Social Links WordPress Plugin
The Social Links WordPress plugin is a sidebar widget that displays icon links to your profile pages on other social networking sites. You can see it in action here on the right hand side of my blog.
Installation Instructions:
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Networks
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Update: I’m currently in the process of updating the plugin for WordPress 2.9. No end date in mind yet, but I’ve got all the functionality already in place. Just cleaning up the UI a bit and refactoring the code.
Upcoming Features:
- Ability to select any icon from an icons folder and enter any title and url to go with it. Manage available networks on your own! . Just upload the icon and its available to select.
- Open in new window(already done)
Known Issues:
- Long links are truncated.
Download
More details and downloads are over at the WordPress Extend Social Links page.
Known Bugs:
Entries (RSS)
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@Sharon. Its definitely the next thing I’m doing in the plugin. I started it a few weeks ago, but for the next little while I won’t be able to spend on time on it. I hope to get it out in within the next month, but don’t hold me to it.
Thanks for the feedback!
Update:
The next version is almost ready. I’m already done coding it. There have been some changes under the hood so I’m spending some time just testing to make sure everyone can transition smoothly from the last version.
This next version will allow you to link to any site you want. All you’ll have to do is upload the site icon to an ‘icons’ folder and it will automagically appear for you to select in the admin page.
Hopefully I can have this out by next weekend.
Cheers
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Don’t forget to add the new Yahoo! Buzz…
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Hey I have this plugin and I love it and all but the images don’t show for me!
I’m guessing its because I have the new WordPress but can anyone help me make it work?
@Charlii Do they show up in the admin page? If not, double check there’s an images folder in the social-links plugin folder and let me know.
Ed, which database are you referring to when you wrote:
“Drew,
go into the database and up the max characters for the url field.”
I attempted to look at the plug-in’s php file but found nothing referring to max characters. Thanks.
@Drew.
I suggest holding out until the next release. It takes care of this and much more.
If you’re interested in trying it out now, I’ve got a pretty stable release here. If you(or anyone else) want to try this sneak peak version, please leave a comment with any feedback or bugs you find.
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/social-links.1.1.0.zip
Thanks, some quick input on the beta version:
1) the migrate feature didn’t work, even after deactivate/reactive
2) the input method is very counter-intuitive. Just looking at the setup screen makes me think all you need to do is double click the social networking icon and it should automatically fill out the “icon friendly name” field but this wasn’t the case. I had to drag the icon to the field to make it work
3) none of the icons would load after clicking the “add social link” button so it is hard to offer any feedback beyond that.
It seems that I’ve lost all of my 1.0.1 version info which is too bad, I hope you get the new version up and running soon.
Hi Drew,
You definitely haven’t lost your links from the previous version. They’re still sitting there in the database.
It sounds to me like the database update wasn’t successful.
1. Do you get an error message when you try to add a new link?
2. Do you have a way to look at your wordpress database?
Here’s the link to the next test release.
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/social-links.1.1.1.zip
No error message, it just hang sup with the “wait” graphic.
Yes, but I eventually just made a sidebar widget myself out of a text widget which seems to do the trick just fine so I doubt I’ll even use the plugin, but I’m sure plenty of other folks will appreciate it since they won’t wnat to take the time to code it out via html.
Drew
Kareem, thanks for the plugin, very useful.
One thing:
* The tag for each icon only has the “alt” attribute set. This means tooltips don’t show up in Firefox since Firefox uses the “title” attribute for tooltips (IE will use “alt” for tooltips if “title” is missing). It’s best to set both the “alt” (for accessibility) and the “title” attributes in the tag.
Adding Reverbnation to the would be awesome. Thanks!
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Any plans for a release compatible with 2.7?
hey i am using this widget and in the images there is a googlereader.png but from dashboard there is no selection of this from select network, does anyone know if this widget can support this? any information would be greatly appreciated!!!!
thanks
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I have the newest wordpress in which i Installed this but I have no idea how to get this to work?
Hi Kareem,
Which part of the plug in would I have to edit to change the width/margins etc?
I’d like the plug in to look similar to my other widgets, but the spacing is off.
Thanks for a great plug in
Hello,
Love the plugin – it’s brill. Any chance of a Vimeo option?
http://www.vimeo.com/saconvimeo
Cheers
Steve
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I would love to see Radar added. It’s a new cell phone pic community that is really cool. I use it on my blog to share cell phone pics.
hi,
it would be great to have some german social networks like
http://www.studivz.net
http://www.meinvz.net
http://www.schuelervz.net
thx!
sebastian
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There is an error when i try to use your pluggin. Please help
“5. Add your social links from the ‘Social Links’ page under the ‘Management’ page”
i’m sorry. it’s probably because i am a wordpress newbie but what “Social Links” page and what ‘Management’ page? i have no idea what these are.
is this a reference to editing the ‘php’ page code?
please help.
thanks.
i should be more specific. exactly where am i suppose to paste the social networking url.
thanks, christina
Vimeo is gaining some ground on the video sharing front. I use it some. http://www.vimeo.com/justinromack
Your Social Links plugin has a conflict with our recently installed Shopp plugin. A fix would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hi, The Facebook profile URL is chopping off the last digit so the link results in a address not found error.
Our correct URL is http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrews-McMeel/1619016642 and Social Links uses http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrews-McMeel/161901664 chopping off the last digit.
Hoping this can be resolved.
Thanks,
susan
I downloaded your plugin, but it has caused my featured content gallery to stop showing. What may be ther problem?
can i insert in my about page,
if yes what are the modifications to be made
Thanks
Hi, I’m trying to get the plugin to work for wordpress version 2.7.1 but failed. You say “Add your social links from the Social Links page under Management.” but where is the Social Links page under Management?? I activated the plugin but couldnt get it to show.
I am missing “hyves”
http://www.hyves.nl/
any chance this will be added? Thanks!
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Buttons are appearing vertically on my blog… how do I solve it?
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I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.7, so the next version will be good to go in the latest wordpress installs.
How do I get the icons to appear bigger?
Thanks,
suggested links:
networks used a lot in skandinavia:
underskog: http://www.underskog.no
Bandbase: http://www.bandbase.dk
other suggestions:
IMEEM
BEEBO
VIMEO
Could you add Reddit to the next version? Awesome plugin BTW
Could you add rel=”me” to the links generated by this plugin so they can get picked up by search engines like socialsearchme.com?
Thanks
I’ve even written a patch for you against your current trunk
http://pastie.org/511828
do you plan to have a larger icon option soon? I would like to have 32 pix may be even bigger
Thanks
Is a version for WordPress 2.8 in the works? I installed it in a 2.8 version and it “frozen” my widget page. I’ll keep checking back. Your plug-in seems to be exactly what I’m looking for.
Your plug in is amazing
Could you add an Itunes icon that links to the itunes podcast directory?
I have installed and added the social links plugin successfully. The problem I am having is when adding a Facebook link the entire URL to our profile its gets truncated. You can see the result here http://esucp.com/blog/ but the Face book profile path should be http://www.facebook.com/pages/Easter-Seals-UCP-North-Carolina/62512907792?ref=ts