Checkout Wordpress Toolbar Version 2.2 Release Blog.
This plugin is a result of day to day observations of my wordpress blog stat. I analyzed that 75% of my blog’s visitors were leaving my blog posts by clicking one of the out going links either to my code.google project pages or to an external source of information. However, I doubt how many of them were coming back to leave a comment or to bookmark/share my blog post on one of the social bookmarking sites. I can say this because, even I too forget to press the browser back button and visit the blog again.
However I observed that I was clicking the link back on stumble floating toolbars and facebook external links toolbar. And hence came Wordpress Toolbar Plugin (upgrade to 2.0 with Admin Panel). In short:
WordPress Toolbar is a unique plugin which will automatically enable a toolbar for all outgoing links from your blog post, similar to stumbleupon and facebook. Often the visitors on your blog clicks one of the outgoing link for more information. However, s/he often forgets to comment back or social bookmark your blog. WordPress toolbar will float on the top of all these outgoing links from your blog post, showing options for either visit back your blog post from where s/he came from, comment back on your blog, social bookmark you blog in one of the famous bookmarking sites and finally an option to leave this toolbar.
This is my first wordpress plugin and I have just got my subversion repository access on wordpress.org. I have checked in this version of plugin and you can download the same from the download link above. You can experience the wordpress toolbar by clicking this link: http://abhinavsingh.com . As you click this, you will see a brownish black toolbar floating at the top of the yahoo.com page using which either the users can come back to comment on this blog post or they can use one of the social bookmarking images to share this blog post.
Introductory Features of Wordpress Toolbar:
- A link back to your blog home
- A link back to your blog post from where he visited the external link
- A comment back link to originating blog post
- Various social bookmarking links to share, promote and bookmark your blog post
- Finally a close button, with which he will exit the wordpress toolbar
- An admin panel to configure and customize all of the above options
How to install Wordpress Toolbar:
- Before proceeding with this version 2.x, you should DEACTIVATE any active 1.x series plugin
- Remove /blog/toolbar.php which you must have copied while activating 1.x version
- Remove /blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-toolbar directory fully. You will no longer need this
- Download the plugin
- Extract the plugin into `/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar` directory
- You will see one directory named `extra` which contains required images and css (DO-NOT-TOUCH-THIS-FOLDER)
- You will see 2 files named: wp-toolbar.php and toolbar.php (DONT MOVE THEM ANYWHERE)
- Activate the plugin
- Go to WPAdmin => settings => `wordpress toolbar` and customize the toolbar
- Bingo!
Version Change logs:
- Version 2.0 : Version was upgraded since 2.0 is a complete overhaul from 1.x series. Specifically it allows you to do the following:
- You can now use auto upgrade for future releases without caring to move the plugin files everytime
- Admin panel allows you to fully customize your toolbar
- You can now ever choose social icons of your choice to be displayed on the toolbar
- Choose domains for which you don’t want to activate this plugin
- Unlike 1.x series, 2.0 do not change the href=”" urls. Instead now it uses javascript onclick event to activate toolbar and hence taking care of your SEO needs
- Version 1.1 : Include emergency CSS and HTML Validation fixes for IE browsers
- Version 1.0 : The first release of wordpress toolbar
Planned Future Releases:
- Include support for wordpress blogs hosted on PHP4, currently they are facing issues
- Include an options for inserting target=”_blank” for all outgoing links
- Club Socialble plugin into wordpress toolbar – Since wordpress toolbar already consists of all the social networking favicons, you may want to have a similar copy for a different plugin. Hence one of the next releases will include support for inserting social icons on your blog
- Club Google Analytics plugin into wordpress toolbar – Currently wordpress toolbar plugin inserts a onclick=”" event for all out going links which enables the toolbar for the link. However if you are a user of Google Analytics Plugin, then you might face a few issues. Mainly because Google Analytics Plugin too tries to insert an onclick=”" event for all outgoing links. Which finally clashes with wordpress toolbar onclick=”" event. Clubing both will allow you to enjoy plus points of both the plugins.
Do leave a comment or any suggestion for improvement.
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[...] WP-Toolbar , a custom made plugin for showing a toolbar for outgoing links from my blogpost [...]
This is a wonderful work and a great plugin. Rearing to pull this one for my blog.
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A long-wished plugin. A must-have for all Wordpress bloggers!
Great work .. Keep it up !!
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Great blog! I can’t wait to use the plugin for my wordpress blog
Keep up the good work sweety !
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Gave it a spin, neat stuff
Small suggestion that i thought of when i was copying the files to my wordpress account, instead of bundling each of the icons in your extension, why not just use the respective sites favicon ? this way you also keep it updated to any logo changes they make plus if the user has already visited that site, the image might already have been cached in his browser. I’ve used this technique in the “Me Elsewhere” module on my blog 
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Thanks Rohit, Indeed a nice suggestion. Will surely look to push this for the upcoming releases.
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Really this is one of the most awaited plugin. Thanks Abhi. I m sure this will help us get more social bookmarks, if not comments
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Awesome plugin! Some sugestions: a way to insert more buttons in it and to change what is written on them. My blog is in portuguese, so it would be cool a option to write in portuguese in the toolbar instead of having to mess directly with the plugin’s files. It would also be great if we could have the option of choosing the social networks to add the posts. Digg is the biggest of them, of course, but there aren’t any blog in Brazil submiting posts to Digg…
Thanks for this great plugin
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Terramel
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Thanks Terramel,
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Dustin Goerndt
Hey Abhi! Thanks for sharing your work with us! I really like this plugin and I was thinking about some additional options that might help get it more users. What if I had a post with a podcast in it or a song I’d just written; Maybe I’m journalist and you’re listening to my report and want to check the footnotes on my research. What if the podcast would continue to play in the toolbar while you were checking my additional photos on flickr. Is it possible?
Abhinav Singh
Hi Dustin,
Surely with more user base, I am sure there will be a lot of support needed for the plugin.
I have added your requirement in TO-DO list and will get back to you in detail when I start working on it.
Thanks,
- Abhi
[...] Original post: Wordpress Toolbar Plugin | Abhi's Weblog [...]
Hi,
I’m encountering a problem. I’m getting:
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /toolbar.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Can you help me? Thanks!
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Hi,
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Yes, I copied the toolbar.php and placed it in my root directory. Should there still be a copy of toolbar.php in the plugin directory?
I’ve set permission to 755.
Yes, I am on linux
Still get the same error.
Further, I’m getting the same error on another blog on a different hosting company
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No there should not be a copy of toolbar.php in the /blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-toolbar/ folder. Further I assume you have renamed wordpress-toolbar to wp-toolbar.
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Hi, this is a MUST HAVE toolbar and i searched a lot and finally a release from you
The Plugin is wonderfull but i have one problem.
I dont know if im the only ony.. but the buttons “comment” “download the plugin” and the “house” button are not showing in INTERNET EXPLORER 7.
I know that IE su**s but most use it… so take a look and see how u can change that thing…
Or maybe its only a problem at my broswer…
Anyways… CONGRA… for ur great Work
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Hi Romeo,
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Abhi –
I emailed you a link
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@Stephanie
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Great idea and great plugin!
I’m having a small problem though. When my blog-title contains æøå it messes up the title in the toolbar. Any solution for this? Please?
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Ok, found a solution myself.
Insert:
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />
after:
<head>
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I was trying to validate the toolbar.php in W3 but i can’t (http://validator.w3.org) , IE support would be great, the most visitors on my website use IE.
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The link to this page from the Wordpress plugin page, isn’t correct. Awesome plugin – definitely want people to find it!
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1. Add <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”> after the php call.
2.Get rid of the <html style=”overflow:hidden”> in toolbar.php, replace it with
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”en” lang=”en”>
3. Put :
html {
overflow:hidden;
}
In CSS .
The toolbar.php seems a little bit valid now, but no totally.
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”> The one I posted before was not good.
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It seems that without the social bookmark buttons, everything is ok in IE….
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pfff finally after 2 hours of trying everything i’ve got it, it was something in the CSS, it should now work on IE. Just change
.bookmarks {
float:right;
}
with
.bookmarks {
float:left;
}
Well, the other tips i’ve given are in moderation because of the links there regarding w3.org
Now I have a question : How can I disable this plugin for “pages” ( i mean this one: is_page() )
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WOW! The power of opensource. Thanks Partz Partzescu and Mikael for your valuable inputs. I have made the necessary change to the subversion directory and also releasing 1.1 version of the same, since I guess these changes are critical for people.
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Abhi,
The new release is ok with IE
THe problem is not showing anymore.
I’ve testet with Google Chrome too and everything its ok.
The only problem that i’m having is the problem that Stephanie had or smth like that.
THe Plugin its ok and funktion ok.
I have another plugin (Sociable) installed in my Page and as i click over one of them… for ex. Digg…. the button dont bring me to the page to submit the news… but it brings me to the same page of my article….
Here u can try…
Go to
http://www.romeolab.com/lets-fifia-2009/
and try to klick the Digg Icon… and dont funktion.. with technorati too, with the first 3 (albanian social network) dont funktion too….
I think its a conflict with the Sociable Plugin that makes this or maybe i’m wrong too.
The sociall plugin that i’m using is a self modification of http://yoast.com/wordpress/sociable/
Hoppe u will solve this and im ready to support you for ur next releas for multilanguage (I’m gonna translate it in the Albanian language if u dont mind).
Bests,
Romeo
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Hi,
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Shall release a version 1.2 probably tomorrow with these fixes and a few other enhancements. Being my first wordpress plugin, doesn’t help really. Need to learn from these experiences
By the way I have made the changes in the SVN Repository and if you download the plugin again after probably 15 minutes, you will get the new updated files in 1.1. May be you don’t want to touch the files yourself
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Thx a lot Abhi,
its not a problem, thats why other tests the Plugin to find the Bugs in it. I will always report if smth happen.
The important thing is that u always Fix the Bugs (very fast) and release a new Version.
Dont worry.. This Plugin is wonderfull and im sure in the future, with the new releases and fixed bugs, will be very successfull.
No one is perfect
I better wait for the new release tomorrow to install it and at the moment im disabling the plugin.
p.s As i said send me the language file and i’m gonna translate them into Albanian language and propably in Italian language too (since i know that language very good)
Email: webmaster@romeolab.com
Bests,
Romeo
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Only one question… I guess I’m not the only blogger using automatic upgrade for plugins. Will the new versions work with the automatic upgrades? Or will we have to move again toolbar.php to our blog’s home directory?
Thank you very much
By the way… Is the upgraded version coming with options to choose which socials networks to add and to change whats written in the buttons?
Thank you very much
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Terramel
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@Romeo:
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Great plugin but it interferes with my image links used by the shadowbox plugin. I use shadowbox plugin for some of my images. The plugin uses external image links to create a lightbox effect. It seems your plugin overrides the lightbox effect.
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Hi,
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It shadowbox works here, http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/2009/02/05/whats-american-dream/
But stops image from showing in the post here, http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/2009/02/03/good-news-2/
Not sure what is causing the different effect.
I will deactivate toolbar after a few hours so please check it out as soon as you ca. Thanks.
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Can you please tell me how to exclude some pages, i want the plugin work just in postsand index but not on single pages like this one : http://www.lacaterinca.com/schimb-de-link-uri/
It’s a link exchange page and it wouldn’t be ok to show the toolbar on those links.
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@Abhi I can translate to portuguese if you want, just le me know…
another thing in in the twitter I just changed
home?status=<?php echo $from; ?> to
home?status=Reading :<?php echo $from; ?> to
Thanks for the plugin
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Hi Abhi
Great plugin Thanks.
PS.: if you want I can translate to portuguese, just let me know
Regards
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@John
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I like your Plugin very much and I would like to use it.
Important for me is SEO. Because the Links are changing, it will have an bad influence, isnt it?
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@Andy: add in toolbar.php after <head> following code :
<meta name=”googlebot” content=”noindex,noarchive,follow” />
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,follow” />
<meta name=”msnbot” content=”noindex,follow” />
The toolbar will be seen as a part of you website while linking through the toolbar.php,
so i really recommend to do it noindexable like i said before. Google doesn’t like iframes,
but if you say to google that this page is not indexable then it is ok. The “follow” atribute helps
you distribute the pr that goes out of your page throughout the changed link go back to your site via the
toolbar link back to you page and article.
@admin: I don’t want to have a visual except in wordpress, i just want a code or something. I will use for my site your plugin customed by me . You can see a example here : http://malwarecity.lacaterinca.com/toolbar.php , this is a test page, before I upload it on the main page
I just want the page I mentioned to be excepted and i don’t know any php, i’m a n00b
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This would be a lot nicer if it would not actually modify links but use javascript to do the redirection.
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@PartzPartzescu
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I had to delete your toolbar form my page because of those SEO matters. The javascript suggestion ist very good. You should to this first, changing links ist not every nice and blog user with seo knowledge, wont use the toolbar because of this matter.
I love your toolbar and the idea, I will use it when javascript is enabled, all the best for you and your nice plugin.
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Awesome plugin! Can’t wait for the new features, thank you!
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Hi, I m fortunate to have stumbled upon your plugin. Really awesome. Just followed the conversation above and I see some people pointing to the SEO degradation by this plugin, but as far as I know, search engines will go down to toolbar iframes and pick the outlinked url’s from there.
Anyways I am sure you must be working upon the javascript section of this plugin too, which will satisfy all. Looking forward to the next major release.
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Hi Abhi
great plug-in and i really want it, but seems every time it will goes to the 404… (on my blog)
and http://myblog/toolbar.php is ok, how is this problem, i hope you can solve this for me!
and suggest to make a config panel in wp, will make this plug-in easy to use for more people!
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Hi, I could have helped only if you could have given me the url to your blog
If you look at the thread above Stephanie too had the same issues and after inspection we found it’s because of the rewrite rules on your server.
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idloveto.com.cn this is my website it is in chinese but i think it doesn’t matter
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Hi Criss, I was right. You site too have the same rewrite rule problems. Because http://www.idloveto.com.cn/toolbar.php?wp-toolbar-url=http works fine, but not http://www.idloveto.com.cn/toolbar.php?wp-toolbar-url=http:/
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yes thank you very much i will try, as i have few knowledge of php and other language.
wish oneday i can disseminate this plugin to more chinese wper.
best wishes!
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Introducing Wordpress Toolbar 2.0
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You simply rock, I didn’t expected you to release such a major change within 2 days. I am sure now this plugin is going to hit big. All the best and a big thank for your wonderful work.
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Abhi,
Wonderfull Job but i dont know why i’m having problems.
I just installed and activated it and it doesn’t funktion. It don’t shows to the outgoing links.
With Firefox i’m having 1 problem. Whenn i click a article in my blog it shows the toolbar but only the “Get this Toolbar” button.
With IE happen nothing…
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I was reluctant to use your earlier version of the plugin as i was not sure it effect on search engine rankings as you were changing the urls.
But, now i will use this on all my blogs.
It would be gr8 if u can extend this toolbar to every outgoing link on the blog.
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This is the way it shows.. a “blank” toolbar with only the “get this toolbar” button
http://www.romeolab.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php
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Hey just a few curious questions:
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Hallo Abhi,
Yeah i installed it withouth changing anything and update throught the admin panel.
I have deleted all the previous versions but the problem that i told u before consists.. and i dont know why…
And what do u meain onclick event on my page.. sorry but i dont understand that really…
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I get this error on the Admin setting page after installing (WP 2.7.0 & K2 theme):
Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: directoryiterator in /home/georg35/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/wp-toolbar.php on line 97
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George you need to have PHP v5 for directory iterator to function and I guess you are on v4, is it?. Can you kindly upgrade to PHP v5 or else I will try to send you a hacked version of the plugin.
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Romeo I just found out the problem. If you view the source of the page and see the source of the outbound links, it has 2 onclick events….
So I can see google analytics and wordpress toolbar both plugins inserting an onclick event and for some reason wordpress toolbar onclick event is disabled.Can you try deactivating google analyics plugin and clear your cache.
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Yeah you need to php5 for directory iterator to work. BTW I too just upgrade to PHP5 and toolbar is going good. Nice work, burning your feeds for next releases…
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WOW, great work!!!
I have got only one problem. All links open now in same window, can you please allow target=”_blank” ?
I think it worked before with your toolbar.
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Excellent work, with a lot of scope for enhancements. As of now I see this plugin fast catching up and a must for wordpress bloggers.
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I believe I am on PHP 4, is that something I can change or does my host need to do this? Thanks for the quick followup!
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Depends again on your host. But mostlty your host will have to upgrade this for you, Just post a support ticket with your hosting provider and see if they can do something for you.
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I will have to check on the PHP 4/5 issue, I have to request to be moved to a new server for this and I think I recall there being an issue with moving to PHP 5 for me, will look into it.
Otherwise, great to see the progress on this plugin, sems like the new features are excellent! Thanks again.
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Could you please mail me a php4 enabled hack? I can’t upgrade my host myself.
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@George and @Mikael
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great to hear on the next release Abhi, thanks again!
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Yes GREAT. When do you think you will get the release on the road? I will start my blog in about 4 days.
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Well, i just found out that in order to make this plugin work on Goddady PHP5 you need to put the following thing in .htaccess :
AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4
I’m just testing this.
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Feedback: <a href=”<?php echo $fromurl; ?>/#comments” style=”padding-left:4px; background:transparent url(<?php echo $extra; ?> doesn’t work correctly on my site, i have to delete the slash like this : <a href=”<?php echo $fromurl; ?>#comments” style=”padding-left:4px; background:transparent url(<?php echo $extra; ?>
I also have another blog on wich comments are replaced with respond like this: <a href=”<?php echo $fromurl; ?>#respond” style=”padding-left:4px; background:transparent url(<?php echo $extra; ?>
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I don’t know why but the plugin cuts off content after a link in IE, it works fine in FF.
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*before the link not after
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It works ok in IE, was my fault. But i recommend to change & in & here (already changed): $goto = $toolbar.”?wp-toolbar-tourl=”.$link.”&wp-toolbar-fromurl=”.$post_url.”&wp-toolbar-fromtitle=”.addslashes($post_title).”&wp-toolbar-blogurl=”.$blog_url.”&wp-toolbar-blogtitle=”.addslashes($blog_title);
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Hello again! I didnt upgraded to version 2.0 yet. Maybe tomorrow @ work ;P One more sugestion: Instead of only giving users the choice of social networks to be displayed in the toolbar, give them a option to upload social network icons and chose the URL format, so they can add MORE social networks, especially if they live a country with several small social networks heheheheheh!
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Terramel
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First and foremost, let me say his is a great plugin with a huge potential: catching readers “on the go” is an excellent idea, far less obtrusive than greeting modules or such. I love the concept.
The exceution, however, has me surprised. Out of curiosity, is there a particular reason why the plugin rewrites the actual links (the href in its first incarnation, now the onClick handler) instead of setting a mod_rewrite() rule? This would seem to be far less likely to clash with elements already in the links (you could still use the JS handlers as a fallback where mod_rewrite is not supported, though this seem sto be less and less frequent these days) and also have less impact on page loading times, as the Apache handler would only kick in when the link is actually called? Just wondering
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Hi Martin,
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Also it just came to my mind, for blog owners who sell links and don’t want to put those sold links under the toolbar, setting up an apache rewrite rule can be a pain in the ass. Relatively specifying the domain names they want to skip in the admin panel might be more easy.
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Abhi, I agree offering both options would probably be best: mod_rewrite for those who can use it (which would avoid all link tampering incompatibilities), basically being set and forget where it is supported and the JS onClick mechanism (with all warts) where it is not.
The exceptions to mod_rewrite rules could be derived from the same list in the admin panel the JS rules use. I can’t suggest code, not being WP / PHP savvy enough for it, but I know this is possible, and would point you to John Godley’s stellar <a href=”http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/”>Redirection</a> plugin, which manages to configure mod_rewrite through the WP admin panel. So, by the way, does WP itself, as it uses mod_rewrite to allow for fancy permalinks. As to setting up domain names and hiding the complexities from the user, that could be easily achieved through mod_rewrite’s regex support: basically, let the user input a domain, and sanitize and wrap it up in rewrite rule behind the scene
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Cool enough, you have just put up some hard task for me
But ofcourse achievable and quite doable. Marked on the next release list 
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Too cool
. I can’t wait to see the result!
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Hey thr,
thanks for spaming me with that email message.
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@Mihai: I think you talk about the subscription to this topic, well, just unsubscribe…
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Plugin Update:
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@PartzPartzescu I’m not talking about subscribption to this post. I subscribed to it to receive updates when new comments are posted. But the author decided to send me another spammy email to let me know he released version 2.0
I didn’t request such am email and was clearly automated.
starting with “Hey Thr” and sent from author’s email with To: header set to the same address ( not mine )
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sorry for the bold on the previous comment. The editor added it when I copied the username
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version 2.0 is cool because of the javascript but I have 1-2 problems with it.
1) when I click wordpress toolbar in settings a blank page comes up, no configuration available
2) is it possible to exclude certain links and/or domains from applying the toolbar to them. For example twitter.com which decided to stop working when called from a iframe.
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Here’s one more problem.
Since I installed this toolbar my “visits” number as recorded by wordpress stats plugins have more then doubled.
I really doubt this is only because some users might come back from the toolbar. I’m guessing it’s because the toolbar makes some extra requests to wordpress and they get recorded by the stats plugin.
I hate being lied to by the stats … yeah I know “there are 3 types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics” but still …
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Hi Mihai,
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1) rule #1 of automated mailings :
“never send me anything I haven’t subscribed to receive” or else it’s spam, don’t care what the law says that you can send and allow opt out (btw you didn’t even had that in your email ) and other bullshit like that . If i didn’t specifically requested it and it’s automatic/non personal then it’s spam. I’m sure there are others that feel the same way even though they didn’t express their opinion.
2 ) I installed 2.0 by upgrading from 1.1 automatically through wp admin . The upgrade seemed to work fine ( no errors
) . Then I even removed the old plugin and installed the new one.
But then I found this in the logs:
PHP Fatal error: Class ‘DirectoryIterator’ not found in public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/wp-toolbar.php on line 97
3) I would like to know that my visits counter doubled over night but that’s just not the reason. I’m also using google analytics on the same blog ( yeah I’m a stats addict
) and they show me the same numbers but with google analytics I was able to actually look at the exact pages where the visits occurred and I see a huge “long tail” filled with links like this :
/outgoing/ff.im/Krkk or /outgoing/blog.makezine.com and any other link my visitors clicked. Now those are clearly pages generated by the toolbar and if the google analytics plugin recorded them I bet the wp stats plugin records them too but they are not really visits.
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Hi Mihai,
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Awesome plugin, we can reduce bounce rate of our websites by using this. really great post.
Have a nice day!
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Hello, the 1x version works fine for me, but when i installed the new version 2 nothing is working.
I did all the steps that you said in the read me file.
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First doubt is: do you have google analytics plugin installed? If yes that currently wordpress toolbar is having compatibility issues with it, and will be solved in one of the upcoming releases.
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thanks for your fast reply!
In my sidebar in any post i have a lot of external links.
Yes i have google analytics like all sites i think!
check this page, external links at the end of the sidebar
http://www.apn.gr/?p=5756
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Hey rman,
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I don’t have the analytics plugin, just the code in the footer.
Check at the comments , the gravatar link
What about the adsense ads? When someone click on them the toolbar works? and if works its ok with the google tos?
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http://www.apn.gr/?p=5909
in this post, i click some external links and works ok!
I think it works in the main post only.
You have right.
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Good, if you don’t have analytics plugin it will work without fail. However it don’t work for sidebars, comments or any other link anywhere. Currenlty it is only configured for outgoing links in your posts only. For example see the http://yahoo.com link in my post above. It will work there but not for the yahoo link in this comment.
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thanks a lot!
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I’m very interested in using this plugin, but unfortunately am having a bit of an issue right from the get go and am looking for suggestions of getting past this. I just installed and activated version 2.0, and when I go into the settings page, I get the following error, which means I’m not even able to test it:
“Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: directoryiterator in /homepages/36/d105944992/htdocs/{site-name}/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/wp-toolbar.php on line 97″
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Ah, sorry – duplicate post. I guess I didn’t read all of the comments as I should have. I’ll look into upgrading to PHP5. Thanks.
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Directory iterator class was only introduced in PHP5. It’s always good if you can upgrade to PHP5, else next release will be PHP4 compatible if you can wait till then
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Hi guyz! it’s a good plugin, but i’m having some troubles, when I click on the “external link” it shows a blank page.
You can try to this page http://googlehackworld.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php
it doesn’t show anything…
Sorry for my bad english but i’m italian…
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Well you have it all right dude, it works fine. I went to your website and clicked the dot.tk link in one of the post and I landed up here: http://googlehackworld.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php?wp-toolbar-tourl=http://www.dot.tk&wp-toolbar-fromurl=http://googlehackworld.com/?p=751&wp-toolbar-fromtitle=Domini%20di%20secondo%20livello%20gratis!&wp-toolbar-blogurl=http://googlehackworld.com&wp-toolbar-blogtitle=Google%20Hack%20World
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Hello again… Just one more request: when I open a link in a new tab (or click on the link with the middle button of my mouse), the link open without the toolbar. Is there a way to fix it?
Thanx
[]s
Terramel
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Hello Terramel,
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Admin: Yes! I’m using version 2.x. It would be cool an option to choose between normal links or on click action in a new version
Thanx
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Hi,
i have uploaded the plugin as it is to plugin directory..after that i activate the plugin..but when i go to settings>>Wordpress toolbar i saw nothing on the page..
check here.. http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/159/7671796332.png
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wow, thats something
Your wordpress version seems to be 2.7.X series, and thats what i used to develop this plugin. Thanks for the pic shot, but i would have loved to also see the browser url you had when u clicked settings>>wordpress toolbar.
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yup this is wordpress 2.7.1
the url of the page is..
http://www.news-world.us/pics/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp-toolbar
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[...] WordPress Toolbar is a unique plugin which will automatically enable a toolbar for all outgoing links from your blog post, similar to stumbleupon and facebook. More information at: http://abhinavsingh.com/blog/2009/02/wordpress-toolbar-plugin/ [...]
I receive this error when I access the admin panel:
“Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: directoryiterator in /blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/wp-toolbar.php on line 97″
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Probably you didn’t read the previous comments. The plugin currently requires PHP v5 to run successfully. You seem to have PHP v4.
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I read through them and couldn’t find it, looking back over it all I found it easily..
Sorry about that but thank you for the quick response!
I actually cannot upgrade to PHP5 since I am with Yahoo! but I look forward to your next release!
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I installed the plugin today and configured it. Nothing happens different than before when I click on external links. I do have a lot of stuff in my .htaccess. Maybe that is causing the problem. Any ideas?
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Hi Lionel,
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Hi, is there any new release coming?
Still waiting for the feature to open links in new Windows…
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Hi Abhi, thanks for awsome plugin…
i tried to install your toolbar v2 plug-in but nothing is working.. may be because of Google Analytics installed on it.
can you guide me.. how do i activate with google analytics ?
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Hi Neepra,
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Hi Abhi,
tried your suggestion, but still the problem is same !!
any other ideas ?
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Hi Neepra,
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I’m having an issue with outgoing links to a forum, I can tell its not a direct problem with the plugin but partially with the forum itself generating a dynamic link to track referrals. Here’s what I mean.
http://www.gossipgamers.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php?wp-toolbar-tourl=http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1037737&wp-toolbar-fromurl=http://www.gossipgamers.com/epic-fan-made-eve-online-video/&wp-toolbar-fromtitle=Epic%20Fan-Made%20Eve%20Online%20Video&wp-toolbar-blogurl=http://www.gossipgamers.com&wp-toolbar-blogtitle=Gossip%20Gamers
The proper url its supposed to go to is http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1037737
Let me know if there’s a quick fix for this.
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Hi,
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Thanks man, you’re just freaking awesome! Another suggestion, not sure if its been pointed out but perhaps creating a more viable way for the reader to go back to the original site or page.
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Hi I have this problem at the beginning of my post, as it can solve:
Warning: strstr() [function.strstr]: Empty delimiter in /home/movilevo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/wp-toolbar.php on line 317
Warning: strstr() [function.strstr]: Empty delimiter in /home/movilevo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/wp-toolbar.php on line 317
Or check the post; http://movilevolutions.com/juegos/240-x-320/angeles-y-demonios-multiresolucion-y-multilenguaje/
the same message comes in every post, please help me…
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Hi Arthas,
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@Arthas
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I’LL TRY IT NOW.TX
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can you send me hacked version too please, i use php 4 and upgrading no option. thanks.
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Hi, When will you upgrade this so that it works on wordpress 2.71?
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Is it anyway i can hack/code this plugin to work on all extarnal links? Not just links in my blogpost, but also the links in my sidebar?
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@B. Hanilgi
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Thanks! Looking forward to it. I am in no way a developer, so any help on this matter will be appreciated.
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Hi ,
thanks very much for this great plugin , I have a question , when I try to open the link in new window the toolbar doesn’t appear , how can I fix that ?!
Thanks in Advance
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Hi ExtraTuts,
You actually found this at the right time. Coming weekend I am releasing a new version of wordpress toolbar plugin which will solve this issue and a couple others like PHP4 compatibility.
Also it will add tinyurl and sociable integration. So keep an eye, currently testing the plugin on development box
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Thaaaanks very much prof
We are waiting for you
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Checkout Wordpress Toolbar Version 2.1 release blog:
http://abhinavsingh.com/blog/2009/06/wordpress-toolbar-v-2-1-adding-support-for-tinyurl-sociable-and-a-lot-more/
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this is a great tool bar. I hate when people follow links on your site and never say thanks.
thanks a lot.
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thanks for this. i have this problem all the time.
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Wordpress Toolbar plugin works fine with links inside the posts but does not work on icons on the sidebar or other links outside the text. How can I set them up in a way they work with external links outside the main text?
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[...] new WordPress plugin has been developed that makes the process simple and effective. The WordPress Toolbar Plugin automatically creates a toolbar within the browser each time a visitor clicks on an outgoing link [...]
Looks like an interesting tool, might check it out…
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First of All i am Really Proud that an Indian has done this ! Second can you tell me instead of displaying post title how can i display breadcrumb navigation it would look just very cool like in in.com and instead of showing so many icons just display a sharethis button which provides many more options for social bookmarking i plus a voting icon i will be very thankful if u can reply to my email mittal.ankur1988 at gmail dot com
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First of all I must say this plugin is awesome, however I haven’t been able to make it work. When links are clicked I get a
Error 404 – Page not found!
The page you trying to reach does not exist, or has been moved……
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Hi Jorge,
Can you kindly refer this comment of mine http://abhinavsingh.com/blog/2009/06/wordpress-toolbar-v-2-1-adding-support-for-tinyurl-sociable-and-a-lot-more/#comment-11398 and do the needful? I will be able to investigate more into your issue.
Thanks
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@admin,
done, I even set a page with a few links so you could try it out. I hope it doesn’t take too long because visitors would be getting this error while the plugin is activated.
ps. I think it may be something with the webhost but maybe you could find a fix for this.
Thank you for your time
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forgot to mention, i replied all the links and info on the #comment-11398
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PROBLEM FIXED***
The issue seem to be caused by the webhost, I used to get the 404 error page so I mentioned them the plugin required mod_rewrite. I’m not sure what they did but they solved my problem.
Thanks
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i’ve installed and enabled this plugin, the configuration process also did succesfully but i can’t see what this plugin exactly do? is this a plugin that display a toolbar like those in facebook? is the toolbar plugin used in this blog (http://www.info-karir.com/) was the same plugin like yours?
thanks in advance
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Thanks so much for these plugins!
I added “sociable” to my site that has a static homepage and other static pages. The toolbar/icons are showing at the bottom of every page. How do I make it show on my blog page and posts only?
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Can anyone help?
I added “sociable” to my site that has a static homepage and other static pages. The toolbar/icons are showing at the bottom of every page. How do I make it show on my blog page and posts only?
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Hi Sculley,
Sorry i just got a lil busy over the last two weeks. This is a bug and i need to release a new package for this ( i still havn’t test it for this bug though). You can expect a release over this weekend with other fixes.
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Thanks so much “admin”. I will look for it soon.
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Hey there,
Were you able to fix the bug and release a new package?
Thanks much,
Karen
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Hey Sculley, Look out for the new release on coming weekend. I am quite tied up at office currently
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Is new release out? If not, maybe I’m missing something. Surely, others have their homepage and other pages static. I wonder if they’ve figured out how to not put the icons on those pages.
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Hi,
great plugin, but just one change can help a lot.
for XHTML validation freak the & used in URL needs to be & in order to pass the validation….
Hope you could include this in next release.
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how can i..stop my ads to open in a new window as this is violating TOS of my ads provider.
N yes..your exclusion of hosts doesn’t work for me..temme if i’m doing something wrong..m placing urls with comma but still none of them is working for me..!!
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Hi Manish,
I understand your problem. Will make a release soon for this, where u will need to wrap your code in some tags, where you don’t want to have linking.
- Abhi
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I have the same problem as the poster above in that it installed correctly, the links appear at the bottom of the post but the toolbar fails to make its appearance.
And just what is “clubbing” google analyticator and wordpress toolbar.? how do you do that? saw no option in the admin screen.
Thx for your time!
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ahh found the issue. HAS to be a link from within the main body of a post. Looks good and thank you!~
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Hi again, it’s me, How can we tweak it so we can choose exclusion pages from the “sociable” option.
For example, i’m sure no one wants to share their Account information ( a page from my blog). Thank you for your time!
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Great plugin, thank you for sharing it
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Hi
Great plugin, but only half of it work with me.
I get social icons at the end of every post.
I don’t get urls opens in a new window or any toolbar
You can check this post at my site Article Writing Where to start?
you will found the first sentence point to yahoo.com, without new windows or the toolbar itself.
However, thanks for being great helper.
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Social comments and analytics for this post…
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Hey. Thanks for commenting at my blog http://www.paulpetch.com I’ll add this plugin to my site over the weekend and get back to you with some feedback. It looks TASTY! Cheers.
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@All
Anyone ready to contribute and help in plugin translation. Any language which you think this plugin should have support for will do.
I am planning a new release in coming weekend and hopefully you will see all the fixes requested above and through emails.
If we can have a few translations by then, we can wrap them up for the coming release. Your name and link to ur blog/twitter goes with the plugin release. Will be displayed on the admin panel.
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Hey abhi. not working for me, if I move to yahoo from here.
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Abhinav Singh
@Aery
As i wrote in my previous post, I am modifying the way this plugin works. Functionality wise will be same, but should support a larger versions of wordpress installations.
Aery
Working now. (In IE7)
Abhi, thanks for quick reply. And can you please remove “get this plugin” botton. It will annoy most of the webmasters and general users, that have no idea what plugin means.
Abhinav Singh
If you are using the latest version, there is an option in admin panel which allows you to remove any of the asset on toolbar.
See admin page for more details.
Aery
Thanks abhi for quick response.
I will give it a try in coming weekend.
And, if I am not wrong, you are from Banglore.
(And I can translate it in hindi, if you want. Though there is limited use for hindi plugin, considering few popular hindi blogs.)
Abhinav Singh
Yup why not. If you can we can go ahead with that. Do look at the standard methods for translation in case you are not aware of them (on wp blog).
Aery
Alrite, will study the translation standards this weekend and revert back to you in few days.
Hey, I love this thing. Could you make it act on title links and “Recents” links as well?
Rc.
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Abhinav Singh
Keep an eye. All customization is coming soon. I am onto it
Hi Abhinav,
Great plug-in – very useful. I was wondering if there is a way to include the blog title in the tool bar? On my site I have link to Ditka’s Chicago, and that happens to be the title of my post. Consequently it makes the toolbar look like it is part of the Ditka’s Chicago site, and not Big Beef and Beer.
Warm Regards,
Greg
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Abhinav Singh
What kind of assistance are you looking for Greg? I have done a few customization for quite a few websites like adding blog logo, adding “i like” functionality on the toolbar etc. If you have a requirement as specific as this, you may probably want to go for a custom toolbar skin.
From version 2.1 toolbar allow you to have your own custom plugin if you can develop one. Checkout 2.1 release blog for more details.
Thank you so much for the wonderful plug-in. It works great.
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Hi, great plugin but it doesn’t work for me!
I use wordpress 2.9 with toolbar version 2.1.1 and I followed exactly the installation guidelines.
From the admin panel it looks like to be everything ok but when I activate the plugin nothing happens.
Thanks in advance.
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Abhinav Singh
Hi Nicola,
Well there has been some compatibility issues. For e.g. if you have google analytics plugin installed too, it conflicts with wordpress toolbar and hence doesn’t work.
I am moving to javascript based solutions so that it always work, no matter what other plugin you have.
I have the modified version currently installed on my blog. Using firebug you can see now wordpress toolbar no longer alter your anchor tag. Also next version will allow you to enable toolbar on various sections of your blog including comments and sidebars.
Nicola
I tried to disable every plugins I installed until come back to the default pure installation, but it still doesn’t work.
I have no toolbar’s code on my local page since I think it is disabled due to some strange resons.
I really don’t know how to debug the problem!
Anyhow I’m not in a hurry, so I could wait for the next release if you think it will solve my problems.
Alternatively I could try to solve it myself if you give me some good tips.
Thanks again.
Memchat Blog Pots isnt working for weeks. First the page loads and then a “0″ appears. Thats it!
Cant read your answer there
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Abhinav Singh
Hi Andy,
Didn’t get your comment on memchat blog, and also where do u see “0″? Can you kindly elaborate.
Is this Link working on your site?
http://abhinavsingh.com/blog/2009/11/introducing-memchat-open-source-group-chat-framework-in-php-supporting-memcached-apc-sqlite-flat-files-and-mysql/
Please load page completely.
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Abhinav Singh
Hey andy thanks for bringing that to my notice. I didn’t knew this and don’t understand still how is it happening for that particular blog post.
Since how many days are you noticing this. Seems like some javascript is redirecting the page or probably some other mystery. On to it, thanks again.
Hehe ^^
Maybe two weaks…
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Abhinav Singh
Alright there is a javascript call which i guess google ad is making. And that is screwing up the page load, what the hell.
It wants to load something form gravatar.com but nothing happens. Maybe a clue?
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Abhinav Singh
Hi Andy,
Well that was a script attack on memchat. Someone got away with script tags and that screwed up the page.
Fixed now
Oh, so I shouldnt use the script, ha? ^^
There is one question open at memchat. Thx.
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Abhinav Singh
Yeah this all was never taken care of :9 (My laziness shows). Anyways since data is never stored in databases but infact caches, it never harms any service. Though this kind of script screwed up the page
I can’t wait for a new release 2.9 compatible with javascript!
please keep us posted in progress!
thanks and kudos!
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Hello Friends,
Kindly upgrade to latest bug fixed version 2.2.3. For new feature details read http://bit.ly/98IoX4
- Abhi
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Hello,
I have a plugin that uses this to make a slider drop down and expose content.
javascript:void(null);
Is there a way to ignore these?
I tried adding that in my ignore list with other domains separated by a comma but it didnt work.
Please advise.
Thanks,
Richard
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Abhinav Singh
Working on it, lemme see. If it’s a definite bug will release a minor version.
Richard Wing
Thanks for your quick response. You can see the only post I have on my site I listed with this comment. I will be removing that blog soon and moving it someplace else after I have tested the plugins I am looking to use.
Thanks again. I hope you are able to create a fix for this so I can use the wp toolbar. I love it.
Thanks,
Richard
Abhinav Singh
Kindly upgrade to v 2.2.6
It removes toolbar control from links starting with “javascript:”. Shd fix your problem.
First of all awesome plugin by review it on other sites but This plugin not working on my site. I dunno why? I installed correctly then went to options but nothing seems to work all out links are same as they were. No tool bar shown on other site. What can this cause?
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Mandeep SIngh
http://mandeeptech.co.cc/2010/02/first-windows-7-theme-on-nature/#more-434
please visit this page on click on download toolbar is not coming?
Abhinav Singh
Hi Mandeep,
I think it’s a classic case of cross plugin compatibility. I can see a lot of other js loaded on your blog page (e.g. external tracking) which also try to modify onclick action.
Kindly try to deactivate those plugins and see if it works.
Mandeep SIngh
I have Google analytical activated do this can cause Problem? If yes then i will wait your future release for this awesome plugin?
Hey abhi Apart from this could u please this
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/366816?replies=1
I have some problem may you solve this or Make a new plugin
This isn’t working on my site.
http://xcannabis.com
It’s currently activated. Is it something to do with my theme?
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Abhinav Singh
Can you provide me link to a blog post on your website where you have a link in your blog content. The toolbar is enabled for all outgoing links by default. I can see necessary scripts etc being loaded.
Abhinav Singh
Seems like it is working fine. Clicking on “Emerald Sun Inc” in one of your post takes me to the toolbar enabled page here http://bit.ly/ajop62
Ryan
Thats strange, I’ve tried this on two different computers, but Im not getting the new window.
Ryan
I see now. It doesn’t work on my home page, but it does work on child pages.
Is there a way to get it to work on my home page?
I disabled all plugins, then I re-enabled only the wordpress toolbar.
That didn’t help either.
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Abhinav Singh
haha, very true. It works for all blog posts and pages. Yes it can be enabled for the home page too.
Clearner way will be to add options in admin panel for the same. Shall do same n release pkg.