Review of The Social Profiles WordPress Plugin
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As we are putting the finishing touched on CommentMILK, I thought I would share a new plugin I came across last week that I liked.
As you most likely know, one of the best ways to encourage blog commenting is to offer your community members increased exposure. Plugins like Commentluv, which brings a link in from the commenter’s most recent blog post, are an added incentive to comment on your blog and become a part of your community. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a way to integrate this sort of benefit with social media.
Enter the Social Profiles WordPress Plugin. Designed by Sugarrae and written by WordPress plugin legend Joost de Valk, Social Profiles lets you add links to your commenters’ social profiles. The links can be text links or graphical ones, and you can even put a nofollow tag on the links if you want to.
Social Profiles comes with ten of the most common social networking tools pre-installed. These include:
- Delicious
- Digg
- Flickr
- Furl
- MySpace
- Newsvine
- Stumbleupon
- Technorati
By default, Digg, Delicious and Flicker are enabled. You can add and remove tools via a control panel.
The one downside to Social Profiles is that only registered users of your site can have their profiles listed in their comments. While this is ideal for sites that use a membership model, sites that don’t register users may have more difficulty implementing Social Profiles.
You can register her at JohnCow and use this… PLUS when you register it makes commenting easier 
Installation of Social Profiles is relatively easy, and consists of uploading the files to your WordPress plugins directory and adding a single line of code to your template. There are plenty of customization options, too. The control panel lets you ad prefixes and suffixes to the social network links, as well as the ability to customize their appearance.
Check it out for yourself at http://www.sugarrae.com/wordpress/social-profiles/
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As you mentioned, it’s good for websites already offering registrations. One of my blog does, but the readers for that blog aren’t the kind of users with 12 different social network profiles. THanks for sharing anyway!
Yeh I don’t think my readers have 12 different social networks….or have the time to have 12 social networks.
The trouble for me is to get people to register. I’m already trying to get them to sign up for my feed
They do nothave to fill out all twelve… it is just there are twelve available… they can fill out just one of them.
Wow this is really interesting. Social Media is such a big thing these days. I think it would be hard for me to add this as I am not really actively involved in social media sites (yet) as I have enough struggle to get my posts written…but if this kicks off big then I will definately jump on the bandwagon. Thanks for mentioning it….I will look out for it
I still think CommentLuv is better though
Commentluv is completely different from this plugin.
Great little nifty plugin IMO
-Mike
Interesting idea, I’m not sure what the reaction will be from my art commentators but I will give it a try.
Interesting plugin, but will it just add more load on WP blog without apparent benefit?
lets try that plugin
Cow Man,
That plugin sounds interesting, but the fact that they have to register sucks! Talk to the creator, he needs to drop that. Tell him you will only deliver sour milk if he doesn’t at least consider making the change. LOL!
Thanks for the heads up!
This plugin is fab, so now if I understand it right, you can get paid to blog, using keywords? So you have a social bookmarking group you could all target the keywords and earn $$$.
Tony.
great plugin thanks, download Done
nice post man!! will download and use it..
That’s a great plugin for people running registration based web sites but I can’t see it working for most of us. Too bad it didn’t alter the basic comment structure for unregistered users.
Works a treat.
I agree, it’s more useful to registration based websites, but nevertheless, it’s a very useful plugin.
Cheers!