helping you to do what you want
Ok, I released a little early and missed out testing fully the Follow Widget. It’s now got the RSS icon back again. I’m still thinking about how to set that guy up for the future with feedburner. so watch this space for changes.
Also gonna look at support for WP-ecommerce product pages as it really does not play well at the moment. Another watch this space…
And I’ve not forgotten that I want to add mobile support as well
… lots to do
Andy
fixed the follow heading and added Volg Ons…. not much really.
let me know if you have any issues
Andy
Release 1.20.8 has a bunch of new things in it
The most important thing in this release is the Twitter suffix as this will let you know more often when people share your twitter links as you will be referenced on it. Nothing to stop you making it whatever you want, like a #followfriday on fridays. You can also use this on a post/page level by setting the option “twitter_suffix” and the message will override whatever you have set as the default.
Also added is the possibility for the follow tab to be removed from the screen if the browsers window goes below a certain amount. This is designed to give you the control over when the tab is shown and stop it overlapping the content. As a peice of advice, always remember to add 18px for the size of scroll bar and 8px + icon size to your minimum width. So for example, 1000px is my width of my design, and I have icons of 24px and I am showing the border on the follow tab then it would be:
1000(design) + 18(scrollbar) + 8(follow tab padding) + 2(follow tab border) + 24(icons size) = 1052
To stop the javascript loading, just deleted whatever numbers you have added in the admin screen.
If you have any problems with this release please do let me know
All the best
Andy
There will be no support for the share and follow plugin till Monday as I will be at the Lowlands Festival about 100KM east of Amsterdam. Among others I will definitely be seeing The Specials, Anouk and BoemKlatch.
If you do have any support issues, please do leave a comment on the support page and I will get to it when I return…
all the best
Andy
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
Call me crazy but I like to spread the love. And to that aim I’ve given $40 to the people who have made the open source product for MobileESP. What it’s gonna do is give me the opportunity to setup the plugin to give you control over what is shown on a range of mobile devices when they come to your site. As there have been a few requests now to deal with mobile devices, I am going to add device support so that you can say what is shown on on what device.
Where I am going to really need your help is in telling me what does not work properly. Lets face it, it’s not like I can afford every mobile device around and have the time to test them all, unless I win the lottery or somebody decides to sponsor this project in a big way…..so I have to ask you all to help me.
So. Coming soon. Mobile Support!
all the best
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
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
