I have been working the past couple days to finish a bookmarking feature that was requested. At first I was thinking how would our own bookmark system be beneficial when everyone stores their bookmarks with del.icio.us, Google, or on their own computer. After a little while it made some sense to me.
I keep my bookmarks very tidy and when I seen an interesting article on a site I normally hesitate before throwing it into my bookmarks. If I’m only going to use it very rarely then I don’t want to hassle with cluttering up my bookmarks. Now when you see an article on CyberNet you won’t have to hassle either!
The bookmark system is for registered users only and it utilizes AJAX technology so that you can bookmark an article without ever leaving the page that you are on. Beneath the title of an article you should see a “CyberMark” link and the link is saved once you click on it:
Next, you can click on the green “CyberMarked” link to take you to the CyberMark management page (it is also accessible through the link on your Dashboard). You’ll see a list of all the articles that you have saved along with the option to delete them individually:
Right now it is just plain and simple. We would like to add a search feature in the future but I thought everyone could start playing with it now.
There is one “bug” that you might notice that has to do with how the server caches pages. The system is setup to check to see if you have already saved an article and if you have it will not give you the option to re-save it. However, because of the caching system you can save an article, refresh the page, and it will show up that you haven’t saved it yet. The server will delete all cached pages every hour, and so until then it might not show up as saved…but it is. It’s not a problem if you try to re-save it because the CyberMark feature is coded to prevent duplicates. I just thought I would give you a heads up in case you were wondering why that was happening.
We hope everyone enjoys this new feature and also hope to have more coming to you in the future!
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gr8 feature. thanks man.
but could it be it doesn’t work on an article which u surf to using a direct link?
i’ve only managed to cybermark the ones which are display on the main page of the site (i see the waiting msg and the link turning green). in the rest, it aint working. nothing move or changes.
and the pages i did marked, they appeared right away in the management page.
tried on ff2 protrable and ie6. clearing cache didn’t help.
Oops, should work now.
The way that I had linked to the JavaScript wasn’t correct when you were viewing an article directly. Thanks for pointing this out!
Thanks for implementing this. I really like the AJAX part of it. No refreshing or anything. Great feature.
No problem Max, the AJAX was the trickiest part but it was also the most fun. Hopefully if people start using it enough I can post some “rankings” of the most CyberMarked posts.
I really like this new feature as well. Thanks for continually adding to the functionally of the site.
Do you have any good links for helpful information for modifying wordpress with these features?