PopuList for WordPress
by johnAfter 2 years I’ve finally updated my WordPress plugin and decided on a new name (it started out life as SocialList, but someone else has that name now). Hopefully I’ll keep more on top of things this time!
PopuList allows you to track the popularity of your posts on social bookmarking sites reddit, stumbleupon, del.icio.us and digg. When PopuList is activated, a page is added to your dashboard giving the number of times a page has been saved or upvoted.

Download: PopuList
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- Published: January 27th, 2009
- 4 Comments published
- Tags: projects, wordpress









4 Comments
This is handy plugin! I took quick peek at the code and it looks like it’s structured nicely. Am I right that adding additional social networks just requires creating a .php (e.g. mixx.php or sphinn.php) file for the network and then updating the PopuList.php file to pull in the new network file?
Thanks Marios. Yes, you are correct that would be the way to add extra sites etc. - I’ve tried to keep everything fairly modular.
If you do create an additional site file then please consider posting details here as I’m thinking of expanding the selection and then adding an admin section so users can choose which they display.
Thanks again!
John: Interesting…while this is nice for recent posts, I think it would be very helpful to see what are the most commonly dugg, stumbled, etc. posts on the blog, ranked from most to least. Thus you could say, “Ah, my posts on X seem to resonate more with this community where my posts on Y seem to work best for this community over here–I should focus more on X and Y.” Just a thought.
Widge: That would be nice, however it takes quite a lot of time to get the details from each site and in order to give a list of most dugg etc that would need to be done for every post!
I may look in future at caching results etc. but it’s not likely to happen that soon. In the meantime you can always use the search feature to try and work out trends.