Comments on: WordPress: Social Bookmarking

By: Kokteyl

Kokteyl — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:26:05 +0000

Thank you very much. I did it by courtesy of this page.

By: greven

greven — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:08:14 +0000

Thanks Josh, your plugin is very attractive graphic wise. And I changed the code to generate the short link allready, since I’m using Tweetmeme already decided to pull that one off. :)

Thanks for the advise. And to be honest I did noticed a shorter delay loading the pages after I started using that code. And you are right, one can’t noticed the impact of it, but when a page is hit by a burst of visits like StumbleUpon it can really stress your server.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:39:50 +0000

No problem, I didn’t think of it at first either when I wrote the plugin… It wasn’t until the plugin got fairly popular and was used on a few “big” sites that they told me there was a problem.

Once I looked into it, I realized what was going on.

Good luck!

By: greven

greven — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:15:34 +0000

I didn’t think of that to be honest. I’m trying to optimize everything on my website but forgot about the code generated for twitter. The only way to solve it it would be trough caching the link. But now that you talk about it, since I’ve installed the Tweetmeme button I might as well just remove the twitter from the share menu and insert Mixx for example. Thanks.:)

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:26:20 +0000

I followed your link from another article on w3mag to see if you did indeed use Twitter in your bookmarking script…

The issue with Twitter when manually inserting your bookmars is that you (assumably) are not caching the short URL for each post… This means that if you have a busy blog, then each and every time the page loads it will be requesting a short URL from whatever service you have set up for the Twitter link to use.

This probably won’t be noticeable for relatively small blogs, but with a steady flow of traffic you will undoubtedly realize that this is a very heavy strain on your site.

This is one of the many key reasons why I still think that using a WP plugin is far superior to manually inserting the links yourself.