{ 88 comments }

Dianna Ranere June 26, 2011 at 8:02 pm

Is there a way to change the Twitter share to show “Via @Freesamplemomma” instead of directing to you?

Kunal C June 28, 2011 at 6:34 am

Already added a new field in Settings to specify your twitter id. Please download the latest version of plugin.

Babasa Arnold June 27, 2011 at 10:38 pm

Thanks for this wonderful plugin. I will use it in all my blogs. It’s simple and elegant. Thanks for the good work Kunal!

Kunal C June 27, 2011 at 10:41 pm

Thanks Babasa for your kind words!! Really appreciate.

Chaz @ Gear-Vault June 27, 2011 at 11:38 pm

It’d be cool if you can add Digg, Google Buzz and have it automatically feed new posts to facebook. Nice plugin. Love how fast it is. My page load time is 1.7 seconds.

Kunal C June 28, 2011 at 6:36 am

Thanks for the feedback. I will try and include more options in the next release. I liked the idea of automatically feeding new posts to facebook.
Loading speed was the main reason to write this plugin. Still dont understand why all the plugin writers load javascript in the head…

Andres Cabezas June 28, 2011 at 12:46 am

Very, very nice plugin. I like how it looks when configured as a floating bar on the left, at the very edge of the window. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to use it, since for small window widths it blocks the main content in my blog. (The left margin on my Wordpress theme shrinks to nothing, causing the bar to cover part of the page content.) My recommendation: 1) Find a way to hide the plugin when the window is narrower than a certain, user-configurable width or 2) add a small button to collapse the toolbar by clicking on it (a minimize button). (Option 1 would be much better.)

Kunal C June 28, 2011 at 6:39 am

Thanks Andres for your feedback. I am currently working on the same and trying to find a way out to hide the floating left bar when the screen size is smaller. Will try to include in my next release.

Jonathan Black July 2, 2011 at 5:09 pm

Great plugin! I am having the same problem with the box covering the content in smaller windows. I’ve had a couple of my visitors ay they could not view the post because of the box. Hope you can figure a way to hide the box in smaller screens. For now I have moved it to the bottom of post. But I love the plugin. Thank you very much for creating it!

Karthik June 29, 2011 at 12:45 am

Hey Kunal,

Think you’ve done a great job with this posting dude ! The plug-in looks cool & interesting with incredible features ! !

I’m so grateful to you for this useful sharing & for your effort, Keep rocking with more good postings ever : )

Kunal C June 29, 2011 at 8:44 pm

Thanks Karthik for the feedback.. You too have a great site..

ali sheryn June 29, 2011 at 11:05 am

hello Kunal,

Very nice plugin. I’m using it at the moment on my website. However when someone one click “like” it goes back to “0″. It doesn’t count. Same thing happen with tweet and +1.

Can you explain why? and is there a way out of it

Kunal C June 29, 2011 at 11:23 am

Hi Ali,
Thanks for using my plugin. The count display is not immediate and it takes time to update. Its the default feature of the respective site (twitter, facebook and google). Its nothing to do with plugin and we have no control over the script provided by them.
I can see some of your post are now showing the count. So wait for some time and check if they are updated.
Let me know if you need any more help.
Regards,
Kunal

Paul June 29, 2011 at 2:49 pm

Hi,

Great looking plugin but I am unable to use it with my theme. My theme is an event calendar and uses special custom posts for the events. When I activate the plugin, I do not the buttons appear on the external site. I’m assuming this because of the way these posts have been coded by the theme designer. Do you know of a simple fix? Thanks.

Kunal C June 29, 2011 at 4:01 pm

Hi Paul,
I am not sure what exactly is the issue. Is it some of the buttons are not displayed or nothing is displayed at all?

Regards,
Kunal

skykid June 29, 2011 at 8:24 pm

Wonderful plugin and excellent support . I had some problems implementing it due to some specifics of the theme I am using and the plugin`s author suggested a workaround – thanks to it now the plugin works as a charm.

Kunal C June 29, 2011 at 8:39 pm

Thanks for the kind words. Really appreciate!!

Donna Fontenot June 29, 2011 at 8:53 pm

Love this plugin, thanks! I do have one feature request and that is to allow us to also include it on pages, as well as posts. Thanks again for a great plugin!

Kunal C June 29, 2011 at 9:15 pm

Thanks Donna!! Your request will definitely be added in next release of this plugin. Wont take long to get that released. Couple of others have made similar request, so will add it in next release.

Tony June 30, 2011 at 2:08 am

That will be excellent, I’ve been using the facebook like count on my most popular pages as something of a social proof when new readers land. Having that like count up there is super important for me.

Love the plugin so far

Kunal C June 30, 2011 at 6:55 am

Thanks Tony!! I am glad the plugin is serving your purpose. More features are coming soon.

Doug June 29, 2011 at 9:42 pm

Hi Kunal,

I have downloaded your plugin and it should be active. However, none of the social share buttons are showing up on my site.
I have played around with the settings but still nothing.

Do you know why this would occur? And what the best solution maybe to remedy the situation?

I think this plugin would be the best thing around regarding social share buttons but only if the buttons would show up.

Thank you,

Doug

Kunal C June 29, 2011 at 10:06 pm

Hey Doug,

Thanks for downloading my plugin. I visited your site and I could see all the buttons on your site. You have not enabled stumbleupon I guess. But I can see all the other 3 buttons.

Also you have edited the twitter display to vertical instead of horizontal and hence it is not in the assigned area of the bar.

Also this Social share plugin currently will be displayed only in posts and not on static pages and home page.

The next release of this plugin will have the option to display on static and home pages. That is scheduled in next week.

Hope that helps..

Best Regards,
Kunal

Doug June 30, 2011 at 1:33 am

Hi Kunal,

I am not sure how you can see the buttons. I still cannot see any of the Social Share buttons. I’ve checked using Firefox v.5 and IE.
Also, I do not see any setting to alter the Twitter button from vertical to horizontal.

I’ve set the buttons to show at the top of each post and to exclude the Stumbleupon button only.

I’ve tried all settings. Above the post, below the post, both, and the left side of the post and still nothing.

Thanks,

Doug

Kunal C June 30, 2011 at 6:53 am

Hey Doug, I have emailed you the screenshot. Please see and let me know.

sebarey June 30, 2011 at 1:52 am

Hi, I would like to know if I can modify the style of the buttons.

Kunal C June 30, 2011 at 6:59 am

Hey Sebarey, at the moment I have not given the option to change the style of button. For above and below post display, the style of count is horizontal by default. And for left side floating it is vertical.
The whole purpose of this being, horizontal take min space and hence wont occupy imp part of your content. On left floating, the horizontal style wont look good at all.
But I might include some configuration to change the style in future.

Jules June 30, 2011 at 2:34 pm

Liking this plugin, using it with Thesis 1.8 wouls like to see it on pages not just on posts
Thanks

Kunal C June 30, 2011 at 10:10 pm

Hi Jules, Thanks for using the plugin. I will be writing a separate post soon for using this social share options in Thesis 1.8 without using a plugin. Will let you know once that is done.

Andrew Gloyns June 30, 2011 at 2:39 pm

Hi Kunal, love the plugin, thank you. I wondered, with the release today of the ability to track social engagement with Google Analytics, do you have plans to update the plugin to allow this? I’m just about to publish an article on the new feature :)

Kunal C June 30, 2011 at 4:08 pm

Hi Andrew, thanks for the kind words. Just read the article about ability to track social engagement. Thanks for suggesting the same. I might consider adding that feature in this plugin.

Aditya June 30, 2011 at 7:02 pm

My search ends here :) This is the best ever social share plug-in with easy configuration and high visibility.

Kunal C June 30, 2011 at 10:11 pm

Thanks Aditya for the appreciation!!

Chaz @ Gear-Vault June 30, 2011 at 7:04 pm

Tweets are working, but not registering in the counter. It says zero even days after the page has been tweet’d several times. The website in question is linked to my name if you want to take a look at it.

Nick C. June 30, 2011 at 8:38 pm

Great thanks!

Is it possible to make the Facebook like show zero likes instead of just a blank field?

And when you’re using the plugin above the post, without borders, then how about a feature, so you could either center or make it to the right?

Kunal C June 30, 2011 at 10:25 pm

When you facebook like to show zero, I am assuming it is for top of the post or bottom of the post display. Thats the default behaviour of like button provided by facebook and we have no control over it. When there is min 1 like then only the count os displayed for horizontal style.
If you want the zero count to be displayed then vertical style is the only option.

Floating left or right when no border is a good idea. Will add that option in next release. Should be done by this weekend.

Thanks Nick for dropping a comment.

Liam June 30, 2011 at 9:42 pm

Hi Kunal,

Great plugin, just what I was after.

My only suggestions for future updates are:

1) Border color options
2) Allow the ‘Below the post’ placement to be shown on the front page.

Thanks!

Kunal C June 30, 2011 at 10:14 pm

Hi Liam,

Points noted. Will try and work out on the same in upcoming release..
2nd point is definitely coming in next release. Most likely this weekend when I get some free time :)

Thanks for using the plugin.

Regards,
Kunal

Dan Dawson July 1, 2011 at 12:44 am

Great plugin. I noticed when I first loaded it I had the Facebook icon and a plain text “tweet” listed in the bar. By changing the javascript to the header instead of the footer it started working perfectly. I built my own theme, what piece am I missing in the footer to allow it to load the Javascript there instead of only in the header?

Second question… On my main blog view it shows all of the posts in order (most recent on top of course)… but the share icons only show up when you view an individual post. Was that by design? I’m not sure I would use them the other way but seems like it would be a good option. I know it would take extra work, each button would have to be tied directly to the post it was a part of, probably too much work?

Kunal C July 1, 2011 at 6:49 am

Hi Dan,

The reason javascript is not loaded in footer for you is that your theme does not support it. Every theme after 2.8 version is suppose to support the wp_footer function. But some themes do miss them.

Just add the below one line in yout footer.php
<?php wp_footer(); ?>

This should allow you to load the script in footer.

Currently the plugin is designed only to show on single post. This makes sense as on home page there are more than 1 post and the left floating bar for each of them would be difficult to configure and it wont look good as well.

I am planning to add the option of showing it on home and single pages but only above and below the post and not the left floating (single pages will have left floating option).

Hope that helps..

Dan Dawson July 1, 2011 at 3:31 pm

I figured it would be something as simple as adding an easy fix! Thanks so much for the quick reply.

And your comments on the home page functionality are right on, above and below would be the only options that make sense. And like I mentioned, I’m not even sure I would end up using them on the home page, it would be kind of repetitive, but if I show the full posts on the front page and most people read them there, they likely would never see the buttons at all since they don’t click to view single posts.

bryant July 1, 2011 at 7:17 am

hi. this is a really cool plug in, you have created almost exactly what I’m looking for. my only question is this. is there a way to switch out the facebook like button with a facebook share button? I am an seo and I have seen stronger correlation data supporting shares over likes.

Kunal C July 1, 2011 at 8:10 am

Hi Bryant, I was thinking about adding facebook share along with like.. Now that you have given strong reason, I will add it in next release. Thanks for using the plugin.

bryant jaquez July 1, 2011 at 6:12 pm

thanks kunal, I really appreciate you doing that for us. I look forward to the update.

Mike July 1, 2011 at 9:55 am

Great plugin. I have it floating on the left side of my blog.
I’d love to get the same look also working on the rest of my site as well (it’s a hand coded php site). Is that possible?

Kunal C July 1, 2011 at 11:41 am

Thanks Mike, I didnt quite understand what is your requirement. Is it that you want the buttons to display on static pages and home page as well?

Simon July 1, 2011 at 11:05 am

Hi I use the Journalist theme and have installed a “Twitter Facebook Social Share” plugin for my blog posts. I followed the installation procedure and it says the plugin was installed correctly and activated but I don’t see any evidence on my blog when I view it. Knowing plugins can be tricky I deleted it and re-installed it but still no joy, any ideas how to get it working?
best
Simon

Kunal C July 1, 2011 at 11:40 am

Hi Simon, Thanks for using the plugin. Currently the plugin is supported for only single post. So if you click on any post, you should see the social buttons. I can you you have just configured 2 social share buttons with left floating option and I can see the same without any issue.

Regarding the display on home page, I will release a new version this weekend which will have that option too. Hope that helps.

Nicholas Overstreet July 1, 2011 at 3:03 pm

Kunal, thanks for the fantastic plugin. It adds the vital sharing buttons with out spamming the hell out of the page like other plugins do. This is just what I was looking for.

Kunal C July 1, 2011 at 3:38 pm

Thanks Nicholas!! I am glad you liked it.

Marty July 1, 2011 at 9:58 pm

Hi Kunal,

Facebook button is working, but twitter says twitter.com/share. I’ve manually uploaded 1.0.2 and it still says its 1.0.0 on the plugin management page.

Marty

Kunal C July 1, 2011 at 10:04 pm

Hi Marty,
Thanks for using the plugin. Dont worry much about the version displayed. You have downloaded the correct files.
The problem is with your theme as it has no support for wp_footer fuct (ideally all themes for 2.8+ version should support that function).
2 Solutions for this.

1. Easy one.. Disable “Load script in footer”. This should resolve the issue.
2. This involves adding one line code to footer.php (in your theme folder)

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

This should resolve your issue. Hope that helps.

Best Regards,
Kunal

Marty July 1, 2011 at 10:52 pm

Oh, I forgot I’ve got Autoptimize plugin, which shoots all java to the footer (among other things). Deactivated that (probably don’t need it anyway – not too complex of a blog site.

Looks great!! Thanks!! Donation forthcoming.

Kunal C July 1, 2011 at 10:54 pm

Hey Marty, I am glad it worked for you. New release coming soon which will have option to display the buttons on home page and also on single static pages. Thanks.

Marty July 1, 2011 at 11:56 pm

Donation is made.

Kunal C July 2, 2011 at 9:28 am

Hey Marty, Thanks a lot for the contribution. Really appreciate..

Pierre July 2, 2011 at 2:23 pm

Hi Kunal,

First off, congrats for this GREAT plugin. Nice job, really!

A couple of (stupid?) remarks & questions, though:

1. I’m wondering why you don’t put all the CSS in a stylesheet, which would make it much easier to edit (and to minify).

2. Do you plan to give the ability to show/hide counts in the admin?

3. Same question for the dimensions of the Box.

4. As many, I’d love to show your Box on pages.
What’s the best way to do it before you add this to the next version. I’m using the Headway Theme, so including a piece of code anywhere is very easy, thanks to their…”Easy Hooks”.

Thanks in advance!

All the best,

Pierre

Brandon July 2, 2011 at 5:00 pm

Hey, I updated the plugin this morning and now when I select show on home page, the button shows up inside each posts excerpt. It works fine per single post just not on my home page. I am using a float on left option set.

Kunal C July 2, 2011 at 5:05 pm

Hi Brandon, I forgot to mention in settings that left float is not feasible on home page, category, tag and archive pages. Since home page always have more than one post, the left floating cant be configured. So the only option available for home page is “Above” or “Below” the post contents.

Usman July 2, 2011 at 9:23 pm

Bro very nice article thnx

Kristin July 2, 2011 at 11:24 pm

Great plugin!
Seems like Firefox is blocking the pop-up window for Facebook when I’m not logged in.

Claus Dam Nielsen July 3, 2011 at 12:29 am

Hi Kunal,

Great plugin. I’m from Denmark and the Danish version of the Facebook button is quite wide. At the moment it ruins the look of your buttonbox.

Claus

Rohan July 3, 2011 at 8:02 am

Really nice plugin, I am using this on all my niche blogs!

Kunal C July 3, 2011 at 4:12 pm

Thanks Rohan, Glad you liked it.

Pierre July 3, 2011 at 11:43 am

@Jonathan Black For smaller screens -or even for people who don’t maximize their window-, a quick-and-dirty workaround is to set the z-index of the #leftcontainerBox to -1:

#leftcontainerBox {
blah;
blah;
z-index: -1;
}

This way, the container goes under the main content, i/o hiding it…
At least it works with my theme.

Give it a shot or experiment with Firefox+Firebug add-on.

Best,

Pierre

Kunal C July 3, 2011 at 4:10 pm

Pierre, this is brilliant. Thanks for pointing it out. I will include it in the next release. You might want to share your website link here, would love to give you credit for this…

Jonathan Black July 4, 2011 at 2:11 am

I tried the above suggestion but alas it does not work. When I try z-index:-1; the entire box disappears.I also tried z-index: -1; but still the box disappears. Only way I can get the box to show is with the original coding which of course is not working with small windows. I will continue playing with the code :)

Thanks for a great plugin though and thanks to Pierre for the suggestion.

Jonathan Black July 4, 2011 at 1:28 am

Than you very much!

Pierre July 3, 2011 at 11:48 am

@Kunal: FYI, “liketext” is not wide enough in french: it shows only “J’aim” i/o “J’aime”.
Great, anyway, keep it up!

Pierre

Kunal C July 3, 2011 at 4:12 pm

Yes I did realise when I got couple of emails regarding the same. I will try and include a setting for width and height of buttons. So that can be configured as per ones requirement. Thanks again for all the feedback..

GIl July 3, 2011 at 12:42 pm

HI ,
Great plugin , exacly what I was looking for.
Fit’s my theme collors perfectly and I wrealy want to use it. But after I activate it all content inside post gets shiftted by 20cm down and you need to scrool down to read it.
Can you advise what can I do to fix it ?

Pierre July 3, 2011 at 4:52 pm

Hi Kunal,

I’m glad this little CSS “trick” helps but, again, it’s a “quick-and-dirty” one, if only because it means no box will be (fully) displayed on smaller screens or windows.

It’s better than nothing but I think it would be better that you write (or find…) a function to change the Box position from left to top and/or bottom when the width of the window is under a (user-?)defined value. Don’t you think?

Thanks for your offer to give me “credit” by pointing to my website but 1. I’m currently re-designing it and 2. It’s in french (which doesn’t prevent it from receiving a little bit of “google juice” but…anyway, no big deal, really! It’s my pleasure.

Best,

Francis

Brian Matiash July 4, 2011 at 4:14 am

First off, I really want to thank you for putting together the exact type of social plugin that I was hunting for. It fits the bill quite nicely.

I have a few requests, though, and I hope they are easy to implement if you feel that they make sense:

1. Ability to turn on/off counts for Twitter (or maybe all of the social media channels)
2. Ability to support other URL shortening services (ideally Bit.ly with tracking via API key)
3. Ability to customize the pre-formatted twitter message that gets generated when clicking on the Twitter icon

Other than that, again, this is a genius plugin. Thanks much for your work!

Brian

CFA July 4, 2011 at 9:46 am

Thanks Kunal for this lovely plugin. Please consider adding a linkedin button in your next release….. linked is growing in size and influence. Keep up the good work sir!

kellie patzer July 4, 2011 at 8:38 pm

kunal

great plugin. getting much closer to what i was searching for.

a few things i noticed:

1. on my theme (elegant design – simplepress) the homepage pushes the social bar into the content. the rest of the pages and posts positions correctly per what i set.

2. other social plugins use [shortcode] so we can place only on pages we want, where we want as well as an to place on pages / posts to prevent the social bar from displaying.

3. even if i shut off displaying on homepage, because i have excepts from other pages, it rips up the homepage by trying to put the social bar in all the little excerpts.

i’m hoping you might have ideas and work around for my homepage situation and i’m hoping you may consider some of the above in future releases.

thanks kunal!

kellie

Kunal C July 4, 2011 at 9:55 pm

Hi Kellie,

Thanks for using the plugin. I didn’t quite understand the first point. I did visit your site and checked the blog, I didnt see anything wrong. If you send me the screenshots then I would be in better position to resolve the issue.

Also I am adding some new features to the plugin.
1. Shortcode [tfg_social_share] which can be inserted as text in post or pages.
2. you can add a custom field (disable_social_share) to any post or page with value “yes” and the plugin will be disabled for that particular page or post.

Also there are couple of other bugs which need to be fixed. This will all be released by end of this week.

If you drop me an email searchtechword [at] gmail . com then I would be more than happy to help you.

Bill Dotson July 6, 2011 at 12:48 pm

Great plug-in. I appreciate all the config help in these comments, too.

Kunal C July 6, 2011 at 2:47 pm

Thanks Bill, I am glad you liked it.

Jacob C July 6, 2011 at 1:13 pm

Great plugin – thanks!
But I have a small problem with the facebook button.
In my language (danish) “Like” translates to “Synes godt om” and this makes the FB and G+1 button overlap !
I would like to be able to change the position of the buttons, moving facebook to the right, would probably solve my problem.
Any suggestions ?

thanx Kunal C

Kunal C July 6, 2011 at 2:47 pm

Hi Jacob,
I am aware of the facebook like issue in Danish lang. In the new release I have added a option of adjusting the width of individual buttons. This new version will be released this weekend. So please bear with me till then.. Also many new features are added in the new version. All will be released this weekend..

Tara @ Unsophisticook July 6, 2011 at 4:00 pm

Great plugin! It sounds like you’re already adding some of the features I was going to mention, like changing the order of the buttons or the spacing.

I did want to mention that it seems like the Facebook Like is not working right now. I actually found your plugin because I was searching for a new FB Like plugin because my other one stopped working. Now I’m not sure if it’s a Facebook issue, my site (although it’s happening on another site I have as well), or a plugin issue. Can you help at all? Thanks!

Kunal C July 6, 2011 at 4:04 pm

Hi Tara, Thanks for downloading the plugin. I did hear few people mentioning about facebook like issue. Are you using any cache plugin for your site? If thats the case then try clearing the cache data and see if that helps. Couple of them managed to resolve it by doing that.

Neil Kirk July 7, 2011 at 7:14 am

Hi

Love the plugin, but the FB button is also not working for me. I have tried clearing my browser cache, but still no go…

Any other ideas?

Neil Kirk July 7, 2011 at 7:17 am

Ignore this… It’s working!

It was only because I have already Liked my own page :)

Jim Spencer July 6, 2011 at 5:46 pm

Kunal,

Thanks for thinking this through and creating a very useful plugin. Thanks also for the active comment section. I learned here that my old and custom theme was missing the code . I added it and the plugin started to work fully. So, thanks for that.
I see that you have positioned your buttons on the left, which I did also. You might have already considered moving it to the left about 37 pixels. As I see it the button bar is centered on your site border and really encroaches on the page content, although it does not overlap. Have you found this positioning the most effective?

Orwell July 7, 2011 at 11:58 am

Heyhooo :)

Thanks for this plugin, – i got a lot plugins for social stuff which could be deleted if i would take yours. I would really prefare yours as “all in one”, – if, – if you can add the option “Flattr”. Flattr is a micropayment sharing tool for blogs. Needet in european blogs… :)

so far, have good days,
Orwell

Yasin July 7, 2011 at 1:54 pm

Hi, thank you for your plugin. Very crisp, clear and professional.

However the issue I have is that the FB like button is not working properly. When users click like it doesn’t show up on their FB feed nor does the like counter increase.

I do not have any cache plugins running.

Yasin July 7, 2011 at 1:57 pm

Hi, I’m back again, managed to ‘fix it’. Above you mentioned other FB plugins clashing with this one, the only one I had was deactivated but it still prevented your plugin from working.

So if anybody else is reading, if FB Like function isn’t working and you have other FB plugins deactivated try deleting them too.

Thanks for awesome plugin and it’s great to see a WP developer dedicating more time to providing support.

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