Social Sharing Toolkit
Sharing posts & pages
The plugin currently supports the following networks for sharing:
- Facebook (like and send buttons)
- Google +1
- Tumblr
- StumbleUpon
- Delicious
- Digg
- Myspace
- Hyves
On Tweet buttons you can specify a Twitter handle which is then appended to the tweet a visitor sends (like “… via @WordPress”). An email send button is also included.
You can decide which networks to support on your blog, where the buttons will appear (either above or below the content). Through drag and drop you can easily change the order in which the buttons appear.
For each button you can choose a different type (not all types are available for each button):
- button
- button with counter on the side
- button with counter on top
- small icon
- small icon with text
- medium icon
- medium icon with text
- large icon
You can also choose the orientation of the buttons:
- horizontal (buttons are placed side by side)
- vertical (buttons are placed below each other)
Divider
In version 2.0.4 three dividers were added to each list. These might be useful in ordering the buttons, especially in the case of varying button types used with a horizontal orientation. A divider will split the element containing the buttons in two, allowing for more customization.
Shortcode
It is also possible to only let the buttons appear where you want by using shortcode. The shortcode function has it’s own list of buttons with the same possibilities as the list for posts & pages. Use the shortcode [social_share/] in the content where you would like to display the buttons.
Widget
The widget has it’s own list of buttons with the same possibilities as the list for posts & pages. You can however specify a fixed title and url to use for the buttons in the widget.
Follow Widget
Since version 2.0.0 an extra widget is added with the possibility to provide easy links to your profiles on other social networks.
The networks currently supported for the Follow Widget are:
- Google+
- Tumblr
- Myspace
- Hyves
- YouTube
- Flickr
- Picasa
- DeviantArt
- Last.fm
- Spotify
A button for an RSS feed is also included. Of course the type, order and orientation of the buttons is also configurable for the Follow Widget. Each button for the Follow Widget supports the following types:
- small icon
- small icon with text
- medium icon
- medium icon with text
- large icon
To use a button you must enter your user id or username for the network. To use the RSS feed button you must enter the full url.
Automatic Twitter links
This plugin also includes a configurable & improved version of my earlier Automatic Twitter Links plugin. You can decide if you want to convert Twitter names and/or hashtags to links. Twitter names will link to their Twitter profile and hashtags will link to the Twitter search page.
Upgrading from version 1.3.2 or lower to 2.0.1 or higher?
Be aware you should reset your settings as these will be lost in the update. This is because the plugin uses an entirely new and more versatile system to save settings. Sorry for any inconvenience, this should be a one time thing.
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Nice plugin, but for some reason it adds the title of my post to the top of the text body of the post itself, any idea on how to avoid this?
Thank you for trying my plugin Tessy, the problem you experience is resolved in version 1.0.1 which is available for download now.
Works great now, thanks!
Hi,
I have downloaded your app, and activated it. Now how do I get the buttons to show when I post?
I must be missing something obvious?
Groetjes,
Carty
Hi Carty,
Once you have activated the plugin you can find an extra menu item on the left of the admin panel under “Settings”. This item is called “Social Sharing Toolkit” where you will find the options to configure the buttons. I hope this solves your problem!
Hi Marijn,
I can’t see the icon on pages of my website… works only in the posts?
thanks in advance
Hi Iak,
It should display the buttons on pages too. I’ve sent you an email so you can send me your url to troubleshoot your problem.
probably a silly question, but why isn’t this showing up in my list of available widgets? I wanted to put it in the footer on my page – can I do that instead of on individual posts??
Thanks!
Hi Sue,
The plugin doesn’t include a widget (yet). What you can do is use the shortcode option to decide where (within the content of your page) the buttons will be displayed. To enable this option you will have to go to the configuration page of the plugin which you can find under “Settings” in your WordPress admin.
For the time being, you can add a filter to your theme’s functions.php, though:
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');Then you can add a text widget to the sidebar that contains the shortcode for the plugin.
Thanks for pointing that out Carsten, I’ve just tested the filter and it works like a charm!
The next release of the plugin will include a widget, I can tell it’s a feature that will be appreciated.
Very nice plugin Marijn!
Do you also have a php code which I can use to put the plugin into my embedded Gallery2 album?
@Pieter Vaartjes: In the new version (version 1.2.5) you can use the following php code:
<?php
$MR_Social_Sharing_Toolkit = new MR_Social_Sharing_Toolkit();
echo $MR_Social_Sharing_Toolkit->create_bookmarks();
?>
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The Digg icon is not displaying for me.
@Jenna: Thanks for letting me know, it should be fixed in the new version (version 1.2.5).
@Marijn (#11): Nice
Now what’d be nice, too, is if you could give the widget an optional heading, like WP’s other default widgets. Also, a useful extension might be to include an option to attribute tweets to your twitter account if you have one (so that the tweet text reads “… via @foobar”). So far I’ve simply tweaked the relevant part of your plugin to include the “via” option listed in the Twitter API docs as part of the URL used for configuring the Twitter button’s iframe.
As for the Digg button, it neither appears for me. I’m using the small button with counters version, in case that matters.
@Carsten B.: The Digg buttons should work again in the new version. I have also included the widget title and twitter attribution functions you recommended in version 1.2.5.
Great plugin. I just downloaded and noticed that the <ul> closing tag was included in the “hyves” if statement (line 395). I think the “$bookmarks .= ‘</ul>’;” should be moved outside the if statement to right before the return call.
@Robert: Thank you for noticing this, I fixed this in the new version (version 1.2.5).
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hey!
i really like the plugin. however i have some issues:
- is it possible to see extend “and X others like it” ? I would like to check (lets say even as a administrator of the blog) who are those X others
- i just installed it, however for some posts it already shows likes for others not, why? i’m talking about posts published before i installed the plugin
- from time to time, it breaks a website, i get a long horizontal scrollbar and there is nothing there, just backgroud. i don’t know how to reproduce it. simply refreshing webpage and from time to time i get the vertical scrollbar for unknown reason…
Ah,
my blog is http://farfrombreaking.net if you would like to check the bug I described above
One more thing, probably its Facebook related…why if someone click ‘like’ on the blog it appears on his wall but it’s not shared with others? I can see it if I go directly to someone wall, but not on my Most recent/Top news…
To answer all your comments: it’s all Facebook functionality and/or behavior of which I’m not entirely an expert. I think most answers can be found in Facebook’s Help Center.
Hi,
I really like this plugin! I do have a couple of questions though…
1. I only want the icons to appear on some categories of post, so I’m using the short code. However, the home page on my site automatically uses excerpts from longer posts and the excerpt text becomes “Tweet Share on…” rather than the text from the actual post.
How do I fix this?
2. Feature Request: is it possible to change the Tweet dialog so it is a dynamic popup, not a whole new browser window?
Thanks!
@Marijn: how about the bug with the horizontal scrollback? It’s really annoying
What browser do you use? Maybe it’s a conflict between css classes which causes this strange behavior.
Hi, thanks for this Plugin!! It works great. But I have a problem with the Facebook- Button, I think everyone has this problem. I use wider buttons with counters but the FB- Counter is cutted and you can’t read the number. Is this because of Facebook or because of the plugin?
FYI, this issue has been resolved in version 1.3.0!
I believe your problem is in the css of your blog as I haven’t heard of anyone having the buttons being cut-off. If anyone reads this and does have the same problem, please let me know!
Sorry to be asking again, but I really need help with this question:
1. I only want the icons to appear on some categories of post, so I’m using the short code. However, the home page on my site automatically uses excerpts from longer posts and the excerpt text becomes “Tweet Share on…” rather than the text from the actual post.
How do I fix this?
please help!
Hi Nick,
I’ve sent you a new version with a possible fix, I would appreciate it if you could test it and let me know if it solves your problem.
Love the plugin but I am getting so many HTML errors from it when I run it through the W3C validator…is this something you are aware of?
Hi Chris,
I am aware of this, but it has to do with the implementation of the buttons and the code that is parsed by the social networks themselves. In the next version I can probably solve some warnings but most of it lies outside of the scope of the plugin.
Hi,
I have a similar problem to Nick above in that the word TWEET appears at the end of very short posts where I am using the_excerpt() in loops.
Any help appreciated.
Thank you.
Hi Mark,
With the help of Nick I’m able to recreate the problem and I’m currently working on a solution. This bug has priority and should be solved in the next version.
Awesome plugin, many thanks for this!
Still I got a couple of issues to solve.
First one is the same reported by mobileblog: facebook button a bit cutted on the right side when using the higher buttons with counters layout.
And here’s the second: how can i avoid buttons to show on pages, since i only want them to appear in posts?
Thanks!
Hi Andrea,
The Facebook button issue has been resolved in version 1.3.0. In this version you will also find the option to choose if the buttons should appear on posts, pages or both.
Just for the record, Marijn ROCKS.
Awesome support. Problem solved. Thanks for your help.
And thank you for your help in testing the plugin! It would have otherwise taken much longer to figure out.
Hi, Thank you for your plugin !
When i click on the twitter button for share a post, i got the name of my website instead the name of the post, how can i change that ?
Hi, I believe this is one of the minor issues I fixed in the new version (version 1.3.0). But let me know if the problem persists!
Hi Marijn, your plugin is great but since I updated to 1.3.0 this morning the buttons no longer display. I’ve tried deactivating then reactivating, but nothing.
Great plugin, does all I need. As with David above, after upgrading to 1.3.0 a few minutes ago, the buttons no longer appear. This behaviour only seems to be for when using the shortcode however. When choosing to display top or bottom, it shows. I need to display based on shortcode.
Hi David & H,
This is because of a previous bug with excerpts in several themes, I will include an option to toggle this function on and off. This would be version 1.3.1 and I plan to release the new version this weekend.
Hi Marijn,
I have the same problem like other two users above. Even with version 1.3.1
Hi Joe,
Have you checked the box “Include buttons in excerpts”? This option must be enabled as it is disabled by default.
What code should I use if I want to display this under every post in the loop? Thanks
The following settings on the admin page should do it:
Button location should be “Display below content”
Place buttons on should be “On posts and pages” or “Only on posts”
The checkbox Include buttons in excerpts should be checked
Hi Marijn,
Great plugin! As other users above, I just noticed that upon updating from 1.2.5 to 1.3.1 the buttons no longer appear unless i check the “Include buttons in excerpts” box, even when I display full posts and not excerpts.
Thanks again for making your work available!
“Have you checked the box “Include buttons in excerpts”? This option must be enabled as it is disabled by default.”
Ok, checking the box makes the share buttons to appear again. But the horizontal lines which separate them does not appear in Chrome & IE. This is not very important, but they was good for my blog design.
Thank you.
Hi Marijn,
Thank you for the last update, but i got again the issue when i try to share on twitter, i got the name of my website and not the name of my news.
Hi, version 1.3.2 comes out in a few minutes and solves this issue for Tweet, Tumblr and MySpace buttons.
Marijn,
Thank you very much for sorting out the except issue. Excellent support.
Kind regards,
Mark
Anybody else not getting the tweet count number to display anything other than 0, button works correctly but never increases…. am i being dumb?
Hi Ben,
I can see a tweet count on the Gloria Estefan interview page, so I assume it is all working as it should!
The facebook like button shows who has liked it and that more people have like it, but the other tweet, google+, etc. buttons are placed over the facebook words and it looks very awkward. I am new to wordpress and plugins, so I have been trying to find the right one to add these buttons. I like your plugin except for this overlap feature. Is there a way to stop it from doing this?
Hi Elsah,
You could change the css (stylesheet) used by the plugin, but for now I would advise you to wait for the next version which will fix your problem.
Marijn,
I’m using 1.3.2, I’m trying to figure out if I can have your plugin assign customized text for the twitter posts, so instead of using the title, we can use something else. Or that it detects if the text will be over twitter’s max and just substitute the ending of the title with some other characters (ex. “…”)
thanks
I’m looking into the possibilities, adding a custom title isn’t a big deal so that will probably go into the next version.
I would like to have comments out to the right of the social media buttons. Similar to how this site did it http://www.thefordstory.com/our-articles/trucks/f-150/what%E2%80%99s-new-for-the-2012-ford-harley-davidson-f-150/
I want it to show only comments related to that blog, so I was thinking i would just ad this code to the social plugin, But not sure where to add it.
Hi Michael,
This would be more easily achieved by editing your theme. By using the following code you can display the buttons anywhere in your site:
< ?php
$social_sharing_toolkit = new MR_Social_Sharing_Toolkit();
echo $social_sharing_toolkit->create_bookmarks();
?>
The next version will change a lot, but I’ll try to keep this as a possibility.
I’v got a problem with the facebook Like button. When i push it, i got a facebook meta error. Can someone help me?
Hi Inge,
Are you still experiencing this issue? If so could you supply the url of the page that has the problem, maybe we can figure out what’s going wrong.
nice nice nice!
- Would like to see an “email to friend” icon.
- Would like to see icon sets (although I like the defaults)
- Would like to see a few more customization options.
- Would like to select different icons for the widget and for the posts and pages.
Hi Joey,
I think you are going to like the next version! In my beta I’ve got separate icon lists for the widget and post and pages. The order of both is sortable by dragging, doesn’t get much easier than that!
The email to friend button will be included too and I’m working on the icon sets. Quite possibly I’m also adding an extra widget to display links to your profiles on the different networks.
hi, users get a 404 error when they click on the +1 button, was wondering do we have to configure something somewhere, the other buttons work OK
Hmm, I’ve tried it and it seems to work for me. Perhaps this was a temporary issue on Google’s part?
I found the problem, thanks, the Google account I was using was a Google Apps one, seems the widget doesn’t work with those
In reply to Marijn Rongen in reply to joey
Excellent! Looking forward to checking it out. When do you think it will be ready?
In other feature I would like to see is the ability to “Share on facebook.” I know that I would have two facebook icons in the same row (one for share, one for like), but I would like the flexibility.
I’m not trying to “spam” your comment section but I want to show you a blog I am working on and why I would like more control over icons. The footer widget looks really nice with the tall counters, but as you can see, under each post, the “wider icons with counters” are spaced oddly. Furthermore, if I use “small icons without counters” then the Facebook text is hard to read on my black background.
http://www.gentryfoto.com/2011/blog
Thanks again. This plugin looks really promising!
Not a problem, spam away
. The output of the buttons will be much better in the next version, I will also look into the Share on facebook” button. I hope to have the new version up and running in a few days.
Hi Marijn,
I like your plugin, but I got this littly question.
Social media buttons are placed beside each other, but I would like them below each other. Your FAQ tells me to change the CSS file. But what do I need to change to do that?
Will that change inflict the [social_share/] shortcode?
Gr, Mark
Hi Mark,
If you have the patience to wait for a day or two you will not have to do anything except choose “side by side” or “below each other”, it is one of the new features of the next version.
If you want to change the css you will have to include
clear: both;to the li elements in the stylesheet. It will affect the shortcode as well as the widget.Where does it draw the page title & description from??
ATM, if someone “likes” my page, on their website it says they like “Lithium Hosting – Account Setup” and an associated description… and not my actual site…
Thanks!!
Hi Scott,
Do you still experience the problem? When I tried it on your site I got the correct title and description.
Hello,
This may be very Noobish of me, (Love the way the plugin looks) but it doesnt seem to bee working. I keep getting error messages when I try to like for facebook. Using the lastest 2011 them from wp. Thanks.
Hmm.. It’s something Facebook related, but what it is exactly I do not know. I’ve tried the Facebook debugger but it doesn’t state what the problem is.
Marijn- What are your thoughts on this claim that you should load JS in the footer? Should you do this for a future version of your plugin also?
http://www.searchtechword.com/2011/06/wordpress-plugin-add-twitter-facebook-google-plus-one-share/
Hi Joey,
He has a valid point when it comes to loading times, however minimal the effects. I’ve made a note of this for a future version but I will also need to make sure it can be used in themes which do not support the
wp_footer()function. I will probably add it as an option (checkbox) the user must enable to prevent sudden problems with the plugin for current users.BTW, have you received my mail this weekend with the new version? My mailserver seems to have had some problems over the weekend so I’m not sure everything got sent.
No, I did not get an email from you.
Do you have any idea why the Digg button never shows the first time you load a page but if you refresh the page, it displays? BTW if you could email me about this I would really appreciate it! I would hate to miss your reply.
Love this plugin – thank you so much!
Hi Jenny,
I’m going to look into the issue, at the moment I’m not sure why it happens. (Also sent you an email)
And thank you for using the plugin!
Marijn, I sent you a reply yesterday. I know you were having someone email issues so I thought I would let you know here also.
Thanks.
Thanks, I got the email. Thank you for the feedback!
Hi, Marijn, congratulations about your pictures and
plugins. And all the rest,too.
I’m trying to use this plugin, but all the icons, in horizontal way, are too close to the bottom of the post or page. I can’t find out the value in the plugin about it. Could you help me about ?
Thanks and my best regards.
Hi Mr Dan,
The easiest solution might be to have a few extra newlines on the end of your posts & pages. Otherwise you will need to change the margin in the css of the plugin.
I’m having an odd and annoying issue. Share buttons always appear vertically even when I choose horizontal. I’ve tried changing the button type and moving them from the bottom (where I prefer them) to the top and nothing’s worked. Ideas?
PS. AMAZING Plugin otherwise. It’s lean and has my entire wishlist in one plugin. If I can figure this out I’ll be forced to stop fiddling with my sharing plugins.
Hi Alex,
I’ve contacted you via email to help figure out your problem…
When sharing via a tweet or tumblr, the title has some extra characters added on – is that from the plugin or something about my configuration? For example, my latest post shows the following when tweeted:
Acid Trip Lizards Says…
Where’s the #8230; coming from?
All in all, great plugin. I think it’ll round out the last of what I was looking for. Thanks!
Ohhhhh. I see – it looks like it’s the character code for whatever punctuation I’ve used. Is that supposed to happen?
Hi Kris,
It is supposed to happen, but I agree it is undesirable so I fixed this in the new version!
Thanks for the big update, but now it doesn’t work anymore
Sorry, it was disabled, but when I activate it it didn’t look good, like google+ button on the right and the rest on the left.
How can I fix it?
Hello,
For some reason there is a large space after the Facebook Like button which pushes the other buttons away.
Example: http://www.pokemonaus.com/?p=4010
Thanks otherwise, love your plugin.
@Alex & @Azza:
The problem with the facebook like button taking up too much space is fixed in the new version (2.0.2).
Hi , I have this issue when i click facebook like or +1 for google. in the sidebar widget.
“Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/xxxxxx/xxxxxl/xxxxxx/xxxxxx”
I see that warning on the top of your site, it seems to be an issue in the Quick Chat plugin. For help on that you can go to their support page.
Great plugin.
When I updated it this morning, it caused a conflict with my Facebook Fanbox. They were both working fine before the update.
Any clues?
Thanks.
Hi Tim,
Sorry to hear it’s causing a conflict with the Fanbox. I’m looking into it but I’m not quite sure what is causing the problem yet.
Hey Marijn…
First of all lovely plugin! I’m gonna go n rate it for sure…
Although, there seems to be some sorta an issue with the “Share via Email”, it doesn’t quite work. It would be great if you can help me out with this, if you’d like you can also take a look at it on my blog – http://www.falcon-blog.prestigeconstructions.com.
Cheers!
@Prestige Group- I checked your site and the share via email worked fine for me. It launches your email client so it might not work if you use webmail.
It worked for me too, we’ve discovered this can be an issue in Firefox 6.0
I am having the same issue as Alex Cranz.
“I’m having an odd and annoying issue. Share buttons always appear vertically even when I choose horizontal. I’ve tried changing the button type and moving them from the bottom (where I prefer them) to the top and nothing’s worked. Ideas?”
Great plugin!
Thanks Wes!
I’ve located the problem, the next update will (hopefully) fix this. It is a problem with line breaks in the plugin output.
Hello, after the latest update there are no more buttons in my posts pages. I am using the twenty eleven theme.
Not sure if it is a FB thing but is there any way to change the picture that shows up when someone clicks “Like” from the FB button?
Hi Cher,
All the looks and behavior of the Facebook buttons are handled by Facebook, so it is indeed a Facebook thing. Most of the other buttons and icons can be easily changed by replacing the .png images in the plugin folder.
hi, it’s possible to set follow widget on the header ? Thanks
Hi Geraldo,
This can be done in two ways:
1) If you’re theme supports widgets in the header you can simply put it there (but this is obviously not the case for you)
2) You can add the following code in the header of your theme where you want the widget to appear:
< ?php
$social_sharing_toolkit = new MR_Social_Sharing_Toolkit();
echo $social_sharing_toolkit->create_followers();
?>
You may need to use some html and css for positioning and width of the plugin.
Very good your plugin.
Unfortunately, I can not use it for two reasons.
- The buttons appear misaligned in the post. It is a css problem of my theme, that shows differently, buttons and iframe. As I do not know css, step!
- Are in English. I need in Portuguese. Type: “Like” = “Gostei”. A POT file could solve. It is a suggestion.
Thank you.
Lauro Faria
http://www.bdibbs.com.br
Hi Lauro,
Multilingual support is something I am working on for the next update. If you like, I would appreciate it if you could do a translation in Portuguese. I will also look into the alignment differences between the buttons and the iframes.
Hi,
For some reason the Linkedin follow button does not work correctly.
It links to: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ while the profile is in /pub on linedin.
Regards
Peter
Hi Peter,
You can use the following steps to create a shorter, more user-friendly url:
1. When signed in to LinkedIn, Go to Edit Profile
2. Click on Edit link, next to your default Public Profile URL (Under Profile tab)
3. Under “Your Public profile URL” on the right click “Customize your public profile url”
4. Type your desired URL in the popup box and you should be done!
I hope this helps.
hello marijn.. why I can’t appear sourcecode “[social_share/]” in my contet?
Hi Morp,
At the moment it is not possible to use shortcode and automatic placement of the buttons. It might be possible for the next version to have a separate button list for shortcode use, with the shortcode functions being available at all times.
Thanks for the work you have done on this plugin! I just updated to the latest version today, and I notice that whenever the Facebook “like” is clicked, it uses the Delicious.png button icon from “wp-content/plugins/social-sharing-toolkit/images/buttons” as the thumbnail for the note that is created on FB. Before updating, I’m pretty sure it used to show my main blog image. I made sure that I have all of the meta tags set as described in http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/. Any ideas?
Great plug in. Been looking for this for quite a while. Got in my site now, but can’t configure my LinkedIn id in the follow widget. Unfortunately, I have a name that I share with at least 5 people in Linked in. When I put in as ID my name in LinkedIn, it connects to somebody else’s account with the same name. How can I get around this? In other follow widgets, the URL to the account is used.
Many thanks for this great widget and hope you can help me in sorting this out.
Hi Michael,
You can use the same steps like Peter to create the short url for your profile. This would in your case be your name and a number, or perhaps your initials and lastname (as long as it’s different from the other Michaels):
1. When signed in to LinkedIn, Go to Edit Profile
2. Click on Edit link, next to your default Public Profile URL (Under Profile tab)
3. Under “Your Public profile URL” on the right click “Customize your public profile url”
4. Type your desired URL in the popup box and you should be done!
As an update: using http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug, I found that facebook was seeing ‘”All images” extracted from all nodes’, and I assume just taking one at random (not sure). That’s why I was getting the delicious.png or other random image in the ‘like’ links. If I just put a link rel=”image_src” in my header, then the default blog image is used for the FB like and Share images. This is not really what I wanted, though, as I have images in most posts and would like it to pick one of those. To complicate things, I also use NextGen Gallery, so the “featured image” function doesn’t work (see this link for a description of why: http://blog.area256.com/?p=431).
Basically, in the end, to get a specific image to be used by FB when “like” or “share” is clicked, we need to have defined. I am still working to figure out exactly what I am going to use to accomplish this, but at least I know that the image can be changed, and how to change it now.
Note: Facebook caches these images, so even after adding the “og:image” property, I was still seeing the old image (i.e. delicious.png/etc.). I found that this can be “reset” by going to http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug and entering the url of each of the posts that had the cached image(s).
Just for reference, here are some of the plugins/workarounds I am looking at:
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/opengraph/
- https://github.com/mfields/mfields-opengraph-meta-tags/
- http://wordpress.mfields.org/2010/add-a-facebook-like-button-to-your-wordpress-site/
- http://blog.area256.com/?p=431 (Open Graph (Facebook Share) and NextGEN Gallery)
Hi Jason,
I’m currently working on several improvements of the plugin, I will add this image conundrum to the list. If you come across a good solution for your case I would appreciate it if you let me know so I may, if possible, implement it as a standard feature.
I ended up using your competitor, but I can reconsider …
I’m terrible translator (Use Google Translator, remember?)
Few items in relation to language. Like => “Gostei” or “Curtir” and messages on Facebook. I could not find the phrases within your plugin. So POT may not help.
Note: The Portuguese used in Brazil (my case) tolerate very technical terms in English. So little has changed.
The alignment of the buttons, it has more to do with my theme. But the other plugin solved this better. And it’s not perfect, +1 Google has disappeared in IE7 (on your competitor).
In your plugin, the problem was really the difference between iframe and buttons. My template that causes it.
Thanks for the feedback.
Hi Lauro,
In the next version a .pot file is included, so you can create your own translation if needed. I’m also working on fixing the alignment of the buttons for the next release.
I got a strange error: it does not show me Google plus button €(obviously I asked for it in setting page).
Any idea?
Luca
Hi Luca,
I just looked at your site, and for me the button is showing. If you are still experiencing the problem could you tell me on which page it occurs and what browser (including version) you are using?
Just installed it but already love the plug-in.
Curious if there’s a way to get medium icons up in my the navigation bar (next to the RSS feed) instead of a widget in my sidebar?
Sorry if this is noob question and thanks for the great plugin.
Forgot there is a splash page up there now… thx
You can get the buttons up there, but you will need to edit your theme. In your theme, most probably in the file header.php, you can place the following code where you want the buttons to appear:
< ?php
$social_sharing_toolkit = new MR_Social_Sharing_Toolkit();
echo $social_sharing_toolkit->create_followers();
?>
You may need to edit the stylesheet for correct positioning of the buttons.
Hi Marijn Rongen and thanks for your prompt reply!
I used Firefox 6 and, for example, here I cannot see it:
http://www.convivendo.net/2011/02/piccole-idiosincrasie-di-coppia/
Can you?
Luca
Hi Luca,
I just checked on Firefox 6 and I can see it on that page. This was on a Mac so I will check on a Windows PC to make sure. Have you changed anything since your reply? Perhaps there was a conflict with another plugin.
marijn,
Like your plug-in especially for the Hyves option.
I have a question about the Facebook button.
When I pushed it the first time I got a window in which I could change the excerpt which is shown in Facebook. But I can’t find it again.
Menko
Hi Menko,
This is Facebook functionality. I think it only happens the first time you like a certain page.
Hi there,
I LOVE your social sharing toolkit, but there’s a problem that’s driving me crazy because its stopping me from using this awesome plugin!
When in horizontal view, the sharing buttons are all out of line with each other. The ones that I have set to ‘icon’ are fine and perfectly in line, but the ones that i have set to button or button with counter are out of line with each other, making the horizontal view really messy.
I switched to vertical view and they were fine. I thought it might be my theme, so I activated the default wordpress theme, but the buttons were still all out of line with each other when in horizontal view.
Is there anything you can suggest that would fix this little problem?
Thanks for your help!
Christian
Hi Christian,
This is a known issue, I’m working on it. It’s one of the priority fixes for the next update which should be released later this week.
Ah fantastic! Thanks Marijn. That’s great news. Is there a way I can find out when the next update is available so I install it when its out? Do I just check this website?
You’re welcome! When the next update is released in the WordPress Plugin Directory the option to update should also appear automatically in the plugins section of your WordPress admin.
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Hi Marijn,
The field that appears after clicking the facebook button is not complete. It stays within the size of the widget field instead of on top and over it. Do you know what I mean? Otherwise just try it on my site http://www.solyourihm.com, I leave it there for you to see.
Do you know what to do?
Thanks in advance. Youri
EDIT: This is only the case if you’re already logged into facebook.
Thanks a lot. Youri
Hi Youri,
This happens because one or more of the elements surrounding the widget have `visibility: hidden;` in the css. Sadly Facebook has no popup option for this button, which would be a better solution design-wise.
Hi Marijn,
Great plugin! I have tried a few and this one was the easiest to handle with a lot of options! I have build this website for a friend and she asked me if it is possible to remove the counter from the social media buttons (facebook).
When I choose the option of button instead of button + counter I see who liked the page (and that is even worse) Is there a possibility I only show the button without a counter and without showing who liked the page?
Thanks in advance
Hi Michael,
I have added this option in the next version. If you choose “button” it will sneakily hide the text, to show the text there is a new option called “button + text”.
Hello,
Thanks for the best social media pluggin!
I am only using the plugin as a widget in the sidebar, and have a couple issues.
As you can see from my site, I have added custom images for the buttons, however I would also really love to do this for facebook also. Just a plain button for like and share.
Also, for some reason the share button, the linkedin button, and the google+1 buttons aren’t showing up at all. In the button folder of images section of the plugin I couldn’t find images for some of them, so added my own, but they still didn’t appear.
Thanks again.
Hi Aja,
Sadly the Facebook and Google+ share buttons do not support the use of custom images at this time. I’ve notices the problem with your buttons not being displayed, it has to do with your theme not being compatible with the option to load the JavaScript in the footer. If you disable this option the buttons should work.
I was attempting to get the LinkedIn follow function to work with a company but was having difficulty. I traced the issue to the php script where you’ve hard coded the linkedin url.
I edited the function as follows and it worked for a companyID.
function get_follow_linked($type, $id) {
$url = ‘http://www.linkedin.com/companies/'.$id;
$title = ‘Connect to me on LinkedIn’;
$text = ‘LinkedIn’;
$icon = ‘linkedin’;
return $this->get_icon($type, $url, $title, $text, $icon);
}
You may want to update the plugin to allow the user to select a company or an individual.
Great plugin!
Cheers,
Don…
Hi Don,
I’ve added the extra company LinkedIn button to the next version.
I am having trouble getting the follow widgets to load correctly. The facebook button now only goes to facebook’s homepage where you log in or sign up (I don’t know what id to put in nothing I’ve tried works). The linkedin button won’t connect at all. I tried putting in my public url and it opened a page saying the page does not exist. I left it blank, and it says the same thing. Please help!
Could you try again? Perhaps I can troubleshoot by looking at the links on your site.
Great plugin! Thanks! I have one minor problem. Rather ironic. The Google+ button does not show up at all on Google Chrome on a mac.
Hi Bob,
Hmm, this might be some conflict with another plugin? I’m using Chrome on Mac almost exclusively and have not come across this problem.
Hey Marijn,
great plugin!
but how can i change the language of the +1 button? i need the button text in german.
thx
bye
marv
Hi Marv,
Thanks! This is possible in the next version which supports translations. A .pot file is included to help make your own translations, and language setting for the Facebook and Google+ buttons.
Hi Marijn,
I’ve just installed your nice plugin. How can I change the tooltip text of the buttons in the upper right corner ? For example, the Facebook button pop up text is “Friend me on Facebook”. I would like to change it to “Follow us on Facebook” and the Twitter to “Twitter follow”.
Is that possible ?
Cheers,
Sylvain
Hi Silvain,
This will be possible in the next version by making a custom translation. For this purpose a .pot file is included.
Thx for your prompt answer. When will you rls the new version?
As I type I’m re-checking some things, updating screenshots and editing the read me file. Unless something intervenes I will release the update within a few hours.
Great news.
I´m very excited about it. So good luck.
And sorry for my bad english. =D
bye
Marv
Your English isn’t a problem
The update is currently being uploaded to the WordPress servers so you should be able to update soon!
Ok. I´ve updated the plugin and there are the *.pot file and the google.plus.script but where from did the script get the “lang” parameters? i´ve changed it in the *.pot file from us_en to de but nothing happend? What is wrong? I can’t understand it at the moment.
Hope you can help me with it…
Thx
Marv
Sorry it was my fault. Its the first time i had to work with *.pot files.
I used “Poedit” to create the *.po and *.mo files and the Buttons and their descriptions are now displayed in the right language.
Thx a lot!
Bye Marv
OK, good to hear you figured it out!
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Thanks for the plugin update! I was hoping for some formatting options this time but no.
I cannot get the +1 button to format no matter what I do. I don’t see any styling for it in the plugin files but the source code has inline CSS. Where can I edit this?
If you could somehow CC me on the reply or email me, I would greatly appreciate it. I love your plugin!!
Hi Jenny,
I’m sorry to say both the Facebook and Google+ buttons do not make this kind of editing possible at the moment. It may be possible but would need a lot of JavaScript and CSS editing.
My secure/non-secure content warning is back in IE9. I’m sure this is a GPO which I cannot control. I had to change the two connect.facebook.net references to HTTPS.
wp_enqueue_script(‘FacebookSend’, ‘https://connect.facebook.net…...
OK, I will re-change that fot the next update. Thanks for pointing it out Joey!
May I translate your plugin to brazilian portuguese?
Only tell me what to do… I am an english teacher hee in Brazil.
Thanks!!
Hi Arnon,
You may! I will send you an email with the file you need and further instructions.
Hi Marijn,
I’m using v2.0.4 of the plugin and i’m having an issue with the word TWEET appearing on excerpts when i activate the plugin.
I use excerpts on the site homepage. The settings have “includes buttons in excerpts” checked, show on “Posts & Pages” and “Display above and below content”
Reading the comments here it looks like this was an issue with an early version of the plugin. I’m on v3.0.1 of WordPress – could this be the cause of the issue for me?
cheers
Dave
Hi Dave,
If the word TWEET appears in the excerpts your theme does not support the buttons in excerpts. This may be because the theme uses a custom function to create the excerpts. Unchecking `include buttons in excerpts` will prevent this strange behavior but this does mean the buttons will not be displayed in the excerpts.
Is there an option to pre populate the Tweet and Facebook share. I’m working on an event and want to make it easy for visitors promote it from my site.
Thank you!
Hi Erick,
If you mean starting with a number higher than 0 the answer is no. You could tweet the page yourself a few times (and perhaps ask for retweets) but for the Facebook like count only changes when people with their own separate Facebook accounts click on it.
Thanks for your prompt reply. Sorry my question was not clear. I would like a plug in that allows me to add a shortcode for both Twitter and Facebook. When the user clicks on the resulting button (shortcode) for Twitter for ex. they will be taken to the twitter log in screen. Once logged the to their account their new tweet will have a message that I have written for them. The same would work for Facebook shares. Can this be done within your plugin? Thank You!
Sorry, I did not see your Tweet Page Social Widget. Very cool!
Thanks, I’m glad you find it useful!
Hi, I like your plugin because it allows me to add buttons on the sidebar.
I have been searching for a plugin that allows “Facebook Share” with at least Twitter, Google, and FB like in the sidebar. I couldn’t find any so I have decided to come back to you and see if you could add this as an option.
I would really like the “Facebook Share” button. This is the button I mean.
Share
or
Share
I found these 2 buttons while googling for “Facebook Share”.
Do you think there’s a chance this button would get into your plugin?
Sorry, the 2 buttons didn’t come out as expected in the comment post. I’ll just let you have the link so you can view these codes instead.
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/official-facebook-share-count-button-for-your-wordpress/
Hi Jeremy,
Facebook has basically retired the Share buttons and replaced them with the Like buttons, the Like buttons now have the same as the Share button. Because of this I’m currently not planning to include the Share button.
I am using the short code version of this plugin. The Twitter button only seems to work as a stand alone button; if I try to use the button with a counter, the only thing that displays is a plain text “Tweet” w/no button and no count box.
Do you have an example page where this problem happens?
Hi Marijn,
Thanks for your earlier reply RE: Word TWEET appearing in the excerpt.
The theme i’m using is a custom theme modified on the default WP Theme “TwentyTen” theme. I did a test and the word TWEET appears in this theme if the excerpt is used on the Frontpage.
Does the plugin have an issue with the default theme?
Can you suggest how i can get the excerpt in the default “twentyten” to accept the buttons when used on the frontpage?
cheers
Dave
Hi Dave,
I have tested the plugin with both the old twentyten and the new twentyeleven default themes and I have noticed no problems with it. Do you have an url where I can see the problem?
Marijn, your e-mail arrived like a spam and I think I deleted it.
Can you send me again?
(About the brazilian portuguese translation)
Thanks
Hi Arnon,
I’ve resent the email.
Hi Marijn,
Quote “Facebook has basically retired the Share buttons and replaced them with the Like buttons, the Like buttons now have the same as the Share button. Because of this I’m currently not planning to include the Share button.”
Hmmm, but the “Like” button does not accomplish what a “Share” button does. The “Share” button allows the user to share the post on his or her wall. Whereas a “Like” is only a thumbs up. I think the “Share” drives more traffic than a “Like”.
It does post it to your wall if you “like” something. This may depend on settings, I’m not sure. But it is true this was not the case when the Like button was first introduced.
Marijn, alright that’s a shame, maybe in the future. For the rest of your plugin: Awesome!
Cheers buddy.
Hi, great pluggin.
Is it possible to change the spacing between the buttons?
Especially the google button (with counter on the right) ads a lot of white space between the buttons.
And it seems that the spacing looks a little bit un-regular overall.
Keep up the good work!
And an additional notice: the google+ button doesn’t appar on my mobile device (iphone ipod)
Hi Matthijs,
You may be able to change the margins with css, but in the case of some of the counter buttons some space gets “reserved”. I decided to have a flexible width for these elements to prevent any content getting hidden or cut-off. I’ve looked into the Google+ issue (noticed it myself after you pointed this out) and have found that the Google+ button currently does not support mobile devices, which is odd to say the least. I will keep an eye on this.
Portuguese translation is working…
Take a look: http://www.modgame.com.br/2011/08/sonic-cd-sera-lancado-no-fim-do-ano
The like button of Facebook in Portuguese stays cut…
Hi Arnon,
This needs some tweaking of width values in the translation. If you wish you can email the translation to me I can take care of this quite quickly.
Alright. I’ll check and see if “Like” appears on my wall. Thanks for clarifying. Great plugin.
Hi how can you set particular posts not to show the buttons when ticked for all? I have one big feature post on the front of my site and it looks a little silly Thanks
Sorry I should of provided an example:
http://nbasetalk.com/
So the main feature articles like ‘the clinic’ is there code i could apply to not have the buttons come up just for the feature articles?
So, I have checked out the “Like button”. If you can see my Facebook Wall, the posts are not displaying the content. Instead, it’s displaying “meta description” and “instructions”?
Here’s my wall.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002863368055&sk=wall
The first two “Likes” display “My journey to achieving a million dollar stockfolio” instead of the content of the post. This used to be the old meta description on my theme (theme diary). But I have since changed it to “Lets change this meta description and see.” but it has no impact on the new “Likes”. Still displays the old description.
Then I uninstalled the theme, and used theme TwentyEleven. The latest “Like” displays “You may use these HTML tags and attributes” which is the Comment instructions in the uninstalled theme Diary. It’s weird that it is pulling up a phrase from an old theme instead of the new theme.
So now, I have reinstalled theme Diary.
I have a feeling the reason the “Likes” are not displaying the content is because of the theme. Maybe I need to edit the database MySQL?
My site uses the Headway theme. I installed the plugin and it worked great. I then rebuilt the home and second pages, at which point the share buttons disappeared. I uninstalled and then reinstalled the plugin, but the problem persists. Help!
Just to be clear: It’s the 2 revised pages that won’t show the buttons. The other pages still do.
I think the best option for you would be to use the Share widget part of the plugin and position this below the content of your website. This way it will appear on all pages regardless of the type of page.
Hi Marijn, nevermind about questions in my previous post. I have switched to a new theme and see what will happen when I “Like” later. Sorry for the confusion.
No problem, I believe there are quite a few plugins available which will allow you to use the Open Graph protocol on a per-page basis. The like button should use this information when a page is liked, I’m currently testing some options myself. If I see a possibility to enhance the way the plugin interacts with the Open Graph protocol, I will!
Very nice plugin. Can you add this Sites:
http://www.xing.com/
http://500px.com/
Hi Uwe,
I think I can add those to the list of the Follow widget.
Is there a way to move the Posts & pages buttons to the right instead of the left?
It should be possible with css, it is a good option to have so I will try to implement this as an option for each list in the next version.
Hi Marjin,
very nice Plugin, easy & good joy of use
Is there a way to EXCLUDE certain pages ?
On my featured slider, which uses pages, i don’t want to see the social buttons. That’s why it would be great to define page IDs where the social buttons will disappear.
Am i dreaming ?
/MCm
Hmm, I think the best way to do this is to choose the option to not display the buttons on pages and use shortcodes (which still work on regardless of the display option chosen) on the pages where you want the buttons.
Hi Marijn,
Just installed and having issues seeing the counter for facebook likes. Other’s are showing ’0′ fine. Is this because there are zero likes?
here is a reference link.
http://verticalsearchmedia.com/2011/08/new-site-coming-soon/
thanks for any assistance.
This seems to happen to all “Box count” Facebook Like buttons, even on the button preview on the Facebook page about the Like button. It’s a reported bug: see the bug report here. We’ll have to wait until it gets fixed by Facebook.
Hey Marijn, I have a problem on my site. The facebook share counter has passed a 100 likes and now the counter doesn’t show up anymore, only the like button is still there.
Hi Julian,
This is a Facebook bug, see the reply to Vertical for more info.
It seems it has been solved now.
Hey Marijn,
I was the only one not to get a reply. Any chance you can help?
Thanks again
Hi Matt,
Excuse me for the late reply, it must have slipped through the cracks. At the moment it is not possible to exclude a single page.
I will look into the possibilities of such a feature for a future version but at the time the only way to achieve the same effect is to use the shortcode method on all pages except the ones you need to exclude.
I have the same problem!
“I am using the short code version of this plugin. The Twitter button only seems to work as a stand alone button; if I try to use the button with a counter, the only thing that displays is a plain text “Tweet” w/no button and no count box.”
Hi Bruno,
On which page(s) do you experience the problem?
Thumbs up on the thumbs up! They are displaying perfectly now on chrome, nice and crisp.
I double checked on firefox and the g+ seems to have the counter right-aligned vs. top-aligned (what I have selected as option). Any advice on how to solve?
you can reference http://verticalsearchmedia.com/news
Thank You!
This is great, which the email worked differently, many don’t use outlook! Thanks very much for a great plugin!
How can I get a blank line above the line of buttons? This way there is a bit of cushion between my content and this footer of icons?
Hi Carl,
The easiest way to do this now is to add an extra newline under your content. I’m planning to add a padding setting so you can add this buffer space in the plugin itself.
The follow button for ‘linked in’ personal adds /in/ before my profile chain which prevents the link from working. Is there a way of stopping this?
Hi Steven,
I’ve copied this from the FAQ which may be of help to you:
“You may need to setup you custom public profile url. To do so, use the following steps:
1. When signed in to LinkedIn, Go to Edit Profile
2. Click on Edit link, next to your default Public Profile URL (Under Profile tab)
3. Under “Your Public profile URL” on the right click “Customize your public profile url”
4. Type your desired URL in the popup box and you should be done!”
Scratch that.. I sorted it by changing my linkedIn Id… Great app.
Thanks
thanks for the app.. super stuff.
follow widget: i have inserted the ids etc yet it is not showing on the website.
general settings are set to display before content, enable shortcode and include buttons in excerpts is not checked. post and pages tab has the social media links checked and the corresponding follow me links to. share widget tab is blank.
on the website, when the buttons are clicked, the follow through is to SHARE not FOLLOW.
please assist.
thanks,
Silly question: have you enabled the widget in the widget admin screen?
Hey – This is the greatest social plug-in widget I’ve found. Does exactly what I want.
There’s a little bug, and maybe it’s my WP theme. Not sure. I’m using the Widget and the Facebook Send box appears behind other items in sidebar, such as “links” or an embedded Vimeo player. I have a screen shot, if you’d like to see?
Also would be great to see some alignment options such as space/padding/margin between buttons, os simply to align in the sidebar.
But I like the send button as this is a great tool, but just not working for me. thanks
Hi,
I know the problem with the send box, it’s a conflict with other elements in the site, something I cannot control from within the plugin. More alignment issues will be available in the next version.
Hello Marijn, I Hope you’re doing well !
I was trying to use your great plugin on my site but I’ve got some problems with the “echo $social_sharing_toolkit->create_bookmarks(‘{YOUR URL}’, ‘{YOUR TITLE}’);” code.
In fact, I would like the buttons to use the Function References “the_title” and “the_permalink” to let users share posts directly from the index page (here have a look http://goo.gl/xxJ4m)
Can you help?
Hi Marc,
I’m doing well, thank you! There is an easy solution for this. Simply use “echo $social_sharing_toolkit->create_bookmarks();” and it should use the current title and permalink as default.
Hi
I was hoping if you could add a feature to this amazing Addon, like some of the like buttons go to the buttom and some to the top.
Have you seen sexybookmarks? that one misses this feature, so if you perhaps add this feature you might get as popular. hope it works out.
Hi Marvin,
You actually have a good idea here, I’m not sure if I can put this in the next version but I will definitely put this on the todo list!
feature request.
Marijn, How difficult would it be to implement a console to see who “liked” my pages?
Oh I really don’t know. I’m not even sure if it is possible but I will look into it.
Marijn, Here’s an interesting one for you. Head over to my test blog (http://www.gentryfoto.com/2012/blog) and “like” one of the posts on facebook. Go to your facebook page and examine the entry on your profile page. For me, it displayed the twitter logo and some random test from hidden element.
What is going on here?
Hi Joey,
This can be fixed if you use OpenGraph tags on your web site. See the Facebook page here on this subject for more information. There are some plugins available for WordPress to add these semi-automatically.
I love this plugin and will donate very soon (I did rate it on WP). I do have 2 concerns:
1) I cannot get it to work on the excerpts, but you warned me about that up front, that is might be a theme issue. The theme is Weaver.
2) I’d like to create some space between the bottom of the horizontal plugin and the top of the post content area. I cannot see how to do that.
Hi John,
The excerpt issue is tied in with certain custom excerpt functions, I will try to address these issues in a later version.
The margin between the buttons and content will be configurable in the coming version. Joey’s method will also work for now, but only until the next update.
John-
Not sure if this is Marijn’s recommended method, but you can easily edit the social-sharing-toolkit\style.css file as follows:
In the “div.mr_social_sharing_wrapper” section, replace:
padding: 0 !important;
with:
padding: 0px 0px 50px 0px;
This will work, but your change will be lost when the plugin is updated.
Hi. [re: social sharing toolkit] It looks like the Facebook ‘Like’ follow button I placed onto my site is working – people have been ‘liking’ my site. But how do I make it work so that the ‘like’ button links to my business’ facebook page? In order words, I want people to ‘like’ my facebook page, and not necessarily my site. Can you help? Thank you.
Hi Phil,
This can be done if you use the Share widget part of the plugin, and use the url of your Facebook page as the fixed url for the widget.
Hi Marijn, I like your app but we may be unable to use it because it doesn’t seem to be pulling a thumbnail image attached to the article over to Facebook. Any beta?
Hi Brad,
This should also be possible to fix using OpenGraph tags on your web site.
The OpenGraph tag for images looks like:
<meta property=”og:image” content=”http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg”/>
See the Facebook page here on this subject for more information and you can look in the WordPress plugin directory here to search for a suitable plugin to use OpenGraph tags in your WordPress website.
Very nice, versatile plugin that is easy to set up and use. I would love to see the ability to add different sites/social icons in future versions. I use Etsy and Ravelry a lot, but I know they are still “niche” social networks that not as many people use. The ability to add your own icons and links for sites, rather than having them pre-packaged, would be great.
Hi Anna,
Thanks! This would be nice to have, but to have this and keep the plugin user-friendly enough for most people it would require the buttons to follow some standard. At the time there are still too much differences between them.
Marijn,
Thanks for your note regarding the send box and compatibility with my site. So I guess I need to address this with the theme developer or through other CSS/HTML design elements?
Regarding alignment options, sounds great! I’ll keep a look and meanwhile where do I donate for your excellent work!?
smiles,
MMD
Hi MMD,
It indeed needs some support from the theme, depending on the theme this may be an easy css fix, but it can also be quite challenging. (Tip; the “overflow” property of elements might be causing the problem).
A donation would be greatly appreciated! There are some links in the plugin itself, and on this page I believe. Clicking here to donate should also work (please tell me if it doesn’t).
Thanks for your response (“use the Share widget part of the plugin, and use the url of your Facebook page as the fixed url for the widget”). I made the change as you suggested, testing it now. Also, what does the fixed title part of the share widget do? Thanks.
Hi Phil,
The fixed title will use the text you enter as the title of the shared page.
This is a very good plugin, but I have a problem. Facebook like button was appearing adjacent Twitter button at bottom of posts, but is now gone. I have tried many changes to configuration and using shortcode, but while Twitter and LinkedIn buttons appear, no Facebook buttons. Your advice would be very welcome.
Hi Ben,
I see the button appears on your site. I’ve noticed the Facebook buttons have been offline web-wide a few times in the last weeks, probably related with updates on Facebook’s end.
i have a problem when i click the ‘like’ button for facebook. it shows up on my wall but the thumbnail it uses is rarely the right one and often an image of a random number (1-9). any help?
Hi Adam,
For your issue I’ll partly repeat my earlier reply to Brad:
You can fix this by using OpenGraph tags on your web site.
The OpenGraph tag for images looks like:
<meta property=”og:image” content=”http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg”/>
See the Facebook page here on this subject for more information and you can look in the WordPress plugin directory here to search for a suitable plugin to use OpenGraph tags in your WordPress website.
Looks lovely but am I right in thinking that you can’t amend the css via the plugin interface?
It would be a lovely addition to have this flexibility since everyone is scared that your updates will override their changes. I am thinking of the same sort of thing that you get on the FS Contact Form plugin.
Also, in the meantime it would be nice to remove some of the “!important” instructions you have in the css since this just makes it even harder to play with the style. Are these really necessary?
Hi Tony,
Thank you for your suggestions. I will look into simplifying editing of the css in a future version.
In case of a “Read more” post the social-sharing-bar is positioned between the article and the “Read more” button.
How can this unwanted break up of article and read-more be changed so the social-sharing-bar is always behind the article including read-more button?
Hi Wout,
Do you have an example of a page where this happens? I can’t recreate the problem on my own templates.
It would be great if you could update the Facebook Like button so that when you click it – you like the page – and then it pops up (similar to the Google +1 button) asking if you would like to post this on your wall.
Hi Simon,
As far as I know this is currently not possible. It seems to be you always need to remove the post on you wall yourself.
Hi Marjin,
Great work! However, for some reason I am unable to select any small size icons on the posts and pages config page. I don’t even see any sizes listed, just “button” with choices of where to put the text.
I’m missing something really obvious, aren’t I?
Regards,
jim
Hi Jim,
If everything is working correctly you should be able to choose a button style for each button in the list. It is the drop-down menu to the right of each button.
Hi Marijn,
This looks really useful, but I’m having a problem! I’m hoping this is a daft one on my part. I’m seeing the sharing icons on my pages, and when I preview a post… The issue I’m having is that when I publish the post which looked great in the preview, the sharing icons are no longer appearing! I’m just using the default theme, so I can’t see why the issue would be there!
Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Colin
Sorry Marijn, I’ve got it now!! It shows them on the individual page for the post, just not on the collected view
Please ignore that last plea for help!! C
Hi Colin,
It’s ok, good to read that there was no real problem!
Hi there Marijn,
Thanks a lot for all your work with this plugin – wonderful. I wonder if I can shift the icons to the top right of each page? I tried to locate where in the css-files, but failed.
best wishes Viryabodhi
(my buddhist name)
Hi Viryabodhi,
This will be possible in the next version. Regretfully the update is taking a bit longer as some other (paid) projects have a priority.
Hi Marijn
I have troubles displaying the Google +1 and the facebook share button. Please have a look at my site and tell me what is wrong. Somehow the code is not correctly generated (at least not visible if I look at it with FireBug as it is on your site). I think I have correctly activated the +1 in the admin panel. I am sure to have the latest version – I downloaded it yesterday from wordpress.org. You might look at a post on my site under the following link: http://aurigos.com/site/blog/travel-blog/dive-safari-2011-09/
Thanks for your much appreciated support!
Martin
Hi Martin,
I see the javascript is called and the elements are in the source, which means your settings are correct. The cause of the problem is. Unknown to me but I will get back to you after I have had the time to troubleshoot this further.
I am having trouble with the like button at the bottom of the post not attaching the photo with the post but a random picture on the page. Sometimes is the RSS feed icon, or the email icon, etc. Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Lori Lauth
Hi Lori,
You can fix this by using OpenGraph tags on your web site.
See the Facebook page on this subject for more information and you can look in the WordPress plugin directory to search for a suitable plugin to use OpenGraph tags in your WordPress website.
Some replies on a few posts earlier on the same subject include links, the iPad app doesn’t let me place links in a reply
Hi Marjin,
Fab plug-in, well done. There are no plug ins out there that do all that yours does.
On my side bar the icons are different heights and look a little untidy, the top of the Google+ one is lower than the rest. Any chance of a tweak?
Also, is it possible to use custom icons? I have made a couple (the greyscale one on my site) and quite like that level of control.
Many thanks again for a terrific plugin.
Duncan
Hi Duncan,
This should be improved with the next update. Changing buttons is a matter of replacing the image in the plugin folder, but some buttons (including facebook like & google +1) do not support custom images.
Hello-
I am trying to have the shortcode appear in my excerpt, using: [social_share/], but it is not working. Any advice?
Hi Evan,
Have you enabled the shortcode in the first tab of the plugin settings? If so and if the buttons are displayed in the full post it might be a compatibility issue between the plugin and the theme you are using.
This is a great plugin. I would love to see some analytics in a future version (number of clicks per button per article would be plenty).
Also, would like the ability to upload custom images for buttons.
But…still a great plugin. Thanks!
Hi Tim,
Thanks! I’m not promissing the analitics will be implemented in the future, but I will look into the possibility of such functionality.
Changing buttons is a matter of replacing the image in the plugin folder, but some buttons (including facebook like & google +1) do not support custom images. You will have to use an FTP client for this.
Hi,
First things first…well done, this is quite possibly the best share plugin I’ve ever used, you’ve clearly put a lot of effort in to make something so simple and practical to use. I’ll be recommending this for sure.
I’ve just got a little problem with the twitter button with counter option (which I see someone else has had too) whilst using an elegant themes template (called mycuisine) it works fine with the button and no counter (https://skitch.com/mattfiore/f4i7j/standard-twitter) but when I select it with the button (either above or at the side) I just get the word twitter (like this > https://skitch.com/mattfiore/f4i76/twitter-with-counter).
Everything else seems to work perfectly?
Hoping you can help.
Matt
Hi Matt,
Thanks, I will try to recreate the problem using that theme, if I find a solution I will let you know!
Installed the plugin today to try. Very nice and just what I was looking for BUT it’s really hitting my site performance measured by Google’s Page Speed Online tool.
Specifically, there’s an issue with parsing of Javascript relating to the Google + button (seems to be calling it 10 times or so?). If I remove that then my score leaps up by 10.
Secondly, there’s a problem with the expiration times for the various button images which is messing with browser caching. Not as big an issue as the first but still significant.
With Google taking into account page speed in determining ranking, this is a big problem and I don’t feel that your plugin is quite up to scratch yet.
Any chance you’re working on those two things?
Thanks
Bit more info:
The button image issue doesn’t add up to much after all so not high priority.
The JS is though, It’s OK if you’re only adding a Google+ button with say the sharing widget but if you add it for posts as well then there’s an instance for every post plus in the sidebar – so 11 instances for a typical page – 11 calls to the JS and 11 calls to the url = big hit to page speed.
It needs to be one call irrespective of how many instances of the button there is.
Presumably there may be similar problems with services other than Google+ but I haven’t tested to see.
Thanks
Hi Gam,
If you are using the latest version it should make only 1 call to the javascript in either the head or the footer (depending on your settings), not for each individual button. Further parsing and any extra calls are made by Google’s imlementation of the buttons and lies beyond the scope of the plugin. I hope this clarifies a bit.
Hi
Nice plugin… Any chance Posterous, Blogger (Blogspot) and WordPress sites can be added in?
Many thanks for your efforts.
Hi Andy,
Adding those networks will be no problem, look out for them when the next version is released!
Hi Marijn,
I see only the tab “Algemene instellingen” Is this normal ?
Hi Willy,
This is not normal, you should be able to see a total of 6 tabs. Maybe reïnstalling the plugin may fix the issue?
I can only report that when I add Google+ to posts and pages, Google Page Speed reports issues with calls/parsing. Remove it and it doesn’t.
I’m using version 2.04 and have javascript set to load in the footer, but that has no impact on the score ticked or otherwise.
I’m using the WordPress Twenty Eleven theme.
Another weird thing happening now: I have Twitter, Facebook like and Google+ set in the share widget. Facebook like has just started displaying the Google+ button?! I’ve made no changes to your plugin.
OK, I’ve played around with it for a while and can’t work out what’s going on:
if I have facebook as well as Google+ in the post page then facebook gets replaced with another instance of Google+ in the share widget display
if I toggle off the display of buttons (button location/do not display) then facebook shows correctly in the share widget display
if I try and have facebook like and send in the post page then they both become Google+.
Clearly there’s some sort of conflict. As I’m the only one to be getting this problem and also unhappy about the speed hit, don’t worry about it. I’m going to uninstall and will try a later version in the future hoping that the problem’s gone.
Great looking plugin but unfortunately not for me at the moment.
Thanks
Hi Gam,
I think there is indeed some kind of conflict, perhaps with other plugins, as I have not heard of this happening to anyone else. Please let me know if you decide to try out the plugin in the future and if the problem persists then.
Thanks for making this plug-in, from all plug-ins this one suits me best (and I’ve tried a LOT, trust me)
One problem, when I tried to like a blog post, it keep liking my homepage URL, can you help me with that?
Thanks in advance..
Hi Mido,
Sorry to have taken so long to reply, but this might have several reasons. I see you sites now uses another plugin so I cannot tell you why exactly it didn’t work as expected on you blog.
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Hi Marijin,
Thank yo for making such a good plugin. I’m having some issues with it. Each time I click on Linkedin, FB or twitter, it does the job but the counters does not increase.
Thanks a lot!
Hi Jesús,
I believe the problem has been solved. At least I can see the counters working on your site.
Hi Marijn,
I’d like to link to a group on LinkedIn. But since the URL is coded the only choice seems to be linkedin.com/in/ or linkedin.com/company. I don’t feel like entering in your code ….
Hi Anna,
For the time being this is not possible, I will look into that for a future version.
Hi Marijn,
works like a charm.
Can I change the wording of the facebook like button to recommend?
Best,
Mathias
Hi Mathias,
This will be an option in the next version (even already implemented in the beta).
Hi Marjin,
I too would like to see future functionality for a Facebook “Recommend” button, in addition to share and like buttons.
Thanks for a great plugin!!
Hi Curtis,
You’re welcome. In the next version you will be able to choose between like and recommend for the Facebook button.
Great plugin, absolutely LOVE IT! The only issue is we’d like to insert the following line of text above the icons, “Share Us With Your Friends!”.
How can I insert this so that it shows up on every page/post above the icons?
Thanks!
Hi Chestin,
Thank you! At the moment this would involve some editing of the plugin, but I think I will add this as a feature in a future version.
Hey Marijn,
I’m using your social plugin for my wordpress site but I can’t see the facebook “like” button on google chrome. I’m a mac user. I already disabled all the other plugins but still no go.
Is this familiar for you?
thx in advance,
Xavier
Hi Xavier (cool name!),
This has happened a few times, probably when Facebook is making changes to the buttons. I trust you can see the button correctly now.
Hi add the name and image icon for a social network not on the list of your Social Share plugin for WP?
Hi Orin,
You can request the networks you’d like right here and I’ll see if I can include them. Maybe including these yourself might get easier in a future version but I’m not making any promises!
Love this plugin – having trouble with the “Send”flyout getting cut off in sidebar when selected. Any suggestions to fix it are appreciated. Thanks!
Hi Stacy,
I’m sorry to say this can have a number of reasons to do with the styling of elements outside of the plugin. Specifically the css attribute
overflow: hidden;will have this effect.Hi Marign,
Thanks for the great plugin!
I’m having trouble with the css on my post pages. Looks like it is conflicting with my google adsense?
http://www.winningff.com/overunders-line-moves-week-4/
Any suggestions?
Like some others: how to change “like” to FB “recommend”?
Hi Bartek,
This will be an option in the next version of the plugin.
I would enjoy Google Analytics integration too.
Take a look, I would help if I know how to code
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingSocial.html
Hi Fillipe,
Thanks for the link, I will look into it. It is a good feature request.
Hey Marijn, awesome plugin!
I only have 1 thing to report. The plugin seems to convert twitter usernames that I place inside my tweetblender form tags. Can you update your plugin to not parse inside tags?
Much appreciated!
Leo
Hi Leo,
Thanks! I will look into updating the Twitter conversion to prevent this in the future.
Having the same issue as mentioned by previous poster, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Digg button is clicked, but the counter does not increase.
Hi Peter,
Do you still experience this problem? If so, could you tell me with which website and browser this problem occurs?
I’m having problem with linkedin icon. From my website, if I click to share on Linkedin, I get an error. It seems like there’s a problem with our server and linkedin, but no error code is given to figure out what the problem is. It’s probably related, but on the wordpress dashboard, my page contains the [social_share/] shortcode doesn’t complete loading. It says “Read platform.linkedin.com” on my browser status bar and stays that way.
Any ideas?
Hi Byung,
This does indeed sound like a problem in the connection to LinkedIn, do you still experience this issue?
Any suggestions on how to include text above the icons on every page/post?
Thanks!
For posts Facebook Like sidecounter, Google+ and sidecounter do not show up. Please help.
Thanks!
Hi,
It seems to work when I view the post itself. If you want to show the buttons “in the loop” you need to check the “Include buttons in excerpts” option in the plugin.
It’s working great for me. Thank you very much for your great work.
Hi Mark,
Thank you, you’re welcome!
Hi!may i ask when i put the php code and put position fixes the buttons are shown but are not clickable?
Thanks
Sorry!i meant
position:fixed;
Do you have a link to a page where this happens? It’s hard to determine the problem without an example.
Hi I’ve install this plugin on my website and it works great! however, It won’t show on my excerpt I coded manually, any idea on how to solve this problem? http://optimusinternetconsulting.com/beta/blog:(
Hi Patrick,
I see on your site that you figured it out?
Hi,
Really love this plugin, it saved me a lot of time
Unfortunatelly, in post pages when i hit the “like” button, the default thumbnail appearing on my wall it’s the Google + icon… Can’t figure this out, thank you.
Hi Adrian,
You can fix this by using OpenGraph tags on your web site.
The OpenGraph tag for images looks like:
See the Facebook page here on this subject for more information and you can look in the WordPress plugin directory here to search for a suitable plugin to use OpenGraph tags in your WordPress website.
Hi Marijn,
congrats on your beautiful plugin, if I may ask for a tip, how is it possible to add the ‘nofollow’ tag to the widget icons thus not wasting links juice with the social sites?
Cheers Ted
Hi Ted,
I think I will add this in a future version as well. For now you can use this easy bit of (jQuery) javascript:
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
$(".mr_social_sharing_wrapper a").attr("rel", "nofollow");
});
</script>
Best social sharing plug in out there (Replaces 4 other plug-ins that I was using)!
Only problem: the shortcode doesn’t seem to be working. I’ve edited the settings in the shortcode tab and I’m inserting [social_share/] in the content where I want the buttons to appear but nothing shows up.
Hi Monica,
Have you checked the “Enable shortcode” option in the first tab?
Love the plugin and have found it works a charmer until recently. We have lost the G+ button and don’t seem to be able to get it back.
This is weird, haven’t you unknowingly disabled it in the list? I see the javascript is loaded on your site, but I can’t see the tag for the Google+ button in the source of the page.
Hi, I really like the look of this plugin, but I can’t get it to work on my site yet. It doesn’t display unless I have “Include buttons in excerpts” checked, and then I get the following displayed on my site over and over: Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/www/realityescapesher.com/wp-content/plugins/social-sharing-toolkit/social_sharing_toolkit.php on line 410 I’m a little confused and not sure how to fix this!
Thanks in advance
Nevermind, I just had to update WP! Thanks for the great plugin!
Hi Millie,
Good to read you have solved the problem!
Hello Marijn, I notice that you are not answering the questions for a while, but I’ll try the same way
I edited my theme to display your amazing plugin and that worked very fine.
The main problem is on the index page, when I use this advice you gave
“There is an easy solution for this. Simply use “echo $social_sharing_toolkit->create_bookmarks();” and it should use the current title and permalink as default.”
It is getting the permalink from the index and not from the post itself. As result all counters and buttons are pointing to the wrong links.
Can you help me with that?
regards
Hi Ralph,
It is true I’ve been quite busy with some project the last few weeks, probably also the coming weeks. This gets in the way of plugin development and support as I do need to keep my clients happy.
To get back to your question; when I look at your site and your homepage the buttons seem to be working correctly. Each with their own counters and links. Have you fixed the problem or is one of us (probably me) looking at the wrong page?
Hello
I am trying to use your nice widget but having some problems :
first the widget doesn’t show any button or icon, as if it was empty, so maybe I did not understand something, is it usable for share or only for follow ??
Second I have the same problem as others with displaying the right picture. I tried to use the Open graph thing, but well, I don’t get it….
What I want is always the same picture (company logo) to display on facebook or elsewhere, so maybe it is possible just to mention it somewhere in your php file ??
Thanks for your help
Hi, I find your plugin quite nice, still i have problems with Facebook like button , when i press it, it takes hours to have the posting sent to faceook page.
Is it normal?
thx
Hello,
I am back just to tell that the google+ icon is not showing with IE ! But it is okay with chrome and firefox..
Thx a lot for ur plugin.
One question. I choosed Follow widget at top right column under únete a godigital.
I choosed Button orientation: Horizontal, bit buttons are on vertical? Why? Any help please
Thx
Hi Marijn. I really like the plugin, thanks. I wonder if you could advice. On my site I created a small sidebar to contain 4 share icons, so I could place them into the top right hand corner. Unfortunately though, when you now click on the “facebook share” icon, due to the size of the sidebar, the box that pops out from the icon cannot be seen fully. Is there any way round this without increasing the size of the sidebar? Thanks, David
Hey there, love the plugin and how customizable and easy to use it is. Fantastic job
I wondered if I can avoid loading all the scripts on all pages, my sharing buttons are enabled only on posts, but the scripts (some of them are big and slow) load even on the home page (with excerpts) and even in the wp admin panel. Is there a way to restrict these scripts to particular types of pages?
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Great plugin, thank you Marjin.
Hi, Thanks for the awesome plugin. I wanted to let you know that if you choose the “Button” option for twitter in the Follow widget, it always displays your twitter feed (i.e. “Follow @MarijnRongen”) rather than what is entered. If you change to another layout, then it shows what is entered.
Also, the links in the widget have the same problem that I see in this very comment form, i.e. there are lines going through the text.
Your plugin is very cool, i like the way it can be customized, however i was having issues with the menu not working properly – including the drop down menu not showing up on the home page and on some pages the menu would not show up at all, also it made the load time of the website very slow. I prefer to use your plugin for the website because it looks the best, however with the issues it was causing i had to switch it to a different one social sharing plugin.
is there a way to load from the footer or some other similar fix?
great job though def the coolest plugin i have found yet!
I really like your plugin! I feel really stupid after realizing why the Facebook icons wouldn’t display…I had Facebook blocked in my Ghostery Firefox addon! Since I allowed it everything is looking great. Thanks for your hard work.
I was looking for Facebook Share button.
I need a link to Blogger to be added to the links given. Is there a way for me to do that? Thanks.
Hi Marjin-
Great app! But I do have one problem.
I can’t get the share buttons to show up on posts on my blog homepage. I don’t shorten my posts, so I would like visitors to be able to share or like my posts without going to each posts individual page. I’ve tried many different settings but can’t seem to get it to work! My blog uses the newest version of Twenty Eleven.
Thanks!
Nevermind… about 20 seconds after I posted my comment it started working!
Thanks again for the great app!
-Robin
I am trying to use this plugin by way of the Shortcode. The option to use shortcode is checked in my options. I have the shorcode inserted on a page, but I am seeing nothing. please help
hi there,
I have set up a blog with wordpress and it runs pretty well – and I use your social sharing plugin…love it. But I have a problem with the facebook plugin (or facebook in general) … when you press the like button of an article the post on the facebook wallpaper looks like this:
Golden Retriever / 101 lovely Dogs
http://www.101lovelydogs.com/2011/10/23/golden-retriever/
You may use these HTML tags and attributes:
I don’t understand where this posttext comes from – can you help me? Do I have to chance something in the plugin?
Cheers
Laetitia
Is there a way to edit the design of the counters? Currently they are white with gray numbers. For a site with a black back ground, it would look great to have black or gray as the counter background with white or gold numbers. Thoughts?
I’m still having problem with linkedin issue I asked about on 10/4, but it seems like a known linkedin problem.
I have another question. When I click on e-mail, for example, the subject of the message is the title of my page. Is there anyway to specify a different text as the subject?
Hi there. I loved your plugin but had to remove it because the facebook icons were not showing up on mobile browsers. any info on that? =)
Hi Marijan
I really like this plugin. I tried it on another site and it worked well. On this site http://www.AlpineCommunityNetwork.com I tried to add the follow widget to the sidebar and it does not show up at all. I did set it up in the configuration page, so I am baffled. I am using Atahualpa Theme 3.7.1 and WP 3.2.1. Any Ideas?
Thank you in advance
Ron B
Marijan
Don’t waste your time on my comment, it was my mess up. Your plugin works awesome. Thank you
Ron B
Hi Marijan,
I recently replaced a similar plugin with your own in which I think its great.
However I have noticed that the Google +1 icon is missing when viewing using my iPhone and Safari.
I do use a mobile plugin and I switched it off but the +1 icon still does not appear.
Regards,
Darren
Wonderful plug-in!
Have been using it since the start of my site.
Ran into a problem yesterday. The Google+ button vanished. When I look at the page source, I see the reference, but the button does show on the page. Every other sharing works flawlessly.
I am not an expert on coding, and cannot diagnose what’s wrong. Can you help me?
The site is finchin.com THANKS
Would it be possible in future builds to add another class name based on the type of button contained inside each “span.mr_social_sharing” section? I’d like to customize how each of the buttons are displayed through CSS, but without modifying the PHP code itself, I’m unable to directly target some of those span’s. (For instance, swapping out a new email.png, resizing the height of the Facebook span, etc.)
I don’t mind editing PHP, but I’d rather not have to mod the plugin each time a new version comes out. That said, here’s an example of how to enable this functionality to the “get_bookmark_button” function:
(in the 'else' statement:)$btnclass = 'btn_'.$button;
$button = 'get_'.$button;
$retval = ''.$this->$button($url, $title, $type, $id).'';
Thanks for the wonderful plugin!
Hi, Marijn! Thank you for a wonderful plug-in. I love both the style and the functionality, especially the e-mail a friend option.
I am having a bit of trouble with my facebook follow button, however. I have put in my facebook ID, and it seems to link to the right page, but for some reason it is displaying as “Follow @Marijn Rongen” instead of showing my own handle of itbeginsathome. Any suggestions you might have to fix this are greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
When using this plugin on excepts on the home page I get the text ‘Tweet’ before my post text/excerpt. This falls underneath the social sharing icons right next to the beginning of the text.
Is there a fix for this?
Hi again, Marijn! As mentioned above, I was having trouble withthe Facebook follow button. I happened to notice in my visitor logs that you appear to have looked at my page. You may not have seen the problem b/c I changed my option from an icon with text to just a small icon so that wouldn’t show. This worked to hide the issue, but I was still wondering if there was a way to fix it. Also, today I downloaded the visual subtitle plugin by Gary Jones, and while it seems to do what it is supposed to do, if I add a subtitle I end up with some ugly looking html code showing up right before the ‘send e-mail’ button that appears at the bottom of my post. Until I get this fixed, I don’t want to use the subtitle plugin for obvious reasons, but I would really like to be able to start using and displaying subtitles. Any suggestions on how to get these two plugins to play nice together? I realize that since I’ve purposely changed my options to make the site look cleaner you can’t see the problems. If you think you’ll have a chance to take a look and can let me know approximately when, I can temporarily change my options back to problem mode. Again, the toolkit is a great concept and really does work beautifully. I just seem to have come across a couple of minor glitches. Thanks so much.
Hey Marijn,
Love your plugin, works (allmost) like a charm.
One question though. How do I make one specific image appear on facebook. When I like a post, at this moment it picks a image that I do not want.
Hi Marjin, I am experiencing the same problem as Mark above. The plugin adds the word “TWEET” at the beginning of my feeds and post excerpts on my homepage. I tested it; when I deactivate the plug in the word disappears and when I activate it again the “TWEET” at the beginning of the sentence is back! You can have a look here: http://www.leadershipconnexion.com.
I really like the plug in and it works fine other wise. How long till you have a fix for this bug?
Regards.
Stephan
I know what caused the TWEET problem, jsut fixed it with a basic patch.
The script from twitter that powers the button is not getting loaded.
It never gets written into the source code, jsut view sorce and search, it is not there.
I pasted the below into line 513 of social_sharing_toolkit.php right after the TWEET and it instantly worked on next load after save:
finished line looks like this:
$retval .= ‘ data-text=”‘.$title.’”>Tweet‘;
I am sure there is a better way to fix this than my patch, but I do not have time to analyze the entire script
I look forward to the next update.
Thanks for the fine toolkit.
well, all my code was removed from my post?
this is the file that is missing:
platform DOT twitter DOT com FORWARDSLASH widgets.js
I have version 2.0.4, and for some reason the facebook icons won’t show! The other ones I want on the site show, but not facebook!
Hi, great plugin, very useful.
I’m facing one problem when I choose default option like display after content then there is no any problem, but when I’m trying to place it manually then out of 6 buttons only 3 buttons with images and twitter link without image is there.
Please help me to place code manually.
I want to add one line above these buttons so I want to place them manually. I have added this code:
Liked this post? Share it with your friends!
create_bookmarks();
?>
Thanks for your time and thanks a lot for this very good plugin.
I don’t know but code is not dislaying properly. I have added right code.
I want to add this line “Liked this post? Share it with your friends!” above buttons. Plz help me.
Hi Marijn,
love the plugin, it’s exactly what I was looking for!
Is there a way to disable it for custom post types?
Marijn — I’m very impressed with all the comments, but can’t seem to get started. (Granted, I’m a near total noob, so bear with me…:) )
Here is what I’m unsure of. In Social Sharing Toolkit/follow widget it says:
“For each button you only have to enter your id or username of the network as it appears in the url of your profile page. You will need to enter the complete url for the RSS Feed (including the http:// part) if you wish to display this button.”
I’m not sure what you mean by “id or username of the network.”
Taking Facebook as an example:
My website/blog is: http://www.climatebites.org.
The facebook page is: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ClimateBitesorg/279055665461200
My facebook profile is at: http://www.facebook.com/DisplacedMinnesotan
What information should I be entering into the field on your setttings page?
Thanks for your patience!
Hi, i found a little bug. When sharing links to Google+ the word “Tweet” always appeared in front of the text (e.g.”TweetMy new blog post title”).
I solved the problem by opening the Social Sharing Toolkit in the WordPress Editor and deleting the word “Tweet” from two locations in the strings $title.’”>Tweet‘;
It would be nice to have this fixed in new updates. Thanks a lot!
When I add the buttons using the shortcode and have tweet set to button + counter it just shows the word tweet not as a button and it is lower then the rest. When I set it to just be a button it looks fine but the rest of my buttons have a counter so it looks different. Let me know what I can do.
Thanks
Love the plugin
is there gonna be an update to add Google+ for pages since they have now opened that facility?
My custom post types problem is resolved (although I didn’t change anything).
However, the short code only works on my posts and not on my pages. I have enabled the short code option and I also disabled all other plugins to see if it is a conflict but no luck.
Any ideas?
Alvast bedankt
Hi, Great plugin, however when people ‘like’ one of my posts, it appears on their Facebook feed with a completely random image – apparently the first image uploaded to my site by alphabetical order.
Any ideas? Many thanks,
Ryan
Hi Marjin,
I’m having problem with +1 button, always displays error when pressed, any ideas? BTW great plugin and very flexible, it would be nice if you add Facebook Recommend button too.
Thanks
Hopefully this is an easy question. When I tweet a post, the url isn’t shortened at all. Is there a way get the url link shortened via tiny url or something similar?
Thanks so much for your time
Gerry
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Hi there!
I downloaded this plug-in and checked off the box for the Email button. But when I click on the email button below the blog posts, nothing happens. Any advice? The other buttons work.
Thanks so much!
Mary
Good plugin
I have some questions.
When selecting Button Location: “Display After Content” and Place Buttons on: “Only Post”. Only those buttons selected under “Posts & pages” are shown. I need to show those defined under “Follow Widget” tab but when defining them, they won’t show where I need them to get shown (after post content).
I try to show the widget by code but did not work.
”,
‘after_widget’ => ”,
‘before_title’ => ”,
‘after_title’ => ”,
));
?>
Any suggestion?
For some reason the code I placed in my comment did not show… here it is the code
the_widget(‘MR_Social_Sharing_Toolkit’,array(
‘before_widget’ => ”,
‘after_widget’ => ”,
‘before_title’ => ”,
‘after_title’ => ”,
));
Thank you for the plugin. It does not grab the photo in the post when I like it for FB. It takes the RSS button image from the sidebar. How can this be fixed?
Thanks!
Hey,
Great plugin.
In case anyone needs to use this plugin on a post listing page e.g. index.php.
Here is the code you need so it picks up the individual titles and links.
create_bookmarks(get_permalink( $post->ID ), get_the_title( $post->ID ), ”);
?>
Cheers
Pete
Sorry lets try this:
`create_bookmarks(get_permalink( $post->ID ), get_the_title( $post->ID ), ”); ?>`
Hi Peter,
does the code works?
when i use the code my page become blank
Hi Peter,
does the code works?
when i use the code my page become blank
I need to display it in my custom post list page. I cannot choose the setting “Post and Pages” because it will show in unwanted pages as well.
I try Peter’s code but i got blank page.
now its worse, all the sharing is not working. i click like, its not counted, i click tweet its not with the link…how to fix this?
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Hey Guys,
Sorry the previous 2 posts cut the code. I have written an article to show you how to get this working in your loop.
http://www.peterjharrison.me/2011/11/social-sharing-toolkit-plugin-wordpress-use-within-loop/
Thanks
Pete
Thank you for this wonderful plugin, is it possible to insert the Follow items into a page/post using shortcode?
Regards
Noixdarec
Hi Marijn,
regarding the comment of “Marv” in August you answered that there will be an update that supports German language.
http://www.marvinsievers.de/2011/08/the-social-sharing-toolkit-plugin-und-die-pot-datei/
I like your plugin, but I only have German readers. So where can I find the update? Marv wrote in his blog about the update and that he only had to edit the German pot file. That’s OK for me, but where can I find it?
I am currently using version 2.0.4 which is the current version at wordpress.org.
Any answer would be appreciated.
Cheers, Henning from Germany
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Hi. Im trying to put some follow button (via email, or facebook) for the whole blog. not a post, but i cant find how to do it.
Thanks.
Rodolfo
Great plugin, however, where I have the share buttons on a static page that includes a blog feed, when I share the page it’s trying to share the latest blog post from the feed that’s being displayed on the page, rather than the page itself.
Any work around for this?
The facebook-send button is not showing under IE when using shortcode, this is what I did.
1.- Opened the social_sharing_toolkit.php file and on line 495 (within get_fb_send function).
2.- Replace the line [$retval = '';] for the line [$retval = '';]
3.- I recomend to read this link: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-facebook-send-button-in-wordpress/
Nice plugin set. Everything seems to be working fine except for the facebook like count button. In some posts it works and in other posts it doesn’t.
I’ve tried using facebook like only plugins and it gives an error: “The page failed to provide a valid list of administrators. It needs to specify the administrators using either a “fb:app_id” meta tag, or using a “fb:admins” meta tag to specify a comma-delimited list of Facebook users.”
I’ve tried all sorts of things but to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Great plugin. I’m running the Boldly theme which pulls excerpts of pages onto the homepage. I’d rather not have these show up on the homepage.
If I untick “Include buttons in excerpts” this fixes things, but I also loose the buttons from each blog post summary.
How can I disable these for the homepage only?
Love the plugin, but really, really need linkedin groups… please add!!!
Love your plugin, thanks for the great work.
Any chance of adding a couple of places to the Follow Widget?
http://www.soundcloud.com/
http://www.mixcloud.com/
Thanks, Russ.
Oh,
And one more thing. I can’t get the buttons to show from any pages, unless I click into an article. This is from the home page, categories or searches.
Any ideas what I might be missing?
first of all, thanks for your great plugin.
I have recently upgrade my site to support multisites, and hence all the original posts urls have been added ‘/blog’ in the url, for example: from mysite.com/post1 to mysite.com/blog/post1. As a result, I lost my counter data for all the posts, is there a way to get the data back while I keep the current url structure?
thanks for help in advance.
Hi Marijn,
Thanks for your wonderful plugin!
I’m currently using it on one site, but since a couple of hours the tweet buttons suddenly disappeared. It has been working beautifully for the last 4 weeks and I did’t change anything, so I’m a bit confused here. Any idea what could have happened?
Thanks in advance for help!
Patricia
p.s.
If anyone is having an issue with facebook always linking to the same page: check if you have all-in-one-SEO plugin. If so, uncheck the canonical links option in the settings page. That will fix it.
Hi Marijn,
Thanks for developing such a nice plugin
I have a question for Shortcode:
1) Send e-mail -For Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome I can get the post title as Subject and a link to the post in the email. This does not work in Safari, where I get an empty mail (I use gmail). Can I do something about that?
2) The Facebook Send does not work in Safari. It says “The page at http://www.jennyjacobsson.com/blog could not be reached because the server returned status code 403.”
Otherwise this plugin rocks
/Jenny
I’d just like to add my “bump” to the request to customise the “tweet” text, rather than pulling the
data-text=” ‘.$title.’ ”
Thx for great plugin!
Adding my vote to have other sites added to the list. You have most of the top social bookmarking sites, but some notably exceptions for me are Slashdot, Newsvine and Diigo. Thanks for your continuing work on this!
Hi, I would like to display these buttons only on my home page but cannot see any option for doing this!
Thanks
Is there a way to customise the shared thumbnail. I always get a generic one. In facebook Like, I always get my wordpress template “forward” button. In G+1, I always get the latest post’s thumbnail
Thanks for your work… I can’t seem to get the short code to work. I tried entering it directly in code. Any suggestions? Also, the google+ button is checked but not showing up?
Thanks
Great plugin, congratulations!
I have a doubt, is it possible to link the Facebook Like with a page we have already created in Facebook?
I have the page ID, but I don’t know where to include in the plugin.
Thanks in advance.
I;ve activated the plugin and ticked the Facebook and twitter logos but for whatever reason its not showing on my news pages…any ideas
Hi,
Just wondering how I make this plugin work retrospectively on all our old posts, not just the new ones.
Thanks!
Tim
What do I use as ID for the linkedin sharing option? Every term I use (my name, emailaddress) gets as result: An exact match for ‘term’ could not be found.
Thanks in advance,
Elma
Sedert vandaag staat de Tweet-button veel hoger dan de andere buttons. Heeft Twitter iets veranderd of zo? Tevoren stond de tekst “Tweet” er toch niet in.
What that guy said about the tweet button. It’s not in line with the rest on the buttons. My current solution is a side counter. Which doesn’t seem to work with facebook for some reason. Great work on this plug and I hope time permitting you can address the concerns soon.
Awesome program.
I am, however, experiencing a problem when someone facebook likes my homepage. The site name is showing up in their facebook wall post but underneath it is an image of another button from the toolkit(ie twitter, reddit) and next to that is an excerpt displayed.
I would like a custom image there and I can’t find how to change the excerpt text in my dashboard.
Thanks for this great plugin Marijn!
Do you have plans for a Facebook Share button?
Again, much thanks.
This is such a great plugin, Marijn! Thanks!!
I didn’t see anybody mention it yet, but do you have plans to add a Pinterest button as well?
Hello I am using this Plugin. It works great! Thank you. I do have a concern though. I would like the picture posted within the post to be what comes up when someone clicks like or send to Facebook. Right now the “digg” icon is the image that shows up? How can I fix this?
I like the plugin but have noticed I am unable to see the Facebook share on the RSS feed for my client http://www.qualityassurancepaintinginc.com all the other buttons shows properly on the RSS and the Facebook does show on posts, archives etc. Anything I can do? Thank you. Barbara Walsh
I love this plugin! Please consider adding Flickr Groups to the Follow widget in a future update. Thanks! =M=
I love the plugin
2 suggestion
1, Podcast iTunes for the follow widget
2. custom add buttons
hi
great widget but I can not get the send email icon to appear. It seems I should also be able to indicate the email address. I am missing something?
thanks for your reply
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Is there a way (or is in the works) to add a Blip.tv follow icon to the list? They also have subscriptions similar to youtube. When you have a chance please let me know..
Thanks!
BTW Love the widget!
I put the sharing widget on my site http://eggdiet.ru (in the footer). And the post (status with the link on my site) with twitter button image appears on their facebook page when somebody press Facebook like button. What I should do to change this image on another or remove it from the facebook post?
For those with issues related to the image that Facebook renders when you “like” a post, I implemented this fix and it seems to work.
http://www.radupoenaru.com/how-to-generate-image_src-for-facebook-links-in-wordpress-theme/
Put this in your functions.php file:
function add_image_src(){
global $post;
// get the global variable post
// if it exists and is only a single post
if ($post){
// pattern for recognizing first image in post
$pattern = ‘!post_content, $matches);
//first image would be the representative image
$image_src = $matches['1'][0];
// extract it as Facebook wants it
echo ”;
}
}
// hooking to the head generation loop my function defined above
add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘add_image_src’);
Great plugin, but would love to have a Vimeo icon to link to our Vimeo channel under Follow us section.
Matt, I’ve put this code into functions.php, but it generates the picture of twitter again.
We use this plugin because it suits our needs the best. There is one issue though: the Facebook share button is not rendered in IE8. Does anyone know why? It renderd in all other browsers, IE9 and even IE6 without a problem (IE7 not tested yet.
Hi Marijn
Thanks for developing this toolkit.
I’m quite happy with it, but I too suffer from the same problem as Leon Boerrigter. In IE8 the Facebook images do not show up. Any ideas ?
Kind regards,
Edwin
I can’t find a way to short url when tweet the link. ¿Anyone?
Hi, great plugin but I cant make “send” to facebook work. I add my facebook address and and send and get a confirmation. But Nothing appears on my facebook account, why?
/anders
Fantastic plugin but it slows my site down by a whole lot, without plugin site loads in 3 seconds, with plugin activated it takes 10 seconds. Is there any way I can speed it up because I would love to use this on all my sites.
This could happen for a lot of reasons, maybe it has a conflict with another plugin?
Ha Merijn,
Dank voor deze plugin. Het viel mij op dat als je wat met de configuratie ‘rommelt’ nadat de plugin al een tijdje heeft gedraaid de counters bij de verschillende diensten worden gereset en allemaal op 0 staan. Klopt dit of zie ik iets over het hoofd?
Marijn bedoelde ik natuurlijk! Sorry..
Maakt niet uit! Als je urls veranderen (wat kan gebeuren als je met bepaalde instellingen rommelt) dan telt hij inderdaad opnieuw aangezien het tellen voor de urls gebeurd.
Ik heb de URL’s niet gewijzigd. Wel heb ik onder General Setting > Button Location > Do Not Display geselecteerd terwijl ik dacht dat ik op een andere site bezig was waar ik de plugin ook wilde configureren met dezelfde instellingen.
Hi Merijn, congratulations for this plugin !
I’ve a little problem with the facebook send button in my contact page :
it’s impossible to write anything in the box (chrome & firefox), the button does not appear in ie8…
Thx for your reply
Hi Marijn,
This is a really nice plugin, thanks for your efforts on it.
It would be nice if it allowed Google Analytics campaign tracking for the share links. It’s just a case of appending some GET variables to the end of the share URL and allowing their values to be configurable via the settings page. The variables are utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign.
An example is:
http://phil.lavin.me.uk/2012/01/wordpress-plugin-wikipedia-extract-tooltip-v1-2/?utm_source=Share&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=Social%2BShare%2BBar
That would really allow people to better track their social shares.
I’m a PHP developer by trade so let me know if you don’t have the time to do this and if it’s worth me doing it with a view to you adding this into the plugin release.
Keep up the good work
I really absolutely love your plugin! However, I would like the icons to not show on the main page (basically only when I click my blog posts’ titles do I want the sharing options available)
Is this possible (without having to insert shortcodes each time?)
Thanks
Hi Marijn – thanks for the plugin. I spent ages trying various ones and yours seemed just what I was looking for.
But, I would like to remove it from a very few pages eg Privacy etc. How do I do this. I don’t want to use shortcode and apply to every single post and page.
Thanks again.
Hi Marijn,
Thanks for making the plugin and spending all this time supporting it here.
Above you gave a bit of jQuery code to add the nofollow attribute. I would like to do this, but I am not a java programmer and have no idea how jQuery works or how to install it. Is there any chance of you coming out with a new version anytime soon??
Hi Marijn!
Exellent plug-in! it works great, much better then Sociable so I found out
Just one question I have though:
How to edit the tooltips?
Regards!
Sito
Marijn, kan er ook een emailbutton bij de volg widget ?
thanks!
Super plug-in, thank you. The social buttons are much harder to implement than people realise, and I had wasted several hours searching for scripts and testing other plug-ins. Finally, this plug-in had everything I was looking for. Well done.
Really great plugin, however, where I have the buttons at the bottom of each page/post, the ‘share on facebook’ popup does not detect that there is not enough space to display itself below the button and adjust its position to display above the button instead, it just gets cut off making it unusable.
I have applied a temporary hack to the css which works but doesn’t look great.
Is there any way I can get this to work properly? The pop up when you hover over the ‘Add to G+’ seems to detect its position and adjust accordingly just fine.
Many thanks
Marijn, probleempje met emailbutton is opgelost, blijft alleen nog de vraag hoe de tooltips zijn aan te passen, hopelijk kun je hiermee helpen…
vr grt!
Any idea why the googleplus.js.php file gets detected by McAfee Scanalerts as Cross Site Scripting vunerable?
—Mcafee Info
Query: lang=>”><iFraMe+src
ver=3.2.1
—Their feedback
When accepting user input ensure that you are HTML encoding potentially malicious characters if you ever display the data back to the client.
Ensure that parameters and user input are sanitized by doing the following:
Remove input and replace with >
Remove ‘ input and replace with '
Remove ” input and replace with "
Remove ) input and replace with )
Remove ( input and replace with (
–response
window.___gcfg = {lang: ‘>”>’};
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How can I show them on the home page of my blog, now I only see them if I enter in the post, not from the home page
Is is possible?
FANTASTIC Plugin. A sincere thank you for creating and sharing!
Love this plugin! I’ve been searching for a solution to add a Pinterest Pin It button to my site as well and found this..http://ahhh-design.com/add-pinterest-button-to-wordpress-theme/
Was wondering if there is any way to get this incorporated in to the Social Sharing Toolkit?
Thanks again for this great contribution!
-Tim
Hi Marijn, I found a few errors when using SST 2.0.4 with WP 3.3.1. I disabled all the plugins, but they still persist:
–88—
I looked at the code, but I’m not sure what could be the problem.
Also, I noticed there is a missing ‘?>’ at the end of social_sharing_toolkit.php, which causes some ‘headers already sent’ issues.
This is my favourite plugin for social sharing, keep up the good work!
Hi Marijn,
Thanks for making such a nice social plugin sharer! I just have a problem with my identification.. When filling out my id for Facebook and LinkedIn (Follow Widget), and later press the plugins, they cannot find me. Have tried my name (which is my id in Facebook, right?) and other things (like my e-mail that I use for identification also). What am I doing wrong? Probably something silly.. Twitter does work by the way.
Thanks for replying
Hi there, forgive me if this question’s already been asked. I’ve got an issue with the FB ‘Send’ option. When I click on this for a post, a div opens but it is really tall with no width and the content is not displayed. Also, is there no ‘Share’ with FB? Great plug-in, thanks for your efforts!
-David
Hi Marjinn,
Love the plugin – it’s terrific!
However, just one request for a future release: can you put in an option to not use your stylesheet? I hate editing core plugin files (because I know when I update it, my changes will be overwritten) to get what I need, but the styles you’ve put into the output are simply not working with my site design, and it’s a pain to edit. (someone mentioned removing all of those “!important” declarations – which would be a HUGE help if you did.) but I think simply adding a checkbox to ignore your stylesheet would be terrific.
In any case, fr those of you who would like to remove the stylesheet (without touching the core files) add this to your functions.php file:
add_action( ‘wp_print_styles’, ‘deregister_plugin_stylesheets’, 100 );
function deregister_plugin_stylesheets() {
wp_dequeue_style(‘mr_social_sharing’);
}
you can still look at the stylesheet and choose what you need from it (since the above unsets the entire stylesheet) and place it in your theme’s style.css file.
Love your Plug-In! Tried many others with no luck.
Wondering if you will be adding a Pinterest button?
hi,
nice plugin. A Facebook share function would be nice (post to wall)
I’ve already activated the plugin, I’m using Genesis (Lifestyle Child Theme). I inserted the widgets on the right panel, but it does not appear.
Also, if I select a post from a category it does not appear, but will appear on the blog post.
Please add Pinterest!
Really great! We love it! Thanks for making an easy to use+ good looking tool!
cheers,
Ally Reeves
I have been using your plugin for about a month and building shares and likes. Everything seems to be working except the FACEBOOK LIKE BUTTON resets back to 1 ever so often? We got up to 50 the other day and now we are at 1 again.
Thanks for the help.
DW
Thanks for the plugin! However, when placed in the sidebar WP widget, the pop-up for Facebook Send gets severely cut off by either the width of the button or the column width of the page. It makes the FB Send button useless in a sidebar. Any thoughts or fixes? Thanks.
Regarding the Facebook Send pop-up getting cut off… this appears to happen in Safari and Google Chrome (on the Mac). Additonally, in Safari, Chrome & Firefox, the cancel button doesn’t work if wanting to close the Facebook Send window.
Love the plugin, but I would really enjoy a Pinterest option. I would hate to change to a different plugin just for the Pinterest button but this site is becoming too popular to ignore. Thank you!
Plugin läuft unter wp 3.3.1 de-Edition!
Hi,
I’m using your plugin as a widget on my site and really like it. One question: when I click FB Send, it pops up a window that is partly hidden/masked in my sidebar. Any ideas for bringing it to the front/top of the page?
Thanks!
Jack
Hi Marijn
Excellent plugin, BUT
Noticed whenever i insert email@myblog.com anywhere on my blog the link redirects to random twitter accounts?
This is the plugin that I have been looking for. But I had to deactivate it because it was changing all of my mailto href tags from name@website.com and displaying this for the email address “@website.com”>name@website.com.”
The facebook follow button is also displaying “Follow @MarijnRongen” instead of our page.
Thanks in advance for any insight that you may have.
Like your wp-plugin. thank you very much for providing it. one wish. could you please add xing as an option. the platform is very popular in german speaking countries.
best regards from austria
horst
Any chance you’ll add pinterest to the list?
We are using your plugin and the twitter counter works, but the facebook counter does not. I know that some of our posts have been shared hundreds of times, but it still shows “0″. Ideas on why it’s not pulling that info?
@Jeff, you need to disable the “convert twitter usernames” in settings.
I think Marijn could fix this by adding logic to check if there are non-space characters before the @. If there are characters then this is an email address and don’t convert to a twitter username.
@Kine, I too would like to see Pinterest
Hi Marjin. Excellent plug-in! How would I go about adding a “print” button to the rest? If possible, please detail instructions as I’m not so savvy! Thanks!
This is a very kewl plugin and will no doubt improve SEO marketing for anyone looking for a better way to get found now, locally, nationally or globally.
Hello,
Nice plugin !
Buth is it possible to make the plugin html5 valid.
Ore can i change the iframe stettings, and change the google+ in to ?
Thanks,
Greetings Rene
Love this. After trying a several other sharing plugins, this is by far the best, most flexible and easiest. Would love it if there could be a Pinterest in the future, as now I have to use a separate plugin for that. But excellent job!
Hello,
When a facebook user likes a post we would like the first image inside the post to be displayed as the facebook photo…
Any help on how to do this?
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many thanks,
Andy
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Your social sharing plugin is the best one I have ever used and yeah, I agree with some of the commentators who added Pinterest to their wishlist for future updates. I was looking for new plugin options to add the “Pin it” button and have so far been disappointed in the available options out there.
I notice several people asked about URL shortening and none of their comments received an answer.
I feel like Social Sharing Toolkit is the best sharing plugin for WP except it’s missing this crucial feature.
Please, is there any way to shorten the link that my Twitter button uses? At present it gives the whole permalink which is, to be honest, kind of ridiculous for a tweet button.
Any information is appreciated.
Hi Drew,
Thanks for your positive words about the plugin. The plugin uses the standard options available for the sharing buttons. I believe Twitter uses t.co as a standard URL shortener which is displayed as the full URL when tweeted.
As a general notification I would like everyone to know that the plugin is still in development but has had some delays.
I love hearing from people who use my plugins and I hate that I could not put as much effort as I wanted in to the creation and support of my plugins the last months due to a very hectic time for my company.
Support for customized stylesheets, icons and more networks such as Pinterest is planned.
A new release will most likely see you redirected to a different page for support as I’m planning to move this to a dedicated section on my company website.
The new support pages will also have threaded comments which means it will be much easier to directly comment on each other.
Nice Plugin.
The facebook like button doesn’t display image on Facebook and the text comes from html code, not very nice. How may I change this, I didn’t found out.
Thanks
I really like the simplicity of this plugin but I need the shares (e.g. Twitter and Facebook) to generate a shortened URL such as bit.ly. I tried installing the separate bit.ly plugin, but it does not seem to sync with your plugin.
Any solutions to this?
Thanks
Note: I do see that you answered this question above, but I just tested it and Twitter did NOT automatically create a shortened URL from the SSTK-generated tweet.
Thanks for this plugin its fantastic. A pinterest button would be an awesome addition.
I think it would be useful to have the option to exclude some pages or posts by ID like the Share and Follow plugin. I’ve used both, and I prefer yours.
I really like the plugin. Actually I’m using it in several blogs.
I would like to be able to include the “Pinterest” button on it.
How can I add a Linkedin Group to the follow widget?
Hi Marijn,
I really like your plugin, it works like a charm. Are you planning on adding Pinterest to the list of sharing networks?
Thank you!
Hey,
How do I set the facebook share image? It keeps pulling the image from a post and it doesn’t properly represent the site.
For those who would like to use bit.ly with the links you´ll have to do this:
in the social_sharing_toolkit.php file search for
function create_bookmarks($url = ”, $title = ”, $type = ”) {
exactly after that line paste this:
$postlink = get_permalink();
$ch = curl_init(‘https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten?login=YOUR_BITLY_USERNAME_HERE&apiKey=YOUR_BITLY_APY_KEY_HERE&longUrl='.$postlink.'&format=txt‘);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$urltrim = curl_exec($ch);
and then in the next line is :
$url = trim($url);
just change it to
$url = trim($urltrim);
and thats it…
Can you add pinterest to the plugin as well? Thanks!
Hi,
The plugin only works on custom post type and not on normal posts. Has got something to do with the add filter I think. Can you help me out?
Is there a way to allow “Facebook Share” so that people can post posts or pages directly to their facebook page?
Hello, for some reason my Twitter share button does not add the URL, only the title of the post. Any ideas?
Also, thank you for your time and effort in everything.
Love your plugin! It has been incredibly helpful on my site. Keep up the good work! And if it helps, here’s another vote for a Pinterest button.
Hello.
I’m having some trouble, and can’t fix it. I’ve been trying to discover between a lot of plugins, the one that is causing this problem in my RSS2 Feed:
As you can see, there is a “Tweet”, the first word, that is undesirable.
Anyway, could you help me solving this ?
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Strangely the counters have disappeared from sides of the buttons on my site. Any ideas?
Hi
Can we configure the buttons not to appear on the front page (only appear on the post/page pages)?
Thanks,
Narin
Hallo, leider läßt sind auf dem Butten “facebook send” kein Text einfügen. Das Feld wird nicht richtig – viel zu schmal angezeigt. Ich kann keinen Artikel auf meine Facebook Seite senden. Schade, das ist der einzige Fehler des Plugin
Hi Marijn,
Love this plugin, and is may absoute favorite among all Social sharing plugins on WordPress!
I would love to see Pinterest added to the list of sites. There are standalone plugins to add Pin it buttons, but I will wait till you add functionality for Pinterest. No other plugin will give me the satisfaction of using this one!
Thanks
vadakkus
Thanks for your response. I do appreciate that you’re working so hard on this and can’t add every feature you’d like.
That said, as with Russell, I found that Twitter does *not* shorten the links shared with SSTK.
I guess I’ll try MrHawk’s fix, but it seems like you could patch that little bit of code into the original product to make it simpler for users.
Note: For anyone using MrHawk’s code fix, you will need to do the following.
Take out the ‘ at the beginning and end of:
(‘https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten?login=YOUR_BITLY_USERNAME_HERE&apiKey=YOUR_BITLY_APY_KEY_HERE&longUrl=’.$postlink.’&format=txt‘)
…and change them to a normal single quote ‘
Otherwise the editor will return an error in line 409 and deactivate the plugin.
Hello heb altijd je plugin met plezier gebruikt. maar nieuwe site gemaakt en draait onder Versie: 3.3.1 en daar krijg ik problemen als ik de plugin gebruik. Komt er een update, van de plugin of ligt het daar niet aan? Heb alle andere plugins verwijderd maar helaas die van jou zorgt voor de prbolemen. Laden van pagina duurt heel lang, of krijg melding fout in script.
Hoop dat het iets simpels is en je plugin binnenkort weer kan gebruiken.
Update. I did use MrHawk’s code fix and SSTK now shortens my URLs. However, the counter no longer recognizes them, so the counter always stays at 0.
If anyone has an idea how to fix this, please let me know.
darn it, I had the same problem with the shortcode too. Yes, I have the settings set correctly, and I’m using a shortcode correctly … it just simply does not appear on the page. I use many plug-ins (and this is the only one that seems to have a problem — so there’s a conflict, no other plug-in is conflicting with each other… it’s only this one is malfunctioning). Any insights as to how to work around this problem? I really love this plug-in, and would hate to have to use yet another plug-in just because I can’t get this one to appear on the page. Thanks!
Apologies. That is supposed to read
.$url.
to
.$urltrim.
and “you will NOW have…”
Hello Marijn,
Thanks for this great plugin. However it would be interesting to add an option to allow it not to show the buttons in RSS feed.
Thx a lot.
Hi Marijn,
thanks for the great plugin!
Would it be possibel to ad a Bloglovin like button with link?
That would be extra super awesome!
Hey Marijn!
Great plugin, works exactly as I want it to. I have one question. For the Facebook send button, where is it pulling the thumbnail for the article? I can’t seem to get it to pull the right thumbnail. I keeps pulling the image from a previous article. I currently have the Facebook send button disabled until I can figure it out.
Great plugin. Is there a way to when you have it send to an email, there is an automatic subject that I can add in. I dont like how it just shows the post title.
Thanks Tom
Hello There!
Great plugin! Everything works… except the Facebook like button. It’s not showing up in posts, pages, or the share widget. It does show up in the follow widget, though.
Your help would be much appreciated.
Hi,
Great Plugin!
Ideally I would like to use the facebook plug in in a specific place on one page.
I used short code which comes with the facebook send button, I wanted to use the follow me facebook button for this, how do I get around this?
thanks,
mg
Hey,
As everyone has already said…Great Plugin and am really enjoying it.
The only question I really have is that I want it to look like the plugin you have at the top of this site where all the buttons (with numbers) are all very compact for my homepage where you have the widget “Share This Site” at the top right hand side of this website. How can I make this amazing widget look like that?
Many thanks for the support
All-
I got a tweet from Marijn two weeks ago. He said a new u pdated is coming soon that will add Pinterest. Be patient and good things will come.
Thank you for this plugin. I have been using it for months now but I just noticed that after the latest update when I click the Facebook like button it doesn’t create a link/post to my Facebook page.
Agree with everyone. Pinterest would be good.
It’s a very nice plugin.
I try to embed it with code but create_followers () is not embed.
create_bookmarks() works.
Wonderful plugin, but the only thing missing is the pinterest. When do you plan to add this button? I will be eagerly waiting for it. Thanks.
Hi–I can’t get the share buttons to display on site. I set the ones I wanted to display at the bottom of the post, but it doesn’t. I have configured and saved. To no avail. What am I doing wrong?
Nice widget! It does what I would like… or almost.
1> is there anyway I could include the “follow me” icons not in a widget, but in my template? (the widget styling is wrong in where I want put it)
2> It would be great to have the ability to add, in the “follow us”, a mail icon (I would put a link to the newsletter subscription)
Thanks Marijn!
Oh? i found response to my 1st question in your readme.txt:
create_followers();
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Hi
This is a really good plug in. The biggest problem I’m having is having the buttons show up in the excerpts page. I have the check box enabled in the general settings panel (“include button in excerpts”). You can check out my site, but the buttons are not displaying.
I’d love any hints on how to fix this bug.
Thanks
I love this plugin. However, I’d like to know if I’ve got the setting(s) wrong. My facebook “likes” from facebook are not reflected on my blog. Any suggestions?
it shows up on all posts. thats not really what you want…..
I just downloaded plugin and wanted to add the social buttons to the bottom of each post/page. However, since this is a blog for a company, how can I get the facebook Like/share buttons to be for my company’s facebook, not my personal one?
I am using the Social Sharing Toolkit and have added the Facebook Send to my blog posts. When I click on the icon the resulting pop-up box is distorted to a smaller size that does not display the full box so it cannot be used.
I am using WordPress 3.3.1 and 2.0.4 for SST.
can you help me correct this please?
Thanks.
PS: I think the icon should say “Share” and not “send”
Hi, thank you for the very good work you had done for your plugin! It is very useful!
I like to know if you will add a new Pinterest button to your plugin to display a “Pin it” button in our post?
Thank you!
Hello Marijn. Thanks so much this so nice plugin.
I have two problem and questions for the plugin.
1: Linkedin share button doesn’t work. When I push the button a new page opens but there is no view in it. It’s only a blank page. How can we fix this problem ?
2: When my site load it try to connect Facebook and Google. How do I stop connections to these sites. Anyway It can be connected when the PAGE not homepage is opened.
Site : http://www.heptasarim.com
I am having the same issue as Geoff. If that can be resolved as quickly as possible, that would be more than excellent. Otherwise, it is a great plug-in!
Thanks!
LAW
Hi Marijn,
I have a question: I’m trying to use the social sharing toolkit and than the follow widget in WordPress. It works for twitter but it does work not for linkedin. I fill in the complete public url and it brings people to linkedin but not to my account. How can I solve this? Thanks already!
Regards, Loes
first of all, great plugin! one question: is it possible to add a hashtag to the twitter share function, i.e. whenever a user shares a link from my site on twitter a hashtag will automatically be added to the tweet (always the same hashtag or maybe two). thanks!
Do you intend to add a “pin it” button for Pinterest?
Dank voor je geweldige plugin! we waren al een tijdje op zoek naar een goede, maar bijna niet te vinden of niet helemaal wat we wilden. Top, succes, silvia en rudi
Great stuff
Could you please add in follow widget mail feed incon with url like RSS Feed.
This is a great plugin.
Could you add a Pinterest “Pin It” button please?
Hi MR!
I love your plugin! Great work.
Is there anyway to use different button icons other than the ones you have provided for the “Share” feature in sidebar? For example, I have a different email icon .png I would like to use.
Thanks!
Taylor
Hello
Thanks for a nice plugin! Is it possible for you to add those “share”-buttons too?
Thanks
Daniel
Hello again. I meant sharing buttons to Facebook, so it could be shared as a wall post.
// Daniel
nice plugin but can you add the facebook share button?
thanks
Is there the ability to add this function via template tags?
Kan het zijn dat de Facebook share (niet de like) button niet werkt? Geeft een 503 code, maar alle andere buttons werken wel.
I have downloaded and I’m testing your plugin as I type, Great Job so far so good it looks like a winner!
Hi Marijn,
Can you add PINTEREST to your plugin? That would be great!!
Just wanted to let you know I installed this on my website which has WordPress 3.3.1 and it does work (so far).
It would be nice if you could had the Facebook Share button also!!
Hi Marijn,
Are you still supporting this plugin? You don’t seem to have replied to anyone for a while…
I too am having trouble with the position of the ‘facebook send’ pop-up. However I can’t even find the css styles that are being applied to it in order to hack it.
Any tips?
Many thanks.
What about the supprot for Pinterest ???
Hi,
after some try and error I finally found your plugin, which brings the desired LinkedIN without extra coding from my site
So I installed it, and I am quite happy with it.
There are just two little wishes I have regarding the follow-widget. Maybe you can insert them into the next version?
1) Follow for xing
2) possibility to use member-plugin of linkedin (https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins/member-profile-plugin-generator)
Thanks a lot
What happens to the Facebook icon?
Thank you.
The Facebook Icon does not appear. What is the problem?
Why did the facebook icon dissappear?! Please resolve!
Ditto Nocolein on the Facebook icon.
The facebook icon has suddenly disappear. What happened?
There has been a change in the Facebook call to the api, it may be a temporary bug on Facebook’s end but a fix is on the way with the next update.
Pinterest, Facebook Share and Xing are also included in the update i’m currently testing.
Very cool plugin! I find it nice to use on my website, however people have ask if I can put a Pinterest button on the site. When will a Pinterest button be available?
Thanks!
Hi Marijn,
Does the plug-in work with the latest version of WP 3.3.1? I get the message that is has not been tested yet?
It goes in conflict with Mailpress. Infact when creating a new custom themes, while printing “the excerpt” (even with get_the_excerpt) this buttons comes out.
Hi Marijn,
I installed the new version 2.0.6 on wordpress 3.3.1–pt_BR. But is not working. Nothing appears on my blog.
Does the plug-in work with the latest version of WP 3.3.1?
Thanks in advance!
Hello Marijin,
the only version that´s working with the last wordpress (3.3.1-pt_BR) is 2.0.4.
Please, let me know when the problem be solved!
thanks!!
Hi,
After upgrading to most recent version, social sharing buttons stopped being displayed on the home page of my blog. They are displayed in single posts but not home page. How can i fix this problem?
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This is a great plugin.
But, my LIKE button has disappeared. Is there a way to get it back; without resetting the number of LIKES?
I love your app thanks! Being a non-techie this is great!
I can’t get my follow me widget to work though. I’ve gotten twitter to work but not facebook or pinterest. Do you have a user manual? or would you be so kind as to tell me how I do this?
Thanks!
Per above comment I actually figured it out after hours of trying before after posting comment, I just kept trying over and over what with what I was putting in the id and finally got it right… still quite remarkable for me totally non technical thanks for your app!
HI…the plugin is easy and works great!
I only have a question for you: I could I exclude the sharing button to be showed on my home page ? I used the content menu to create them .. i’m not so good in wordpress
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