Ok so I got the coding bug today. I read a post on Jeff Scofer’s the Thinking Stick and I wanted to help. I think Will Richardson’s idea of EdBloggerNews is fantastic and I want to help support it. I came up with a decent link, but I wanted to take advantage of the WordPress Plugin API. I found some code that worked similarly and modified the heck out of it until it did what I wanted. I took a dash of this, a pinch of that and developed a little working plugin for WordPress. I hope it works for others, but it sure works for me.
It adds a link at the bottom of each post (or wherever you like) that simply says Share on EdBlogger News and mimics their bookmarklet. It automatically fills the URL and Title using WordPress hooks. Please use and redistribute it at will, I am releasing it under the GNU/GPL license. Here is my first true contribution to the open source world. Enjoy! Let me know how it works!
[...] EdBlogger News – Submit Link Published 0 minutes ago in Microblog. Tags: Microblog. Add to EdBloggerNews I’ve been aware of EdBloggerNews, a place to find the most-discussed posts in the edublogosphere since its inception. It’s a great idea that should have more people using it. Via Jeff Utecht I discovered that Dave Warlick has implemented an easy ‘Add to EdBloggerNews’ link at the bottom of each of his posts. I simply copied and pasted his javascript and played about with it until it looked like I wanted it to (its under the title of each post). The obviously-very-talented Chris Craft has turned this into a WordPress plugin which simplifies the process even further! Bookmark:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]