Top 10 WordPress Toolbar Plugins – Create A Toolbar For Your WordPress Blog
17. Feb, 2010 
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I have collected most popular, interesting and eye-catching WordPress toolbar plugins. You can use these plugins to increase page-views, comments, sharing, twitter followers, subscriptions and more. Some of these plugins even offer online chat with your readers, how cool is that?
1. Meebo Bar:
- Real-time sharing. Your users can easily share your website with their friends through IM, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and email. The Meebo Bar engages your existing users and brings in new users.
- Personal stats dashboard. See statistics about pageviews, sharing from your site, and which of your Meebo Bar buttons are being clicked, all from your own secure site. You can even give other users their own personal login to access the dashboard.
- Instant messaging from your site. Meebo knows web-based IM better than anyone, and your site visitors will be able to chat and share with their IM friends from AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Facebook, and a ton of other networks.
2. WordPress Toolbar Plugin:
Static Toolbar displays a static toolbar in the bottom of the page, which may contain last posts, rss feed, search engine, social network and sharing links.
3.WordPress Toolbar:
This WordPress toolbar will automatically enable a toolbar for all outgoing links from your blog, it is similar as Digg or Stumbleupon. It helps to keep visitors coming back and write some comment or social bookmarking. Great tool.
4. mit3xxx.de Toolbar:
The mit3xxx toolbar allows you to add the following features to your site: navigate to the start page integrate a button to your rss-feed,let your users tweet your content, share your content to social network sites such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook.
5. WordPress Theme Demo Bar:
WordPress Theme Demo Bar is a plugin for wordpress (compatible up to WP 2.8.3) allowing to preview any wordpress theme without activating. Demo bar is customizable in admin panel, with several CSS style files as well. Very handy for theme developers or Wordpres theme related articles.
6. WP External Links Bar:
Maintain your external links (in posts and comments) in your site. Create a Link Bar like facebook, digg and google with share link as well.
7. Fixed Social Buttons:
This plugin will add fixed social buttons on right side : twitter, facebook, myspace, reddit, delicious, technorati and rss feed buttons. Open social bookmarks links in a new or in the same window with “rel=’nofollow’” attribute or not.
8.Gigya Toolbar:
The Gigya Toolbar increases your blog’s traffic and provides an opportunity to make extra revenues. Here are features Gigya offers:
- Get return traffic when users share and tweet from the toolbar.
- Supports 80 social destinations and includes a Facebook fan page and Twitter updates buttons.
- The toolbar does not affect page load time. It loads only after the page is fully loaded.
9.Drag-To-Share eXtended:
This plugin mimic the Mashable functionality where news stories and interesting articles can be shared to social networking sites. The functionality is driven by the images accompanying the articles, you click and hold on an image and can then drag it into a toolbar to share it. It’s brilliant and intuitive!
10. Snipi for WordPress:
Using the Snipi Toolbar, you can drag and drop images from anywhere on the Internet and have them appear automatically in your WordPress Media Library or NextGen Gallery. Interesting toolbar indeed.
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Really useful and informative post
Thanks for the sharing!
nice plugin. thanks
Hello all, have just released a wp-plugin that you might find interesting as well, please feel free to download a beta version from our website: http://www.livegrounds.com/
LiveGrounds is a plugin for WordPress blogs, where the blogger and the blog’s visitors can interact live via a graphical user interface. For the blogger, LiveGrounds is an easily moderated community based on the blog. For the visitor, LiveGrounds allows for instant communication with other people, without having to log in or download any program.
Let me/us know if you have any questions or comments!
/CJ
Really useful and informative post
Thanks for the sharing!.
Great post. I am wondering though if you have any idea which of these is the most popular or most useful to the blogger. In other words, what are the bloggers with large followings using?
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Many thanks for the excellent variety with plugins, i have several favourites to, including the all known “All IN SEO “and also the easy privacy policy plus SEO friendly images (got some great results with it)and finally pretty links (great for cloacking) affiliate links…
A little late to the game, but just wanted to mention our toolbar plugin, the TurnSocial bar. We’re a great addition to local business websites, and we’re the only toolbar that also brings in content based on your street address.
Check us out at http://TurnSocial.com, or search for our plugin in the directory. Thanks!
Just saw new plugin created by http://www.daddydesign.com/wordpress/social-toolbar-wordpress-plugin/
Excellent plugin with lots of option to customize wordpress toolbar.
Neel, that plugin is great! thanks for sharing
really useful post… i was looking for a toolbar plugin for my website..
thank you for sharing