Adding social bookmark links to the blog or web sites makes it easy for readers to save and share the favorite contents with their friends. The social bookmarking and networking sites like Digg, Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Myspace, Yahoo bookmarks, Technorathi, Google reader. Reddit…….etc can be easily integrated to blogs by using different plugins. But the most popular social networking site…the passion of youth…Orkut is missing in this list.
Orkut developers have unveiled an experimental “share API” allows website owners to enable their visitors to share the website content with visitor’s Orkut friends. Users can optionally promote the content among their friends.
Now a WordPress plugin for this
Featurs of this plugin
- You can choose the pages where you want to show the Orkut Share button. You can set the languages supported by Google Orkut share (English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil)).
- You can set the post image thumbnail meta name and that image will be selected as thumbnail image for sharing.
- If no image thumbnail meta name is set, first image in that post will be selected as thumbnail image for sharing.
Download the plugin
Installation
- Upload “wp-orkut-share” directory to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Goto settings “Orkut Share Settings” and save your settings
This enable users to share your blog or the blog posts with their Orkut friends. When users click this button they are prompted to login to Orkut if they are not already logged in. They are then shown a preview of the content that will be posted to Orkut with an option to also promote what they are sharing. Once the user confirms, the content will be shared with their Orkut friends.
The shared content appears in the ‘Updates from my friends’ section on Orkut. If the user had checked ‘Promote to your friends,’ it also appears in the upper right hand corner of the Orkut friends’ home and profile pages, alternating with formal advertisements.
Happy Orkuting
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tried it but doesn’t work. If I check the generated source code of my webpage I see:
`Failed to load source for: http://www.knightsenglish.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.google.com/jsapi%E2%80%9D`
I have no idea why my url is added in front of the google one. I copied the text exactly as pasted here…
Sorry Ovidiu, it was a code error. Plz try again. It is 100 % working, I forgot to put the HTML code in code format.
that is weird. but the new code, opens a pop up when clicked, which redirects to orkut and then to google for login but says:
Bad Request
Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request.
Try it live here: http://www.knightsenglish.com/
oh, and btw. why do I include a complete HTML header in my sidebar? that doesn’t really make sense to me?
It is absolutely working. Checked your Site and Iam able to share your site to Orkut.
jepp. work but:
it screws up html validation. any other ideas? I can’t insert html and body in the middle of a page !?
Thanx for pointing out the HTML validation errors. Try the new code.
THX. I removed this line too:
An Informative site
Every wordpress page already has a title
Looks better now, thanks.
Ohh thanks! It really helps making the site more Orkut-friendly!
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