I was reading my daily dose of RSS today when I stumbled upon an article with little social bookmarking links at the bottom of it. This, in itself, is nothing special since a lot of blogs have the small bookmarklets to various social bookmarking sites on their blog… even I do. However, I felt that this post was worth more than your average social bookmark and wanted to blog about it.

I looked at the icons for a second and I realized that there was no easy way to blog something using an external editor like there is for social bookmarking sites. There is no unified standard for external blog editor’s bookmarklets.

The one that that I know does exist, is a bookmarklet for ecto. So, I whipped up a quick plugin that will send the post title and permalink to ecto when a link. I currently have it running and if you would like to try it out, click the ecto icon to the right of the post title. Ecto is required if you would like it to work.

Installation

Installation is fairly simple, just decompress ‘wp-ecto.tgz‘ into your wp-content/plugins folder and then activate it in the admin panel.

To display the icon on your blog, add the following code where you want it in your template:

<?php if (function_exists('wp_ecto')) wp_ecto(); ?>

The icon is wrapped in a div tag with the id ‘wp-ecto’. Currently my styling is:

#wp-ecto {
    float:right;
    padding:2px;
    }

That’s about it. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please drop me a line with the form on the bottom of the page.

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