Plugin Name: Social Bookmarks Bar Version: 1.0 Original Plugin URI: http://www.dountsis.com/ Original Author: Apostolos Dountsis Original Author URI: http://www.dountsis.com Modified Plugin URI: http://www.newcybertech.com/ and http://www.newcybertech.com/Blog/ Modified Author: Craig S. Freshwater Modified Author URI: http://www.newcybertech.com and http://www.newcybertech.com/Blog/ This plugin adds a list of icons to your posts that allow visitors to easily bookmark them on a number of different social bookmarking sites. You can see the plugin in action at the bottom of this post. This WordPress plugin is based on the original script of Apostolos Dountsis that has been modified with additional bookmarklets, add-on code for placing the bar on your Individual Posts and Index Pages. The following 39 sites have been added to the bar: Del.icio.us digg dzone BackFlip BlinkBits BlogMarks BlogMemes BudyMarks co.mments Connotea Fark FURL Google Hypermatic LinkaGoGo blinklist Ma.gnolia My-Tuts Netvouz Pixel Groovy RawSugar Reddit scuttle Shadows Spurl TagTooga Tutorialism NewsCloud newsvine Feed Me Links! Simpy Slashdot Smarking StumbleUpon Tailrank Technorati Wink Yahoo My Web Socializer More To Come! Installation Extract the plugin and place it into your wp-content/plugins/ directory. You should now have a new directory call social_bar within your plugins directory. The next step is to visit your WordPress administration page, navigate to the Plugins menu and press the Activate button next to Social Bookmarks Bar. Usage The simplest way to make use of Social Bookmarks Bar is to edit the file sidebar.php of your theme and add the following line where you want the Social Bookmarks Bar to be displayed. I have modified the script to allow you to add the Social Bookmarks Bar to your Main Index Template.php, Archives.php, and Single Post.php files with the same command below: 1. Customisation You can easily customise the plugin with a basic knowledge of PHP. The only section that you may want to modify is the order that the icons are displayed or you may want to add/remove more sites. The described modifications can be achieved by modifying accordingly the $social_places array in the file social_bar.php. Note The plugin assumes that Wordpress is installed on the root of your web site. Therefore, you may need to edit the social_bar.php file in the plugin directory. In the line number 22 that reads: unction sb_item($site_name, $settings, $plugin_dir = /wp-content/plugins/social_bar/, $render = true) you need to change the string /wp-content/plugins/social_bar/ to read /YourFileName/wp-content/plugins/social_bar/ Furthermore, included on the plugin download, the template png file ("blank.png") that was used to generate the icons in the case that you want to add more sites to your bar. Plugins extend and expand the functionality of WordPress. Once a plugin is installed, you may activate it or deactivate in the Plugin Management area of your WordPress Admin. If something goes wrong with a plugin and you can’t use WordPress, delete or rename that file in the wp-content/plugins directory and it will be automatically deactivated.