Tell a Friend for WordPress.com blogs

Posted on 27 Oct in Tell-a-Friend, Updates, Web.

You already know that Tell-a-Friend is available for WordPress blog platform since so many of you already use it. For those who are not aware, we have provided two ways to enable Tell a Friend for the WordPress platform i.e. those who have the WordPress engine running on their own server:

  • Tell-a-Friend plugin for WordPress engine – easy and hassle-free
    Just download the plugin (from the SocialTwist site or from plugins at WordPress.org), install and activate it, just like any other WordPress plugin. Easy! The plugin will attach a Tell-a-Friend button on the bottom left corner of each post in a new line.
  • Tell-a-Friend WordPress snippet – for the power blogger
    Some of you would prefer to exercise greater control on the positioning of the button. For example, you may want it in the same line as some other buttons at the end of your blog posts or you may want it on the right hand side instead of the left. For such requirements, pasting the snippet at the right place in your WordPress template will do the job.

Tell-a-Friend specially for WordPress.com
We received a lot of requests from people who have their blog hosted on WordPress.com. Now, WordPress.com allows only adding HTML to the template. Javascript is not allowed. So our usual widget code can’t be embedded in it. We now have a new feature in which we embed an HTML button on the WordPress.com sidebar and have the announcements happen in another window.

Source: http://utmattress.wordpress.com/

The user sees the screen below when he clicks on the Tell-a-Friend button. He can either announce the blog or any one of the specific posts in it. Just clicking one of the posts on the left frame refreshes the widget with the contents of that post and the announcement can be made.

So all you WordPress.com users out there, this could be a really unique way to get your blog posts promoted. Try it and let us know!

15 Responses to this post.

  1. Posted by Jenna on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    This is a awesome plugin to keep telel a friend in house instead of using external tell a friend scripts, i will try to install this tommorow. thx:)

  2. Posted by Piggyback on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    Thanks. It was very informative.

  3. Posted by Andy Angelos on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    SocialTwist solves an interesting problem, but I am not sure how the tool differs from ubiquitous widgets/chicklets like ShareThis other than the ability to select specific portions of a web page. Clipmarks is similar as well…

    Let me know if I missing something, so I can investigate further.

    Andy

  4. Posted by Will on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    Hello, I’ve got 2 questions about the plugin. 1) Will stumble upon ever be added? I know it’s not really 1-1, but facebook is 1-many as well. 2) Is there a way to load the popover window on a page of it’s own? Or, when I use the widget, it pops over the current window. I’d like to display that popover view on a /share page.

    Thanks for your help.

  5. Posted by Taffer on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    Andy,

    We made an earlier posting clarifying Why Tell-a-Friend when you have other buttons.
    See: http://blog.socialtwist.com/tellafriend/why-tell-a-friend-i-already-have-a-share-button

  6. Posted by tell a friend via socialtwist…. « first conclusions on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    [...] far I’m relatively happy with how easy it is to configure, install, and use.  Unfortunately, there are some WordPress.com limitations since WordPress.com does not allow users to add javascript (only HTML) to a template.  So, I [...]

  7. Posted by taffer on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    Will, the answers to your questions are as follows:

    1. We would soon be adding social bookmarking and other channels to Tell-a-Friend. There are a lot of users who are requesting us for this.

    2. You have an option of having the widget pop up as a new browser window. To do so, you can simple check the the option ‘Open the widget in a popup window’ under Widget Design of your SocialTwist account.

  8. Posted by Adrian Eden on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    I love this article and Tell A Friend, word of mouth is definitely the best and realest source of marketing, and it is time tested and try as it has been around since the beginning of time.

    Tell Your Friends about Adrian Eden, and Exercise Your Brain !

  9. Posted by arlina on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    I like Tell-a-Friend… ! Thanks a lot.

  10. Posted by Jim Leuty on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    I love this widget. It works great on my website http://www.dogcandlesandmore.com. Does Blogger have the same limitations as to the javascript that wordpress does? I have been having errors on my blog.

  11. Posted by Arbor Search Marketing on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    Great plugin!…needs an “exclude in pages” option though.

  12. Posted by RaiulBaztepo on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    Hello!
    Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
    PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language ;)
    See you!
    Your, Raiul Baztepo

  13. Posted by njandjj on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    thanks for goods plugin

  14. Posted by inthelead on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    Ok - so maybe I am the only idiot that couldn’t find the HTML code. If there are other idiots out there, know that when you are logged into socialtwist account and are setting up the Wordpress widgit. You go to blog type then under wordpress there is a drop down box. Pick the one that says “Wordpress.com Sidebar” to get the html code.

  15. Posted by how to get tall on 27.10.08 at 10:02 am

    I love this article and Tell A Friend, word of mouth is definitely the best and realest source of marketing, and it is time tested and try as it has been around since the beginning of time.

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