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Saturday, July 23rd, 2005 at 9:06 PM

I’ve seen several sites display a “bookmark this post” link, and I decided to do my own small implementation of it. Making use of del.icio.us as a bookmark manager is great, and providing compatible shortcuts makes it easy for readers to save interesting items for later. WordPress takes almost all of the hard work out of this task, as the information you need is already being retrieved to display the post information. If you look at the contents of your WordPress theme’s index.php, you will find the paragraph class postmetadata. By changing what’s between the beginning and end tag for that block of information, you can control what is displayed under each post. Following Joshua’s post on the link format, it’s trivial to create a working bookmark link. Adding < ?php the_permalink() ?> prints out the permalink to the post (as seen at the top of the code for printing the post title), so to create a del.icio.us compatible bookmark link, add http://del.icio.us/post?url= before it. The del.icio.us link format also takes a title value, to which I send the post title, making even quicker to save the bookmark. The whole postmetadata content looks like this:

Posted in < ?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?> <strong>|</strong> < ?php edit_post_link(‘Edit’,”,’<strong>|’); ?> <a href=”http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Bookmark this post on del.icio.us”>Bookmark This Post</a> <strong>|</strong> < ?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?>

I also added a small del.icio.us image to make the link stand out. Feel free to use my image, as well as the WordPress modification, wherever you like. Some similar modifications to the single.php file allow for a bookmark link on each post’s individual page.

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