SocialEngine Link Share / Popular News / Bookmark Plugin

Vincent — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:34:11 +0000

NOTE: This page is for SE v4, if you are looking for SE v3, please visit Link Share / Bookmark Plugin for SocialEngine v3 page. If you have Link plugin license for SE v3, and would like to upgrade to v4, please visit Link Plugin – Version Upgrade v4 page

Key Features

Link Landing Home / Browse Popular / Upcoming Links pages are built using Layout Editor, allow you to drag and drop built-in review widgets just like global Home Page
Link Profile Page is also built using Layout Editor with many widgets, similar to Member Profile Page
Support sub-categories (2nd-level)
Slideshow for featured links
Support additional customizable fields / questions
Detailed Member Level and Global settings
Ability to determine how links should be published as popular
Built-in anti-cheat for voting
Ability to control whether user can edit submitted link url
Auto vote for member submitted link
Auto suggest form fills by parsing url content
Auto photo / thumbnail supported
Remote validation for url to make sure link is valid
Reciprocal link check (optional link-back requirement for link submission)
Control and prevent duplicated submission per site-wide, user-wide, or allow multiple submission.
Domain and host banning.
Support built-in previews for many popular video / image hosting sites (such as youtube)
Supported 3 media type: text, image, video
Tagging and popular tag cloud
Detailed link browsing and search capibility
Varieties of sorting by point, vote, date, comment, popularities etc..
Powerful search system to show only what user want to see
Many built-in widgets which let you list links on any custom page (layout editor) in variety of ways.
Links can be marked as featured which show-case on home page
Profile integration and full member’s link listing page
Comment / Like / Report / Sharing on link view page
many more ..

General Widgets

Below are built-in link widgets with a lot of configuration options / settings allowing you to customize the landing / custom page anyway you like.

List Links: this is a generic link listings widget, which can be used for different purposes depending on the setting paramerters that you set (the Link Landing Home Page is built using main widget)
- Title Header
- Max Link Entry (control number of links to be displayed)
- User (limit links created by specific user)
- Keywords (limit links match certain keywords)
- Status (show only Popular links, or Upcoming links)
- Category (show only links belong to selected category)
- Sorting (varieties of ordering, such as trending, recent, alphabet, most voted/commented/viewed/clicked etc..)
- Time Period (limit links submitted within defined period, such as 24 hours, weekly, monthly etc..)
- Media Type (only show photo links, video links, or story links)
- Featured Link (only show featured links)
- Display Style (wide mode for main column, narrow mode for left/right side columns)
- Display Output (control what to show: photo, details, meta, description, vote box)
Profile Links: Displays a member’s links on their profile. It also supports displaying links that are created by specific page/subject owner, example: when use this widget on Group Profile page, and config User=OWNER mode, it would shows links created by the group’s owner. If you set User=VIEWER mode, then the widget will displays links created by current logged in member.
- Support many settings / parameters similar to List Links above
- Two user’s filtering mode: OWNER (link’s created by owner of the current viewing page) and VIEWER (link’s created by the current active logged in member)
Featured Links: display featured links in slideshow format
- Support many settings / parameters similar to List Links above
Top Submitters: displays list of top link’s submitters
- Title Header
- Max Link Entry (control number of members to be displayed)
- Sorting (by total points, or total links)
- Time Period (limit links submitted within defined period, such as 24 hours, weekly, monthly etc..)
Top Voters: displays list of top link’s voters
- Title Header
- Max Link Entry (control number of members to be displayed)
- Sorting (by all vote count, up vote, down/bury vote)
- Time Period (limit links submitted within defined period, such as 24 hours, weekly, monthly etc..)
Categories (optional display control for photo / details / description)
Search Form
Main Menu Navigation (Browse Links | My Links | Post New Link)
Submit New Link
Popular Tags: display popular tag cloud
- Limit number of tags
- Sort tag by total count, or name

Link Profile Widgets

Below are built-in link widgets which let you build Link Profile page (similar to Member Profile page) via Layout Editor

Profile Breadcrumb: display navigation path to the link in breadcrumb style (Links >> Popular/Upcoming >> Link Category)
Profile Title: display link main content (title, vote box, description, meta info, photo etc..)
Profile Preview: display link’s preview (embed video / image) if detected
Profile Comments: display comment/like box
Profile Details: display link’s customized questions and field answers
Profile Voters: display list of voters/buriers, option to set limit, and filter to only show vote up / down etc..
Profile Related Links: display related links by tag
Profile Submitter: display submitter info, photo, total submitted links
Profile Options: display menu actions (member links page, submit new link, edit link, delete link)
Profile Stats: display link’s statistics such as total point, % liked, votes vs buries, who made link Popular, first member to vote / bury link
Profile Info: display link general information (created/updated date, status, category, type, tags etc..)
Profile Tools: display sharing / reporting options

Back-End

Easy to browse submitted links using sorting and filter form
Mark link as Featured
View / Edit / Delete submission
Control number of link entries on browse pages
Optional validation for link url
Duplication url settings (unique site-wide, per user, no check)
Blacklisted domains
Ability to define how link entries should be sorted browse page by default
Set time period limit on browse pages
Granularity and detailed permission control
Permission to view: no, yes and for owner only, all reviews
Permission to create: no, yes
Permission to edit: no, owner only, all reviews
Permission to delete: no, owner only, all reviews
Permission to comment: no, owner only, all reviews
Auto mark as Featured reviews on posting
Privacy for View / Comment options
Define number of points links need to get in order to become popular
Optional auto-vote for link owner
Control whether member can edit url after submission
Support sub-categories (2nd-level)

Customizable Fields/Questions

Allow to add additional fields/questions to link submission form
Control customized fields to be search-able, displayable.

Demo

For demonstration purposes, we have turned off some options / features on purpose to prevent abuse. Some rssfeeds may require you to log in or special permissions, please feel free to create an account for full test-drive experience.

Screenshots

Below are screenshots in admin control panel. For user front-end screenshot, please check out the live demo section above.

Link Share / Popular News / Bookmark Plugin – Version Upgrade to v4

Vincent — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:32:41 +0000

By purchasing this upgrade, we will give you access to all files and future releases of this plugin up to version 4.99 for SocialEngine v4. This also includes all previous releases SocialEngine v3.

Note: This upgrade is for existing Link Share / Popular News / Bookmarking Plugin purchasers. If you do not have a license for it yet, you can purchase one on Link Share / Popular News / Bookmark Plugin for SocialEngine v4 page. This is plugin’s files version upgrade purchase only, not an upgrade/migration script. There is no migration tool/script available for 3rd-party plugins, and SE migration tool only support official plugins.

Link Share / Bookmark Plugin for SocialEngine v3

Vincent — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:17:03 +0000

NOTE: This page is for SE v3, if you are looking for SE v4, please visit Link Share / Popular News / Bookmark for SocialEngine v4 page.

This plugin lets your users discover remarkable, latest, hottest trends, and stories on the net by sharing and submitting links. Users can vote for favorite links to boost up it ranking, increase its exposure. The plugin comes with built-in Vote Widget that let people embed it on their own websites, thus free promotion for your site to gain even more traffic and expand user-base. If you ever want to run similar site like Digg, Yahoo Buzz, Reddit etc.. then this is the only plugin that you ever need.

Features

Detailed user level controls and settings
Ability to determine how links should be published as popular
Built-in anti-cheat for voting
Ability to control whether user can edit submitted link details and url within timeframe
Auto vote for user submitted link
Auto thumbnail and photo generating for image and youtube video link
Photo upload for links, thumbnail, extension, size etc.. control
Remote validation for url to make sure link is valid and live
Control and prevent duplicated submission per site-wide, user-wide, or allow multiple submission.
Domain and host banning.
Built-in embed video supported for popular video sites
Multiple categories and sub-categories
Supported 4 link type: news, image, video, audio
Tagging and popular tag cloud
Top voters feature to encourage voting activities
Detailed link browsing and search capibility
Varieties of sorting by vote, date, comment, popularities etc..
Quick filtering system to show only what user want to see
Built-in embeded voting widget on other websites
Smart related links and recommended links by how user voted in the past.
Weekly TOP popular and HOT upcoming links
Integrated with profile, and cross-linking
Integrated with home page, or any pages for upcoming link and current popular links.
Many, many more …

Requirements

SocialEngine v3

Currently supported video sites

blip.tv, cbsnews.com, cnn.com, colbertnation.com, collegehumor.com, comedycentral.com, dailymotion.com, guba.com, jumpcut.com, liveleak.com, livevideo.com, media.putfile.com, metacafe.com, reuters.com, revver.com, spike.com, thedailyshow.com, thenewsroom.com, vbox7.com, veoh.com, video.google.co.uk, video.google.com, video.google.nl, vids.myspace.com, vimeo.com, youare.tv, youtube.com

more coming soon … with future updates

Demo:

Popular Links

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