The Best-Of Series: Social Bookmarking

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1. Guillermo (2 comments.) says:

   9/9/2009 at 8:20 am

   Good list… I love sociable just for the reasons you named: simplicity and “to the point”

   What about a “WordPress SEO Tools” for the next “Best-Of”?
2. Matt Algren (3 comments.) says:

   9/9/2009 at 10:35 am

   I became a big fan of Add to Any mainly because of their support for the open source share icon. Now that I’m with them, I can’t imagine going to one of the others. A HUGE plus is that I can (and do) give the button a click trigger rather than the far-too-ubiquitous mouse-over trigger. I hate that.

   Add to Any does have the option of using individual icons, at least in the WordPress plugin. I don’t use that, but it works well and displays a dimmed version of the icons until hover. I actually prefer the dropdown because it prioritizes services based on what the visitor uses. It looks cleaner and people get their preferred service right up top. We both win!

   Also, you can check the plugin’s stats through google analytics by drilling down on content. A2A is currently my 3rd most popular page.
3. gestroud (3 comments.) says:

   9/9/2009 at 11:27 am

   Some good plugins, but most of them have given me styling problems with some of the themes used on my sites. I’ve been using obsocialbookmarker http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....ookmarker/ but I may switch to the Ssociable plugin.
4. Tukancheez (1 comments.) says:

   9/9/2009 at 2:05 pm

   A nice list of plugins, but I did not find here “SexyBookmarks” plugin.

   WordPress.org: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sexybookmarks/
   The Homepage: http://sexybookmarks.net/

   I was using Sociable for a while, but then I have moved onto Sexy Bookmarks.
   • Chip (14 comments.) says:

     9/10/2009 at 4:01 pm

     Count me in. I quit Sociable as it seemed bloated (the word is too harsh). SexyBookmarks looks… sexy and it loads fast.
5. Sharif (2 comments.) says:

   9/9/2009 at 2:28 pm

   Nice Post.Till now I didn’t installed these type of plugins.But after read your this post I will use.

   Thanks a lot.
6. kalista (1 comments.) says:

   9/9/2009 at 4:16 pm

   I figured I might as well see how it was put together, I prefer the sociable plugin, it’s easy to configure.
7. Vilmis @ Travel Tips (1 comments.) says:

   9/9/2009 at 7:45 pm

   @James, thanks for review. I am just right now looking for social bookmarking plugin and will be easier to choose from your short list.
8. ~Kat~ (1 comments.) says:

   9/9/2009 at 10:57 pm

   I have used Sociable and AddThis and I have to agree, that while they are all great plugins Sociable is the easiest to use.
   I have just downloaded the sexy bookmarks plugin. I am going to give it a try.
9. robb (5 comments.) says:

   9/10/2009 at 6:16 am

   add to any is definitely on my top of the list !!
   it’s just dead simple.
10. Babs (37 comments.) says:

    9/10/2009 at 6:35 am

    I had been using ShareThis since I first started my blog as it was heavily recommended to me. However, it seems ever since they made their changes a few months back I keep losing the customization code in the settings page, meaning every time I want to change where the link is displayed I have to go to ShareThis and recreate the whole thing. That, and the fact that even though I tell it only to include certain networks it still includes every one they’ve got, has been turning me off.

    Since Add to Any now covers all the social networks I subscribe to I decided to give it a try. I may further tweak it to include only certain networks, but for now the knowledge that the ones the readers use pop up at the top is rather cool.
11. Sriraj (6 comments.) says:

    9/10/2009 at 8:16 am

    SexyBookmarks again..Looks like you’ve have to add this plugin to your list of top Social Bookmarking plugins.
    I’ve used Sociable but that was too heavy.
12. DaveZatz (5 comments.) says:

    9/10/2009 at 7:42 pm

    Another vote for Sexy Bookmarks.
13. Street.Walker (1 comments.) says:

    9/10/2009 at 10:01 pm

    Now i am using sociable plugins for my wordpress blog, its nice then another
14. Christian Hollingsworth (1 comments.) says:

    9/10/2009 at 11:32 pm

    Sociable has to be my favorite. It’s very easy to use – and offers the perfect blend of graphics and usability. Great plugin review!
15. Surinder (1 comments.) says:

    9/11/2009 at 2:49 am

    Hi,

    Sexy bookmarks thanks for sharing such nice list..i am still using only all in one seo and head space only..but looking forward for the Sociable (especially)
16. Sattarmalik (1 comments.) says:

    9/11/2009 at 1:12 pm

    I am using Sociable. its very easy to use and I think it done all my work
17. Robert Lönn (1 comments.) says:

    9/11/2009 at 5:21 pm

    Nice list of plugin. I am using the sociable plugin and am satified with that. Even though after reading the comments I must check out the sexier cousin of sociable.

    Do you have a similar list of Twitter or microblogging plugins?
18. Jessi says:

    9/11/2009 at 11:12 pm

    These aren’t bad, but I guess I’m in the minority of people that just hardcode the social links into my template.
19. Gary says:

    9/13/2009 at 8:20 am

    > Social Bookmarking; we’re all guilty of it these days.

    We most certainly are not all guilty of it. I wouldn’t know where to start if I had to begin today.
20. Josh (4 comments.) says:

    9/21/2009 at 5:00 am

    Thanks to everyone who mentioned SexyBookmarks in the comments! (even if it didn’t make it into the actual list itself)

    Also, for all of you hardcore “sociable fans”… I have nothing against the plugin itself, but have any of you noticed what’s happened to the documentation/support since it was sold recently? haha

    Anyway, thanks to all!