Comments on: Social Wordpress Plugins

By: Michelle MacPhearson

Michelle MacPhearson — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:50:52 +0000

If you look at the words “Sociable” in the post, it’s blue and underlined. That’s a link to the plugin page where you can get it.

I “should have” included a link and I did!

By: Missy

Missy — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:30:05 +0000

Michelle (and Matt):

Thanxs for clarifying on the various networking plug-ins, the gem was really in your comments section. As i did NOT know about the nofollow thing with Sociable. New thing i learned today.

I’m pretty sure I have the old dofollow version on my main blog, Groovy Vegetarian. I will remove it at once and use the new and improved “nofollow version” from Joost De Valk.

Now i just have to find it, and hope its the one you’re referring to in your comment. You should have included a link to it.

I would also add that every Wordpress blog should with out question add the “Subscribe to Comments” WP plug-in, as it will make it easy for those who leave you a comment, to remember to come back. Invaluable. (for follow-up)

Missy.

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WordPress Link Love | WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:07:28 +0000

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By: mattg

mattg — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:05:50 +0000

Hi Michelle,

thanks, that sounds like it’s worth taking a look at, I agree that the way a visitor needs to click on the link with Share This isn’t ideal, although I do like the email a friend option..

Mattg

By: Michelle MacPhearson

Michelle MacPhearson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:46:36 +0000

Andy Beard has long had a nofollow version of Sociable available - it’s called Antisocial. But then Joost de Valk came out with a new version - it’s nofollow (check my page source) and includes some new bookmarking sites that weren’t in the original or Andy’s mod. That’s what I use currently.

I was using ShareThis, but I don’t like that users have to click the button to see all the options. With Sociable, there’s one less step to getting the page marked/voted for somewhere.

By: mattg

mattg — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:27:32 +0000

I prefer “Share This” to sociable, as all those sociable links are ways of losing pagerank from your site, which Share This doesn’t do..

thanks for the heads up on the Quoter plugin though, that’s neat!

and I agree with all the rest of the plugins you list, must have’s imho.

Matt Garrett