing... The guys at WordPress broke the download link without the version number in it...

  36. By Benjamin McCann Mon, March 3rd, 2008 at 02:02

    Hi Joost,
    Thanks for the excellent plugin.
    My one request would be to make the CSS validate. For an example of what I'm talking about, visit one of my posts and click on the link that says CSS in the page footer. It will take you to w3c's validation service and fail.

    -Ben

  37. By Israel Fri, March 7th, 2008 at 17:51

    Can you add HealthRanker.com?

  38. By Florin Fri, March 14th, 2008 at 17:37

    When i was using the old version i could use the AJAX interface in the admin area and move icons around, selecting whichever order i wanted, but with this new version i cant drag and drop the icons any more, you think you could fix this ?
    ps: i switched to the new version after the old one was causing a validation problem with XHTML,

  39. By Joost de Valk Sat, March 15th, 2008 at 07:38

    @florin: you should still have the AJAX functionality...

  40. By Florin Sat, March 15th, 2008 at 09:54

    oh.. i have tried on 3 separate blogs, i have lost the AJAX functionality on all of them, the good thing is that the plugin kept the previous order

  41. By Joost de Valk Sat, March 15th, 2008 at 16:34

    @Florin well I'm afraid you're doing something wrong, or my plugin is colliding with another plugin, since it should really be there.

  42. By BMB Sun, October 19th, 2008 at 12:54

    Besides the fact that most of your plugins are far superior and probably run faster (or smaller scripts) than most parallel projects, what advantages does 'sociable' have over 'share this'?

    You can omit the email part of share this because I don't think most people have the attention span to use 'share this' email option....maybe a small percentage.

    Thanks! (for all the plugins you have created I am already using at my new site)

  43. By Saxamo Mon, August 10th, 2009 at 20:55

    I waited for awhile on this, but it has not changed.. EXCELLENT PLUGIN! However, it does not validate and it used too.

    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.saxamo.com%2F;accept=text%2Fhtml%2Capplication%2Fxhtml%2Bxml%2Capplication%2Fxml%3Bq%3D0.9%2C*%2F*%3Bq%3D0.8;accept-language=en-us%2Cen%3Bq%3D0.5;accept-charset=ISO-8859-1%2Cutf-8%3Bq%3D0.7%2C*%3Bq%3D0.7

    Hope you have the time to fix this in a future update.. I really love this plugin a lot. Thanks for taking the time to take it over and get it out.

    Kind regards,
    Saxamo

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