Social Bookmarking Buttons Plugin

July 7th Joomla Extensions \ Plugins This useful Joomla! Plugin (Mambot) adds social bookmarking buttons to every piece of content, static content, or all content in your CMS. It includes quick "bookmark" buttons for Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, Google Bookmarks, Windows Live, Facebook, Slashdot, Netscape, Technorati, StumbleUpon, Spurl, Wists, Simpy, Newsline, Blinklist, Furl, Fark, Blogmarks, Yahoo! Bookmarks, Smarking, Netvouz, Shadows, RawSugar, Ma.gnolia, PlugIM, Squidoo, BlogMemes, FeedMeLinks, BlinkBits, Tailrank and linkaGoGo. New functionality makes this plugin extremely customizable for any Joomla! installation. Click here to see the plugin in action.

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Features

• Will create a 'permalink' URL so the correct link is always bookmarked. Other social bookmarking plugins use the current URL, which is incorrect because the URL for a single content item on a Joomla! website will change depending on how a visitor clicked into it. Other plugins will create multiple bookmarks for a single page on your website, while the SocialBookmarkerBot will submit the correct URL every time.
• Multiple content categories can be excluded. Enter a comma-separated list of Category IDs:
  15,38,62,78,92
• Non-SEF Joomal! websites are now supported.
• The option to display buttons on regular content items, static content items, or all content items.
• The option to display the buttons only when viewing the full content item or also on the homepage for content previews. On previews, you now have the option to only display the top group of buttons, only display the bottom group, or display all buttons. This means that you can now have a Digg "smart" button always displayed, and only show the rest of the small buttons when viewing the full content item.
• The option to place each individual button either at the top or bottom of your content (notice the "smart" Digg button at the top right, and the small buttons at the bottom left of this page).
• The option to float the top buttons Left or Right.
• The option to align the bottom buttons Left, Center or Right.
• Administrator can now declare a different URL to be used for button links within each content item. Syntax: 
  { socialbookmarker}sburl="New URL" sbtitle="New Page Title"{/socialbookmarker}
  Be sure to use quotes and remove space within the curly braces {}, and make sure you place it in the Intro Text of your content, not the Main Text. This is extremely useful when the URL of your bookmarked article changes due to site upgrades or SEF plugins, or if you are displaying an embedded YouTube video and want to show a Digg button for the YouTube page (example).
• Small, matching buttons with quicklinks to each social bookmarking website. These links open in a new window or browser tab to keep your site visitors on your website.
• Larger, advanced "smart buttons" for websites that support this feature (Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us).
• The option to set each individual button as a small or advanced button.
• The option to display or hide each individual button.
• Description text is now editable.
• CSS options for Icon borders.
• Compatible with Search Engine Friendly (SEF) Plugins and Patches (this website uses the Artio JoomSEF Plugin).

This Joomla! Plugin was designed for high customization while providing your website visitors with a simple and elegant way to promote your content on the most popular Web 2.0 social bookmarking websites.

Changelog

Updated in Version 2.1.5

• Current URL functionality. This setting will make the plugin submit the current URL instead of trying to build a "permalink" URL. This resolves issues with websites that use multiple components that change Joomla!'s core URLs.

• Added Exclude Categories functionality.
• Bookmarker Text can now be left empty.
• Hyperlink fixed for small Digg button.
• Title attributes fixed for Yahoo, Newsvine, Blinklist and Furl hyperlinks.
• Fixed duplicate base URLs from appearing in hyperlinks of some Joomla! installations. If your see "http://www.yoursite.com/http://www.yoursite.com/yourlink..." in your links, set "Remove Duplicate Base URLs" to YES.
• Fixed PHP notices from appearing on the homepage.
• Fixed PHP notices from appearing on content and static content pages when content or static content pages were set to OFF.

• Now compatible with non-SEF Joomla! websites!
• Bookmarking description text is now editable.
• Icon border color and width are now editable.

• All website icons are now included with the download. You can now edit each icon or use your own images.
• Float the top buttons Left or Right.
• Align the bottom buttons Left, Center or Right.
• Display the top buttons, bottom buttons, or all buttons on the homepage and content previews.

• 'Permalink' URLs introduced to ensure that the correct URL is created and submitted every time. 

• Google Bookmarks, Windows Live, Facebook, Slashdot, Technorati, StumbleUpon, Netscape, PlugIM, Squidoo and BlogMemes buttons added. 

• Option to display buttons on regular content items, static content items, or all content items.
• Administrator can now declare a different URL to be used for button links within each content item. Syntax:
  { socialbookmarker}sburl="New URL" sbtitle="New Page Title"{/socialbookmarker}
  Be sure to use quotes and remove the first space within the curly braces {} in this example.
• Buttons added for Netvouz, Shadows, RawSugar, Ma.gnolia, FeedMeLinks, BlinkBits, Tailrank and linkaGoGo.

• Homepage functionality now works correctly
• Digg smart button now links to the correct URL when used on the homepage

Known Issues 

• If you are using the JReviews plugin, its priority must be set higher than the Social Bookmarker Bot's priority. The JReviews plugin appends all occurrences of your page title within your content with a JReviews image, regardless if it is within JavaScript code, HTML tags, etc. This means that it will garble the output of the Social Bookmark buttons and will break the links. The JReviews plugin will also interfere with other plugins, so it is best to set its priority above all other mambots.
• The advanced Digg button is only compatible with SEF websites. This is due to Digg's JavaScript and its URI encoding. However, the advanced Digg button will work if Current URLs are turned ON, regardless of URL structure.
• Manual URLs will be ignored if Current URLs is turned ON.
• If you are using manual URLs and have this plugin displayed on the homepage, be sure to declare your manual URLs in the content's Intro Text. Otherwise your manual URL will not be recognized on the homepage and will submit the content item's regular URL to the social bookmarking websites.
• The Del.icio.us smart buttons are not compatible on the homepage. This is because the Del.icio.us website does not provide a smart button which will show info for a page other than the current URL. Please use the default small button for Del.icio.us if you plan to display this plugin on your homepage.

Download

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Support

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