Announcing the Publish2 WordPress plugin: Do more with your links

by Daniel Bachhuber · July 14th, 2009 · 18 Comments

I’m pleased to announce the first official release of a project I’ve been working on for a while: a Publish2 plugin for WordPress, the popular Web publishing platform. It lets you to do more with your Publish2 links by extending our collaborative journalism platform to your WordPress blog.

The first feature, Link Assist, allows you to quickly navigate and add your Publish2 links to a blog post as inline links. We wanted to make it easier than ever to access to your Publish2 links when you need them — the ones you’ve been saving as you research your stories and posts, or a collaborative stream of links from a Newsgroup. (No more hunting through 47 browser tabs while writing a post to find a URL!)

Configuration is simple. Add the Publish2 links page of your choice (e.g. “http://www.publish2.com/journalists/daniel-bachhuber/links/“) to your WordPress user profile page, turn on Link Assist, and you’re off to the races. Browse through your links right next to the WordPress post editor and filter them using your Publish2 tags.

Adding a link to your post is as simple as highlighting the text you want linked and clicking the “Add link” button.

The second feature of the plugin is a Publish2 link widget. Use the widget to add your links to a widget-enabled sidebar, or add a link list to any page (check this out in action on Publishing 2.0). For the advanced users, the Publish2 WordPress plugin offers <?php publish2(); ?> as a configurable PHP function you can place in any of your WordPress templates.

The Publish2 link widget is highly customizable, so you can display link elements (i.e. title, publication name, comment) in any order and precisely formatted to match your blog theme.

Download the plugin and give it a try!

It works with WordPress MU. More cool features are in the works.

Leave feedback, comments, ideas, questions, etc. in the comments or email wordpress [at] publish2 [dot] com.

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1 Alan Mairson // Jul 15, 2009 at 12:38 pm

Very cool. And one more reason I’m glad you convinced me to use WP instead of TP. Thanks, Daniel.
2 Notes, links, and recent entanglements – Invisible Inkling // Jul 15, 2009 at 10:01 pm

[...] At Publish2, we released a WordPress plugin developed by our-intern-is-better-than-your-intern Daniel Bachhuber. The “link assist” feature is my favorite part. Matter of fact, I’m using it to write this very blog post right here. [...]
3 Ethos behind Link Assist // Jul 16, 2009 at 7:47 pm

[...] Tuesday, I was quite pleased to announce the first formal release of the Publish2 WordPress plugin. With the 1.1 version, journalists on Publish2 can easily add [...]
4 Michael Guy // Jul 17, 2009 at 12:32 pm

Sweet plugin, I am going to have to give this a try when I get home. Does it submit in full semantic code?
5 danielbachhuber // Jul 14, 2009 at 6:15 pm

First official release of the WordPress plugin from @publish2 is out the door: http://tr.im/sm5R Excited for feedback on Link Assist.

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6 scottkarp // Jul 14, 2009 at 6:16 pm

Announcing the Publish2 WordPress plugin: Do more with your links http://bit.ly/FnvXv

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7 mathewi // Jul 14, 2009 at 6:26 pm

congrats to @scottkarp and Publish2 team for releasing a new WordPress plugin, written by @danielbachhuber: http://bit.ly/FnvXv

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8 Ryan Sholin // Jul 14, 2009 at 11:05 pm

Sharing this here just in case you missed the tweets or the post itself. The short version: This WordPress plugin makes me want to use Publish2 more, and it makes me want to blog more. I hope it does the same for you.

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9 carlosalonso // Jul 15, 2009 at 7:38 am

plugin de publish2 para wordpress: http://bit.ly/13CoQN

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10 scottkarp // Jul 15, 2009 at 10:11 am

Morning RT: Announcing the Publish2 WordPress plugin: Do more with your links http://bit.ly/FnvXv

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11 solle // Jul 15, 2009 at 10:50 am

RT @scottkarp: Morning RT: Announcing the Publish2 WordPress plugin: Do more with your links http://bit.ly/FnvXv

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12 NiemanLab // Jul 15, 2009 at 12:33 pm

This looks useful: Publish2 releases a WordPress plugin for keeping track of your links http://tr.im/sts9

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13 gagnier // Jul 15, 2009 at 2:15 pm

RT @NiemanLab: This looks useful: Publish2 releases a WordPress plugin for keeping track of your links http://tr.im/sts9

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14 vistaconcept // Jul 15, 2009 at 6:51 pm

RT @NiemanLabThis looks useful: Publish2 releases a WordPress plugin for keeping track of your links http://tr.im/sts9 (wordpress.. hmmmm)

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15 vistaconcept // Jul 15, 2009 at 6:51 pm

RT @NiemanLab This looks useful: Publish2 releases a WordPress plugin for keeping track of your links http://tr.im/sts9 (wordpress.. hmmmm)

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16 web2feed // Jul 15, 2009 at 8:31 pm

Publish2 Blog http://bit.ly/IjzQv #wordpress

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17 kocinetwork // Jul 28, 2009 at 11:53 am

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18 lavrusik // Jul 31, 2009 at 2:34 pm

If you haven’t tried it yet, @Publish2’s Wordpress plugin is quite useful in gathering links to use in blog posts | http://ow.ly/iJ57

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