WP Plugin: An Easy and Cool Way to Share ~ iBegin

Critiqued by Cowboytf | April 2, 2008 .

I just found this cool plugin yesterday and had to tell you all about it. I’ve seen a lot of social bookmarking plugins, ways to print, and email posts but this one takes the cake!

It’s called iBegin Share Plugin and comes in a stand alone version or as a wordpress plugin. I’ve always used feedflare for the stumble it, digg it, etc but this one has those and more. Not only that, it offers options to save to your computer via pdf or word file, print it, and email it. It’s awesome!!!

It’s super easy to install and once activated, it automatically shows up at the bottom of each post. You can obviously scroll down to see in action but I’ll show provide you with these images just in case you’re reading this through the feeder or email.

First, you’ll see when you click the little share button, it will display all the different ways you can share like twitter, msn, digg, stumble, and more. If you don’t see what you want, don’t fret…with the stand alone version, you can actually go in and create the ones you do want in 3 simple steps.

As you can see, there are 4 tabs total. The next tab is “Email”. Here’s a snapshot of how it looks.

Email it

Next tab is “My Computer”. This is one is VERY cool. There have many times that I have wanted to save a particular post and end up bookmarking it. With this, I can actually save it to my computer as a PDF file or via word! How cool is that!!

Save it!

Finally we have “Printer”. Just like it says, you can print it! VERY COOL!!

Print it!

So with that, feel free to take advantage of it by sharing it! You know you wanna try it out:)

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7 Comments so far

Mirjam April 3, 2008 3:09 am

That is a really cool plugin, especially the extra functions of saving it as a pdf or emailing an article.

I am just wondering though, since people (well, me for example :D) don´t really recognize that type of “share” button, will they know about these cool functions when they only see that button?

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Dhaval Jani April 3, 2008 8:45 pm

Hey sweety thats a great plugin… I tried from the link you have mentioned in the post. Works great…

For some reason the My Computer> Save as PDF option isnt working on your blog… you might want to check that…
Cowboytf April 3, 2008 9:18 pm

Hey there Dhaval. I just saved this article as a pdf and a word doc and it did fine. Are you allowing it enough time to “download” to save?? Also, click on the link, not the icon. See if that works!

Later,
Lori
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AhmedF April 5, 2008 12:26 am

We’ve released a new version - it fixes a few little bugs.
Jewelle Tan April 6, 2008 6:59 am

This looks interesting. I haven’t got into all these sharing or bookmarking (read : amateur) so this plugin is good that this offers all that including the e-mail, save and print function.

Thanks!

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Dennis Edell April 8, 2008 7:18 pm

I’m not sure how I missed this post as a subscriber, but awesome! :-)

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