2011
Aug
08
Slick Social Share Buttons
Checking your facebook like button
IF YOUR FACEBOOK LIKE BUTTON IS NOT WORKING CORRECTLY TRY THIS FIRST
If you are having problems with the facebook like button Facebook provide an online debugging tool, which will give you detailed information about the page and any errors that may be affecting the like button:
For some strange reason (known only to facebook), many problems with facebook … more
The facebook like button is grey
If your facebook like button is grey and you are unable to click it this means that you have already “liked” this page using your current logged in profile.
If you hover over the tick mark on the grey like button this will change to a cross icon – click this icon to “unlike” the page.
What is the difference between the facebook like buttons
There are 2 basic types of facebook like button:
1. The like button that appears on each blog post or website page using the Slick Social Share Button Plugin.
2. The like button that appears in the facebook page box like you see on … more
The Twitter button always displays horizontal
If you are having problems with the tweet button not being able to display the vertical button + count this may be due to the WP External Links plugin, which so far causes problems by interfering with the twitter code.
Changing the WP External Links settings as shown below should hopefully fix the problem:
If you do not … more
Images for the facebook like, google buzz & pin it share buttons
The facebook like, google buzz and pin it social media share buttons all have the ability to attach an image as part of the information sent when the share button is clicked.
To add an image to the button the plugin uses the WordPress built-in thumbnail feature. Thumbnails allow you to select an image that is representative of the post/page … more
Setting up the share buttons to be the same as designchemical.com
We have had many people ask how we have set up the Slick Social Share Buttons used on this website. Most of the settings can be managed from the plugin options page – the only item that needs any kind of customisation is the CSS to hide the share tab.
Share Button Settings
The screen shot below shows the settings … more
Adding jQuery to your theme files using wp_enqueue_script
If jQuery is hardcoded into your theme files this may cause plugins that rely on jQuery to break as reloading the jQuery library a second time overwrites previously loaded jQuery plugin files.
To avoid this you can add jQuery via your functions.php file using a built-in WordPress function. This will coordinate between all of the files that require the library … more
Getting your facebook ID using your facebook username
To get your facebook ID using your username browse to the following URL – changing “username” for your facebook username:
https://graph.facebook.com/username
You should see information similar to the example below, including your facebook ID at the top of the page:
The social media buttons appear at the bottom of the page
If your social media buttons are appearing at the bottom of the page instead of in a floating or slide out panel the problem is usually caused by the jQuery library being loaded again after the plugin files.
If your theme files or another plugin are not using the WordPress standard method for loading the jQuery library this may result … more
Creating your own social media button panel styles
If you prefer to use your own CSS styles to create the button panel design you can disable the default CSS by unchecking the “Default Skin” option in the plugin settings page.
The plugin adds several different HTML tags to both the floating and slide out panels, which should enable you to fully customise the button panel layout.
The following … more
No buttons appear after activating the social share buttons plugin
The plugin is set up so that the buttons and the pages on which they appear are disabled by default when the plugin is first installed. This is to prevent any buttons appearing on your WordPress site without you first configuring the panel options.
To activate the buttons go to the plugin options page – click the plugin settings link … more
The Facebook Like button is not working correctly
If you are having problems with the facebook like button first check that you have entered your Facebook Admin ID details into the Admin ID field in the plugin settings page.
To get the Admin ID number for a particular facebook user name you can use the following URL – replace “username” with the username of the profile you would … more
What is the Default Facebook Image for?
When a user clicks the facebook like button several bits of information about your web page is submitted to facebook. One of these is the URL to an image that will be used as the thumbnail on the users facebook profile for your web page.
The plugin automatically sets the featured image, if one is available for your … more
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twitter
facebook
google +1
linkedin
stumbleupon
digg
delicious
pinterest
reddit
Hello,
I have installed and configured Slick Buttons, however even though I have set for the buttons to show on all pages it only shows them on the homepage?
Please can you advise
Thanks
Hi,
There is an error on the other pages, which occurs before the buttons are added, which stops the page loading. The error is –
Fatal error: Call to undefined function yarpp_sql() in /home/yitg/public_html/wp-content/themes/lifestyle/single.php on line 81
Hi Lee,
It seems the Twitter counter is broken. I know this is there code but I noticed that until a couple of weeks ago clicking the count searched for my short-url. Now it searches for the full URL which of course isn’t there as I use bit.ly. Any suggestions?
Hi there,
I’ve been trying to get some help with this thing for the past few weeks. I tried Twitter,sending an email, and posting here – which wasn’t working for some reason. Nothing yet. I hope I can get a reply here.
I love the plugin. But I really need the following feature to work…
Currently, when a post is shared on Twitter, the format of the Tweet composed is [post title] [post url] via [@username]. I need the URL of the blog to be in the tweet too… As in, [post title] – [blogname.com] [post URL] via [@username]. Other plugins offer this. Needless to say, I prefer yours over the rest.
I’ve been delaying launching my blog till I get this fixed. I really hope it can be.
Your help is much appreciated.
Best,
Rawan
Hi,
You can change the text used for the tweet by editing line 179 of dwcp_social.php.
Change from:
$title = is_front_page() ? get_bloginfo('name') : substr(str_replace(array(">","<"),"",get_the_title($pageId)), 0, 120);To:
$title = is_front_page() ? get_bloginfo('name') : substr(str_replace(array(">","<"),"",get_the_title($pageId)), 0, 120) . ' - ' . get_bloginfo('name');Thanks!
Two comments:
First I figured out why the CSS was not showing up. Apparently it only shows up if you click the “default skin” checkbox.
Second, this plugin is breaking my site when viewed from a mobile device. I notice when I look at this page from my phone, it looks great (but the sharing buttons are missing). When I look at my site, as soon as the buttons load, all I am left with is the reddit button.
So I installed your plugin today. So far I really like it but some of the formatting (CSS) seems to be off. For example all of the have a bullet showing (makes the buttons look odd). I assumed you CSS should have tried to handle that. But I don’t see anywhere on my page where you CSS is actually getting loaded. Do you know why your CSS my not be getting added?
Hi,
Make sur ethe “Use Default Skin” option is selected in the plugin setup page
Hi Lee,
Your plugin is super awesome and your support even more superer and awesomer. Thankyou very much.
I’m building a site at http://www.learndesigntoday.com and wondering why the plugin is coming up with the icons scambled and overlapping?
Hi,
The theme CSS is interfering with the buttons. Add the following to your themes style sheet:
#nav-dcssb li {float: none; width: auto;}Alright!! Fixed – much love Lee
I just got this installed and started playing with the filtering and got the error below. I forget which drop down I changed since I can’t see the stats page any more. I think it was on the far right side. I shortened the path using [root_dir].
Fatal error: Call to undefined method dc_jqslicksocial_stats::dcssb_stats_reddit() in [root_dir]/wp-content/plugins/slick-social-share-buttons/inc/dcwp_stats.php on line 385
Hi,
Yes there is a bug with the reddit stats. I have just uploaded an update – version 2.3.1
Hi,
I like the app! But, I’m having a similar issue as Daniel. I “like” the facebook app and I get a count of “1″. When I refresh the page, the count goes to zero.
Also, do I need to have a facebook account for it to work properly? I have a personal account, but I do not want to tie it to the page.
Thanks!
Hi,
You dont need any account details for the iframe version. Try using the debugging tool, which will give more info as to why the button isnt working
Hi, I have the fb like button on iframe setting. Ran the debugger. Here is the result
Object Invalid Value: Object at URL ‘http://hope-scholarship.net/‘ of type ‘blog’ is invalid because the given value ” for property ‘og:image:url’ could not be parsed as type ‘url’.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t help me.
Hi,
I put in a default image and facebook Admin ID. I now get the following error from the debugger:
Object Invalid Value: Object at URL ‘http://hope-scholarship.net/‘ of type ‘blog’ is invalid because the given value ” for property ‘fb:app_id’ could not be parsed as type ‘fbid’.
However, I do not have anything entered in the face book app id part of the tool.
The problem is still the same. The facebook “like” always resets to zero.
Thanks for your help!
Finally got my blog up and needed a way to share information. This is perfect. Thank you. However, I have a darker layout and would like to change the background color of the slider. How do I do this?
See FAQ – Creating your own social media button panel styles
installed the plugin and in chrome/ie it is not working correctly.. its floating at the bottom of the page, any help would be appreciated.
Sounds like a javascript error somewhere, which prevents the floating panel from forming. Check the page with firebug to see any errors
Wooooo! Loving this plugin at http://www.dearharrison.com. I’ve tried so many others, and this is the bomb.
Questions:
1. Any way to rig this to display the comment counts for each post (similar to http://www.michaelhyatt.com)? That’s not technically a “social media” application, but it’s very important to me in creating reader involvement.
2. Can I reorder the social media boxes? I’m not currently using Twitter to the fullest extent, so having it as my first option is not as important as having Facebook or Pinterest up there.
Thanks for your time.
~Michael
Hi,
You can manually add the comment count by adding the code that generates the count in file dcwp_social.php. Lines 88 – 99 are where the button HTML is created.
The buttons can be reordered in the settings page by dragging/dropping the button panel
Hi – this is a great plugin. Everything is working fine except the Google + button is not showing up. I use Thesis in WP.
How do I get it to show up?
Thanks
Hi,
There appear to be errors elsewhere on the page – one of them is with a “friendconnect” script. These may be stopping the google button from being generated
That makes sense. I will have to look into it. Thanks for replying.
Hi, I love this plugin, but for some reason my tweet and google +1 boxes are not centred. Searched through all the comments but cant find anything to help me fix it.
Please could you tell me where I am going wrong?
Many Thanks
Hi,
The tweet and google buttons are using the horizontal style, which are wider than the vertical buttons – horizontal is 100px wide vs 60px for the vertical boxes
How do I make the keep the plugin “static” so that when I shrink the browser’s window size, it doesn’t cover the content? Currently, the plugin stays about 50px off the left of the browser window. When I shrink the window size, it stays 50px off the left side, but because the window is now smaller, the plugin ends up covering up the page content.
http://www.coachcalorie.com/2011/11/30/fitness-myths/
Disregard. Realized it was the “position from center” option.
Hi,
Yes correct. this will fix the number of pixels from the content as opposed to the browser
The option for category posts does not work. I don’t see the widget. We are using menus within the admin backend with posts associated to that menu and not the default categories. So I cannot choose display on posts bc i don’t want it to show up on case studies or other posts except for the Insights pages. help?
In order for category posts to work the display on posts also needs to be active. You can hide the buttons on specific pages if required using CSS:
#dc-dcssb {display: none;}
Will hide the buttons, so you then just need a specific class or ID (using the page body tag maybe) to identify which pages
Hi Lee,
My Facebook Like counter returns to 0 when i or anyone else refreshes the page.
What basic thing am i doing wrong?
THANKS IN ADVANCE!
Hi,
your facebook admin ID is wrong. change the current “https://www.facebook.com/johnanthonysutton” to – 602025321
Hi.
I want to disable the sticky vertical panel for certain category and insert these buttons horizontally inside the posts. For example, at the beginning of a post. Is it possible to do that?
If I got it right, there aren’t any shortcodes for individual buttons.
Best Regards.
Hi,
That isnt possible with the current version of the plugin
hey does anyone know how to fully disable the share button at the top of the float box?
see FAQ – Setting up the share buttons to be the same as designchemical.com
HI Lee! Thank you for making this plugin. I really like your floating share buttons. It has been the best look I’ve seen. Somehow I am getting these strange bullets show up, and the boxes aren’t centered. Also, there are spaces between. Do you know how I can fix that? My website is http://www.losingweightonpaleo.com.
Thank you, Tanya
Hi,
If you want to use the default styling that comes with the plugin make sure that the “Default Skin” option is checked in the plugin settings page.
Hi,
great plug-in – thank you!
One question – I want it to appear on the home page (ok) but then only on certain other pages – is there a way to do this?
I don’t want it to appear on all pages, as some pages are in a membership site!
Thank you
hi,
Currently there is no way of removing it on individual posts/pages although this will be added to future updates.
You can hide it though using CSS for now by adding the following rule to the theme template for that particular page:
// Use the following if floating button panel .dc-social-float {display: none;} // Use the following for slide out tabbed panels .dc-social-slick {display: none;}Thank Lee – I’ll give that a try!
Thanks for building such a useful plugin. I am having trouble with one feature and I’m hoping it can easily be resolved. Even with the “Home Page” box checked, the bar does not appear on my home page. It appears on every other page on the site with no issue. Any thoughts what might be going wrong? Thanks!
Hi,
If the buttons are not appearing at all – i.e. not even in the website footer then the only thing that would probably cause it is that the home page template file is missing the wp_footer() function
Thanks for your reply… it seems that the home.php template contains
and the footer.php contains
. The share bar appears on the left on every other page (the page.php template contains the same get_footer pointing to that footer.php)… just not home. I also noticed that on the pages on which it does appear there is a random couple of characters that show up in the footer (specifically, a quotation mark followed by a semicolon…
right before the copyright notice). That same couple of characters does not show up on the home page. Any other suggestions? Thanks again.
Looks like enabling it on post pages got it working on the home page. That “; still appears in the footer though. Any way to make that go away? Thanks!
hi,
Correct, if your home page is set to be the posts page then you need to select that option in admin.
The “;” must be in your template files somewhere – check your footer.php file
Checked it. Turned out that it was the portion of your code related to the pin it button. Upgrading to 2.1.3 solved it. Thanks for the fix!
Hello
what option are you talking about? i can’t see it
The “Posts Page” option
i get, thank you. I thought there is option which cause the widget not to be displayed on my home page, even though it comprise posts
Hi There,
Having a problem with the Twitter count on my site. Love the plugin by the way
Here’s an example of where it’s not working: http://www.omnitechnews.net/2011/10/24/iphone-4-4s-jett-metal-case-review/
Hi,
The button showing OK on the link you gave – what problem are you seeing?
The problem is that is that the counter itself is not showing how many people have tweeted the post. It was working before, and on older posts it’s showing them, but on newer posts the counter is not displaying new tweets. It isn’t working here: http://www.omnitechnews.net/2011/10/24/iphone-4-4s-jett-metal-case-review/
It is working here, as this is an older post: http://www.omnitechnews.net/2011/08/03/video-the-omnitechnews-rewards-program/
Thanks!
Hi,
According to the twitter API that URL doesnt have any tweets:
http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://www.omnitechnews.net/2011/10/24/iphone-4-4s-jett-metal-case-review/
Has the URL changed at all?
HI Lee,
Hit the 0 on the tweet number in the sidebar. It brings up two tweets. This is why I don’t understand why it says that.
Twitter do cache results (although I wouldnt expect it for this long). Maybe wait and see if it updates in the next 24 hours. There may also be a minor error on the twitter end.
Does the stats page also show zero?
The stats page shows no blog posts, and no stats.
The default stats shows the home page. have you selected posts from the drop down menu?
Yes I selected that. This is what came up: http://i.imgur.com/8aF4T.png
Hi,
There should be other items showing above the table including a category dropdown if posts is selected. Do you see an AJAX loading image when you change the dropdown?
If not it appears as though there could be a javascript error in the admin page preventing the jQuery from working.
Do you have firebug installed? If so check if any errors are showing on that page
There is nothing else on that page: http://i.imgur.com/NW7zH.png
Would you like to make you an account on the site? I think that would be the easiest way of getting this fixed as you know a lot more about this than me
Hi,
Have just sent you an email
Replied to your email and set you up an admin account on the site. All the details should have been emailed to you
Thanks!
Hi,
Problem should now be fixed.
Hi Lee,
Thanks for fixing that issue. We’re still having issues with the Twitter counter. Could you help with this please?
Thanks
Robert
Hi,
The twitter count is from twitter so there is not really much we can do to change it. The count is based on the URL of the page so I can only think that the URL may have changed slightly? Even one letter difference will result in the count being reset
That issue is really frustrating
Thanks anyway.
Do you see the same problem with other twitter button plugins?
Yes I find the problem with other Twitter buttons
Hi,
I’m having the same problem another person did. When a user clicks the Tweet button, only the last post on the page is tweeted. I am running the latest version, 1.4 and can’t figure out how to fix it. Any help would be appreciated!
Brent
Hi,
That problem should have been fixed with that update. Try updating to the latest version 2.1.1
Hi,
when im using a Theme called Drunk Loser 1.0 by Jon Waraas, the socialplugin disapears. Do i need a Marker or sth in the Template?
Hi,
Just checked using firefox and the buttons appear to be OK. is the problem on any particular page?
Hi,
I have an issue on the FB button as it is cut. I can’t get how to fix this problem, I am kind of a newbie on coding. Would indicate what do I need to do to fix this. I let you check the website to see what I mean!
Great plugin by the way! The best that we can find on WP!
Thank you!
Hi,
Thanks. Where is it cut?
Hi,
I’ve installed the plug-in and ticked the relevant boxes (as far as I know!) but nothing seems to be happening.
I’d be very grateful if you could point me in the right direction? This plug-in is exactly what I was looking for, I really hope I can get it working!
Thanks in advance
Hi,
The problem is caused by the Showtime plugin, which is loading jQuery incorrectly causing other jquery plugin files to get overwritten. See FAQ – The social media buttons appear at the bottom of the page.
The showtime plugin either needs to be deactivated or the plugin code updated to add jquery correctly
Installed also this nice plugin, but my problem is that the box is not appearing on my homepage (blogpost and other pages are ok).
WHat could be the problem? I off course already checked the checkbox for homepage.
Hi,
It looks like the wp_footer() function may be missing from your theme’s home page file
setting up a new site… your plugin comes out fine in IE 9 and Chrome, but with Firefox 6 and 7 it doesn’t come out.
I think it’s not a particular issue with your plugin as a couple of other plugins are not showing properly either (“simple like buttons” under posts, ajax login, quick subscribe)..i rarely use firefox…just a default installation..same with my gf’s computer…chrome is fine, firefox is not.
any ideas?
Hi,
There are some errors showing in firebug in firefox although not sure whats causing these. Try disabling plugins one by one and see if that fixes the problem
Hi Lee,
Any chance an email option will be added? I have a client who thinks that’s the way to go (and feels that many of his clients as they are looking at the site would want to use email as a sharing option.)
Bill
Hi,
Not sure if we will add it to this plugin. Still debating whether it fits in exactly with these kind of buttons. We may look at adding the email to the social media tabs though
og:type content shouldn’t be set to “article”?
If I leave it set to blog as it is in your plugin, it creates a page in Facebook for every post I like.
Is this normal?
Hi,
Plugin has been updated to use blog for front page and article for individual posts – see version 1.3. thanks
Hi Lee,
I wrote before: “The form does not float at all. It shows itself as a normal form. I have currently deactivate the plug-in but if you can take a look to my Web site: http://www.mediosmejoresqueganenmas.org/”
checked and found this:
I deactivate Nitro Slider and it does not gets any better.
Thanks for your help.
P.D.: Why is there a Field “Leave This Field Empty”?
Hi,
Unfortunately its difficult to see unless the plugin is activated
The “leave field empty” input is a honeypot captcha which isnt visible when the form is working
I installed the Slick Social Share Buttons on my site http://www.businessbootcamp.nl/ – and it seems to work just fine, except… that on my blog it conflicts with the Facebook Comments plugin.
So, when you go to http://www.businessbootcamp.nl/blog/nieuwe-economie (for example) – you can see the floating bar – BUT NOT the Facebook comments (14 of them) that were submitted before I activated your plugin (and re-appear as soon as I deactivate your plugin).
Please help!
Hi,
On the facebook comments plugin settings try unchecking the box that says “Include Facebook JavaScript SDK (This should be checked unless you’ve manually included the SDK elsewhere)”
Hi Lee,
I uncheced the box that says “Include Facebook JavaScript SDK”.
Same thing, I still don’t get the Facebook comments.
Any other ideas?
Try switching the facebook like button to use iFrame instead of xfbml. If this works then I may know what causes it
OK managed to replicate the problem I think. Try removing the Facebook App ID in the settings page – just use the admin ID
Thanks a million. It works! Great plugin, great service… keep up the good work.
Hi,
OK great. Glad it fixed the problem
Excellent product! I’m having a little trouble with the twitter button though, that I didn’t see a resolution for in the FAQs or comments.
When I click the Tweet button, it pulls the fifth oldest post no matter what page you’re on (Add a new post, and it now pulls the next post in order, but still not the newest, or the post you’re currently viewing). Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?
Hi,
Strange! Can you do me a favour and please add a google buzz button to the site so I can check something in the source code
I added buzz to the sidebar widget. Thank you for looking at this…
I see you’re a busy guy, so I really appreciate the support you are providing to me, and everyone else.
Any ideas about why it’s pulling the same URL, independent of the page you’re on? (now that I’ve researched a little more myself, I see it’s pulling the same URL for ALL services, not just Twitter)
Hi,
It seems to only occur in certain circumstances – 2 so far, which unfortunately I havent been able to replicate. I suspect it may be due to the fact that this plugin inserts the buttons literally at the end of the page since they arent required within the layout and with some themes the actual URL isnt available using the normal wordpress functions.
I have created a test version, which uses a different method of getting the URL, which doesnt rely on WordPress. If you can download the zip file below and replace the dcwp_social.php file in the plugin folder with the one in the zip file I can check if it does fix the problem:
http://www.designchemical.com/lab/wordpress-plugins/dcwp_social_20111003.zip
Replaced the file. The description/title is still from the fifth oldest post, but it now pulls the correct URL for the page you are on!
OK. I now know whats causing it although we havent yet implemented a fix – the problem is actually caused by the way your theme files generate the Popular/Recent posts tabs. This is overwriting the variables that store the info on the actual post in each page so instead of using the correct URL and title it uses the last one in the recent tabs
Are you able to edit the theme to correct the problem?
Hi,
I have come up with what I think/hope should help solve your problem so if you could check I would be grateful since I sstill cant actually replicate it. Link below is a zip file containing a complete set of updated plugin files so you can just delete the current slick-social-share-buttons plugin folder and replace with the unzipped file:
http://www.designchemical.com/lab/download/slick-social-share-buttons.zip
Replaced the plugin folder and it fixed both! Great! On single posts and pages, it pulls the correct description and URL. On the main/home page, it pulls the first post description and URL. (Should it do that?)
I’d be happy to help you troubleshoot this further if it’s affecting more users. GREATLY appreciate the support. Donation on the way…
OK great. I have modified it slightly to handle the home page. Updated files at the link below:
http://www.designchemical.com/lab/download/slick-social-share-buttons.zip
Excellent! Thank you SO much. Works perfectly now. Please feel free to contact me if you need to do any more troubleshooting for others, theme information, etc.
Glad it fixed it. Thanks for testing it!
I have installed the slick social floating bar on my blog and check the boxes next to all the pages I want it to show on (home, posts) and which social buttons I want to show (all but Google Buzz). I see all the head tags added by the plugin when I view source, but nothing shows on the page or in the source body. I can only see one instance of jQuery being loading on the page. Do you have any suggestions to try getting the plugin to work?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Hi,
It looks like your theme may be missing the wp_footer function – this is where the button code is inserted into the page. If you have a footer.php file check there as it should be placed right at the end of the page.
I have the wp_footer function at the end of footer.php but I am not seeing the plugin it is enabled and options selected but does not appear in any position
any more ideas, i know it works with the theme i use as found it through another website useing same theme.
Hi,
You have the same problem as explained in the FAQ – The social media buttons appear at the bottom of the page
The problem is caused by gtranslate inserting jquery again:
Lee,
Changed gtranslate to google default, so no longer loads jquery but the plugin still does not show. are there any other plugins that are likely to interfere?
Thanks for your help
Doug
Working, thanks forgot to clear cache
Ive been trying for hours now and have gone through all your instructions and tips, but I cant get my facebook or twitter counts to work for the life of me. I even ran the debugger and its saying that i still need an App ID. Please help.
Hi,
The URL for the buttons is showing your site’s home page on every page. Not sure what could cause that and havent seen the problem before. Do you have any plugin installed that you know of that may do this?
I have no clue which one it could be, but he plugins i have installed are below:
Akismet, Audio Link Player, Image Widget, Jetpack, kStats, Option Tree, Slick Social Share Buttons, WordPress Importer. Im hoping its not Option Tree since that is what my template uses to organize and design the site.
Why is this plugins always appears in my mobile version site? How to disable this in my mobile version site?
How is your mobile site created?
Hi, I have the same question about how to disable this on my mobile site. I’m using the WPtouch plugin to create the mobile site.
Hi,
From what I read online the ability to disable plugins when using WPtouch is only available in their Pro version
Thanks for the reply Lee. I don’t suppose you could recommend a plugin that produces a mobile version of a site which doesn’t display the SSSB buttons?
Hi,
Sorry Im not familiar with any of the mobile plugins. If the mobile version uses specific template tags it would be possible to add the code to prevent the buttons appearing or alternatively use CSS to hide the buttons. Im not sure though how it works
Like the plugin, but the inability to disable this plugin on a mobile site reduces my ability to utilize it. Any thought on adding this feature?
That would really depend on how the mobile site is created. if using a plugin it would be up to the plugin to have the feature to disable others
The plugin works fine, but when i click the tweet button, it picks-up different link.. thanks hope you can help..
Hi,
which page are you seeing a problem? I checked a couple and the tweet link seems ok
Hi I’m having a problem after installation. The buttons only appear if I have Home Page checked. But then on each individual post page, the buttons display counts and correspond to the home page instead of the post on which they appear.
Hi,
Not sure what can cause that unless something else is interfering with the plugin code. The URL used for the buttons is the same as that used in the opengraph tags inserted into the document for the facebook like button and have checked your site and the URL is correct. Maybe try disabling other plugins one by one to see if any are clashing with the buttons
Hello!
My site features the Slick Social Share Buttons but I seem to have a problem with the Facebook like button. When I press it it displays 1 like for a second and then it just resets to 0 without any error messages. I did try the facebook debugger which found a critical error “Error Updating Page You must preload this data. TAAL[BLAME_file]“, but it still doesn’t work.
Please help! Thanks!
Hi,
Your Admin ID and App ID values are the same – remove the incorrect one. For facebook you only need to use one of them.
Also add a default facebook image (via the plugin options page) as the image tag is empty and this sometimes causes problems.
Thanks for the reply! It was setting the facebook image that solved it. Thanks again!
I am having the same trouble as another chap in that the facebook button is showing no likes (I have over 300 for my page) and if I click it it shows 1 for a second then reverts back to 0. I have the IDs correct I think and have tried uploading a default image URL from my photobox.com but it’s still not working. Any ideas?
Hey there!
Great plugin…5 stars of course
But I have a little problem with the Twitter link on the homepage and archives. Get_permalink takes the last link of the loop, so the shortened URL leads to the last post on the page. Any suggestion to fix it?
Cheers
ME
Hi,
well spotted! Have already corrected it and it should be fixed with the next update
Just released version 1.2.7 with the URL fix
Dear Lee,
I just added your plugin to our new blog, we love it.
But I just realized it is not counting tweets…any ideas how I can fix that?
Cheers,
Gal
Hi,
Just checked the site and it appears to be working OK – showing 2 tweets for page 166. The tweet count may not update immediately as the number of times twitter will update is limited per day
I am wondering if there is a way to disable the “Share Tab” since I have my social networking buttons coming out on load and I dont have them sliding back in. I just want to have the buttons without that share tab there.
Thanks
Hi,
You can hide the tab using CSS. Just add the following to your theme’s style sheet:
#dcssb-slick .tab {display: none;}
I would like to know the answer to this as well. I dont want the “Share” tab to be there and I don’t want there to be a way for the reader to hide the share buttons(the same way you have it set up on your site). I added #dcssb-slick .tab {display: none;} to my theme’s CSS file, but the Share button still appears.
Also, how do I make the right side of the share button background flat instead of rounded like on your site?
If you are using a floating panel you need to use:
#dcssb-float.dc-social-float .tab {display: none;}
If you hide the tab and set the panel to open on page load then automatically users wont be able to close it
To create the same style as the button panel used on our site you can use the custom CSS below:
#nav-dcssb, #nav-dcssb li { margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; } #nav-dcssb li { padding: 5px 0; } #nav-dcssb li.size-box { text-align: center; height: 60px; } #nav-dcssb li.size-small { height: 30px; } /* Floater */ #dcssb-float.dc-social-float .tab { display: none; } #dcssb-float.dc-social-float .dc-social-float-content { background: #fff; border: 1px solid #000; padding: 5px 0 6px 0; margin-left: 20px; } #dcssb-float.dc-social-float .dc-social-float-content { border-radius: 7px 1px 1px 7px!important; -webkit-border-radius: 7px 1px 1px 7px!important; } #dcssb-float #dcssb-facebook { padding-left: 10px; } #dcssb-float .fb_iframe_widget { margin-left: 0; }Thank you, that worked beautifully!
Hi there,
I have installed the Slick Social plugin but have a slight problem in that the ‘Google +1′ button does not appear in the slider box in FireFox or IE, but it does in Google Chrome.
I have also noticed that when I login to my WP control panel, the Google +1 image does not appear in the ‘Social Share Buttons’ selection box alongside the associated button type, but it does in Google Chrome. Any ideas how I can resolve this?
Any help appreciated,
Thanks
J
Hi,
Just checked your website and the +1 button is appearing OK in my Firefox. What version are you using?
Hi Lee, I’m using your plugin and tweaked it to include some social media analytics
I would like to add the string : utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter
to the end of every linked shared on twitter but does not really master PHP and your code is not commented, maybe you could help me…
I already integrated a Facebook monitoring :
http://www.savio.no/blogg/a/106/tracking-facebook-likes-share-send-og-comments-as-social-engagement-in-google-analytics#fbtracking
But what i’m trying to do is :
http://yoast.com/twitter-analytics/
Maybe you could help me? (this could be an idea for a future upgrade too
)
Regards,
Simon
Hi,
You can add it to the twitter URL in the file inc/dcwp_social.php. The twitter function starts line 167 and the button code starts on line 181
Found it, THANKS
Hey Lee,
I want to apologize up front because I don’t know much CSS, etc. I’m just an architecture intern trying to make our organization a new webpage, so this has been a lot of trial and error for me.
When I followed all of your steps of installing and activating the plugin, nothing shows up on my page. I’ve looked through your FAQ as well, to no avail. Could you please tell me what I’m doing wrong?
Thank you. I really hope to use this plugin because it seems like it would meet our needs very well.
hi,
jQuery is being loaded again, incorrectly in the page, which is overwriting the plugin jQuery files – the theme files seem to be loading it once and also the accordion image menu plugin is loading it again.
Both of these will need to be corrected in order to get the plugin (and other jQuery based plugins) to work properly
Hi I have the slick social floating bar on my site. Only thing I’ve noticed is the tweet count does not update and after the latest update it now won’t allow me to like using the facebook like button, it’s stuck on 14 likes and won’t go any higher.
A couple of times I’ve noticed a small box appearing inside the floating bar after clicking on the facebook like button, but it dissapears really quickly before I can click on it. the count goes up by 1 to 15 then drops back to 14.
I’ve tried it from an ihpone, firefox, ie and chrome and it does the same thing.
Hi,
The box appearing is the Facebook comments box, which you get with the xfbml version. The CSS settings means the box isnt displaying.
Will take a look at the problem on your site with the update of the tweet and like button