This weekend BuddyPress developer imath launched a beta plugin for BuddyPress that allows users to share any web page directly to a BuddyPress site.
You’ve seen and used bookmarklets for services such as Delicious, Diaspora and Pinterest. This one behaves very similarly, except it’s for posting to your particular BuddyPress site.
When logged in, a user will find a bookmarklet available to drag and drop into the bookmarks toolbar. When the bookmark is clicked, the title and URL of the current page will pop up for sharing to your BuddyPress site. Any shared items will post to the user’s personal or group activity stream.
Check out a demo of how it works:
I believe this plugin has the potential to open a lot of doors for the BuddyPress platform beyond the small niche communities that currently exist. It enables users to be engaged with your community while not directly on the website, which opens up a whole new avenue for content creation and participation. Please note that it does require BuddyPress 1.5+ and is not yet in the WordPress repository. Download BP Bookmarklet from imath’s site, drop him a note of thanks and remember that it’s still in beta!
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This is indeed a fantastic plugin. I’ve been using it for a few weeks and I love it. Imath has done a fantastic job on this one. I’m hoping to add some extras like “post to private”, and “add to favourites”.
If you have BuddyStream plugin, you can post up to your twitter and Facebook from the activity as well, using this. Next step would be to also integrate the “Geolocation” plugin so you can mark your location, and work in modemloopers privacy plugin in case you wanted it private.
Hi Sarah,
Thanks a lot for this great post !!
I love your last paragraph and i completely agree with you.
Have a lovely day :)
imath
I can wait to try out this feature:-) I have been waiting for something like this..
This is indeed a fantastic plugin. I’ve been using it for a few weeks and I love it. Imath has done a fantastic job on this one. I’m hoping to add some extras like “post to private”, and “add to favourites”.
If you have BuddyStream plugin, you can post up to your twitter and Facebook from the activity as well, using this. Next step would be to also integrate the “Geolocation” plugin so you can mark your location, and work in modemloopers privacy plugin in case you wanted it private.
This definitely has loads of potential.
This looks amazing. I’m going to give it a shot.