Free Google Chrome Extension for WP - have your own del.icio.us on your WP site

[iamfriendly]

Hey guys and girls,

Last week I knocked together an extension for Google Chrome. The idea behind it was to, in essence, replicate the functionality of delicious, but on my own WordPress site.

i.e. I visit a page I find interesting, I click on an icon in the toolbar and that link is then saved to my own WordPress site (rather than delicious - which *might* be being shut down or sold, depending on who you believe). I like owning my own data, so this was perfect for my needs.

A few folks helped me out with it and said that I should tidy it up and release it. So here is is:

Delectable - A Free Google Chrome Extension for WordPress

It requires WordPress 3.0+ (because the xml-rpc api changed) and it takes about 30 seconds to set up. (Read the instructions on the page linked above - it's dead simple).

There's quite a few 'features' for this first proper release. You can schedule your posts or have them published immediately. You can select a category for your posts to be, but by default, the posts created by this extension will be of the 'link' post format - it seemed most appropriate.

If you wish, you can make the extension publish pages rather than posts. Unfortunately the xml-rpc WP api doesn't support custom post types yet (as far as I could see, anyway).

I've been using it for a week without any problems and I genuinely find it useful - I really hope you folks do too.

If you can think of any improvements, then please just let me know. I'm @iamfriendly on Twitter - fire me over a message.

Thanks to Jeff for letting me post about this in here :)

[andreasnrb]

Thats actually pretty cool. Nice work, have to try it out.

[Jeffro]

That seems like a pretty cool extension, bonus points for using the Post Format as well although does this take into account a theme that doesn't have Post Format support built in? Will the links just look like a normal post then?

[iamfriendly]

Yep it will, if your theme doesn't have post formats set up, you can set a category for your links.

There's also an option to create pages rather than posts (CPTs aren't supported by the xml-rpc api yet).

[Alphawolf]

Pretty cool extension!

Would anyone be interested in a port for Firefox? I'm the author of a WordPress-related Firefox add-on called WordPress Helper and would be up for integrating the functionality into my add-on, or, create a seperate one.

Just sayin'. Don't intend to "steal" iamfriendly's idea after all. :)

[iamfriendly]

Hey AlphaWolf - thanks for the reply and thanks for the proverbial thumbs up. Very much appreciated. Had some excellent feedback from everyone so far - a new version will be out tomorrow with a few tweaks and improvements.

With regards to the firefox extension - I was thinking of making a port. Would you consider working together on it? I taught myself 'how to make' the Chrome one in a day (it's just html and js after all). If you are, get in touch - either fire me over an e-mail : richard -at- my_username_on_here dot com or @iamfriendly on Twitter. Would love to know how to make a FF plugin as well as collaborate, in general.

Let me know!

[sideradesign]

very nice, just what I needed!
you know what would be awesome? integrating this
http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/projects...shots-website/
to add a post thumbnail!. I'm going to do that on my site

will the new version populate the title field automatically with the bookmark page title?

to make the links clickable, I used this function :
add_filter('the_content', 'make_clickable');

check out my bookmarks site :
http://bookmarks.sideradesign.com

[iamfriendly]

I just updated the extension. The title field now fills automatically from the tab's HTML title. The content of the post is now a link, rather than just plain text and I've refined the UI slightly.

With regards to a screenshot of the page being used as the featured image (post thumbnail), I've had a look at the xmlrpc api and it does seem to support media files uploading. However, I'm not sure the API supports featured images yet as per this trac ticket:

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15098

I could be wrong, that might have been updated. But I'll keep looking into it.