Social Bookmarking Extension for BlogEngine.Net – AddThis (Updated)

By Mayank Raichura at April 15, 2009 03:50
Filed Under: Featured, Download, Flagged

This extension is based Danny Douglas’s  SocialBookmarks Extension. I suggest that you also have a look at it.

 

What is AddThis?

 

addthis-expandedAddThis is one of the popular(actually #1 per their site) social bookmarking button on Internet. This button eases your burden of maintaining links to each and every social bookmarking site on internet. Instead, the site provides us with a code that, once embedded into your post, opens a small popup with number of ways for sharing your content. Also, it tracks all the bookmarks through which you can analyze.

addthis_trend addthis-topservices

 

What AddThis extension does?

Instead of manually embedding the code, provided by AddThis, to each and every post, this extension inserts the code, on the fly, as and when the posts are requested.

 

How to insall this extension?

  • Download the extension from the bottom of this post.
  • Extract the AddThis.cs and upload it to your BlogEngine.Net’s ~/App_Code/Extensions folder. If your blog isn’t hosted on root, please change the path as needed.
  • Goto Settings and select Extensions tab.
  • Look for AddThis under the Name column and click on Edit link on the same row.

Extension Page Extension Page

 

  • In the next page, change the Username to your own AddThis Username so that you can track your traffic.

Extension SettingsExtension Settings

  • Check Only Full Post  if you want to show the AddThis button when a full post is requested. If you want to show the AddThis button on all post on the default page(as request by Chad), just uncheck it.
  • Now, you should be able to see the AddThis button at the bottom of your posts. 

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New features in v1.3

  • If you don’t wish to monitor your bookmark traffic, just check the Keep Anonymous option and your traffic will not be monitored.
  • Now you can choose from multiple buttons supported by AddThis. The details on how to use different button is given in the inside help, on settings page. If you are struck anywhere, just leave a comment. You can see the list of possible buttons here

addthis-big

bkmark-big

share-big

bkmark-small

share-small

 plus

  • I’ve also added a simple option to change between small and large buttons. Check Large Button option to show large buttons. This will not apply to plus button.

 

Your comments, compliments and bug reports are always welcomed…

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Comments

4/24/2009 5:34:49 AM #

anigalla

cool.. very nice extension.. lovely..
thank you very much.

anigalla United States | Reply

4/27/2009 2:34:04 AM #

Jeff

thanks, just what I was looking for

Jeff United States | Reply

4/28/2009 7:12:40 AM #

Chad

How would you make it so the add this button shows on all the posts on the default page instead of just on the individual post page?

Chad United States | Reply

5/9/2009 3:28:45 AM #

anigalla

Hi.. Tested 1.3 on my site. no issues at all. I have used it in 2places, one in root directory and one in sub folder of my site.. and no problem at all.. more over, this update is more descriptive for the end users and have cool features to customize themselves.. Hmm, i have no -ve points to mention here.. Its perfect. thanks mayank

anigalla United States | Reply

5/9/2009 12:08:10 PM #

Mayank

Hi Anigalla, Thanks you very much for taking time to test the extension and providing me with the valuable feedback.

Mayank India | Reply

5/18/2009 9:55:01 PM #

Jason Short

Fantastic!  I was just going to do this myself because I like AddThis also.  Thanks for sharing.

Jason Short United States | Reply

5/19/2009 8:46:40 AM #

Mayank

Thank you very much for your complements and I'm glad that the extension has been useful to you.

Mayank India | Reply

7/13/2009 4:18:30 AM #

Boiler

Thank you for sharing this extension, social bookmarking here I come.

Boiler United States | Reply

7/22/2009 5:26:52 PM #

Jolly

this is a nice extension as user-friendly as the, good for bookmarking.

Jolly Australia | Reply

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Mayank Raichura is an aspiring VB.Net and ASP.net programmer who hails from Rajkot, Gujarat(India). He is known for his creations like Social Bookmarking Extension for BlogEngine.Net – AddThis and BlogEngine.Net Extension Creator. He has 6 years of experience in ASP and VB6 programming but recently have jumped in ASP.Net and VB.Net. Apart from that he loves sky gazing, photography, hiking, trekking, visiting place and playing games.

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