WordPress Sharing Plugins: Sociable and ShareThis
There are to 2 very popular WordPress plugins for catch-all content sharing: Sociable and ShareThis. They are both very good. And they each come with their associated pros and cons. Here’s a quick look at them in terms of a web designer’s blog use.
What Both Have and Don’t Have
Together they provide sharing capabilities to the large major sharing services such as Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Twitter, etc. They also both provide sharing capability through email and printing. They are also both customizable to some extent. You can choose which services are available to be shared to. Sociable provides 98 services and ShareThis provides 36. Also, noteworthy for designers, neither plugins offer DesignBump as an option.
Individually
| Sociable Pros:
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Cons:
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Overall Conclusion
They’re both great. You can’t really go wrong with either of them. I tend to favor Sociable more since it includes some designer-specific social sharing sites (DesignFloat and DZine.) At the same time, I very much like the small footprint of ShareThis.
Which one do you use? Why?
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I just wrote my first social bookmarking plugin myself ! It is for the Austrian SB website Scoop and can be downloaded here: http://www.kohtao.ch/wp-scoop-it-plugin. It's a cool little plugin that lets you select in which post or page the WP Scoop button shell appear by adding a custom field to the article. Scoop is in German Language.
Hey John, are you familiar with the social bookmarking button AddThis (http://addthis.com)? If so, I'd love to hear your feedback. I'm the Community Manager for it's parent company Clearspring Technologies.
AddThis has a WordPress Plug-in.
http://www.addthis.com/blog/2007/03/22/addthis-...
The button supports FriendFeed and 40+ other destinations. It has a substantially smaller footprint then any of the competition. It's 3k on load and 17k on hover. It's been localized into 20+ langauges. We have analytics about how your content is being shared around the Web. It's also the most widely used which makes it more recognizable then any other button.
Feel free to drop me a line personally, if you'd like to chat about it – justin@clearspring.com
Thanks Justin! I'll give it a try and incorporate it into the the comparison with the other two.
Great job! I'll download it and try it out.
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