Movable Type Plugin: Sociotags
Sociotags is a plug-in for Movable Type 4 that adds a list of "sociotags" to your entries. Sociotags are the little images you may have seen on various pages that let you add the page to Digg, Technorati, Del.icio.us, Slashdot, etc.
The Sociotags plugin includes a huge array of references to page sharing sites, and each of them can be enabled or disabled. With sociotags enabled, you'll get a box that looks like this (not an exhaustive list):
Requirements
Please use the issue tracker for bug reports and feature requests. Use the comments for general questions or discussion.
The Sociotags plugin includes a huge array of references to page sharing sites, and each of them can be enabled or disabled. With sociotags enabled, you'll get a box that looks like this (not an exhaustive list):
Requirements- Movable Type 4
- Template Installer
- Download Sociotags for Movable Type, and extract the archive file.
- Upload the contents of the "mt-static" folder to the "mt-static" folder in your Movable Type installation.
- Upload the contents of the "plugins" folder to the "plugins" folder in your Movable Type installation.
- Go to Preferences -> Plugins for each of the blogs where you want to enable Sociotags.
- Go to the Sociotags plug-in, press "Settings," and click on the "Install Templates" button. This will install the necessary stylesheet template.
- Go to the templates list, and rebuild the Sociotags stylesheet templates.
- Go back to the Sociotags settings, check the "Enable" box, and click "Save Changes."
- For each template for which you plan to use Sociotags, add the following line between the <head> and </head> tags (if you are using the MT4 default templates, go to Template Modules and edit the "Header" template):
<$MTSociotagStyles$>
- Add the following tag to the templates that generate your entries (if you are using the MT4 default templates, your best best is probably to edit the "Entry Metadata" template):
<$MTSociotags$>
- Add a link to the Sociotags for Movable Type page on your own blog on all pages where the Sociotags are shown (you'll probably want to do this in the "Footer" template). The software is free of charge, but you must add a link.
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Hi
How Can I use this plugin that be:
http://blog.blazingangles.net/whatsthis/movabletype/sociotags.jpg
It's Work this Mode for me:
http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?91d851b228.jpg
When i change Sociotags.pm , this plugin dosen't works, please help me.
thanks
You seem to have forgotten to install the style sheet. Pay attention to step 5, step 6, and step 8. Most likely you've forgotten one of these steps.
Or, maybe you forgot the last '$' sign in , which I seem to have forgotten in the instructions above (sorry--it's fixed now).
Yes: you're missing the Template Installer plug-in that is listed under Requirements. Get it from MT-Hacks and install it before installing the Sociotags plug-in.
Hey there. Great plugin. I am having a bit of trouble installing on MT 4.01. On step 5 when I click "install templates" I get an overlay with this error:
An error occurred
Unknown action install_blog_templates
Any ideas? Am I missing something?
Thanks,
-Steve
So I'm getting an error when I use this plugin. I'm using MT 4.01:
Fatal error: Smarty error: [in evaluated template line 50]: syntax error: unrecognized tag 'mtsociotagstyles' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 580)
I have the template installer in..and I put the "" in my Entry Metadata and the "" in the head tags just before the
Thoughts?
Shane,
I'm afraid I'm not sure what's wrong with your Sociotags installation. Some possible reasons:
1. Have you checked the permissions of the "lib" directory under plugins/Sociotags and the permissions of /plugins/Sociotags/lib/Sociotags.pm? The directory should be "rwx" readable by the web server, and the file should at least be "r" readable by the web server.
2. Maybe you need to turn the Sociotags on for your blog in the Plugin Settings. This shouldn't really cause the error you're seeing, but please let me know if it helps.
Hey Ole, thanks for the help. Still no luck...
I set the lib folder to 777 and the .pm file to 755. The sociotag is enabled in the plugins/settings. Regarding the template installer plugin, all you have to do is just install it, right? You don't have to install any templates other than the Sociotag template ,correct?
Shane,
Yes, the Template Installer is simply installed, and the Sociotags plugin will invoke it when you press the button in the Sociotags settings. Look in your templates list and see if the sociotags.css stylesheet is there. If it is, then probably it's installed right.
But, the worst thing that can happen if the Sociotags stylesheet template isn't installed correctly is that you'll get an output that doesn't look too good.
Movable Type is supposed to be case insensitive, I think, but just to make sure, have you typed the tag in the template exactly as shown in step 8, with dollar signs and the same use of upper/lower case?
If so, try and see what happens if you omit the MTSociotagStyles tag. If the sociotags are nonetheless shown (as a bulleted list or similar), then ... well, I don't know how that could work, but at least then we can make a work-around.
I sign in with my Typekey account and go to download the file and it says I still need to login..
Help!
I'm having the same problem as megan... I think something is broken?
Megan and Janitor: sorry about the late reply.
I've had other people logging in who had various problems with Typekey, but you're evidently able to submit comments using your Typekey accounts, so I'm not sure what's causing the problem.
I realize my suggestion is not particularly service minded, but at the moment my suggestion is that you register on the blog as "regular" (i.e., non-Typekey) users and download the Sociotags plugin that way.
Ugh, I hit the same typekey error trying to download this.
This plugin looks cool, and I'm looking forward to trying it out, but please consider turning off the need to log in in order to download it. I'm not sure what you're hoping to gain by doing that, and for now all you're accomplishing is needlessly adding a barrier to entry.
OK, got everything installed, but I'm scratching my head over this step in your docs:
6. Go to the templates list, and rebuild the Sociotags stylesheet templates.
I'm still somewhat green to MT so I'm not sure what you mean by this. I can navigate to Design->Templates and I see the "Sociotags Styles" template, but there's no big glowing "Rebuild!" button next to it, so it's not obvious how to do what you say here.
I can "Refresh" the template, at which point MT says Skipping template 'Sociotags Styles' since it appears to be a custom template.
Currently the plugin appears to work, though with ugly output; the links appear as entries in a vertical bullet list, so it looks like an unstyled <ul>. I am guessing there's a stylesheet issue somewhere on my end, which I could fix if only I understood step 6!
ok, typekey login doesn't work to download....and your new user authentication email has yet to arrive (cked spam filters, et all). "Move along, their is nothing to see here...."
JK