My first wordpress plugin – Delicious Bookmark Button with realtime bookmark count

del.icio.us needs no introduction, and if you still do not use delicious bookmarking service, there is something obviously missing in your life! Delicious is a famous social bookmarking site that has achieved rapid popularity and growth ever since it was being purchased by Yahoo Inc in 2005. Delicious is my all-time favorite bookmarking service. Many features have contributed to this, including the website’s simple interface, human-readable URL scheme, a novel domain name, a simple REST-like API, and RSS feeds for web syndication. Hence I was really particular about placing a delicious badge in my blog from the very beginning.

As part of my recent blog redesign I’ve searched many places for a nice looking delicious bookmark button which can also display the total bookmark count just like the tweetmeme button. I wanted a button that blends along with other bookmarking buttons such as twitter, digg, facebook etc. A significant amount of my time was spent on googling and browsing through the wordpress plugin directory, but I never found what I wanted.

So finally, I’ve decided to create my own wordpress plugin. After going through some beginner level tutorials on wordpress plugin development nuts and bolts, I have created what I exactly wanted. I am really really happy, that I have become the proud owner of a wordpress plugin

And now after 2 weeks of releasing my new blog design, I have been getting number of emails and DMs on my new delicious bookmarking button. So I have decided to share it online, so that anyone can download it and use in their wordpress blogs, if they found it useful.

So far I have checked it only in my wordpress which is version 2.8.4, and it is working perfect. In case If you come across any issues while using it, please let me know about it right away.

Anyway, enough chat – Onward to the plugin details!

Plugin Description

A cool delicious bookmarking button/badge with total bookmark count. It adds a delicious badge or button to your post or page which allows you to bookmark the post. It also reflect a real-time count of how many times your page has been bookmarked in delicious, just like tweetmeme button does for twitter. Both standard and compact version of the badge to choose from.

Preview

Normal Badge

Compact Badge

Getting Started

1. Download this .zip file and unpack the content
2. Upload the folder to your plugins folder and activate the plugin.
3. Edit single.php of your WordPress theme.
4. Find the following line (or similar line, depending on your theme file) in single.php:

   <?php the_content("<p class=serif>Read the rest of this entry</p>"); ?>

5. Immediately after the line, add the code below for normal badge

   <?php delit_normal(); ?>

   and for compact badge use

   <?php delit_compact(); ?>

6. Save and upload single.php back to your WordPress theme folder. Done!

Download

You are free to download and use this plugin both in your personal as well as commercial projects. What I only need in return is your comments and backlinks, if you like it. You are not allowed to sell or redistribute this plugin anywhere else.

Do not provide the direct download link nor upload this onto other servers for your own share. If you want to spread the words, just link to this article or use the Official WordPress Plugin Page.

Direct Text Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/delicious-bookmark-button/

Delicious Bookmark Button with realtime bookmark count by Deepu Balan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India License.
Based on a work at deepubalan.com.