If you are hooked on to social bookmarking and you like tagging all sorts of blog entries and sites, you might as well do it on your own WordPress powered-blog. You could have a way for people to tag your entries on their favorite social bookmarking service by using the Social Bookmarks Sidebar Widget on your blog. If it is on the front page of your blog, it allows your reader to bookmark your blog. If it is on a particular page or blog entry, it would bookmark that particular page or blog entry.

Requirements:
WordPress 2.0+
WordPress Widgets Plugin

Download links:
The Social Bookmarks Sidebar Widget – zip file
The Social Bookmarks Sidebar Widget – targz file

Inspirations of the widget:
Bookmarkit for Typo
WordPress Widget Example by Kaf Under

Similar to:
Sociable plugin for WordPress.

Notes on using this widget:
This is a widget you could use so that you could spread the presence of these social bookmarking services since people who will go to your blog will see the different icons. You don’t have to provide ways to interface with ALL the supported social bookmarking sites. Your blog has to be mainly about your content and not just about these other services. In short, choose your bookmarking service well. No need to get them all. If you are a user of these particular services, choose them. Or if you have a lot of readers using something else, give them the way to tag your entry.

Tagging is fun. Combine that with blogging and you get this! Spread the love.

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