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Share-Me Plugin

Add a bar of icons to share a TWiki page on popular social media sites and bookmarking sites such as Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Twitter.

Syntax Rules

Add %SHAREME% anywhere in a TWiki page or preferably in a TWiki skin:

Write this: Renders as: (if installed) Simulated example:
%SHAREME% Delicious Facebook StumbleUpon Twitter

Optionally, a list of social media sites (defined below) can be specified, such as:
%SHAREME{"Delicious, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Twitter"}%.

Social Media Sites

This table defines the social media sites. The following variables can be used in the URL column:

  • $link: Link of the TWiki topic
  • $title: Spaced out topic name
  • $summary: Topic summary
  • $site: Site host name (twiki.ph.rhul.ac.uk)

Name Image URL
Delicious delicious.png http://delicious.com/post?url=$link&title=$title&notes=$summary
Digg digg.png http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=$link&title=$title&bodytext=$summary
E-mail email.png mailto:?subject=$title&body=$link
Facebook facebook.png http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=$link&t=$title
FriendFeed friendfeed.png http://www.friendfeed.com/share?title=$title&link=$link
Google Plus googleplus.png https://plus.google.com/share?url=$link
Google Bookmarks googlebookmark.png http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=$link&title=$title&annotation=$summary
LinkedIn linkedin.png http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=$link&title=$title&source=$site&summary=$summary
Live live.png https://favorites.live.com/quickadd.aspx?marklet=1&url=$link&title=$title
MisterWong misterwong.png http://www.mister-wong.com/addurl/?bm_url=$link&bm_description=$title&plugin=soc
Mixx mixx.png http://www.mixx.com/submit?page_url=$link&title=$title
NewsVine newsvine.png http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=$link&h=$title
Ping.fm ping.png http://ping.fm/ref/?link=$link&title=$title&body=$summary
Posterous posterous.png http://posterous.com/share?linkto=$link&title=$title&selection=$summary
Reddit reddit.png http://reddit.com/submit?url=$link&title=$title
RSS rss.png https://twiki.ph.rhul.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/WebRss
Simpy simpy.png http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href=$link&title=$title
Slashdot slashdot.png http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=$title&url=$link
StumbleUpon stumbleupon.png http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=$link&title=$title
Technorati technorati.png http://technorati.com/faves?add=$link
Twitter twitter.png http://twitter.com/home?status=$title%20-%20$link
Yahoo! Bookmarks yahoomyweb.png http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/toolbar/savebm?u=$link&t=$title&opener=bm&ei=UTF-8&d=$summary
Yahoo! Buzz yahoobuzz.png http://buzz.yahoo.com/submit/?submitUrl=$link&submitHeadline=$title&submitSummary=$summary&submitCategory=science&submitAssetType=text

Plugin Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, such as %SHAREMEPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

  • One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
    • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Icon bar to share TWiki pages on popular social media sites such as Facebook, StumbleUpon, Twitter

  • Topic that defines the social media sites: (default: This topic)

  • Default site icons shown in %SHAREME%, subset of the ones defined in the Social Media Sites section:
    • Set DEFAULTSITES = Twitter, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Google Bookmarks, LinkedIn, Reddit, StumbleUpon

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the TWiki server.

  • Download the ZIP file from the Plugin Home (see below)
  • Unzip ShareMePlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:
    File: Description:
    data/TWiki/ShareMePlugin.txt Plugin topic
    data/TWiki/ShareMePlugin.txt,v Plugin topic repository
    lib/TWiki/Plugins/ShareMePlugin.pm Plugin Perl module
    pub/TWiki/ShareMePlugin/*.png 16x16 pixel icons of social networking sites
  • Configure the Plugin:
    • Run the configure script to enable the plugin
    • Overload the plugin settings as needed. Do not change the plugin page, but create settings in the TWikiPreferences page. For example, to overload the DEFAULTSITES setting, create a SHAREMEPLUGIN_DEFAULTSITES in the TWikiPreferences page.
  • Test if the installation was successful: Twitter Delicious Digg Facebook Google Bookmarks LinkedIn Reddit StumbleUpon

Plugin Info

Plugin Author: TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki.org
Copyright: © 2010-2012 TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
© 2010-2012 TWiki:TWiki.TWikiContributor
License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
Plugin Version: 2012-12-01
Change History:  
2012-12-01: TWikibug:Item6962: Add Google+ share icon & link
2012-11-15: TWikibug:Item7020: Categorize SHAREME TWiki Variable
2011-07-10: TWikibug:Item6725: Change global package variables from "use vars" to "our"
2010-12-04: TWikibug:Item6616: Fix to use BASETOPIC instead of TOPIC when referencing topics. This allows to add SHAREME in an included topic, such as TopMenuSkinTopBar of TWiki:Plugins.TopMenuSkin
2010-06-06: XHTML validation fixes; moving CSS to HTML head using TWiki::Func::addToHEAD
2010-01-16: Doc fixes
2010-01-09: Initial version
TWiki Dependency: $TWiki::Plugins::VERSION 1.1
CPAN Dependencies: none
Other Dependencies: none
Perl Version: 5.008
Benchmarks: GoodStyle 99%, FormattedSearch 100%, ShareMePlugin 100%
Plugin Home: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/ShareMePlugin
Feedback: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/ShareMePluginDev
Appraisal: http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/ShareMePluginAppraisal

This plugin is inspired by Sociable plugin for WordPress. Some GPLed icons have been taken from that plugin.

Related Topics: VarSHAREME, TWikiPlugins, DeveloperDocumentationCategory, AdminDocumentationCategory, TWikiPreferences

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Topic revision: r0 - 02 Dec 2012 - TWikiContributor

 
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