Inline del.icio.us links plugin for Wordpress please

Posted January 31, 2008

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Here’s an odd one. I’ve been playing about with using del.icio.us to deal with the waves of Created in Birmingham related stuff that comes my way. Currently I’ve got it on its own page but I’m slightly uneasy about ghettoising all that stuff away from casual sight. I’d like to try integrating it into the main blog, at least for readers of the site. (Feed consumers can pick and chose as they wish since they’re by definition active users, not passive surfers.)

Now, in Movable Type this is a common thing to do. You can see it in action on Strange Attractor. But I can’t for the life of me find a plugin for Wordpress that does the same. This could be because it’s buried under the hoards of plugins for getting readers to post your stuff to del.icio.us, etc rather than pulling links in but it occurred to me I haven’t seen this sort of feature on any Wordpress blogs, at least not that I’ve noticed.

So, to cut a long story short, anyone know of one?

Update 1: Found this:
http://wp-plugins.net/index.php?filter=del.icio.us.

Update 2: Trying Postalicious which *shock* appears to be up to date. Got it running on CiB. Nothing picked up yet. Sinking feeling in heart. Will wait an hour.

Update 3: Give up with Postalicious because, frankly, it didn’t work. Sure, it posted code to a new post but the title and descriptions were missing. Still, thanks to Hg in the comments I’ve discovered del.icio.us do their own version that works in the same way as Flickr’s “blog this” button. It’s not very customisable (I’ve had to use CSS to hide the tags and the post title is pretty ugly) but it works and that’s all that matters. Thanks Hg!

9 comments so far

  1. Hg on January 31st, 2008

    Do you mean the “links for 2008-01-30″ style posts on Strange Attractor, like I do on Hydragenic?

    They’re not done with an MT plugin, it’s an experimental XML-RPC feature within del.icio.us itself.

    Login to del.icio.us, click on “settings”, then “daily blog posting”, then “add a new thingy”.

    It’s fairly straightforward, if a little cryptic. It says that Wordpress is supported.

  2. Pete Ashton on January 31st, 2008

    Oooh! That looks dead handy and might explain why the dearth of plugins. ;)

    Set it up and waiting to see what happens. The only downside I can see is it can’t be limited to specific tags, but that’s not an insurmountable problem (I don’t use delicious for personal stuff that much anyway).

    Thanks!

  3. brenda on February 1st, 2008

    Does your template offer it as a widget? With that and the main deli.cio.us Firefox plugin thingy, it’s a one-click job. Or did you mean something different?

  4. brenda on February 1st, 2008

    Ah, that might be because it’s not a plugin, it’s an extension. Is this what you’re after? It is tag sensitive:
    http://del.icio.us/help/firefox/extension

  5. Pete Ashton on February 1st, 2008

    Brenda, you’ve completely, yet understandably, got the wrong end of the stick. ;)

    Check the front page of CiB to see what I mean.

  6. brenda on February 1st, 2008

    Heh. I thought that must be the case even as I was writing it. You mean in line, yes. :) It’s looking very good.

    So what did you do?

  7. brenda on February 1st, 2008

    Aha, yes, got it now, thanks to Hg up there. Sorry for being such a banana.

  8. Kevin Anderson on February 1st, 2008

    Pete,

    HG is correct. On Strange Attractor, we’re using the del.icio.us XML-RPC posting service they have. Go to settings > blogging > daily blog posting. They also have other formats that are probably more flexible but would require a little programming - JSON files, API calls, etc.

    But there is a plug-in for Word Press. You can see it on Martin Stabe’s blog.

    http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/

    The del.icio.us links are added as new posts with a del.icio.us graphic and a link to his account.

  9. Jon Bounds on February 29th, 2008

    I’d never heard of Postalicious - I was using the XML-RPC on my blog - but I hacked it around a bit, and now have it feeding BiNS and my own blog from the same del.icio.us account. That’s great, as I think I can squeeze kitten links on too and run three link posting things separately from one browser.

    I think WP-o-matic might also be something you could get to do this