Building the Socialize Plugin

New Plus Tutorial: Building the “Socialize” Plugin

Apr 8th in News by Karl Swedberg

For this week’s Plus tutorial, we have an hour-long screencast by Karl Swedberg, author of “Learning jQuery 1.3″. He’ll teach you how to create a jQuery plugin that will append social networking icons to your posts.

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Author: Karl Swedberg

Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Structure Interactive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spends much of his time implementing design with a focus on "web standards"—semantic HTML, well-mannered CSS, and unobtrusive JavaScript. Before his current love affair with web development, Karl worked as a copy editor, a high-school English teacher, and a coffee house owner. His fascination with technology began in the early 1990s when he worked at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and it has continued unabated ever since.

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    Braden Keith April 8th

    If we can get more plus tutorials like this, it just might be enough to get me to subscribe

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      Braden Keith April 8th

      btw don’t install those adobe updates, it effs up photoshop! haha. I had to reinstall after updating.

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    Tutorial Library April 8th

    its a great plug in update thanks to Karl Swedberg

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    lawrence77 April 8th

    Hai Karl, you worked in Microsoft?
    Wow! Me too want to work there, any Idea??

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      Karl Swedberg April 20th

      No idea, unfortunately. It has been nearly 15 years since I worked there.

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    Jason April 8th

    Karl is from G-Rap? So am I.. Small world.

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    Sirwan April 8th

    almost had a heart attack thinking this was relating to BuddyPress. But just looking at the Screencast, this really looks like a good tutorial regarding jQuery.

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    Dean Craig April 8th

    That’s pretty cool!
    Thanks for sharing this :)

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    Dundy4 April 8th

    Great tut. going to try this now.

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    Martyn Web April 9th

    I keep saying this but I do really need to subscribe and sign up for the full works, all these tutorials sound great its just getting the time of day to work through them.

    I get subscribed this weekend I think.

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    Awesomedude April 9th

    don’t you think net tuts and PLUS are pushing really hard to sell subscriptions?
    Maybe if they lower the price a bit I will subscribe, but there are A LOT of places that you can get the same info for FREE.
    Anyway, just my two cents.

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    Jack Franklin April 9th

    I’m subscribed but struggled to find time to watch so far! But I think it’s worth it myself, I really enjoy the tutorials.

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    Sam Frost April 9th

    Why having a screencast on something ready available for free and easy to implement?

    http://plugins.learningjquery.com/socialize/

    Sorry to say but so far the subscription as been disappointing :(

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      Clinteger April 11th

      It’s not really about the plugin, it’s about learning jQuery so you can eventually write your own plugins.

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    gordon April 13th

    wow, tutorial about how to pay to get another tutorial

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    OleeiD April 14th

    To expensive.

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    Boris K April 15th

    Karl sure looks like Dirk Nowitzki.

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      Karl Swedberg April 20th

      LOL! Someone recently said I look like the guy from Nickelback, too. Had to Google both of them to see what you guys are talking about.

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    Mike April 22nd

    Thanks for the article

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