Optional Necessity

Your site's content can rank higher in search engine results through the use of page-specific title element, meta descriptions and meta keywords. The Serendipity HTML META-tags plugin simplifies this task for entries, as I discussed in Better search results with meta details.

Unfortunately, the current version of the HTML META-tag plugin cannot emit meta details for static pages, but static pages can have custom properties. We can use these custom static page properties to emit unique meta details for each static page, just like the HTML META-tag plugin does for entries.

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Social bookmarking has long been popular on nearly any type of website, especially with sites featuring regularly updated content such as news sites and blogs. Social bookmarking allows visitors to remember, rate and recommend content through a number of channels, including Facebook, Delicious, Digg and many others. While many sites prefer to use numerous icons and links to each service available, I prefer to use the single point of service through AddThis.

Launched in 2006, addthis has become the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet. Many serendipity developers and website owners have incorporated the addthis code, or "widget", into their serendipity templates. I personally added it to a number of my own templates, and this code has been a part of the current serendipity default template Bulletproof since its initial release. Addthis has maintained compatibility with older versions of their scripts, but I decided it was time to update the script, especially since they just released a new version today.

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