Over 4,000 downloads in its first 2 months…
What others are saying about The Wordpress Bar:
i was searching for something like this for years! awesome plugin! ~ekrem
This is amazing…I run a wordpress website and let me tell you: this plugin is awesome! ~Garrett
Great plugin…Loving it! ~iwishtravel
Your plugin is the best of the year my friend ~Esperto SEO
…I would like to say I absolutely love this addon ~Randy
Great plugin, thank you very much! ~Sergio
…thanks for this great plugin…i will have great use for it ~Adi Wong
What does this plugin do?
Seen the DiggBar on Digg.com? Adds a similar feature to your Wordpress blog. Use your blog as a short link service with Easy Link Creation. Feature any link on the internet with a custom URL such as http://www.internetriot.com/?bing. Also feature social network links such as Facebook, Twitter, and Digg.
Features:
- Feature a “DiggBar like” to all external links
- Whitelist domains that you do not want to apply The Wordpress Bar
- Give your users up to 16 social network sharing links
- Title and Logo branding options for your Wordpress Bar
- Multiple Wordpress Bar color options
- Track stats for how often featured links are viewed by your users
- NEW – Show related posts for each external link
- NEW – Easy Link Creation. Simply put any ? then URL after your blogs URL and The Wordpress Bar will create a new link for it, featuring The Wordpress Bar above that site. Example: www.internetriot.com?http://www.woot.com will create a Wordpress Bar link for woot.com
- NEW – Custom Link Identifiers. Customize the identifiers in your URL to make your links more memorable to your readers. Example: Make www.internetriot.com/?bing show The Wordpress Bar for Bing.com
A Video Overview of The Wordpress Bar:
Screenshots
#1 by Michael Writhe on August 31st, 2009
I would love to use this but i think there is something missconfigured on my server. Thoughts?
It’s being hosted on an IIS 6.0 server so i really hope it doesn’t require something from apache for it to work with the dynamic redirects…
http://crimsonlinks.com/wp/?google.com or any other url, including the dynamicly generated ones, will show my main page no matter what. Do i have something else that i have to do?
#2 by Michael Writhe on August 31st, 2009
I’ve done a little more research and found that http://crimsonlinks.com/wp/?I3OXoImY was generated and shows my main blog but
http://crimsonlink.scom/wp/?http://google.ca gave me this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_redirect() in D:\users\crimsonlinks\public_html\wp\wp-content\plugins\wp-bar\wpbar.php on line 76
#3 by Anthony on September 1st, 2009
Thank you for sharing this, I’ve made an update to the plugin to protect this potential error from happening, please download the latest version of the plugin. Thanks again for the feedback! Let me know otherwise if you’re still having issues
#4 by Michael Writhe on September 1st, 2009
Thanks for the update Anthony, This fixed the issue with the wp_redirect() issue we were having!
#5 by Anthony on September 1st, 2009
Thank you for sharing this, I’ve made an update to the plugin to protect this potential error from happening, please download the latest version of the plugin. Thanks again for the feedback! (Let me know otherwise if you’re still having issues)
#6 by Michael Writhe on September 1st, 2009
Unfortunetly this update didn’t fix this issue… http://crimsonlinks.com/wp/?http://google.ca/ will now forward properly to http://crimsonlinks.com/wp/?awPWFYUm
so i know it reloads and hits the script, however i took a look at the database and it doesn’t seem to be adding anything to the lb_links table. I checked the permissions on the table and the account that it associated with my instance of wordpress has full admin rights. It did create the table without problems, so why it can’t add to it is beyond me.
Not receiving any further error messages. It just shows my main page when loading any of the shortcut urls. Any advice?
#7 by Anthony on September 9th, 2009
I’m currently in development of a new version of the plugin to provide more compatibility with all browsers and server setups. Please bare with me until further updates are completed.
#8 by Michael Writhe on September 3rd, 2009
So i think i found the source of the problem… when the table is made for the first time it creates the structure for the table to NOT allow null values. However the first time a link is visited it only updates a portion of the fields… this prevents the link from being entered into the database.
Line 235 in wp-bar.php it only defines 3 of the fields. We should either change this line to declare all of the values, or change the structure of the database when it’s being created.
In order to fix it i changed the structure of the lb_links table with the following MySQL Command. Obviously I blanketed the settings and we should probobly edit this comment and the script before posting publicly…
ALTER TABLE `wp_lb_links` CHANGE `id` `id` SMALLINT( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
CHANGE `link_url` `link_url` TEXT CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci NULL ,
CHANGE `link_clicks` `link_clicks` INT( 12 ) NULL ,
CHANGE `link_uid` `link_uid` TEXT CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci NULL ,
CHANGE `link_lastclick` `link_lastclick` DATETIME NULL ,
CHANGE `link_added` `link_added` DATETIME NULL ,
CHANGE `link_nofollow` `link_nofollow` INT( 2 ) NULL ,
CHANGE `link_behavior` `link_behavior` INT( 2 ) NULL
Throw me an email or respond back here if you need anything further from me. I’de be happy to help ya out…
#9 by Trendland on August 31st, 2009
Hey Anthony, thanks for this really cool plugin,
dont know if you aware, but few of my readers told me that the links is bringing back to my homepage, and i just tried in Safari, and they right, its not going trough…
Didnt tried on IE, but i hope its working as well…
Would love to know if you have a solutions for that?
Thanks
#10 by Anthony on September 1st, 2009
I’ve recently made an update to the plugin, please try to download the latest version of the plugin, if you’re still having issues, please let me know, but with the new fix the redirects should work correctly.
#11 by Trendland on August 31st, 2009
Apparently im the only one who had this issue? i checked some sites here and they all look to work in Safari. i have any idea, what could cause this, would love a little help…
thanks
#12 by Trendland on September 2nd, 2009
Anthony, Thanks for your prompt answer, I just updated to 0.6.0 version, and it still redirecting to my homepage ? But only in safari! weird
#13 by Syed Balkhi on September 2nd, 2009
This plugin certainly does not work with IE, or Safari. Firefox it works but for some users even FF doesn’t work.
#14 by Syed Balkhi on September 3rd, 2009
Just tested it out more… Your last version 0.58 was working with FF but not working IE and Safari…
Your new version 0.6 does not work with IE or Safari and doesn’t work for FF either for some users.
#15 by Syed Balkhi on September 3rd, 2009
Just went back to your 0.57 version to see if that works. That one works with IE and FF. The only problem with that I notice was that it will work for a few minutes then it would start timing out. Meaning the url won’t work. I would have to reset my WP-Super cache to have it work again.
Maybe some issues with caching?
I don\’t know what exactly is the problem but I hope you will release a fix for it so it works in all browsers.
Thank you.
#16 by Anthony on September 16th, 2009
I haven’t seen any caching issues yet with the plugin. I am currently working on updating the plugin to work better with not just cross-browser compatibility, but also server configuration differences, as I’ve found some issues with this as well.
#17 by Syed Balkhi on September 4th, 2009
So I have finally tried your 0.57 with details on various operating systems and browsers. It works on Firefox and IE but not in Safari. Which is still better than your other ones because they don’t work at all…
#18 by Master on September 8th, 2009
Hello Anthony,
This is a great plugin… very useful for me… but i want to know one thing is there anyway that i select all link that is converted with wp-bar and then no-follow all of them at once…
for example… my site has more than 1800+ wp-bar links but i want to make no follow all of them at once how can i do this… because at the moment with your plugin i only have select 10 links to make them no-follow…
my question is simple how can i make all links no-follow with one click or is there is any way that any new link is make by wp-bar is automatically become no-follow for search engine…
please help me i need your help urgently
Regards,
Master
#19 by Anthony on September 9th, 2009
I’ll look into providing a solution to bulk apply the nofollow to a large number of links. Currently there isn’t a easy solution to do this, but its definitely a consideration! Thank you!
#20 by John on September 8th, 2009
Hey Anthony,
Fabulous!!
#21 by lhd on September 10th, 2009
Anthony,
Great plugin! I’m having one issue though and I looked through the comments to see if this was addressed – can’t find it.
Some of my links prior to installing wp-bar were typed without the “http:// prefix” or “http://www” prefix. Those links don’t work on my blog. (404′d!)
Any ideas?
#22 by Anthony on September 16th, 2009
Typically links without the protocol (http) spelled out as the URL will not link properly to the site URL. Your site will interpret that url as an extension to the current URL and not an absolute URL. It looks like it may be best to update your links with the http (or other) protocol to protect the possibility of these 404 errors. I hope this helps!
#23 by lhd on September 10th, 2009
To be clear:
If \"google\" is linked as \"google.com\" (but not \"http://google.com\", the link will not work.
Thanks!
#24 by Vass Istvan on September 11th, 2009
Opening sites with non utf-8 character coding gives me bad characters in the bar.
E.g.:
http://pszichologia.com/pszichodrama_csoport/?FDXeGtny
Any cure for this?
#25 by Anthony on September 16th, 2009
Unfortunately I do not have a fix for non utf-8 character codes at this moment.
#26 by Mike Abundo on September 17th, 2009
Thanks for a great plugin! You’ve actually made a linkbar that’s useful to readers. It doesn’t seem to work with WP Super Cache, however. With Super Cache activated, The WordPress Bar works on cookied pageviews, but it fails on uncookied pageviews.
Is there any way this can be fixed?
#27 by Anthony on September 18th, 2009
I’ll look into confliction with caching plugins to resolve this issue. I appreciate the feedback, thanks!
#28 by Kevin Wilson on October 5th, 2009
Hi,
I was wondering if you could change something so that links with .mp3 dont have this frame on them… Is that possible at all?
#29 by Anthony on November 9th, 2009
I will look into adding this feature on the next release, thanks for the feedback!
#30 by rudy on October 7th, 2009
Hi Anthony,
i really2x interested with this plugin, but just wonder if it could be placed at the bottom / footer?
#31 by Anthony on November 9th, 2009
I will look at adding this in a future release of the plugin. Thanks for your feedback!
#32 by Joao on October 12th, 2009
I have used a auto blog feeds in my site but this plugin dont show user bar click in title topic, can you helpme please?
tanks
#33 by Anthony on November 9th, 2009
The bar does not apply to redirects of the title URL, just links inside of the post and the blogroll. I will look into applying it to title posts in the future.
#34 by Sebastian Tombs on October 18th, 2009
I have installed your plugin which is exactly what I have been looking for, but I can’t seem to create a shortlink. I followed your instructions but I keep getting my home page rather than the shortlink generated URL and the webpage I was wanting to link to. Any thoughts?
#35 by Anthony on November 9th, 2009
Make sure Easy Link Creation is enabled in the Wordpress Bar settings. Hope this helps!
#36 by Tim on November 2nd, 2009
Hey Anthony,
Is there a way to integrate comment button on the bar, so visitors can comment on our blogs?
Great plugin, keep up the good work buddy!
#37 by Anthony on November 9th, 2009
I’ll see what I can do, since the bar is applied to an external link, it would have to only be applied if the Featured Post feature is enabled. So that you can comment on posts the link is featured in. Hope this makes sense and I’ll look at adding this feature in a future release.
#38 by joels on November 16th, 2009
i cant see download links…
#39 by Anthony on December 10th, 2009
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-bar/
#40 by river on November 18th, 2009
hey there
…
this is an awesome plugin!
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there are two things i would like to know.
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is there a way i could open all generated links i na new window (_blank) ? …
and what about the integration of an advertising banner code? this would be more than awesome !!
#41 by Anthony on December 10th, 2009
I’ll definitely take these ideas into consideration for the next release, thanks for the feedback!
#42 by Saqib Liaquat on November 18th, 2009
Great Plugin…
need help on one thing…
is there anyway that whenever the wp-bar makes new links make it no-follow automatically? i don’t want to make link no-follow manually…
please help me on this…
#43 by Anthony on December 10th, 2009
this is actually in the newest version of the plugin, from within your admin panel, go to The Wordpress Bar, scroll down and you’ll see all the links, from here you can select the ones you want to make no-follow and not. Hope this helps!
#44 by Andu on December 14th, 2009
Anthony, what Saqib Liaquat meant is that would be good if Wordpressbar could apply nofollw to all the links that he mask.
The reasson is that if i generate a lot of links is hard job to keep all of them ticking nofollow.
I’d like it too, to have an option to apply nofollow to any link will be created by this wonderfull plugin.
Regards!
#45 by Anthony on January 28th, 2010
I’ll see what I can do in terms of setting ‘Default Link Options’, thanks for sharing!! Always appreciate your feedback!
#46 by Tim on November 22nd, 2009
Hi Anthony,
Thank you for the updates! I wonder why the plugin is no longer working after upgraded to the latest version? I’ve installed the latest version on a different blog and it’s working fine. But the blog that i’ve upgraded, one thing I’ve noticed that it doesn’t show external link stats and it redirects external links back to the home page.
#47 by Joe Bear on November 27th, 2009
Looks pretty cool so far. One minor issue:
My blog title is “Rockin’ with Joe Bear”
In Settings”TheWordpressBarTitle”, I enter this text ( no double quotes).
Upon save settings, the apostrophe after Rockin gets escaped (?) with a slash.
Now when I navigate off-blog, the wp-bar says “Rockin\’ with Joe Bear”.
Every time I save settings for the plugin, another slash character is inserted. IOW, after three ‘Save Settings, the wp-bar title reads “Rockin\\\\’ with Joe Bear”
By remembering to edit this field before save settings, I can get it down to one slash – but not to zero.
#48 by Anthony on December 10th, 2009
I’ll definitely look into updating this in the next release. Thanks for the feedback, it is much appreciated!
#49 by Michael Kaufman on December 4th, 2009
I am trying to use WordPress bar on my Wordpress blog. My WP version and WP Bar versions are up-to-date. Whenever I click on an external link, the Wordpress Bar pops up, but in the frame below no webpage displays. any ideas?
#50 by Anthony on December 10th, 2009
Its difficult to say, is it happening to all sites or just a particular site?
#51 by MarcusWeb on December 9th, 2009
Hello Anthony,
Truly amazing work. I was so happy to find your plugin. I have a few links that I put in to custom fields that show at the top of my posts. I was hoping they would get picked up by your plugin but they do not. Would you happen to know a workaround?
Also, as opposed to showing other posts with the same link under the As featured In.. Section, I would like to other links within the same post. I might be able to figure this on my own. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for the great work!!
#52 by Anthony on December 10th, 2009
If you’re using custom fields it would be difficult to applying the Wordpress Bar to it. I’ve looking into providing a small API that could be used within the Wordpress code to create maximum flexibility, but its not anything ready for production yet. As for the other ideas, I’ll definitely see what I can do with new version. I appreciate the kind words and feedback, thank you!
#53 by Tim on December 18th, 2009
The External Links Bar suddenly disappeared. I did delete the plugin and uploaded the new file but still not showing up.
#54 by tampadesignr on December 26th, 2009
the drop down breaks when visiting a full flash site…
great work btw!
#55 by Atrueoriginall on January 5th, 2010
I believe it might be your bar that is causing havoc for me these days. I have a Quick Blog and someone with a Word Press and bar has hooked up to my entire blog 24/7.
My blog consists of 1,568 pages and over 25,000 photos and she\’s it all.
Maybe you can tell me what I can do to get me released from that bar of hers.
This culprit did the same thing to Huffington Post and they broke it somehow because now when I click on that link in her site, the Huffington Post re-directs back to the Huffington Post. So how did they do that because I need to do it for myself.
The \’culprit\’ has done this in her blog to around 25 other websites – the entire website – lock, stock and barrel.
Please check out the problem because right now I have ceased posting simply because I\’m sick of seeing all of my work sitting in someone else\’s site.
I think I\’ve slept maybe 3 hours in the past 24 hours because I\’ve been trying to find out what it was and how to take it down.
Thank you
#56 by Anthony on January 28th, 2010
I’m sorry that you are having issues with someone who is using my plugin. The Wordpress Bar does not copy an other blogs or sites.
It simply uses an iframe to of a site that was featured on that blog. The idea is to allow the blog reader to visit a link and return to the original blog as well as see other posts that blogger is writing about your site.
I highly suggest you contact them directly and tell them your concern, because if you feel they are abusing your content, try contacting them, possibly sending them a cease & desist order for not complying. I don’t think it your issues is caused by The Wordpress Bar.
I wish you the best trying to clean this up. Thanks for sharing, its unfortunate that people take advantage and abuse things on the internet, not cool.
#57 by joon on February 1st, 2010
Try using a frame breaker, I think that’s what you’re looking for?
#58 by Tim on January 8th, 2010
The redirect link stop working
#59 by Anthony on January 28th, 2010
Have you resolved your issue? Have you tried different links? If you send me a link I maybe able to help you further.
#60 by Genesis on January 9th, 2010
hey bro i just seen your tutorial on making a website fast and easy on youtube im having trouble connecting filezilla to my server?
i keep getting..
Status: Resolving address of http://ftp.genesiswillwalk.org
Status: Connecting to 74.208.210.12:3306…
Error: Connection timed out
Error: Could not connect to server
how do i fix this whats my mistake?
#61 by Anthony on January 28th, 2010
Hopefully you’ve solved this by now, but in case you haven’t try just http://ftp.genesiswillwalk.org for you ftp address.
More than likely your DNS hadn’t finished its propagation when you tried to connect, but hopefully at this point you’re good!
Hope this helps!
#62 by joon on February 1st, 2010
Hi, great plugin you\’ve got there! Saw it in action on another site and was interested.
However, the option I need is opposite of the current whitelist, is there any thought of implementing an \"only these domains would be converted by The Wordpress Bar\"?
Thanks!
#63 by Anthony on February 5th, 2010
I’m currently working on a new version of the plugin, I hope to have the update released soon. I will definitely take this feature into consideration when the update is released. Thanks for the feedback!!
#64 by John Nixon on February 4th, 2010
What a wonderful plugin. You rock! By the way, having the video instruction to view prior to download really sold me. How did you make that awesome video?
#65 by Anthony on February 5th, 2010
Thank you! I used Camtasia to record and edit it. Its an amazing piece of software and I strongly recommend!
#66 by sk on February 7th, 2010
There’s this blank white bar that appears at the bottom of any webpage when the digg bar is in action. how do i disable or get rid of that? Looks messy?
#67 by Anthony on February 19th, 2010
I’m not too sure exactly what you’re getting. Are you saying that when visiting your site using the Wordpress of a website using the Digg bar there’s an issue? If you can provide me with any links I maybe able to help you further.
#68 by Sam on February 8th, 2010
Amazing plugin! Very customizable. Just love it.
Quick question though: have you or anyone figured out why the http://mywebsite.com/?http://google.com does not work?
Even on your internetriot.com website it doesn’t seem to work anymore…
Read through the comments and seen that its been a long outstanding issue and just wanted to know if anyone has figured it out..
Thank you!
#69 by Anthony on February 19th, 2010
There’s an option that allows you to enable this feature. Check the settings of the Wordpress Bar from your blog’s admin. Hope this helps!
#70 by Alicia on February 11th, 2010
Great plug-in!
But when I installed it on our site, the link text and share buttons are shown in a separate box below the bar. Any way I can get these put inside the bar to make it look more stream-lined?
Thanks!
#71 by Anthony on February 19th, 2010
Sorry it took me a few days to get back to you, but I took a look at your site and it appears to be working correctly, hope you’ve resolved your issue!
#72 by Charles on February 12th, 2010
I noticed that links show pop up “original link …”
How can I disable that?
#73 by Anthony on February 19th, 2010
Unfortunately there isn’t an option to disable this. You would have to modify the code of the plugin to remove this feature.