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Sociofluid for blogger and other websites

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:56:11 +0000

There were many requests to have a sociofluid widget for blogger. A blogger version is available at http://www.sociofluid.com/. You can embed now sociofluid not only in blogger and wordpress, but in any site. All the instructions are available at sociofluid.com. Enjoy it!

Sociofluid: How to add new buttons in sociofluid for v1.1 and above

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:19:02 +0000

I received a few requests on openversion and on this blog from sociofluid users to have the option to add their own buttons. For the moment I don’t think it’s a good idea to implement it in sociofluid admin panel. The main reason is the performance, the data need to be stored somewhere and I don’t think it’s a good option to store it in the database.

I’ve changed the structure of the plugin and now it’s really simple to add new buttons. All you have to do is to go to function get_the_checks() in sociofluid.php file using any editor and add a new item. You don’t really need php knowledge to do it. Here is an example (the bold characters are the lines you have to add for a new button, you must take care to commas to have them in place) :

function get_the_checks()
{
$checks = array(
“check_digg” => array(
0 => ‘digg’,
1 => ‘http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=%s&title=%s’,
2 => ‘Digg’
),

….
“check_jamespot” => array(
0 => ‘jamespot’,
1 => ‘http://www.jamespot.com/?action=spotit&url=%s&title=%s’,
2 => ‘Jamespot’
),
“check_meneame” => array(
0 => ‘meneame’,
1 => ‘http://meneame.net/submit.php?url=%s&title=%s’,
2 => ‘Meneame’
) ,

        ”check_newbookmarkingsite” => array(
            0 => ‘newbookmarkingsite’,
            1 => ‘http://newbookmarkingsite.com/submit.php?url=%s&title=%s’,
            2 => ‘New Bookmarking Site’
        )

);
return $checks;
}

The first %s is the place where the your post/blog url will be inserted and the second one is the title.

Then you have to add images for the specific botton in the images directory of the sociofluid plugin. The following images are required(depending on what you select in sociofluid panel 2 images will be used):

newbookmarkingsite_16.png
newbookmarkingsite_24.png
newbookmarkingsite_32.png
newbookmarkingsite_48.png
newbookmarkingsite_64.png

Please let me know if you add a new button to your blog an you would like to provide me the images to add the buttons to the plugin(and if the license of the images allows it to be distributed).

SocioFluid has reached v1.1

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:47:13 +0000

Yesterday, I’ve just launched SocioFluid v1.1 for Wordpress.

Here are the Release Notes for version 1.1:

New buttons for other social bookmarking sites: Sphinn, TwitThis, Mixx, Meneame
Customizable CSS Style for the box containing the icons
Nofollow attribute added to the links
Links can be configured from admin panel to be opened in new windows
The buttons can be generated in custom places(by calling a php function inside the php scripts, template scripts)

Some errors were reported so I recommend to wait for a couple of days before taking this version. Meanwhile I’ll fix the issues.

Some Updates:

Thanks to Samuel the XHTML code was validated.
There was also another big issue, for the BlogMarks button and when the button was used the sociofluid widget becomes invisible. This was reported by several people.

Sociofluid: How to put the buttons in a custom place?

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:21:18 +0000

I received many requests to add a mechanism to sociofluid wordpress plugin to display the buttons in custom places. For example a lot of people want to chose in the template where to display the buttons.

Starting with version 1.1 this mechanism is in place. This mechanism consist in2 functions which are available when the plugin is activated. Beside this, nothing is changed, the plugin needs to be configured from sociofluid admin panel.

externalGetSociofluidButtonsInLoop() - this function must be invoked if the code must be displayed inside a loop(the sociofluid menu is displayed for each post item in the loop) or if it’s associated with a specific post(the sociofluid menu is displayed in a single post).

externalGetSociofluidButtonsForCurrentUrl() - this function must be invoked if the code must be displayed somewhere outside of the main loop. For example in sidebars

All you have to do is to edit the template and add the following 2 lines in the place where you want to have the buttons displayed and to go in the sociofluid admin panel and to check this option:

for each post in a loop or for single post pages:


                {echo externalGetSociofluidButtonsForCurrentUrl();} ?>

for the cases when the sociofluid widget is not related to a post and relates to the url instead:


                {echo externalGetSociofluidButtonsInLoop();} ?>
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SocioFluid has reached v1.0

admin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:17:46 +0000

I’ve just updated the SocioFluid Wordpress plugin in the wordpress plugins repository.

The previous version was 0.9beta. From new features has been added:

The SocioFluid menu can now be displayed in the pages listing posts(homepage, categories, …). On one computer where I’ve tried the plugin in action it seems that the pages containing multiple posts freezes for about one second when it’s loaded. I hope for you it’s not the same.
New Buttons added for other bookmarking sites.
The menu can be displayed the top or at the bottom of the post.
A combination of icons of different sizes can be selected: 16, 24, 32 or 48 pixels(small and large icons).
The way how the icons will grow when the mouse is moved over the icons can be selected: Up, Down or Up&Down.
A text is displayed under each icon when the mouse is on over.
It uses jquery with jqdock plugin.

If you have other requests for the plugin you can use SocioFluid page on openversion:

SocioFluid – another social bookmarking plugin for wordpress

admin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:56:06 +0000

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I always wanted to have a nice, good looking plugin for wordpress to display the social bookmarking buttons for digg, reddit, … I personally don’t like the small buttons displayed on numerous sites. On the other side, having large icons occupies too much space in the layout.

I created SocioFluid, displaying some small icons, which grows when the mouse is moved over, similar to the mac effect. SocioFluid plugin uses jquery with icondock plugin to render the “mac effect”:

SocioFluid adds to your wordpress posts the buttons to the major bookmarking sites. In the current version of the plugin(v0.9beta) the icons to be displayed can be selected from administration panel. By default all the items are selected:

The plugin was tested on wordpress 2.3 and wordpress 2.5.1

If you have any request for a new feature for this plugin you can propose/vote or sponsor it on sociofluid page on openversion.com:

Licence: the plugin is distributed under dual license MIT-LICENSE and GPL-LICENSE. It includes jquery and icondock which are distributed under the same license.