Here’s a small update to my Social Bookmarks sidebar widget for WordPress. It fixes the problem some people had with images not displaying due to an incorrect path.
The widget allows you to select a number of social bookmark sites which are displayed in the sidebar. This allows your readers to bookmark your blog or article, depending on the context, directly to the social bookmarking sites you have enabled.
To install the widget, simply download the widget from below, and upload the contents of the archive to your wp-content/plugins/widgets folder and activate the “Bookmark Widget†under your plugin settings. You should then be able to drag and drop the widget to your sidebar and select which bookmarking sites you wish to display.
To upgrade from the previous version, just simply extract the archive on top of your existing installation.
You can see the plugin in action in my own sidebar on this site and you can download either a .zip or a .tar.gz version.
Please let me know of any bugs or suggestions you have.
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zip file is corrupt
Hi Jamie,
The zip file appears fine for me. I’ve tested using unzip under Linux and WinRar under Windows and didn’t have any problems. Anyone else having any issues?
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J
Hi
Might be screwing something up, I havent been able to get this to work. Funny thing is though, the links come up but cant find the images.
I also have been trying to install another widget called Picasweb and also Picasawebmatrix, these also displayed the links but no images.
Wonder if my widget theme is broken?
Hi Mike,
You should check that the /wp-content/plugins/widgets/bookmark/ directory is readable by your webserver. If your having problems with other widgets I’d imagine this is the problem for them too.
Your theme does look a little broken in Firefox, but I doubt this is causing the issues regarding the images not displaying.
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J
It seems the problem was the permissions for the .php file were not set for the owner to execute, I changed this to owner execute and it works. Is this a security issue?
Hi Mike,
I don’t see how the permissions of the bookmark-widget.php file would effect the display of the images as the widget itself was already loading. The permissions on the bookmark directory containing the images need to be set to execute in order the enter the directory.
On my server the permissions are set on the file bookmark-widget.php to -r–r–r– (chmod 444 ).
My bookmarks directory is set to dr-xr-xr-x (chmod 555) with the images in the directory set to -r–r–r– (chmod 444).
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J
Hey
I don’t have my separate server hosting my blog. My blog is hosted in wordpress.com itself. So I think I can’t use this widget. Please comment.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Vignesh,
You’ll need to contact wordpress.com using the Feedback form on your blog and ask them to include the Bookmark Widget in their available sidebar widgets.
You can read more at the wordpress.com FAQ
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SOS! I’ve installed and activated this plug-in but I did not understand what and where to drag and drop. Please could you help me?
it doesn’t work, i’ve installed the plugin but i can’t see anything in my sidebar…what i must do ?
Hi Shibani/fab,
After you activate the “Bookmark Widget” under the “Manage Plugins” page, you need to drag and drop the widget from the available widgets at the bottom of the “Sidebar Widgets” page which is under the “Presentation” menu.
This all assumes that your theme is widget compatible of course.
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J
Great work. Drops right in without any problems.
hi -
the plugin works except it can’t find the graphics. If my image path is ‘http://example.com/folder_x/wp-content/plugins/bookmarks’ can I hard code this in someplace? Like line 48 starting with $image path = ? Is this redundant or does the code need the “folder_x” included someplace like the example path I gave? Permissions don’t appear to have any affect. Thanks
I’m having the broken images issue as well. I just downloaded the ZIP file and installed it, and the code says:
Author: Joey Walsh
Version: 0.1
Are you sure you built the ZIP file correctly? I’m now going to try the gzip file, to see whether it’s got the updated version.
I loved the plugin but had no graphics. Graphics work great now with the update!
Thanks!
i got the graphics to work by putting all the image files in a folder called ‘bookmark’ and putting that folder in the ‘widgets’ directory.
Great plugin, thanks.
Just one question: I tried adding a new bookmarking site to the code. I just copied and pasted what you had for del.icio.us and replaced all the specific elements for the new site. I’ve succeeded in getting the new site to show up in the widget options, but I can’t make it appear on the front end in my list of bookmarks (and since I can’t do that, I can’t test it any futher). I’m just wondering if you have any instructions you could provide on how to add a new site to the list of the pre-installed ones.
If not, that’s cool, but I’d appreciate it.
FYI: if it’s easier to do it yourself, I’m trying to add “Recruiting.com” to the list
Never mind
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Hello and thanks for this simple yet effective plugin.
I am not using a dynamic sidebar. Isn’t there a code I could insert into the sidebar to have the plugin show?
Thanks
Hi!
I suggest to add more bookmarking services to your widget!
For now it even more actual because of native widgets support in WP2.2
Thanks a lot!