PressMark Social Bookmarking Using Wordpress

PressMark is Social Bookmarking with a Wordpress fork.

PressMark allows users to submit their favorite links which are categorized by tags. Bookmarks can be set to private or public.

PressMark is based on v2.6 of wordpress, installing it is like installing a normal version of wordpress, after you have installed the files to your server, select the‘Prologue' theme, select ‘Anyone can register' and set the default role of new users to ‘Author'. Don't forget to activate the ‘WP-OpenID' plugi.

Sorry to have to disappoint you, this article is rather short. The author's site is currently off line and there are about 3 articles on the net on Pressmark, once I've finished installing it on my server I'll give it a thorough test and write a proper hand's on review

.After Pligg (which was not an encouraging experience) I wondered if all social bookmarking software was going to be a painfull experience. I was very happy to see a fork on Wordpress, my absolute favorite CMS.

If it has proper seo qualities, I'll even write a halleluja rave review, next week. Keep you posted.

Wordpress is a famous 5 minute install and so is Pressmark, it comes with the OpenID plugin, its' own template, and wp super cache.

Pressmark needs a short manual, and a tagcloud on the entry page.

Once I installed I got an index page that is a simple entry form for bookmarks. So I entered one and then i wondered 'where did my bookmark go ?. Later on I found outthey are at http://domain.com//tag/anytag (well as wordpress user I know that, but new users don't, so that's where the manual comes in handy).

The tag pages is the cool part of Pressmark, they come with a nice clean layout and a simple bookmarklet to drag to your browser. Using the OpenID plugin, you can submit any page with 2 clicks, and anyone with OpenID can dump their bookmarks in it.

Short and sweet, compared to Pligg this is ValHalla, and with all the Wordpress 'hackers' around this could fast develop into a serious competitor in the social bookmarking cms zone.

Well done.

In the install I downloaded there is one function missing, the prologue_get_avatar() function (from the functions.php file in the theme directory) which breaks the code of the index page after which half the install is useless.

After cutting and pasting it from the automattic svn it seems to work fine and does have that tagcloud on the index page ;)

Murphy's law.

Maybe next download that little problem is fixed.