share and follow

I’ve added 2 new functions to the plugin, these are my_share_links() and my_follow_links(). They do a really simple job which is to show the icons that you have setup in the admin screen inside the theme.

Simply put my_share_links() shows the share icons you have configured, and my_follow_links() shows the follow links. Both of these functions work by directly placing them into a theme. i.e.

<?php my_share_links() ?>

Let me know if you have any issues
regards
Andy

Finally I’ve done it, a bit of a nightmare to cut out all of the items and make CSS sprites for the vertical words, but now I’ve managed to get a new release out.  I believe that the problem was the number of files I was using to create images, so instead of using many items I am now using CSS sprites for all of the vertical words.  So now it is quicker to load because it will only grab a maximum of 2 files and not 30.  Quite happy about that.   Also I cleaned up the CSS a little to make it build smaller CSS files.  It’s not a complete overhaul but it has reduced stuff by up to 5kb depending on what you load.

appologies to those who have paid donations for the plugin, I’ve got to add all of your names and links to the site.  I will catch up soon but at the moment I’m having to deal with my own business phat reaction which is now very busy with making some great sites and themes. The up side of this is that it is forcing me to make some changes to the plugin as it is not always as functional as I would like it to be.

so do expect a new release soon…

Oh and lastly I did fix some issues if you had a top follow tab with no background or border, where it was screwing up the CSS, now works just dandy!
All the best and let me know if there are issues

Andy

Release 1.19.8 has just left the building and is looking really good.  All it is really is a bunch of new icons and some better print and email support.

The new icons that have been added are

• Sphinn (follow, share)
• NuJIJ (share)
• Delicious (follow)
• Picasa (follow)
• Bandcamp (follow)
• Moddb (follow)
• imdb (follow)
• divientart (follow)
• Bookmark in browser (share)

For the email and print icons, we made them so that they never open a new window or tab, but just do the function they are meant to do.

Lastly for the twitter share, the Title now deals better with – (hyphen) when used in a WordPress post title.  Also thanks to the guys at NattyWP who have given me the Tribune theme, so I’ve added theme support for them.

Sorry it’s taken me a while to make this release, I was running round making real website that paid some money so I have some more spare time to make things for free for you.  Here take a look a the McCann Erickson site I made and must admit I’m really proud of.

Due to popular demand I have added a reset button the plugin.  All that it does is reset all of the values to be the same as when the plugin is first installed.  This does not effect your widgets, only the administration panel.  So if you have problems with an upgrade in future, you can give this a try to reset yourself back to how things should be when first installed.

Also I fixed a two spelling mistakes, thanks to the people at cybersprocket.com for the heads up on that. Oh and were totally compliant with WordPress 3.0, so don’t be scared to upgrade.

As ever let us know if there are any issues for you
all the best
Andy

Release 1.19.5 has just gone out today.  I’ve added a bunch of new social networking sites, all my popular demand.

Firstly there is Vkontakte which is a widely used social networking site for Russia and Ukraine.  So far they are at 75million users, so it could be said that they are 1/4 the size of facebook. Anyhow, it’s all in Russian, so I would only include it on my site if I had a lot of Russian visitors.  Lucky right now that we are getting a lot of Russian downloads.

After adding Foursquare the other day, I instantly got requests for Gowalla, so it’s now included. And on the business side of networking Plaxo, Coconex and Xing were all added.

As ever do let me know if you have problems with the release.

All the best
Andy

Thanks to a great number of requests I have added my first take on enhancing the twitter sharing.  There is still more to come when I work it out, but for now this is where it will be till I do.

To use the features it’s pretty simple. Here is the priority order by which the system will work

1. “twitter_text” custom field setting inside a page or post
2. Default URL prefix
3. Title + URL or Clean URL

Twitter text inside a page or post takes priority, then the global default URL prefix, then finally the Title + URL or Clean URL.

Also there may be on some systems a problem with the Page Exclusion where it has lost some settings, if your having problems, just re-do your settings and all will be fine.

All the best
Andy

somehow I missed a small change I made to enhance one thing, screwed up another. All fixed now.

This release has seen the addition of Soundcloud, Vimeo and Dailymotion to the icon set. These are only available in the follow widget and follow tab. They are configured just as with all the other follow icons, it needs to be setup in the admin screen before it will work on the widget page.

We seem to have met a new and enjoyable stage of stability which promises to be just right for me to get us to version2. I just need to make sure that there are no more function I need to create and test with the old datasets before moving forward to what is next generation for this plugin.

All the best
Andy