25 Social Bookmarking Plugins for WordPress
Most bloggers are using wordpress as their content management software. Now a days if they need to get a good no of visitors, the posts has to be shared with the world. But how it is possible? Surely using social bookmarks. Digg, Stumbleupon, reddit etc are some of such websites as you know. So how to share your blog posts with your friends and the world? Here comes the use of wordpress plugins for the social bookmarking and sharing. These plugins will allow you to share your contents with the world and you will receive a good many no of visitors to your blog.
In the showcase below , I have included almost all the most wanted plugins for the social bookmarkings. Fell free to add your comments here 
1.Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button
Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with AddToAny’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing and usage history.
Though the name may be a little “edgy” for some, SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.
3. Sociable
Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites! WordPress 2.6 or above is required, if you use an older version, please download this version, please keep in mind that version is not maintained.
4. Light Social
This is a super lightweight plugin to insert a set of social share links at the bottom of each post, focused on technical blogs. With this plugin you don’t have options to configure. Simply activate or deactivate to show or not the bookmark social links.
Adds a tell a friend, Share/Bookmark/Email/Social Bookmarking button in a widget position. The service which is used is freetellafriend.com which supports e-mail address book, social bookmarks and favorites.
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6. OnlyWire
OnlyWire syndicates your content and articles to the web’s top social networking sites with a single button click. Used by thousands of bloggers and publishers, OnlyWire simplifies the process of submitting your content to over 30 social networking sites at once — including Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter and many others.
Makes it easy for you to add Facebook Connect functionality to a site. Modular: activate only the pieces you need.
Simple Facebook Connect consists of series of plugins, to add any sort of Facebook Connect functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customizeit exactly the way you’d like.
8. AddThis
Help your visitor promote your site! The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows your users to bookmark your site easily with over 45 popular services, and to share it with friends via email. Our button is small, unobtrusive, quick to load and recognized all over the web.
The Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them to a number of social bookmarking sites.
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11. Social Bookmarking RELOADED
The Social Bookmarking RELOADED plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them in a number of social bookmarking sites. Furthermore, the plugin adds a page in the WordPress admin section that lets you customize it.
13. Bookmark Me
The Bookmark Me plugin will add buttons that let your visitors share your content on social media sites such as Buzz Up!, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Mixx, Reddit and StumbleUpon.
14. Social Dropdown
Version 2.0 features a new fresh look which is much easier to use and is extremely search engine friendly. Nonetheless, if you do not like the new layout, you can always use the old one via the administration panel. The new layout should go well with most layouts.
15. Simple Sidebar Share Widget
This allows your users to share any page of your blog on their chosen social network site.
Social Bookmarking JP plugin embeds links and icons of Hatena Bookmark, Livedoor Clip, Yahoo!JAPAN Bookmark, BuzzURL, Twitter, Tumblr, FC2 Bookmark, newsing, Choix, Google Bookmark, Delicious and Digg to the heading or ending of the post. These are Japanese major social bookmark services (except Delicious and Digg).
17. Bookmarkify
The Social Media Marketing Plugin that lets you put social bookmarking links in your posts and other pages. Help your readers promote your blog!
18. Social Web Links
Displays beautiful web 2.0 social bookmark icons on your sidebar. Two sizes available for icons 26×26 and 16×16. Three styles of display available.
19. Simple Social Bookmarking Plugin
Will add bookmark icon for each post and page to share with popular social bookmarking sites.
It includes all the features of SexyBookmarks v.2.1.2 with the following changes/additions:
- Customizable display order of bookmarks.
- Uses WP Custom Fields to store the short URL for each post/page. This minimizes the need to make a remote request for a short URL each time the post or page is processed.
- Fix to remove inline CSS when DamnSexyBookmarks is displayed in the feed.
- Added an option to hide or display DamnSexyBookmarks in feeds.
- Added an option to hide “Sharing is Caring” or “Sharing is Sexy”.
- Streamlined code for easier maintenance.
The Social Bookmark plugin is a “ready to run” addon for the WordPress blogsoftware. It adds a list of 16x16px icons of the most common social bookmark services to your wordpress blog. It comes as a sidebar widget that can be activated and positioned in the admin’s widget configuration interface. The plugin takes care of the correct transfer of bookmarking titles, URLs and descriptions individually generated from your content. You can activate or deactivate each social bookmark service individually through your wordpress administration interface. The Plugin is fully XHTML 1.0 Transitional compatible.
22. Bookmark Me
A simple and light plugin to add social bookmarks buttons to post and pages. I’m focusing in collecting non-english bookmarks services.
23. Addmarx
The Addmarx Bookmark, Share, Email, Link Dropdown was developed as a customizable, integrated method of distributing your content to various social bookmarking platforms. The plugin provides four basic functions:
- Bookmark content using different services including a web browser
- Email content to friends/colleagues
- Share content via social websites
- Link to a page/posting with pre-populated HTML code
This plugin is for adding submission links for Digg, Delicious, Buzz, and Stumble to pages and posts.
This plugin is useful for building traffic to your website and also for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It allows you to choose between six options of pages/posts to add to.
25. Sociable-Italia
Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 105 different social bookmarking sites! Extension of joostdevalk plugin sociable for italian bookmarking sites.
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16 Responses
12.30.2009
wow these are cool, I knew about some of them but thanks for taking the time to list and share them with us all
1.1.2010
Nice post you wrote, continue updating your site, that’s better.
1.1.2010
Sure, I will.. Thanks
1.3.2010
I REALLY liked your post and blog! It took me a little bit to find your site…but I book marked it. Would you mind if I but a link back to your site?
1.3.2010
Thaks a Lot
1.3.2010
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1.4.2010
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1.7.2010
Nice tips and thanks for sharing here
1.9.2010
appreciated
thanks for this useful information
1.9.2010
Many thanks for the article. I enjoyed reading it. You have a very good blog.
1.12.2010
hey great article, pleasure for reading. Keep the good work.
1.13.2010
this is really appreciated
7.5.2010
That’s a very interesting information. I didn’t know about it. Keep developing your site!
7.5.2010
good post!
8.15.2010
Nice post. Are these plug-ins in order of best to worse? I use number one just wondering what anyone else thinks.
8.24.2010
Amazing list…
But my favorite Plugin is Digg digg plugin :S
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