Comments on: AddThis Here http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/ Andrew weighs in on the ways in which the web and the world are changing Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:44:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: KOTHEA http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-6195 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:19:03 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-6195 We all berate microsoft for lots of things. But when you look at some of these plugins you realise how good they are.

AddThis…look I’m technical I can build computers and do very nice things with software. But the addthis i downloaded doesn’t come with instructions or a simple .exe. any online instructions are for old versions and assume a knowledge of wp-plugin folders (what are they?). I know Iprobably could have figured that out in the time its taken to write this. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

and yes you’re right it should be at the end of each post not in the sidebar.

bye.

]]> By: Andrew http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-5049 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:54:45 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-5049 NG, thanks for the comments. I should really just take AddThis out of the sidebar. I agree with you that it isn’t intuitive there. It does exactly what I want it to, but that’s not the same as being obvious to anyone else.
AddThis often annoys me when I see it on other blogs, particularly if it’s on every post. I find ShareThis less obtrusive.

]]> By: Netty Gritty http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-5036 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:25:00 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-5036 just a little correction, the url your side bar addthis button links to is not obvious until you choose a social bookmarking site (say, del.icio.us) and investigate the (del.icio.us) url generated in the address bar.

]]> By: Netty Gritty http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-5035 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:17:53 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-5035 hello andrew,
i have created an addthis bookmarklet for wordpress.com blog posts. it will automatically create an addthis url for a specific blog post. after you publish the post, view it and click the bookmarklet and you are done! of course, you have to manually link a button/text to it later and out it under the blog post.

i wonder why you have the addthis button in the side bar. i assume you have it to encourage readers to bookmark the whole blog. if that’s indeed the reason, then you need to format the code a bit.

http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?&url=http://EXAMPLE.wordpress.com&title=BLOG_TITLE

make the necessary changes in the code and link the button to it.

if not, the button is gonna bookmark whatever is in the address bar of your blog – a permalink, a tag page (as in’http://example.wordpress.com/tag/life) etc. to be sure that it is true, experiment by clicking on the button while having different url’s in the blog address bar.

if you are using it in the side bar to encourage readers to bookmark individual posts, then i’m adraid it’s not very intuitive.

i know i babbled and babbled, but hey, i had to let it all get out of my system! :mrgreen:

]]> By: enkerli http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-286 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:28:01 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-286 Delicious is fine, especially with Flock. These days, I’ve mostly been using Spurl.net which kind of combines some of the features of the ScrapBook Firefox extension with social bookmarking. Some functions don’t work but as it creates an RSS feed (like delicious), I can keep those links in a sidebar on my blog and keep the full text of those entries.

]]> By: Andrew http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-284 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:20:22 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-284 Merci, Enkerli,
Yes, AddThis does seem to work here now, albeit with the silliness you describe. I’m not sure we’ll ever see the mother of all social bookmarking tools… I’m pretty happy with delicious myself.

]]> By: enkerli http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-283 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:24:32 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-283 Actually, maybe I didn’t get the issue but the button in a Text sidebar widget does seem to work as planned (i.e., the URL is maintained). Only problem is, the post’s title is replaced by the post’s URL (same thing with your button). Still, it’s usable.
When will we see the “mother of all” social bookmarking tool?

]]> By: Andrew http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-49 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:19:58 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-49 Thanks, Adam, I’ll try to get to trying this soon.

]]> By: adam http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-47 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:34:58 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/03/05/addthis-here/#comment-47 you can use the addThis generator for myspace, and replace &title= with the url of the entry you want to use.

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