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The share and follow plugin enables you to add the most popular share and follow links into your site with minimal effort. There are quite a few different ways to use this plugin and the functions, widgets and adaptation that it has open to you at all times.
Hi, i cant seem to get the youtube button to show up on the floating side tab? am i missing anything?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Hey Ed,
I expect you need to fill out the channel details in the links section at the bottom of Follow section.
To get there you’ll need to be an administrator of your wordpress install and then, goto the ‘settings’ menu, selecting the ‘Share and Follow’ link. If your in HD, then the Follow Section will be on the right of the screen at the top, if your in a lower resolution then the Follow Section will be the 2nd part of the page below the Share Section.
At the bottom of the Follow Section there is all of the places where you can enter the link details for your things that people should follow, you can find YouTube 1 from the bottom of this set. Make sure you have entered the URL of your channel including the http:// . So for example my channel is http://www.youtube.com/user/andrewkillen0726 yours will be different but similar. Put that link into the textbox that corresponds to YouTube, and click the checkbox on at the beginning of that line. This should get you working.
Please come back to me if it still does not work. And apologies for the woeful documentation at present, I’m working on it at the moment and will have some decent stuff up here later today.
All the best
Andy
Ed,
Just double checked and yes it is not updating the youtube link properly. new release later today.
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Hi, what do I enter as link destination for the share function? Thanks.
Eugene,
There is no links for you to enter in the share functions, they are already configured. You can only put in links in the follow section.
regards
Andy
Andy,
First at all thank you for such a great plugin. Before to found yours I tried lots of plugins before and this is by far the best one.
I just have one question. How can I change the color of the icons? I want to use them all in grey as I want to adapt them to my website design.
Thanks in advance for your help.
P
Hey Paula,
You can either use the CDN version of the plugin with the upgrade which comes in the next release (in the next few days) which makes this a 1 click operation to get different icon sets.
Or you can replace the image files on the server with the ones you want. All you need to do is FTP the new image to replace the old image. The old image can be found at..
/wp-content/plugins/share-and-follow/default/IMAGESIZE
where IMAGESIZE is either 16,24,32,48,64. In there you can replace the PNG32 format images with your own.
regards
Andy
Hi Andy,
Is this still the correct way to change to custom icons? Is there any other setting that needs to change? I replaced the appropriate icons in the /default/16 (for example) directory, cleared (actually disabled) all my wordpress caching, cleared my browser cache, and still I am only getting the old default icons. I’ve tried changing the setting to both CSS single images and Image Sprites, but that didn’t make any difference. Any insight?
Kind regards,
John
Make sure that you choose “single css images” from the radio buttons for the relavant area that you want to have your own icons. Currently you are using the faster and superior CSS sprites. Of course you can build your own sprite set but it’s a lot of hassle.
Yup, got it. thanks.
Thank you Andy, it sounds like I prefer to wait for the next version of it.
is there a way to have someone email the blog to someone without having to login? Like a built-in “recommend to” form in addition to the different social sites?
Hey 4evermaat,
You should be able to use the Email icon in the admin page so that it is automatically added to your posts or in the share widget. The widget also uses the email “content” that is setup in that admin screen for the email.
regards
Andy
Hi there, I stumble across your plugin after I had already tried a couple of other (inferior) plugins and I must say I am really impressed with it so far, I have been testing it on my site for a couple of days and just have a quick question. If I can sort this out I will definitely get the subscription.
If you have a look at one of my product pages for example http://bit.ly/95qbZJ
I have been using a plugin which adds a facebook like button to all of my posts and I was able to alter the code to get the button to show in a custom place (I got it to display under my add to cart button for each item)
Is there a way to get the share and follow like button to appear in the same place as I really like the way it looks at the moment but I do not like the system my current like button uses to link to facebook.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Thanks
gazhaz
Hello there and thank you very much for this great plugin.
It helps alot..
The only problem i have is when i click on the facebook button to share a post which includes a youtube video the “Post to profile page” doesnt have the preview image from youtube video but the Gravatar image.
What am i doing wrong ?
Thank you in advance..
I seem to be having the same problem as others. When sharing to facebook from wordpress, I get the gravatar generic image, not the image from the post.
Murry
I can only give you the same replies that others have had.
Facebook Caches images for 24 hours.
you have currently turned off this section of the pluign, so in 24hours the image will go.
Andy, I wonder if you are planning to add an option to change the display order of the various share buttons? Is there a way to do it manually? I looked at the PHP code, but quickly got lost…
Hey John
Yep it’s in plan. not there at the moment
regards
andy