Since I have 419 random emails in Gmail, I feel I just spammed hundreds of people. SORRY!! I didn’t mean to.

It seems that a number of those emails were to support sites so I just opened up quite a few support tickets too. Crap.

Oh well, maybe it’ll jazz up my StumbleUpon profile a bit.

If I didn’t spam you and you want to be my friend, just add me.

My fist test, besides looking at the new editor, was to see if the Chicklet Creator and Social Bookmark Creator plugins worked. Sure enough, they had no issues.

These are two plugins you can check off the worry list as there is nothing to worry about here.

If I don’t hear anyone screaming about issues in Wordpress 2.1, I may just update this blog in a few days too.

The Wordpress plugin now includes an admin page for managing your social bookmark options and database integration to remember your choices.

Social Bookmark Creator plugin works with almost 50 different social bookmarking services including:

• BlinkBits
• BlinkList
• Blogmarks
• Buddymarks
• CiteUlike
• Connotea
• del.icio.us
• Digg it
• Earthlink
• FeedMarker
• Flog this! (Finance)
• Feedmelinks
• Furl
• Give a Link
• Gravee
• iFeedReaders
• igooi
• Lilisto
• Linkagogo
• Linkroll
• ma.gnolia
• Maple.nu
• Netvouz
• Netscape
• Newsvine
• Onlywire (Multi)
• RawSugar
• reddit
• Scuttle!
• Shadows
• Simpy
• Spurl
• StumbleUpon
• Taggly
• tagtooga
• TalkDigger
• Wink
• Yahoo MyWeb
• Britney (Music)
• Diigo
• Favorri (Turkish)
• Mister Wong (German)
• PopCurrent
• SearchSniff
• Wykop (Polish?)
• YardBarker (Sports)
• Hatena (Japanese)

Download it, check it out and have some fun.

I had more issues with this one than expected as it kept hooking into my Chicklet Creator plugin and editing that. However, I think that’s all fixed.

If you’d like to test it leave a comment below. The only thing I ask is that if you install it, try it out and get back to me in a few days so I can fix any bugs and get it released to the general public next week.

The updated blog tools include a new layout, more buttons and a few added features. One of the big additions is the drop down menus. You can now create a CSS drop down menu to hold all your feed buttons, or you can create a social bookmark pop-up menu just like the one above.

The Chicklet Creator drop down menu includes a bit of Javascript and CSS to go along with it. Nothing to scary, however it’s slightly more advanced. Since it’s a CSS drop down menu, you can style it as you wish. That’s not part of the tool, but if you know how to code a bit, it shouldn’t be to hard to add a custom style. I’ll probably write up a mini tutorial on it in the near future too. Don’t worry, if you don’t know code, you can use the default style with no problems.

The tools have been in the works for quite a while now. I was ready to release them just before SES San Jose, however found an IE bug that was a show stopper. However, all tools have been tested, and are working, in Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Yea!

As always, feedback and button suggestions are welcome. Check out the newly updated Chicklet Creator and the Social Bookmark Creator and let me know what you think.

Oh and I’d also like to take a moment to announce iFeedReaders.com as the new home for the TwisterMc version of the tools. iFeedReaders is my new blogging tools site that also includes a one stop subscription or bookmark page.

Check out the Chicklet Creator Wordpress Plugin instructions and the Social Bookmark Wordpress Plugin instructions.  Let me know if something doesn’t make sense or if I missed anything.

Just trying to make it easier to use.

Granted, this static code will only work with one URL and title, it’s not dynamic like the blog code that will create links based on what page you are on. However, it still works great if you have one special page that you think should have some social bookmark options.

I’ve also make a quick fix to the Social Bookmark Links Wordpress Plugin as it seems that FeedMarker wasn’t coded right if you choose the drop down menu. It’s all good now though.

I also created a great enabled/disabled script so that the tool’s static input boxes would only be editable if you chose the static option, however this only works in Firefox and I’m not sure why. If you have any ideas, feel free to share. The good news is it either works or it doesn’t so I get to keep the code for all the Firefox users.

That’s the updates for now. Feedback is always welcome.

Chicklet Creator Plugin - Social Bookmark Plugin

Also, if you are using Safari or Firefox, check out the subscribe icon in the upper right.  Like it?  Does it work well?  Feedback welcome.  If you are on IE or anything else, I have no idea if it works or even looks good.

The new drop down feature lets you add all the social bookmark options without taking up much space.

Output Options:
Link List:

Drop Down Menu: (only available via the Wordpress Plugin at this time)

Download the Social Bookmark Wordpress Plugin v0.2

Works in Wordpress 2.x and should work in 1.5.

If you’d like to see the drop down functionality added for the web based tool, just let me know.

I did use del.icio.us for a while, but I didn’t feel it was as search engine friendly as each link has a no-follow tag associated with it. So I switched. However, as I just returned from PubCon, it seems a lot of people seem to use del.icio.us more than any other social bookmark site for finding information. So, I thought that I needed to re-discover del.icio.us and make sure that people were finding my site.

I’ve since installed a few del.icio.us Firefox tools to make it easy to tag pages and access my bookmarks. I also found a great desktop application called Cocoalicious (Mac) that organizes my bookmarks and gives me access to viewing and editing them via the desktop.

Now, I don’t expect a huge increase of traffic from del.icio.us, however more is better than missing out. If more people are using del.icio.us to find sites, I want to make sure I’m well represented.

My Firefox addons were built to work in today’s official build. Not the 1.0.x builds from months ago or the new beta/alpha builds of the upcoming browser. The reason for this is that I have the current official build and not the old or new ones. Without the other versions of the browsers, I can’t test my themes or extension. However, you can.

All you have to do is ask me to send you a version that will install in your older or newer version of Firefox. Same goes if you want to try the extension in Flock or SeaMonkey. Just ask and I’ll do my best to get you an installable version for your browser. Then, if it works fine, let me know and I’ll release it for everyone.

Now the with Wordpress plugins, I do have Wordpress 2.0.x and 1.5.x to test them in. It’s much easier to have multiple versions of Wordpress running than Firefox.

Currently, the Chicklet Creator plugin works in 2.0.x only. I have heard requests for 1.5.x so I’m working on that. The Social Bookmark plugin works in 1.5.x and 2.0.x.

What it all comes down to is just ASK if you have version issues. I see a lot that my themes and extensions don’t work in 1.0.x or the alpha Bon Echo version of Firefox, but no one takes the time to ask me about it.

Just ask.

Install & Configure Instructions [new location]
1) Download the plugin. Version 0.3
2) Open social-bookmark.php and configure it. Turn on the buttons you want and set up a few optional features.
3) Upload the social-bookmark.php file into your Wordpress plugins directory.
4) Activate it via the Plugins area in the admin.
5) Put this code where you want the social bookmark links to show up: < ? social_bookmark(); ? > (remove the space before the first ? and after the last ?)
– On the home page it should be within the loop that displays all the posts. I put mine before the < p class="postmetadata" > code.
– On the single post pages I put it above the < p class="postmetadata alt" > code.

Granted, I know this isn’t the most streamlined process. As I learn how to get things to automate better and tie into Wordpress’ admin area, I can make this plugin easier to use. But, for now, this is a good start.

Incase you are wondering where the Chicklet Creater plugin is, well it’s coming. I was going to create both this morning until I deleted the Social Bookmark Links plugin and had to start all over.

Enjoy but remember it’s still in early stages and I’m learning as I go.

Ohh and a big thanks to Mark Jaquith for creating an excellent tutorial on how to create a Wordpress plugin! It’s very basic, yet enough to get me started.

Thanks

For the Chicklet Creator, I added Blogger as an option for the ‘do it yourself’ code. I haven’t tested it, but I’m optimistic. I also removed pLog ‘do it yourself’ code as it was giving me issues so it went away for now.

The Social Bookmark Link Creator, on the other hand, got more updates and fixes today. I have added an options area that you can put in HTML code to format your output code. Want the links separated by
< br >’s? No problem. Want everything in a list? No problem. Just wanna put a - between each one? No problem. You format it how you want it. This is one feature that will be added to the Chicklet Creator in the future after I get any bugs worked out.

I also fixed a lot of embarrassing spelling mistakes in the Social Bookmark Link Creator. Note to self: Remember to use spell check more often.

Oh and say HI to the Social Bookmark Link Creator smilie! I wanted some sort of icon to add to the homepage so I whipped up the new smilie who is syndicating his bookmarks across the web.

Issues? Comments? Questions? Just leave your feedback in the comments.

The Social Bookmark Link Creator is a spawn of the Chicklet Creator as they both use the same underlying code to generate the output. This time, I created it for social bookmarking as it’s getting more popular by the day.

Social bookmarking is the idea that you keep all your bookmarks in one online place. Much like Gmail or Yahoo Mail, your information is always accessible no matter where you are.

By adding social bookmark links to your blog posts, you are allowing visitors to add your post to their social bookmarks in seconds. This can help generate more traffic and visibility.

I have about 30 social bookmark services available to choose from and three blogging systems; Wordpress, MovableType & Blogger. I’m sure there are more bookmarks to add and blogging software to code in, but this is a good start.

Check out the Social Bookmark Link Creator and please feel free to give me feedback. I just whipped it up in the past 24 hours or so, so it’s not perfect. Bugs may exist but that’s what I need you to test it for.

Enjoy