Design Chemical

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  Arwym 2012 Jan 13 at 3:04 am

  Hello, there. Thank you for such a nice plugin.

  I would only like to make one suggestion, if possible, for a future release:
  Would it be possible to allow enabling/disabling the buttons tab for individual pages and posts? There are some pages in which I’d rather not have it appear. I’d like a way to make this an option from within the admin panel, for my client, who is not so “tech savvy”, to decide when to display the tab and when not to. (A simple checkbox, perhaps?)

  Again, thank you!
  • 
    Lee 2012 Jan 17 at 2:42 pm

    Hi,

    This is something we can look at for future updates
    • 
      Arwym 2012 Jan 30 at 12:22 am

      Thanks! That would be great.
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  herman dailybits 2012 Jan 12 at 4:05 pm

  Hello,

  The plugin is working correctly on pages or blogposts, but still doesn’t work on my homegage.

  - I checked the header and footer and the standard functioncalls are present.
  - On my homepage the buttons are not found in the code of my footer (when checking my homepage with firebug)
  - pluginsettings are correct

  Do you have other suggestions I could check?
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    herman dailybits 2012 Jan 12 at 4:12 pm

    never mind.

    I did finally found the error and your faq had the oslution in it (“Adding jQuery to your theme files using wp_enqueue_script”).

    Sorry….
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  Michelle Mahler 2012 Jan 12 at 12:16 pm

  If the reader clicks share….do they have a choice of what post they are sharing? Is there a way to have the buttons for each post. I cannot get my buttons to remain on the left side like yours is right there
  <——- thnx! Michelle
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    Lee 2012 Jan 12 at 1:03 pm

    Hi,

    The buttons will share the current page URL. Each individual blog post should have their own set of buttons on the post page.

    For more information on the settings used to set up our buttons see faq – Setting up the share buttons to be the same as designchemical.com
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  Terry McKaig 2012 Jan 12 at 5:15 am

  Hello,
  Just installed the plug in for pinterest, shows up on my blog but when I click the botton there is no images to link…….. how do the images that I have in my blog posts get connected to the feature?

  Thank you!
  Terry
  • 
    Lee 2012 Jan 12 at 5:25 am

    Hi,

    The plugin uses the WordPress featured image function for the pin it button. See faq for more info:

    Images for the facebook like, google buzz & pin it share buttons
    • 
      Terry McKaig 2012 Jan 12 at 5:43 am

      If I understand the information you gave me correctly, it explains how I can have my own image as the button link, that is not my question…………I’m needing to know how to have my current images on my blog or any given blog post available to be linked to pinterest. Another button link I tried would have a box at the bottom of that dashboard post and I could link them there……only you could only link one photo for one post, I didn’t like that, I want to be able to link any of the photos in a particular blog post, not just one. Clear as mud??? : )
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        Lee 2012 Jan 12 at 5:56 am

        Hi,

        The FAQ is related to the image that is used when posting to pinterest. The slick social share buttons plugin uses the image that is set as the featured image for a particular blog post. In order to use this it must first be enabled in your theme. Once available you should see a featured image box appear in the right-hand column in the post edit screen
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          Terry McKaig 2012 Jan 12 at 6:18 am

          So……the featured image in the blog post is the only image that is will be pinned, there is not an option to pin the other images in the blog post only the featured image that comes up in the box?

          Thanks!
          Terry
        • 
          Lee 2012 Jan 12 at 6:20 am

          Yes correct
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  Artur 2012 Jan 11 at 7:56 pm

  Hi, is there any way to add “Subscribe to RSS” button? It’s really important for me and any help would be greatly appreciated! It’s an awesome plugin and with the RSS button it would be even better!
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    Lee 2012 Jan 11 at 8:03 pm

    hi,

    Currently the plugin doesnt have this feature as its geared more toward sharing individual posts. You can manually add the subscribe button by including the button code between lines 89 & 99 of file dcwp_social.php, which is where the button code is generated.
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      Artur 2012 Jan 16 at 11:41 pm

      Could you (or anyone else here) give any more insight as for how to achieve it?

      It’s such a great plugin, and having RSS button there would be great!

      Thanks in advance
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  Gary 2012 Jan 10 at 6:16 pm

  Hi Lee
  Thanks for these awsome tools you have developed.
  I am having trouble with the Sharing of Facebook when they click Like the counter increments by 1 but when the page is opened again the counter is back to 0 any ideas I have found some other people on the web with same issue on other tools but not figured out what is wrong.
  Thanks for your Assistance
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  Annie 2012 Jan 06 at 10:48 pm

  Hi! I love your plugin, but I was having two issues with it:
  * would never register google +1 (I would get a red exclamation point every time)
  * does it work on IE at all? (7, 8 or 9?) I have had guests call and say that it was overlapping onto the content when they were using IE (maybe it only does this on 6?)

  I have it deactivated right now, but If I could get a little feed back on the two issues, I’d love to put it back up.

  http://www.rinconvacations.com

  Thank you!!
  • 
    Lee 2012 Jan 06 at 11:00 pm

    Hi,

    It sounds like you may have a javascript error, which is causing problems with google and also IE – yes it does work in IE7, 8 & 9 but your site may have en error, which is only appearing in IE.

    Try checking the site using firebug and see if it shows any problems
    • 
      Annie 2012 Jan 27 at 1:38 am

      thanks lee – a couple of theme updates later and all seems kosher. works like a charm again. nice work.
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  Joel Wolfgang 2012 Jan 05 at 9:17 pm

  Lee

  Two questions for you. When changing a blogs title during the draft process the shortened links seem to stay pointed at the old permalink. Is there a way to update the permalink?

  Second, could you add an option to turn off the plugin for mobile users?

  thanks.
  • 
    Lee 2012 Jan 05 at 9:22 pm

    Hi,

    to reset the shortened link you need to delete the custom field – dcssb_short_url. The plugin should then automatically generate a new one the next time the tweet button is created for that page.

    For mobile this is generally left to the theme or plugin that is creating the mobile content. Usually these would come with the options to disable the various installed plugins
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    Lee 2012 Jan 05 at 9:22 pm

    Hi,

    to reset the shortened link you need to delete the custom field – dcssb_short_url. The plugin should then automatically generate a new one the next time the tweet button is created for that page.

    For mobile this is generally left to the theme or plugin that is creating the mobile content. Usually these would come with the options to disable the various installed plugins
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  Thad Lawrence 2012 Jan 05 at 5:13 am

  How do you get it like it is here on your website? I’ve tried every setting available and haven’t been able to even get close. Its always attached to the browser and not the content. I’d like to to work like it does on your site.
  • 
    Lee 2012 Jan 05 at 6:38 am

    Hi,

    Check out the FAQ section. There is a post on how to set it up exactly the same as our site
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  Andre 2012 Jan 04 at 5:42 pm

  FIX for not working twitter tweet counter:
  1. Go and edit: slick-social-share-buttons/inc/dcwp_plugin_admin.php
  2. Go to function likebox(){
  3. Twitter function calls the script: //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
  4. Change this to: http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js // So with the http:.

  Dont know how this bug came in. I installed it with the WordPress installer.
  • 
    Lee 2012 Jan 04 at 5:57 pm

    Hi,

    Its not actually a bug. The script will still work.

    The code you edited is not related to the buttons on the front end. This code is for the tweet button that appears in the admin options page.

    If you are having issues with the tweet button it may be that you have reached your limit with the twitter API – currently this limit is 150 calls per hour across all twitter API widgets you interact with. This will reset each hour
    • 
      Andre 2012 Jan 04 at 6:21 pm

      Ok Sorry then. I Think I wanted to see the result too fast then
      Great plugin by the way!
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  Philip House 2012 Jan 03 at 4:19 am

  Hi, this is a great plugin. I’m just struggling to get the facebook like to work on the homepage. It works on other pages but not the homepage. Thanks, Phil
  • 
    Lee 2012 Jan 03 at 4:38 am

    Hi,

    Have you tried the facebook debugging tool?

    http://www.designchemical.com/blog/index.php/faq/checking-your-facebook-like-button/
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  John 2011 Dec 31 at 2:03 am

  FYI THe horizontal Stumbleupon badge needs to be fixed, the set size causes it to get cut off. It’s an easy fix change the width in dcwp_social.php of Stumbleupon from 50px to 150px.
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 31 at 2:46 am

    Hi,

    Thanks for the info. will change in the next update
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  Board Directory 2011 Dec 31 at 12:22 am

  It is supposed to return a count but the script appears not to be working correctly.
  —-

  Is there anyway you can fix this?
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 31 at 12:33 am

    Will take a look when I get chance
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  Umit 2011 Dec 30 at 5:25 pm

   <?php get_dc_jqslicksocial(); ?> 

  this is what I have tried.
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  Umit 2011 Dec 30 at 5:24 pm

  Hey! Thanks for this really nice plugin. Please help me. I have to implement this into a second template of a webpage (wordpress) so which function calls this plugin??? Can you help me???
  It’s being displayed in the standard one but not in the second template of mine.
  I have tried ” but it doesn’t worked.

  Thank you.
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 30 at 7:37 pm

    The buttons are added via the wp_footer() function. make sure that the template file contains this
    • 
      Umit 2011 Dec 30 at 8:28 pm

      Thanks. Solved.
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  Board Directory 2011 Dec 29 at 1:46 am

  Hello,

  Great plugin! I love it, any chance you’ll include more buttons to add or disable?
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 29 at 1:53 am

    Hi,

    Thank you. We have looked at a few but just seeing which ones are most used
    • 
      Board Directory 2011 Dec 29 at 10:55 pm

      Hey,

      Its true your using the current most popular in demand sharing buttons…

      But you missed one,

      A delicious button.

      I hope you implement this one!
      • 
        Lee 2011 Dec 30 at 8:39 pm

        Hi,

        Have just added the delicious button – version 2.2
        • 
          Board Directory 2011 Dec 30 at 11:00 pm

          Thanks a ton! Here is my feedback on the new button.

          The spacing to the right and left isn’t the same both with the horizontal and vertical display option:

          http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/7046/delicous.png

          Also having a count with this button like the others would be awesome if delicious allows that.

          Regards
        • 
          Lee 2011 Dec 30 at 11:05 pm

          It is supposed to return a count but the script appears not to be working correctly.
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  Steph 2011 Dec 21 at 1:19 pm

  Hey Guys,

  Thanks for a handy plugin. I’ve used it for the first time on a couple of sites and I like it.

  One thing though, when you spit out the widget in ‘dcwp_widget.php’ , you are not inlcuding the $before_widget and $after_widget vars. So if someone is using it in an area of their site where they need to wrap your widget with some extra markup, they can’t.

  If you add ‘print $before_widget;’ at around line 145 and ‘print $after_widget;’ at around line 200, problem solved.

  Thanks again.

  Steph.
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 22 at 2:15 am

    Hi,

    The plugin output doesnt use widgets so the $before_widget & $after_widget dont apply.

    The output is placed directly in the page footer
    • 
      Steph 2011 Dec 22 at 11:03 am

      Hey Brett,

      My apologies. I was redirected here from the Word Press plugin repository. I’m actually referring to the Social Media Tabs plugin widget.

      Steph.
    • 
      Steph 2011 Dec 22 at 11:09 am

      LEE. I meant. I meant LEE. Sorry LEE. Late nights coding lately…
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  Morrgian 2011 Dec 21 at 3:29 am

  Hello,
  I installed this plugin, but it was not able to show on my website, I tired to set up several different options, it all didn’t work.

  Please help………
  Thank you.
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 22 at 2:19 am

    Hi,

    Do you have a link to a page where it is installed?
• 
  Vince 2011 Dec 14 at 9:19 pm

  (ok, let’s try again)

  On my website the plugin is not appearing floating like it does on this page (i changed all the available settings) and it’s still stuck in the footer. How can this be fixed?

  Great plugin btw!
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 14 at 10:42 pm

    Hi,

    It looks like you are missing the wp_head() function from your theme files.

    Check your header.php file. if it doesnt contain the above code add the following line just before the closing head tag:

    <?php wp_head(); ?>
    
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  Stewart 2011 Dec 12 at 7:37 pm

  Hey great plugin thanks so much. I love it.

  Can i just ask how i remove the green share icon, like youve done on this site.

  Thanks again and Merry Xmas
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 12 at 7:54 pm

    Hi,

    See FAQ – Setting up the share buttons to be the same as designchemical.com
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  Patrick 2011 Dec 10 at 4:38 am

  Great plugin!! I currently have the setting for my new WP website/blog to show your plugin: Bottom Left + Floating + Load Open + Default Skin and it’s working perfectly.

  As I’m a bit of a design snob, I really like the way you have your settings in place: removal/hiding of the SHARE button, tight spacing/reduced spacing to the left and right of the buttons within the skin and how you have removed the right side corners rounded edges, in particular. Do you have any tips so that I may replicate, yet still using the Bottom Left + Floating + Load Open settings?

  Thanks in advance and again, great job on this!
  - Patrick
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 10 at 8:55 am

    Hi,

    See FAQ – Setting up the share buttons to be the same as designchemical.com, which includes the CSS used to set up our buttons
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  Jim 2011 Dec 09 at 10:15 am

  Hi, I love the functionality that this plugin adds to my site and the look is just what I was going for, but I am having an issue with Facebook liking. I’m not sure if this is from the plugin or Facebook, so if I’m barking up the wrong tree, just let me know.

  When I like a post, such as this one:

  http://www.discovertheparks.com/2011/12/07/after-70-years-the-day-still-lives-in-infamy/

  The code for the image shows up in the like blurb on Facebook and the image it chooses isn’t from the post, but the envelope from the sidebar. Any way to get it to choose the correct image and get it to use the manual excerpt I take advantage of?

  Thanks,
  Jim
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 09 at 11:05 pm

    Hi,

    The plugin uses “featured images” to add the image for facebook. If a featured image isnt available then it will either select a default image, if set in admin, or facebook will choose the image from the page.

    To add featured image support for your theme refer to the following FAQ – Images for the facebook like, google buzz & pin it share buttons
    • 
      Jim 2011 Dec 15 at 10:30 am

      Thanks for the info Lee. That worked for the image used. After using the Linter, I was able to get the featured image to show up. But, there’s still the issue of the code showing in the like excerpt. Is there a way to make it skip over that stuff? Or maybe have it pick up the manual excerpt I use?
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  chris hough 2011 Dec 09 at 9:40 am

  I am running into an odd issue which appears to be a conflict somewhere, looking for tips on how to fix this in your plug in. the error I am getting reports: 2011/12/08 18:31:08 [error] 3787#0: *1 FastCGI sent in stderr: “PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare init() (previously declared in /wp-content/themes/blacklabel/framework/sidebar_generator.php:165) in /wp-includes/rss.php on line 682″ while reading response header from upstream, client: 69.201.180.241, server: noconformity.co, request: “GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=slick-social-share-buttons HTTP/1.1″, upstream: “fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000″, host: “noconformity.co”, referrer: “http://noconformity.co/wp-admin/widgets.php”

  any thoughts on where to begin to troubleshoot this? it only affects the “Social Buttons” page in admin. thank you for your help and happy holidays.
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 09 at 11:02 pm

    Hi,

    What is on line 165 of sidebar_generator.php?
    • 
      chris hough 2011 Dec 09 at 11:21 pm

      thank you so much for your help, here is what I have for lines 162-180:

      //Register the Sidebars
      function init(){
      //go through each sidebar and register it
      $sidebars = get_sidebars();

      if(is_array($sidebars)){
      foreach($sidebars as $sidebar){
      $sidebar_class = name_to_class($sidebar);
      register_sidebar(array(
      ‘name’=>$sidebar,
      ‘before_widget’ => ”,
      ‘after_widget’ => ”,
      ‘before_title’ => ”,
      ‘after_title’ => ”,
      ));
      }
      }
      }

      happy holidays to you and your family
      • 
        Lee 2011 Dec 10 at 12:10 am

        Hi,

        I honestly dont have a clue. The plugin doesnt use the “init” function at all. all functions names are written with a prefix to prevent this kind of problem.

        I would suggest changing the sidebar code to use a less generic function name and see if that helps
        • 
          chris hough 2011 Dec 10 at 1:29 am

          bingo! that was it. I changed the name of the function to :

          //Register the Sidebars
          function bl_init(){

          and the add script to :
          <?php
          add_action('init','bl_init');

          thank you again
        • 
          Lee 2011 Dec 10 at 1:40 am

          great. glad it fixed it
        • 
          chris hough 2011 Dec 10 at 1:30 am

          i <3 this plugin, happy holidays, and thank you again.
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  Alisa 2011 Dec 09 at 7:52 am

  I LOVE this plugin! Having a little issue in the dashboard, though. In Settings, I can see all of the top four options, half of the offset options and half of the Auto Close option. Everything below is completely hidden by what appears to be a too-thick “Display Pages for Social Buttons” header. So, I can’t change the auto open option. I’ve tried looking at it in 3 browsers. I don’t have this issue with any other plugin. Ideas?
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 09 at 11:01 pm

    Hi,

    Sounds like either another plugins CSS is interfering with the social buttons plugin in admin or there is some kind of error in the admin page, which is throwing off the tags. If the former then you should also see the heading for the first box the same size.

    are there any kind of error messages on that page?
    • 
      Alisa 2011 Dec 10 at 7:55 am

      No error messages and it’s only the “Display Pages for social Buttons” header that is too big. I notice that if I click on “Show Categories” they show for a fraction of a second and then get covered up by the section below. I don’t need to change anything there, but it must all be connected. Thanks for your reply.
      • 
        Lee 2011 Dec 10 at 9:04 am

        Hi,

        It sounds like a tag is out of place somewhere. If you want to email me the source code for the page I can take a look
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  Jamie 2011 Dec 09 at 1:51 am

  hi, this plugin looks brilliant and I finally got it integrated with Facebook. It works fine on all my pages and posts but won’t work on the homepage. The ‘like’ counter always resets to 0 after refresh. Is there a way to fix this.

  my website is http://ukmatchplay.com/race2vegas/

  Also, when someone hits ‘like’ does the text that appears on facebook get puled from my page content, page excerpt or SEO fields?

  Thanks

  Jamie
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 09 at 10:34 pm

    Hi,

    There are a couple of errors showing via the facebook debug tool – mainly that the App ID is not valid:

    http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fukmatchplay.com%2Frace2vegas%2F

    The content is added by facebook. usually they appear to use the main content
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  Craig 2011 Dec 08 at 2:37 am

  How do I add, “Tell Your Friend” Button in here?
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 08 at 3:52 pm

    Hi,

    the only buttons currently available are facebook like, tweet button, digg, stumbleupon, linkedin, google +1 and pin it
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  Manny Edwards 2011 Dec 07 at 6:17 am

  One other question, Lee: On my site I have to click the facebook “like” button twice to make it stick. On the first click it adds a like for a second or two, then removes it. The second click makes it stick. Do you know what’s making it behave that way?
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 09 at 11:07 pm

    Hi,

    Appears to be working OK now?
• 
  Manny Edwards 2011 Dec 06 at 10:21 pm

  Thanks for this great plugin! I get a lot of referrals from Reddit — would you be interested in adding a Reddit button?
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 08 at 3:38 pm

    Hi,

    I have started modifying it to include Reddit. Will hopefully update soon
• 
  Musthafiz 2011 Dec 04 at 12:18 pm

  Hi Lee,

  I am using both social buttons and tabs. However, having an issue with social buttons. I think the twitter button doesnt count tweets. I have noticed the same thing on your site as well, and then I came to know that probably its not a problem but there has to be something. Could you please let me know what to do about it.

  Thank you.
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 09 at 11:07 pm

    Hi

    It sounds like a local problem with twitter. I would wait for a while and see if it corrects itself
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  Bob 2011 Dec 04 at 2:43 am

  Hello,

  Is it possible to add the ability to autohider the slider bar after X seconds and/or after the page has been scrolled?

  Thanks!
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 04 at 7:22 pm

    Hi,

    The current version of the plugin doesnt include that feature. You would need to add custom jQuery to handle it
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  George 2011 Dec 03 at 11:23 am

  Very nice plugin! Thank you for the time you invested. I have my share on problems though. Some sites are not displaying the button at all, even when I turn of all other plugins and on one particular site http://www.island-cruises.org/ the Twitter button shows the horizontal version, even though I selected the vertical version. On all sites, I’m using the plugin, the Google Buzz button has disappeared (also from the admin section. I’m looking forward to an update.
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 03 at 2:13 pm

    Hi,

    Are you using a plugin called Wp External Links as the twitter button code is being rewritten by something? If so check out the FAQ – The Twitter button always displays horizontal

    Google Buzz is no longer available unfortunately as google are concentrating on the plus one button
    • 
      George 2011 Dec 04 at 10:55 am

      Perfect; thanks a million Lee!
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  Test 2011 Dec 03 at 9:08 am

  Hey,

  I was wondering how it is possible to start the floating bar at the title of the page and end it at the comments? Such as how you have done on this page.

  Thanks!
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 09 at 11:09 pm

    Hi,

    We have added additional jquery code to set the buttons margin from the top of the page:

    $(window).scroll(function(){
    	 var fl = $('#dcssb-float');
    	 var offset = fl.offset();
    	if(offset.top > 178){
    		$('#dcssb-float').stop().animate({marginTop: 0}, 500,'easeOutQuint');
    	} else {
    		$('#dcssb-float').stop().animate({marginTop: '148px'},500,'easeOutQuint');
    	}
      });
    
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  Fred 2011 Dec 02 at 6:56 am

  Hi Lee, excellent plugin man!

  We are developing a new site and add your social bar in the right superior corner of our site (www.nsbla.com/cms/), but when you click to like FACEBOOK, the window opens to the right and you cannot see the entire window to complete your posting.

  Is there a chance to set it to open to the left? can you tell me how to do it?

  thanx from buenos aires!

  Fred
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 02 at 7:22 am

    Hi,

    As far as Im aware, the last time I checked it wasnt possible to change the direction unfortunately. This is controlled by facebook. I will check and see if any updates have been made
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  Phil 2011 Dec 01 at 5:51 pm

  How do I remove what looks like a bullet point on a slide out vertical Slick Solcial Share button?

  Thanks
  Phil.
  • 
    Lee 2011 Dec 01 at 5:56 pm

    Try adding the following to your theme’s style sheet:

    #nav-dcssb, nav-dcssb li {list-style: none!important;}
    
    • 
      Phil 2011 Dec 02 at 12:03 am

      Unfortunately that didn’t work!
      • 
        Lee 2011 Dec 02 at 1:41 am

        OK. the bullet is an image. Try:

        #nav-dcssb li {background: none;}
        • 
          Phil 2011 Dec 02 at 3:42 pm

          It worked! Thanks for your help, I’ve made a small donation to the cause!

          Keep up the good work!

          Phil.
        • 
          Lee 2011 Dec 02 at 6:22 pm

          Hi,

          Thank you. appreciate it!
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  David 2011 Nov 27 at 1:10 am

  I installed the plug in but the social bar is only underneath the foot for every page.
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 27 at 3:07 am

    Hi,

    See FAQ – The social media buttons appear at the bottom of the page
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  Benedict 2011 Nov 26 at 8:29 am

  Hey Lee

  Thanks for making this plugin! It’s by far my favourite social sharing tool on WP – so simple yet customizable!

  One thing I was wondering: is it possible to get rid of the border round the sliding bar? If you go to my site (socialpirate.org) you can see when you pull the anchor down, it has a pixel or so of border on either side of the buttons – looks good with the default button, but I think it’d look better with no lines in this case. Is there any CSS I can put in or anything?

  Thanks in advance!

  Benedict
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 26 at 10:16 am

    Hi,

    Do you have a link to a page where it is installed? the site currently has a “coming soon” screen
    • 
      Benedict 2011 Nov 26 at 7:50 pm

      Thanks for the speedy reply!

      it should be appearing on that page anyway…I’ll unlock it so you can see it on the regular site
      • 
        Lee 2011 Nov 27 at 4:09 am

        Try adding the following to your theme’s style sheet:

        #dcssb-slick #dc-dcssb {border: none!important;}
        
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          Benedict 2011 Nov 27 at 5:43 am

          That didn’t work – I tried it in both the theme stylesheet, and the two stylesheets for the plugin… I also tried changing the border to 0px and #fff in ‘slick-social-share-buttons/css/dcssb.css’, and this didn’t work either.

          Which term controls the border in the plugin files?

          B
        • 
          Lee 2011 Nov 27 at 6:37 am

          the following is the rule for the border:

          .dc-social-slick .dc-social-slick-content {
          border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
          }
          

          The following should definitely work in theory:

          #dcssb-slick.dc-social-slick #dc-dcssb.dc-social-slick-content {
          border: 1px solid #fff;
          }
          
        • 
          Benedict 2011 Nov 27 at 7:09 am

          it’s still not working – does the default skin option need to be turned off for it to work? when I do that, the share bar disappears, so I can’t tell if the rule you’ve given me is working. do you have an idea why it’s not showing up?

          sorry for dragging this out so long, I’m just a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to design
        • 
          Lee 2011 Nov 27 at 7:17 am

          no it should overide it in theory since the selector has higher priority.

          I suggest creating your own skin instead and then disabling the default one. The following tutorial gives you a style sheet you can use as the basis for your custom version:

          Setting up the share buttons to be the same as designchemical.com
        • 
          Benedict 2011 Nov 27 at 11:54 pm

          even that won’t work! I think it may be something to do with my theme, but I really don’t understand it. I give up, the plugin’s fantastic enough as it is

          thanks for all your help; great customer service considering I haven’t even paid you! I’ll definitely recommend your plugins to friends

          cheers

          B
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  Jing 2011 Nov 24 at 1:38 pm

  This is one of the best plugin I have tried. One thing, how come my facebook doesn’t count? when I try to click like but the number still show 0 ??
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 24 at 2:57 pm

    Hi,

    The facebook like button appears to be working ok now?
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  Megan 2011 Nov 23 at 11:10 pm

  Hi Lee, LOVE the plugin but have one question. Why is my Google Buzz icon not working? It isn’t even appearing on in the list (and yes, it is activated). What am I doing wrong…. Thank you!
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 23 at 11:17 pm

    Hi,

    google have stopped the google buzz button and are focussing on the google +1 button
    • 
      Megan 2011 Nov 24 at 1:19 am

      that would explain it! Thanks!
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  Lauren 2011 Nov 23 at 1:38 pm

  Figured it out! Thank you for a great plugin.
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  Lauren 2011 Nov 23 at 1:20 pm

  Hi there – I installed your plugin (thank you!), but I can’t get the thing to show up on my site. I have tried the settings for several of your demos, and nothing. I am running Thesis theme on WordPress. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong! Can you help?
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 23 at 1:26 pm

    Hi,

    It appears to be working ok on posts pages. Are you still seeing a problem with other pages?
    • 
      Lauren 2011 Nov 23 at 1:52 pm

      I just got it fixed. Now, I am trying to figure out how to deal with the images. For example, when I like it on Facebook, it posts a random ad from my sidebar as the image. When I try to pin something on Pinterest, it has no image to pin. I see there is a place to set a default, but I want my readers to be able to select which image they want to use from within the post. I am looking through your FAQ and other documentation, but if you have a quick answer, please, do tell! Thanks!
      • 
        Lee 2011 Nov 23 at 1:57 pm

        Hi,

        The plugin uses the featured image for the post. The default is used if no featured image is present. See following FAQ for info on how to enable featured images if your theme doesnt currently support them:

        Images for the facebook like, google buzz & pin it share buttons
        • 
          Lauren 2011 Nov 23 at 2:11 pm

          Hello again. I tried your suggestion, and added that code to my custom functions file, and it still isn’t working. Perhaps I’ll contact the guy who wrote Thesis to see if he has any suggestions if you don’t have any more info. Thanks!
        • 
          Lauren 2011 Nov 24 at 4:03 am

          Oh well, they don’t seem to have a solution, either. I guess I am out of luck!
        • 
          Lee 2011 Nov 24 at 7:20 am

          what image shows up instead of the featured image?
        • 
          Lauren 2011 Nov 24 at 3:01 pm

          Nothing shows up. It is just an empty box.

          I would love for it to look the way it does when you click on the “Pin It” button currently active on my site next to the byline. But I’d be happy with just the featured image.
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  Caspar 2011 Nov 22 at 1:11 am

  Hi,
  is there any way to turn off the opengraph meta data that this plugin is inserting into the header? We’ve already got a plugin doing this, so this one is duplicating that info and so giving us errors when facebook scrapes the pages.
  Caspar
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 22 at 7:44 am

    Hi,

    I have added the option to version 2.1.4
    • 
      Caspar 2011 Nov 22 at 9:47 am

      Thank you!
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  Alicia Stanley 2011 Nov 21 at 6:33 am

  I cannot seem to get the plugin to show up on my blog at all. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 21 at 11:13 am

    Hi,

    Do you have a link to a page where the plugin is installed?
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  Saskia 2011 Nov 19 at 5:07 am

  Maybe it’s a languagething, but somehow this otherwise marvellous plugin thinks it needs to show my personal Facebookaccount. But I want it to point to a page.
  Where do I need to do what in order to get it to work
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 21 at 11:38 am

    The facebook share buttons only work with personal accounts, not pages.
    • 
      b 2011 Dec 12 at 5:50 am

      Is there still no way to have the fbook button to like a page??

      Thanks great plugin!!
      • 
        Lee 2011 Dec 12 at 7:35 pm

        Hi,

        That would be using the facebook like box, where the user can become a fan of a facebook page
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  Fernand 2011 Nov 17 at 8:55 pm

  Hi,

  Well done for your plugin! its really neat!

  However i have a problem integrating it with my theme. Basically its the theme that used to come up with wordpress (the one by kubrick – http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/default). i then change the pages and posts to fit my liking but i use kubrick’s files as the base of my wordpress site..the plugin does not work with it (it doesnt load on the actual site … even after configuring it correctly) .. i know it works on other themes since when i switch the theme it appears ..

  if its of some help, when i ‘view source’ the page, i find that with my theme although it loads the javascripts in the headers, it does not load the actual thing in the footer …

  i can send you the theme files in a private email if you wish – though as i said its the same one as in here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/default

  Thanks once again!

  Fernand
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 17 at 10:05 pm

    Hi,

    I downloaded and tested the Kubrick theme and everything works OK. have you modified the theme files at all?
    • 
      Fernand 2011 Nov 17 at 10:56 pm

      Hi,

      Thanks for your prompt reply!

      You were right the Kubrick theme worked … i looked into the problem and found out that whenever i have

      <?php query_posts('cat=3&posts_per_page=20'); ?>

      for example, the bookmarks dont appear (the share button does not appear on screen … )

      Any known issues about this?

      Thanks!
      • 
        Lee 2011 Nov 18 at 1:53 am

        Sounds like there is a php error in your code, which stops the footer from loading
        • 
          Fernand 2011 Nov 18 at 5:26 pm

          Hi ..

          What i did was get the kubrick theme and added

          <?php query_posts('cat=3&posts_per_page=3'); ?>

          to index.php (just before the

          <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

          … and it didnt work … it looks like theres an issue with query_posts …

          Thanks for your time…

          Fernand
        • 
          Fernand 2011 Nov 22 at 9:39 pm

          hey mate … any news about this?

          thanks…
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  Akash 2011 Nov 14 at 4:39 pm

  Hi,

  Thanks for the plugin.

  Would you consider adding an option to filter the stats by count instead of date/title? I think that would be most useful to us users.

  Thanks!

  Akash
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 14 at 6:19 pm

    Hi,

    The count data isnt actually available until the table row loads so its not possible (with the current setup) to filter in the same way as with post date/title. We are looking at other ways though of adding these kind of features to make the stats more useful
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  Harry, ExposedPlanet 2011 Nov 11 at 12:19 am

  Hi, thanks for the plugin. I noticed on my site (as well as yours) that all social javascripts are loaded in the header, it slows the loading of the page and is not needed I think?

  (1) Can you make all the G+, Digg etc scripts load in the footer instead?

  (2) and even though I do not use the FB buttons (Intellectual Property issue), I still get these in my headers:
  meta content=”" property=”fb:admins”
  meta content=”" property=”fb:app_id”

  (3) Though I understand that the button designs are imposed on us by the services, It will be great if at least the basic CSS can be edited through options: the background colour, round versus square corners etc.

  (4) Is there any way that your plugin can add (longer) expires headers for the pulled javascripts?

  Thanks in advance!
  Cheers, Harry
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 11 at 12:38 am

    Hi,

    1. All button javascript is loaded in the footer. The jQuery files are loaded in the header by WordPress using the wp_enqueue_script function

    2. That will be corrected in a future update

    3. For the button panel layout this can edited by adding custom CSS to your theme style sheet – a copy of the main CSS rules can be found in our FAQ

    4. For the expires header you set this via your htaccess file if using Apache
    • 
      Harry, ExposedPlanet 2011 Nov 11 at 12:59 am

      Hi Lee, thanks for your swift reply, much appreciated.

      (1) So if I understand well, it does not matter that the scripts are all in the header (as can be seen in your page’s source code), as they will still load after the footer?

      Btw, I noticed that one of them (Digg) has async=”true” , the rest not.

      (3) Thanks. For those that have themes that overwrite their CSS after updating as well as for those that are not savvy about editing files at all, it might be nice to have a simple color picker for the background, I am sure it will increase usage of this nice plugin.

      (4) I use W3 cache and have all types of expires headers in my htaccess, but somehow these external scripts come with their own, which is not modified by the htaccess rules, not sure how to fix this, I thought maybe it could be done through the plugin.

      Thanks
      • 
        Lee 2011 Nov 11 at 1:06 am

        Hi,

        The button scripts arent in the header, they are loaded into the footer along with the button HTML

        With regards to having color pickers one problem with this option is that it would require adding inline CSS to the page for the styling, which of course is not good for several reasons. We therefore opted to keep it clean and allow the users to modify their own styles via CSS

        Not sure about how the external scripts work for caching since these are from the APIs themselves. Those hosted on the server such as the jquery plugins required for the floating/slide out effects can be managed via W3 cache
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  Julian 2011 Nov 10 at 8:43 pm

  This is a great plugin. Thank you!

  Is there any way to disable it on mobile versions?

  Thanks!
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 10 at 10:45 pm

    hi,

    If you are using any kind of plugin for the mobile site then usually this would have the ability to disable specific plugins
    • 
      CFA 2011 Nov 18 at 8:16 am

      The mobile plugins I found did not help matters. Can you please recommend a mobile plugin that will allow us disable the share button on mobile as it obstructs the content (at least in my case)
      • 
        Lee 2011 Nov 18 at 9:19 am

        Hi,

        Unfortunately I dont have any experience with mobile plugins so cant help you there
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  Andy 2011 Nov 09 at 3:04 pm

  Is there anyway to disable the plugin on certain pages only? (Since pages don’t have categories like posts.)
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 09 at 5:07 pm

    Hi,

    Not on the current version but we will add for the next update
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  London 2011 Nov 08 at 5:27 am

  Hi Lee,

  I was hoping you could answer my questions.

  I’ve posted twice now and it seems you’ve answered all the questions around it except for mine.

  It was:

  Love the plugin, great work.

  A couple questions.

  1) Any chance you will add an EMAIL button as an option to include with the rest of them?

  2) Is there a way to modify or add icons that are uniform in size so they line up nicely when in vertical format instead of staggered?

  3) Facebook like: is there a way to add a button that makes it possible to “Like” a specific Facebook Fan Page, as well as how it already allows liking the page that the button is on?

  4) I notice that on mobile devices and tablets that the buttons do not appear because they float outside of the frame. Is there a way to anchor them or have them appear under posts and pages still without covering content? It would be great if your plugin was visible when viewed on mobile or tablets.

  5) Why is it that when on a SINGLE POST page I try to Tweet from your plugin and it adds the BLOG PAGE URL instead of the SINGLE page URL? It does this sporadically, sometimes it works, such as with this one: http://tinyurl.com/6b6jehm
  and for others it’s just : http://tinyurl.com/3p6cgwy which was from this page (http://www.brettlondon.com/2011/11/03/the-ides-of-march/)

  Thanks!

  Looking forward to hearing from you!

  Brett
  • 
    Lee 2011 Nov 08 at 7:45 am

    Hi,

    Sorry I only just saw your previous message.

    1. We have considered it but we feel it doesnt quite fit in with the plugin and the rest of the buttons (although still thinking about it). At the moment we handle the email side through a contact form plugin and may also add to the social media tabs

    2. The current version of the plugin uses the standard buttons from the relevant social network API. Although some of them do allow you to use custom icons adding this feature would make it more complicated to manage. However, I do agree that the alignment is annoying with some of them. What we have done though is added a unique CSS ID to each button container so you can tweak individual buttons as required – e.g. on our site we added 10px padding to the left of the facebook button.

    The button CSS can be modified using:

    li#dcssb-facebook {
    }
    li#dcssb-plusone {
    }
    li#dcssb-twitter {
    }
    li#dcssb-linkedin {
    }
    li#dcssb-stumble {
    }
    li#dcssb-digg {
    }
    li#dcssb-pinit {
    }
    

    3. Similar reply to point 1 – currently we have that facility on the social media tabs plugin. At the moment we are planning to keep this plugin focussing only on share buttons

    4. This is something we can look at and see what options are available. The buttons wont currently sit inline with content as the code is actually outside of the main layout. Unfortunately we have no way of testing mobile devices at this time but will take a look.

    5. For single posts the URL used to come from the post ID. unfortunately if some other code has incorrectly hijacked the parameters and ovwritten them it used to cause problems. We revised the code though in one of our last updates to get the post ID using code, which doesnt rely on WordPress.

    If you are only seeing a problem with the tweet button and are using shortening then this is probably an old URL – in that case you can delete the short URL from the custom fields box in the post edit page – just delete the custom field “dcssb_short_url”. The system will then automatically generate a new one using the hopefully updated/correct post ID
    • 
      London 2011 Nov 09 at 1:22 am

      Thank you so much for getting back to me and answering all my questions thoroughly!

      Can you baby step me through #5, in regards to:

      “in that case you can delete the short URL from the custom fields box in the post edit page – just delete the custom field “dcssb_short_url’ ”

      The thing is, even when I post something new, it is still just using a short URL that directs to the BLOG PAGE.

      But maybe by doing what you suggest it will break that habit.

      Looking forward to it!

      Brett