That’s it, tell me what you want, what icons you want added be that share or follow links.. Tell me what’s on your mind
So far I have had requests to add Plurk, Ning, auto publishing to social network site and mobile support as well as the (in our opinion) dreaded facebook like button. Let us know what you want.
So with that in mind, get commenting…
Hi Andy,
I’ve just installed your plugin, and have been playing around with the options trying to get aquainted with it, but can’t find anywhere to adjust the layout of the icons. Right now I’ve got all the default settings restored, and just the “share after posts” options checked off setup to display “icons only”.
The icons seem to only be aligning themselves vertically instead of horizontally, which of course leaves and ugly gap of white at the bottom of each post before the comments.
How can I align them like you’ve got on your site here?
Thanks.
-Graeme
Hey Graeme
Do you have a web address for me that I can look at? that way I can help quickly
regards
Andy
Yeah, the site I’m designing is http://www.tapedek.net
Thanks for the quick reply.
W3C Validator reports quite a few errors in share & follow code. Maybe its because of the experimental stage of the HTML5 checker which is detected automativally. See more details here http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.nlp-pm.de
Would be great if you could check it.
Hey Goetz
Found all the little buggers in the code, removed in the next release later today
Regards
Andy
is there a chance to change the “follow” font in the
Follow Side/Top/Bottom Tab setup
thanks
Hey Edwin,
at the moment it is only possible to change the font on the Top or Bottom tab not the side tabs. This is because the side tab is managed with images not CSS.
to change the font family used on the Top or Bottom tab try these codes
top
#follow.top ul.followwrap li {font-family:arial, sans-serif;}bottom
#follow.bottom ul.followwrap li {font-family:arial, sans-serif;}In time I will be offering diffrerent font styles for the left/right tab.
regards
Andy
So any ideas on how to fix it? I only want the follow option available in the posts themselves for the time being.
Graeme,
With out the plugin being live on the site it’s pretty hard for me to debug it. I did have a look the other day also and found it was not live then either.
could you make it live where there was a problem and let me know?
regards
Andy
Is it possible to update the shortcode to work on the homepage and categories? Right now it grabs the first post from either rather than the homepage/cat itself.
Also… a setting for RSS to subscribe to the category of the current post/page rather than subscribing to the comments on the page.
Hi Andy,
The plugin has been active since I sent my first comment to you. According to the WP Dashboard it still is. It shows up on both my laptop and desktop computers when not logged into the dashboard as well.
In order to see the “share” buttons/icons I’m talking about you need to click on the posts and scroll to the bottom.
Here is a direct link to a post on the site:
http://tapedek.net/?p=1376
Greame,
I think you need to review your theme as it only works (at all) in firefox, viewing with IE, Safari or Chrome breaks the theme half way through. I would first try turning off my plugin and testing those browsers to see what happens, but I think it’s somewhere in your theme that the strangeness is happening….
Once you have it loading (albeit badly) in all browsers I will be able to help you with your share and follow issues.
regards
Andy
Thanks for the heads up. It was working a week ago. I’ll have to take a look and see what’s up.
- I want a pop up or a message that says “your article was successfully posted to facebook (or whatever)”.
- for twitter, I don’t want automatic posting. Instead, I want you to open a new tab with the message ready to be sent. Why? Because I may want to add hashtaggs, and the message might be too long, so I can trim it.
Thanks!
Thanks JP for the suggestions
I am using your plugin and I am trying to have the follow us icons at the footer of my page in a row. You have the option in widgets to choose row or list. Except neither options are working. I am stuck vertical follow us icons.
Also can you add Ning as a follow us icon?
Thank you so much!
Hey Stephanie,
It seems to be working at the moment properly, can you let me know if you are still not working?
Will add Ning.
regards
Andy
Google Reader Sharing
Hey nick
adding it to the list
regards
andy
An option to add a feedburner feed rather than the standard one would be very useful.
Hey Glenn
I’m looking to do something there with feedburner. But for now you can happily use the Newsletter to do that function
regards
Andy
Feedburner support would be ace.
will it be a counter for the fb share button?
Soon I will be adding those kind of buttons also. as well as the option to have a like button
regards
andy
Hi Andy,
I fixed the problem with the vimeo embed coding which was crashing the site. It appears to work fine in all browsers now. So back to my original inquiry:
How do I display the share icons after posts horizontally and not in one tall column? Here’s a link to an example of this.
http://tapedek.net/?p=1376
Thanks,
Graeme
I very much want to automatically share posts on my personal accounts, instead of having to go through and clicking (maybe this is a possibility but I can’t figure it out)
Thanks for the input Bradley, but can I just check that you mean that you want to be able to auto publish to your social networks? If so your not alone
But if you could let me know which ones are most important to you, I would be greatful
All the best
Andy
Hi,
if possible, please add a function to make my own icon with text and link!
alternative it will be glad to have a email-contact button at the share section, a button for gpsies.com and to my webside (not blog)
any idea what’s up with the buttons loading vertically and not horizontally? (see previous comment above)
-Graeme
Hey Graeme
This is where the problem sits in you web site with the theme design. it uses a holding UL/LI to set the width of the page. I would do this to sort it out
#page ul#entries li ul li {width: auto;}if that does not do the biz (which it should do and help to sort out other lists), try this
#page ul#entries li ul.socialwrap li {width: auto;}all the best
Andy
That first suggestion worked perfectly. Thank you so much for your help! I’m still getting the hang of wordpress and it’s little quirks.
Hello,
How about adding a Facebook like button option?
Or adding an email subscribe box? So users can enter their emails for us to collect.
Thanks,
Bill
Hi there!
Thanks so much for such an AWESOME plugin.
There’s just one little thing that I’m having some heartburn with. Is it possible to add an option to manually adjust the “Side tab distance from top of screen” setting? At the moment, the Tab location isn’t able to move down far enough to not overlap content. Being able to manually enter in a distance in px would allow me to push the Tab farther down.
Anyways, thanks again and keep up the good work!
–
Brian
Hey Bryan
With an extra bit of CSS you can change the position to whatever you like. If it’s not perfect with the option to select “Side tab distance from top of screen” where there is the options from 0 –> 200px, you can also add this CSS to the “Add your own CSS” section
#follow.right {top:300px}or if you want it on the left
#follow.left {top:300px}you can change the number 300px to be whatever PX you like from the top, but do remember that many sub-notebooks have only 600px to play with and if your using FireFox can have quite a few tool bars. Thus it’s better to keep the number as low as possible within the limits of your design.
All the best
Andy
I have added your plugin to my site and like it very much. There is one problem though. Like your post here I have placed share icons at the bottom. Unlike your icons, mine have a black dot above each image.
Looks wanky. I would like to remove them.
Do you have any idea how I can remove them? Is that a configuration issue or a problem with my style sheets?
Any direction will be appreciated.
Hey Ennis,
Try this one…. in the “Add your own CSS”
#contentleft ul.socialwrap li{list-style-type:none;}Little icons under a post does not seem to function with WP 3.0.1 and the standard Twentyten theme. Whatever I do, the won’t show up! The nice sidebar on the right works fine!
What I would like, is to flip the “follow me” text. Now you have to read it from bottom up, but I would like to read it from top down, like on the sidecovers of books…
De kleine icons onder een blogpost verschijnen niet in WP 3.0.1 met het standaard Twentyten thema. De “Volg mij” aan de zijkant doet ‘t prima!
Kan de text “Volg mij” ook omgedraaid worden, zodat je de text van boven naar beneden leest, zoals op de ruggen van boeken?
Hey JM van Elk
I’ve just added a new version of the plugin, 1.21.4 which deals with a css conflict with the twentyten theme.
Let me know if you still have problems after the new release. Or if you want to be working right now, all you need to do is change the Share Links in the admin screen to be “Single CSS images” and not “CSS Sprites”
regards
andy
Yo, the icons show up in the Twentyten theme and WP 3.1 after the update! Thx
Oops: if I select NO at “Show Heading Prefix”, the icons dissapear again… The workaround is to select YES and leave the Heading Text field empty…
WP 3.0.1 Twentyten Theme
Hey JM
Ah! I see what the problem is, and how you can fix it for yourself. Instead of clicking on the word NO click on the radio button for NO. I’ve managed to mis-configure the labels so that clicking on the word NO actually disables sharing entirely.
New release soon with that updated.
regards
Andy
hi there!
would be cool if you could add a function to choose the font family, size and turn the word follow to the other side, like mirrowing it.
Thanks>
Hey Eric,
Can I just check, do you mean at the for the Top/Bottom tab?
Also do you mean that you want to align stuff to the right/left of the screen at will?
Understood on the fonts front.
regards
Andy
Oke, that works fine
But…. If I click the radiobutton for NO on “Show heading prefix”, the radiobutton for “Allow Share Icons to be added to the End of a Post?” jumpes from YES to NO…
So after NO for headers, I have to repush YES for Share Icons. Small bug, but I can live with it
WP 3.0.1 with Twentyten Theme
Should all be ok in this release 1.21.5 for the admin screen. thanks again for letting me know
regards
Andy
I love the plugin, it’s the best sharing plugin I’ve seen so far, but it has a problem that I can’t seem to get around. My site has a Slider with 3 images and some text blurbs on the home page. If I set the plugin to include the “share” icons on my blog page, then the blurbs in the slider also get the share links inside the slider, which looks odd.
In my theme the slider text is setup as a post, so I tried to exclude these using the ID number of the slider posts, but it has no effect. Anyone have any help for me here? If I can get this to work I will be happy to buy you a Dutch beer.
thanks,
Jim
Hey Jim
I’m just in the middle of making a new release. part of that is to fix some popup text issues. Lets see if I can find all your problems and get them fixed at the same time.
regards
andy
Jim,
Gimme a shout if this release 1.21.5 does not fix everything for you
regards
andy
Love the plugin. I would like to see Ustream.TV and the facebook “like” button added. I would also like to be able to add my own custom buttons with just an image and a hyperlink. I have a facebook personal page and a facebook fan page so some way of addressing that would be good. It woud also be great to be able to reorder the icons as I please. Since I am using the sidebar widgets I dont want the main follow and share links to appear on any posts or pages but I do want them both to appear in the RSS feed. Is that possible? Thanks!
Joel
I will add Ustream.tv to the list of follow locations. The facebook like button is in progress at the moment. Custom buttons are a few releases away, as is changing the order of images.
To make things work as you want where they don’t appear on posts or pages, uncheck the boxes for everywhere you don’t want things to be, this is on the admin screen. At present the way it is coded it will not put the buttons only the text of the links on any RSS page, so this is not ready for you yet and I am not sure that it will work this way in future, due to the limitation of RSS, I will need to investigate
regards
andy.
Hey joel
On the way is…
like button and “interactive” share buttons
Ustream.tv
custom buttons.
the RSS will most likely not be possible, as it will just show the link text and no links
To get what you want, uncheck Pages and Posts for both Sharing and Following in the admin screen, then only the widgets will be used.
regards
andy
Hi Andy,
Like many others, I use google analytics to track my wordpress site.
I have added a javascript onclick function to my main RSS url so that is tracked in google analytics. It would be good to have an option to turn this on for all share and follow links. This way, when a user clicks a nofollow link that leaves the page, or subscribes via RSS, this is logged.
Cheers,
Allen.
Hey Allen
It’s in process to be done. In fact I want to take it a lot further than just basic google analytics, but that’s under wraps at the moment.
All the best
Andy
Hey Andy,
That sounds great! I have just hard coded the analytics javascript in the makeFollowLink() function. This works, but it’s not very pretty.
I am using the google analytics for wordpress plugin which doesn’t embed the ga.js for logged in admins. So I’d expect a javascript error if I clicked the link while logged in.
Having a proper implementation that can actually check that analytics is loaded before embedding the onClick functions would be great! Far better than my quick hack
Cheers,
Allen.
Hey Allen
I am looking at this and the placement of the google code as it has recently been moved from the bottom of the document just before </body> to the top of the document just before </head>
regards
Andy
I do not use bit’ly although I do have a bit’ly account I have set up my own url shortener on my own domain using YOURLS which has an API etc etc.
My WP blog uses the YOURLS plugin to shorten links .. can I use that plugin rather than Bit.ly for all shortened links ?
Hey Giles,
this is something that I want to look at in future, but for now we are just limited to Bit.ly as it’s only used in twitter at present
regards
andy
Hi,
I would also appreciate YOURLS. I’m setting up a site for an organization and we would prefer to handle the shortening of URLs on our site. The plugin “WP to Twitter” has that functionality, so it seems to be possible with Twitter.
thanks!
Is there any way to get rid of the small dots next to the follow buttons? They are distracting and don’t even line up properly?
Hey Jena
try adding this to the “Add your own CSS”..
.widget-area ul ul.followwrap {list-style-type:none}regards
andy
Hi Andy, I’ve been having the same problems with the annoying gray dots near the “share” icons. I’ve tried adding the css bit you suggested but it just doesn’t seem to make any difference. how do I get rid of them?
thanks for the amazing plugin anyway!
Hey Angela
try adding this to you “add your own css” section
#content .post .shareinpost li {list-style-type:none !important}regards
andy
Thanks Andy! Such a speedy response
Is there a way to use the email button to contact me via my email in the follow me buttons?
I am doing a new web site for many users. I want the follow plugin can be used with many users, like presets.
Thanks
palê
Hey Paulo,
it’s my plan to move forward with a “network edition” where it support people like yourself, where it allows for administrator pre-sets and also a group sign-up for the CDN I am adding (lots of icon sets at ultra fast speeds). I’m not sure how long it will take me to get there, but you can be sure we are thinking the same thing.
All the best
andy
I use bit.ly pro with a custom domain (hmrl.es), and it would be absolutely great if the plugin would have some way to use hmrl.es links instead of bit.ly links. Would it be possible to implement this in a future release?
I like tweet and like buttons like this: http://s.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons/screenshot-1.jpg?r=302974
Hey Damian,
It’s planned for the next release, we needed to get more icons and a different way of coding worked out first.
so very soon
regards
andy
Your latest update has a bug in the images displayed for the follow buttons. E.g., it shows feedburner when i have selected facebook, etc. Also, the RSS feed now is omitted from the sidebar widget. All this worked perfectly before. What’s up?
Hey Steve,
Can you check your browser cache and make sure you clean it. I think it is because I have kept the same name for the sprites files, and so the browser is keeping the old ones for a while. the cleaning of the cache will make it get the latest
kind regards
andy
Hello,
I would love to see some support for WordPress built-in shortlink feature instead of using Bit.ly.
http://www.tjoonz.com/?p=253 would link just like Bitly does, but I get to keep my brand name.
Hey Mark,
Good idea, I had been considering that for a while, but has chosen not to as most people have long domain names now a days, and that takes up many of the 140characters. I think I should do something though and soon.
thanks again
Andy
Hi Andy,
thanks for your great wordpress plugin share and follow. i think it’s the best for sharing social media with wordpress.
so i did not found Behance at all. Could you implementate a Behance Button to share Behance profiles?
http://www.behance.net
Regards,
chris
Chris,
Will do!.
regards
Andy
Hi Andy,
thanks for your great wordpress plugin share and follow. i think it’s the best for sharing social media with wordpress.
so i did not found Behance at all. Could you implementate a Behance Button for following Behance profiles?
http://www.behance.net
Regards,
chris
Hi, really need a way to hide the interactive share buttons… You can hide the other buttons, but not the facebook “like” and twitter “tweet” buttons.. not good having them on contact page.. this would be great
Hey Jay,
They should be hidden automatically in the same places as the share buttons.
regards
andy
A floating side widget like the follow us but for sharing.
Hey AL
Yeah it’s something I want to do for version 2, made the side tabs (plural) freeform so that you can choose to put both types of actions in the same area (or just one).
regards
Andy
Hi,
I’ve just installed your plug-in and it looks very nice. A minor issue though is that the “exclude these IDs” boxes don’t accept permalinks. This is the same both for follow and share. Am I missing something?
Regards
Brede fladen
Hey Brede,
You have to use the ID’s of the posts or pages as described on the admin screen. You can find these out by putting your mouse over the item you want to exclude in the posts or pages admin area and looking to see what ID number is assigned.
regards
andy
Very thorough and configurable plugin ! One hope for future development: More control over the iframes that contain the interactive share buttons, i.e. width, height and order. To be able to over-ride their layour via css for complete control. Maybe that’s already available. If so, maybe I need a finger to docs? Thanks.
Hey David
Got to be honest here, I don’t like the current set of interactive buttons for a number of different reasons (some you have listed) but did not have the development time to get them the way I wanted before releasing. Basically the issues are things like you mentioned and others like the twitter button uses t.co for shortening and I want it to use either bit.ly or the websites own docuement ID structure. Then there is the look a feel, they are all sightly different so don’t really fit so well together. And of course I want to group the stats from all possible share links into the one button so there is a clear number of shares not a split version.
All the best
andy
I came across your plugin when looking for a “follow me” button that floats on side of website. I would love it if I could separate the follow buttons from the subscribe buttons. What I would like is to be able to have my chosen follow me buttons (like facebook, twitter) on the side and either have 1) a floating subscribe me button (rss, feedburner) under the follow me OR 2) a floating button with follow me on one end, subscribe on other OR 3) widget: be able to customize widget separate from follow button (like put my rss, feedburner subscribe buttons there.
I hope you can figure out what I’m trying to say..lol. Basically it comes down to separating the follow and subscribe buttons.
Thank you for your consideration. : )
- Gabrielle
Hey Gabrielle,
It is totally possible to do some of what you want already. All you need to do is use 2 seperate occurances of the Follow Widget, one where you go to your social networks such as twitter/facebook, and one where you just show RSS or the newsletter button.
When I get round to making version 2 of the plugin there will be tabs available on both sides of the screen, but for now it’s limited to just 1 tab. This at the moment just has a single function.
regards
andy
Hi Andy, thanks for the great plugin. A few tweaks I’d like to see:
1) better control over the floating widget (e.g. how far it is spaced from the left or right when placed on the top or bottom)
2) custom buttons
3) a scribd.com button to follow me there (see http://www.scribd.com/account/edit#badges but you might need an account to get there)
4) I’d love to have the RSS at the end, not in the middle of facebook and twitter.
Thanks!
Derek
Hey Derek
Yep all those things are in plan, but I have to change the admin screens first. The current set is becoming too unwieldy to add more options to it. I’m going for more of a “wizard” approach next.
Thanks for letting me know your wishes, and do keep em coming.
All the best
Andy
Wonderful plugin!
But:
I would like to be able to disable the stylesheet completely. I’m not using any of it’s styles, so I have to overwrite almost all styles in the admin page of “Share-an-follow” That way I have my editor AND an other interface to manage my styles. That’s not very convienient for a developer like me.
Further I think it’s practical to add extra styles to all follow links. Right now you have for example “iconOnly” as a style for every icon. An extra style like “facebook” of “twitter” gives you the possibility to style every link seperately and I can use my own icons without having to overwrite images in the “default” folder.
Hey Erwin
try using the
wp_deregister_style( 'share-and-follow-stylesheet-css' );command. I’ve used the register_style on purpose so that this can happen.
Also if you use “CSS Single Images” you will see that on both sharing and following every
<a>tag has a class named after the actual icon name, and not the LI which is called “iconOnly”.regards
Andy
And one more thing…
Put the different sections of the administration behind tabs. That saves users a lot of scroling and searching for the right area.
“Helpful video’s” are something you may be using one time. Put on top what is most important and mostly used and put all the help in a seperate tab or page.
Erwin
If you look here http://share-and-follow.com/wordpress-plugin/2010/11/december-plans-for-share-and-follow-our-roadmap/ you will see that the whole admin screens will be changed in future. It is already too complex for most users, so I am going to make it more of a wizard type thing.
However I will continue to highlight videos as it is the best thing for 99% of users. You have to understand that most people that install wordpress plugins are infact, females over 45 with little education. Basuically former housewives who are now trying to start up their own thing. They need all the help and instruction that they can get. It is also there to help me highlight the CDN that I’ve invested in and to make people aware of new developments and things.
regards
andy
HI I would like to be able to use the plugin on basic websites too is there any way you could incorporate a version that allows it to be used on non wordpress sites EG you place a code in your standard webpages that calls the script into action to incorporate the share and follow icons.
Hey Jason,
at this time there is not a javascript only version of the plugin, it will be comming soon, but for now you will have to wait before you can apply it to non wordpress sites.
regards
andy