Sexy Bookmarks Plugin

Sexy Bookmarks for Joomla is a small plugin which provides the possibility to add different social bookmark services to your Joomla based Website. The (X)HTML compliant code will add a list-based menu with different icons in each article. This allows your users to add your articles to most of the popular social bookmarking services.

The plugin provides the following features:

* Whether or not to add rel=”nofollow” to the links
* The target attribute (_blank or _self)
* Which site’s icons should be displayed in the menu
* Custom CSS for the DIV that contains the menu
* Contains English and German language files

Changelog:
* 1.1.0 - CSS Bugfix (blue box and missing images), New options to display the menu in special categories only, New option to enable/disable the Sexy Bookmarks menu on specific articles (see Usage instructions for more information), Added Tibd, PFBuzz, Friendfeed, Blogmarks, Twittley and Fwisp, plus some additional small fixes

* 1.0.5 - Bugfix ‘Call by reference’ for PHP5

* 1.0.4 - Bugfix Url transformation, New options to display Sexy Bookmarks on different pages (frontpage, blog-layouts, single articles)

* 1.0.3 - Changed display options to avoid displaying on list pages for categories and sections

* 1.0.2 - Added Izeby, Diigo and MisterWong to the list of bookmark Services

* 1.0.1 - Added english and german as supported languages to the plugin

* 1.0.0 - Initial Release of plugin

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Its an awesome plugin, but not very masculine with its images! I'd love to edit it myself but can't find, after extracting the plugin where the default images are?

I don't want 'caring' and 'love' messages on my site, I want to be able to edit the originals but seriously can't find them, where are they?!

Otherwise an excellent plugin.
bycchevy365 on January 12, 2010
There is an error with the RT, on an UTF-8 website. When I submit to Twitter, the encoding is bad. Hope this gets fixed in the next version.
bymistyrouge on January 7, 2010
Hello !
I love your plugin ! It's pretty usefull and works very well (haven't tested the twitter part yet).

The only problem is that there is a little mistake that prevent your code from being html valid.
The problem is on line 234 in sexybookmarks.php :

the line is "$socials = "\n".'fetchBackground().'" '.$style.' class="sexy-bookmarks>'."

but it should be "$socials = "\n".'fetchBackground().'" '.$style.'>'."

I just remove the twice defined class element
byjozef3d on December 22, 2009
Tried out most of the other ones available and by far, this was the best one. It's clean and very easy to setup and customize! However, it would be nice to have the ability to specify where to place sexy bookmark in the article (bottom or top) and be able to reorganize the order in which each bookmark appears. I especially love the ability to customize the banners, so I'm not always stuck with "Sharing is Sexy". Overall, clean and well done!
byjoe_westwood on November 27, 2009
A Plug-In close to perfection but I would like to ask you for an extension for german Studivz and Dutch Hyves.

Thank you,
Joe
After trying several bookmarking plugins this is the best.

Note: in xml the linkedin and newswine parameters are changed, revise this.

Good work.
I was looking exactly to something like this, very simple.

I designed a template for a client that in the end of each article has some links (like feed, register, twitter) and then some nice icons to share.
I used this without external css and adapting it to the style i prepared and it works nicely.

Thanks
Great addition for any website and different from the other plugins on offer. Very easy to configure and the buttons look fab. Thank you!
bymerovingio on September 12, 2009
Great job indeed! I would like to suggest you to add also some Italian social bookmarks such as: oknotizie.alice.it, diggita.it, wikio.it, fai.informazione.it and upnews.it.

P.
Unfortunately, there isn't a rating between good and excellent, so I am going with good to give room for additional kudos as the extension continues to evolve.

It looks great. It doesn't add additional load to my site. (I don't have it set for Front Page items.) The only thing I would like to see is an exclusion list. There are just some parts of my site that don't need to be "Sexy" (lol).
bycbdh19 on September 3, 2009
This plugin works nicely and looks nice on my pages.

Thank you so much!

A few suggestions:
- you might want to make it more clear in your summary that people who use this plug-in do have the option NOT to use the "sexy" graphic; if that had been more clear to me, I would have checked this plugin out much earler, and saved the time of going through some of the other social bookmarking plugins/modules, 95% of which: a) did not work properly; b)and/or did not allow you any flexibility in terms of which categories, articles they display on;
-- I don't even know if any social bookmarking programs offer this, but an option for the user to select target_blank, etc. for the links to the social networking sites sure would be great!
-- I wish I could control the order the icons display in. I think there's a long way to do this, drop all the icons, then add the icon you want to display last first, and go in a "backwards" adding order so that you end up adding the icon you want listed first, last
-- finally, it took me a little while to figure out which of the css padding numbers was padding on the bottom; seems like you might want to add some default pixels to the bottom padding, and/or make clear to people that if the second, or third row of icons isn't displaying, it's because the person hasn't added enough bottom padding (there's also the issue with Joomla's "next" and "previous" links at the bottom of pages).

Thank you again!
byvikris on August 30, 2009
Sexy Bookmarks is a great looking extension that really adds some spice to the look of a web site.

It is also so easy to install and configure, a total no brainer :-)

Fantastic work, Highly recommended...
byjvanree on August 17, 2009
A very good add on, easy to configure, great looks and style.

Just one wish... I would like the buttons to be permanently visable, not only on hover. This is because some people visiting my website are a little bit older and may not understand " hovering " .

Other than that...Well Done!!!
bymbiolsi on August 14, 2009
Love the looks of this plug in... however it adds 5-10 seconds to the load time of a site that has a front page blog with this plugin showing on the front page. Not sure why... hope they fix it!
Owner's reply

short remark on this: This effect is based on the Twitter part of the plugin. The Sexy Bookmarks plugins tries to fetch a short url for your webpage from a short-url-service. That means, if you have 8 different articles on your frontpage, the plugin tries to get 8 different external contents (the short url) for each article on your frontpage. This will slow down the page speed.

Turn the Twitter part off to improve the page speed. I am working on a higher performance on this side.

bytranduyninh on August 14, 2009
Very good bookmarks !
Great plugin !!!!
Lost of my site is run perfect, but some problem here: ( image didn't display corect )
Can you help me ?
i have chmod all file to 644
bysmashtheguitar on July 14, 2009
This is a very good plugin. It appears to work well and is easy to install and configure.

The biggest problem with this one, though, is that you can't limit it to particular sections or categories. If this gets added in the next version this will be the best one out there.
bymatala on June 30, 2009
Very easy to install and to configure.
It's really sexy!
I tried other modules but as a plug-in it looks great easy to install and configure.

Thanks! This is just what I was looking for.
bybaijianpeng on June 1, 2009
This plugin is very good. I love those buttons.

Hope the author can add more social bookmarks services, especially those popular in China. Thanks.
bygetimo on June 1, 2009
+ works out of the box
+ looks good
+ easy handling

- no exclusion of articles/categories/sections (very important imho)
- doesn't look good in section blogs
- small selection of services
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