LG Social Bookmarks

Wow, nice looking CP! I’m not much of a socialite but I’m sure others will find this useful.

Hey PXLated,

Thanks for control panel comment.

Did you install the module? Just looking out for any bugs now.

Cheers

Sorry, no I didn’t. My clients are all corporate and not into the whole social thing yet. Only have one that is just now ready to do some blogging.

Leevi, I haven’t installed it yet, but I do have a comment/pet peeve about the archive you made available.

For Windows users, .DS_Store and the like mean nothing. It just means that I have to delete it from my hd manually.

I suspect it is a setting on the archiving method you are using.

I’ll be installing it on one of my test sites tomorrow sometime.

Thanks for contributing, though. There are a few people that will like this.

But like PXLated said, most of my clients are corporate. They won’t be using this.

Just a heads up for Leevi Graham, I recommend you provide an alternative download source elsewhere, the one above is error (message about vacationing!)

PS: have a safe trip! 😊

Just a heads up for Leevi Graham, I recommend you provide an alternative download source elsewhere, the one above is error (message about vacationing!) PS: have a safe trip! 😊

My bad…. Its sorted now.

Nice one. Love the CP (and yes, I’ve installed it here). No critical problems so far, but I noticed that changes in the CP do not have immediate effect on the site if one is using template caching. Perhaps the module should clear the cache when setting have changed.

What I’m missing are some (social) bookmark sites like Google Bookmarks, Windows Live and Yigg, and it seems its not easy/recommended to add new sites on your own?

-Markus

Update: One problem right after hitting ‘send” …. the YahooMyWeb favicon seems to be displayed correctly only in Firefox, not IE???

Hi Guys,

For those of you having an issue with the yahoo icon I have attached another to this post. Just copy it to your /system/themes/cp_global_images/social_bookmarks/favicons directory.

As for adding extra social bookmarking sites I plan to add this functionality to the control panel in the next update. If you wish to add your own now follow these steps:

1. Open /system/modules/social_bookmarks/social_bookmark_sites.php
2. Copy lines 5-8

'blinkbits' => Array(
    'favicon' => 'blinkbits.png',
    'url' => 'http://www.blinkbits.com/bookmarklets/save.php?v=1&source_url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE&body=TITLE',
  ),

3. Paste below
4. In the newly pasted duplicate change the array association
5. Change the favicon filename
6. Add the the new favicon to /system/themes/cp_global_images/social_bookmarks/favicons
7. Change the URL to the new social bookmark URL. ‘PERMALINK’ is replaced by the permalink param and TITLE param.

If you do add any extra sites please email me the update so I can add them to the existing list of sites.

Ok heres the edit for google bookmarks. I have attached it as a .txt file as this editor strips out some characters.

just add the contents to: /system/modules/social_bookmarks/social_bookmark_sites.php

and add the attached favicon to: /system/themes/cp_global_images/social_bookmarks/favicons

I’m having problems with the icons and images not displaying. My EE install (v1.6) is not in the root directory and it looks like the path to the images are relative to domain root and not the “URL to your “themes” folder” that is noted in Admin:System Preferences: General Configuration.

Heres the update for Windows Live Favourites.

Same as before just add the contents to: /system/modules/social_bookmarks/social_bookmark_sites.php

and add the attached favicon to: /system/themes/cp_global_images/social_bookmarks/favicons

I will roll all these into the next release.

This addition should be considered experimental as it is not 100% tested

I’m having problems with the icons and images not displaying. My EE install (v1.6) is not in the root directory and it looks like the path to the images are relative to domain root and not the “URL to your “themes” folder” that is noted in Admin:System Preferences: General Configuration.

@smartpill: I have made all the paths relative in the admin in the 1.1 release.

@sue: The new release has no .DS_Store files

@everyone: There is a 1.1 release now available that addresses the path issue for admin images and adds Google Bookmarks and Windows Live Favourites to the list of social sites.

Download it from the documentation page

Note: You may need to clear your cache to see new bookmarks if you have caching turned on. Ill have a look at this issue tonight.

That fixed it. Thanks!

That fixed it. Thanks!

Any other issues just let me know. When you get the module working on a live site pm me the link1