WordPress Plugins : 17 Handy Toolbars For Your Blog
Dainis Graveris
Toolbars used in WordPress installations as plugins become more and more popular and effective. I am sure you noticed such toolbars on sites like Mashable.com, Abduzeedo.com etc and wondered how you can get one, why to use it and actually how good is sortiment. Maybe there are better toolbars available just for your needs?
I wondered and decided to create article about it – finding the most popular, interesting and eye-catching WordPress toolbar plugins you could use daily to increase pageviews, comments, sharing, twitter followers, subscriptions and more. Some of these plugins even offer online chat with your readers, how cool is that? Enjoy, research and find your pick! Let us know your favorite toolbar plugin as well!
1.Extendy Toolbar
This plugin installs the Extendy toolbar to your blog without having to make edits to any of your template files. Note that you must have an Extendy account, available for free at http://extendy.com . Extendy lets visitors share their favorite pages, search your content, view your latest tweets and blog posts, connect with you across social networks, and more.
2. Meebo Bar
- Real-time sharing. Your users can easily share your website with their friends through IM, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and email. The Meebo Bar engages your existing users and brings in new users.
- Custom buttons for your bar. Choose from a host of buttons to add to your bar.
- Personal stats dashboard. See statistics about pageviews, sharing from your site, and which of your Meebo Bar buttons are being clicked, all from your own secure site. You can even give other users their own personal login to access the dashboard.
- Instant messaging from your site. Meebo knows web-based IM better than anyone, and your site visitors will be able to chat and share with their IM friends from AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Facebook, and a ton of other networks.
3.Gigya Toolbar
The Gigya Toolbar increases your blog’s traffic and provides an oppurtunity to make extra revenues. Here are features Gigya offers:
- Get return traffic when users share and tweet from the toolbar.
- Supports 80 social destinations and includes a Facebook fan page and Twitter updates buttons.
- The toolbar does not affect page load time. It loads only after the page is fully loaded.
4. WordPress Toolbar Plugin
Static Toolbar displays a static toolbar in the bottom of the page, which may contain last posts, rss feed, search engine, social network and sharing links.
5.WordPress Toolbar
This WordPress toolbar will automatically enable a toolbar for all outgoing links from your blog, it is similar as Digg or Stumbleupon. It helps to keep visitors coming back and write some comment or social bookmarking. Great tool.
6. mit3xxx.de Toolbar
Adds the mit3xxx.de toolbar to your website.
The mit3xxx toolbar allows you to add the following features to your site: navigate to the start pageintegrate a button to your rss-feed,let your users tweet your content, share your content to social network sites such as Delicious, Digg, Facebookanr more. It also provides more then 20 themes.
7. WordPress Theme Demo Bar
WordPress Theme Demo Bar is a plugin for wordpress (compatible up to WP 2.8.3) allowing to preview any wordpress theme without activating. Demo bar is customisable in admin panel, with several CSS style files as well. Very handy for theme developers or Wordpres theme related articles.
8. The WordPress Bar
Editor’s description:
“Seen the DiggBar on Digg.com? Add 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.”
9. WP External Links Bar
Maintain your external links (in posts and comments) in your site. Create a Link Bar like facebook, digg and google with share link as well.
10. WordPress Admin Bar
This plugin replicates all of the menu links in your normal admin area at the top of your main site for logged in users (i.e. you). You can go right to the “Write Post” or manage options pages in one click from anywhere on your blog. No more having to go to your dashboard first. You can even have it replace your admin area menus if you want.
11. WordPress Admin Bar Improved
Similar plugin to WordPress admin bar but with several improvements – now even if you are not logged in you can – you will have top toolbar visible to login.
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12.Drag-To-Share eXtended
This plugin mimic the Mashable functionality where news stories and interesting articles can be shared to social networking sites. The functionality is driven by the images accompanying the articles, you click and hold on an image and can then drag it into a toolbar to share it. It’s brilliant and intuitive!
13. Snipi for WordPress
Using the Snipi Toolbar, you can drag and drop images from anywhere on the Internet and have them appear automatically in your WordPress Media Library or NextGen Gallery. Interesting toolbar indeed. Check Youtube video for more.
14. Fixed Social Buttons
This plugin will add fixed social buttons on right side : twitter, facebook, myspace, reddit, delicious, technorati and rss feed buttons. Open social bookmarks links in a new or in the same window with “rel=’nofollow’” attribute or not.
15. WP Super Bar
A very simple bar for outgoing links in your posts.
16. Fixed Search Button
Looks promising plugin, with handy buttons. This plugin will add fixed buttons on right side :
- Home button
- Login button
- Contact button
- Search button
- Go to top button
17. Frame Breaker, aka Die Digg-bar die!
Something different – did you want sometimes to people visit really your page not digg-bars, different frames like you will see in this post also. Activate this plugin to get rid of such frames.
I could find fixed Twitter and Subscribe buttons, I see often on left or right sides of windows. If you know one, please share with me as well, so I would be able to create even more comprehensive list. If you know more such fixed toolbars, bars, buttons please do share!
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Asanka
Posted 376 days ago 25nice sharing.. very helpful
Enursa
Posted 475 days ago 24i want to install demo bar for my gallery template. Thanks for share
chetan
Posted 482 days ago 23i like it thanx for help
do you have any toolbar detail for blogger,
which directly ads share buttons into post
?????
pearly
Posted 515 days ago 22will be using the Fixed Social Buttons… thanks man
Sean
Posted 530 days ago 21cool.. very helpful list for my wordpress website… thanks for sharing..
Matt
Posted 567 days ago 20Love the wordpress toolbar plugin. So basic and so vital. It should be part of WP 3.2 ;) – but I guess is not very easy to get it approved in the default version.
John
Posted 580 days ago 19I think Wibiya toolbar is really good and deserves to be included in that list.
Nick
Posted 582 days ago 18For me Wibiya toolbar is best.
Christian
Posted 610 days ago 17That’s really an awesome list! Especially the WP Admin bar! Awesome!
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tasarhane
Posted 663 days ago 16was looking for something like that.. thanks for the list..
Bilgiyukle
Posted 667 days ago 15Nice collection, thx
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Amal Roy
Posted 681 days ago 14Thanks a lot friend for putting this up. Book marked this.
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liena aifen
Posted 731 days ago 13nice sharing, it really excellent
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Sheiky
Posted 744 days ago 12Excellent List btw…I was thinking why Wibiya is not included in this toolbar list…Hope it should be added…
Arfandia
Posted 759 days ago 11i don’t know how usefull this toolbar for my site but thanks for sharing this
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Zack
Posted 760 days ago 10Finally! I keep seeing these and even tried to find some plugins in WP but came up short. Thanks for sharing!
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Daniel Tal
Posted 760 days ago 9Nice post, however I am amazed that among the 17 options you presented you never mentioned the Wibiya toolbar, I would advise you and anyone interested in this type of service to check out our product which offer the most comprehensive set of features among the toolbars you presented.
Give us a shot at: http://www.wibiya.com
Best,
Daniel – Wibiya Team
sriganesh
Posted 760 days ago 8until now i know only about the wibiya toolbar and mashable share :D some are really good and new, ill try them all and select he best one :D
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Eric B.
Posted 760 days ago 7These may be okay for some blogs, but I honestly find them a bit annoying. They can generally get in the way, and I wouldn’t use these on my blog.
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Melody
Posted 760 days ago 6I’ve been wondering about the toolbars for sometimes cause I seem them popping up on everyone’s blog lately. Definitely going to see what would be best for my blog..
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CJ Spurr
Posted 761 days ago 5Great list. I didn’t know there were sooo many options. Now what I need is a compare chart of all of them. LOL.
Is there any one or two that you recommend?
Bookmarking so I can check them out one by one. This may take a while.
Thanks again for the list.
Kristi Hines
Posted 761 days ago 4I have been noticing these more and more, and wondering about whether to add one to my site. Thanks for compiling this list so we can check them out!
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Luis Lopez
Posted 761 days ago 3Excellent list Dainis, I didn’t know about all this plugins, I’ve only used the wordpress bar and that’s all, I tihnk there were no more like that but i was wrong, let’s try some of the list.
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Lowes Coupon
Posted 761 days ago 2Thanks for the cool plugins list! Tried the fixed social bookmarks, but it apparently doesn’t work in 2.9.1 yet, I am keeping for future use if they update it…
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Lam Nguyen
Posted 761 days ago 1Excellent list, Dainis!
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