Apostolos Dountsis

No My-Tuts?

It can’t be applied to all blog entries no, but we have an approval process that filters those entries out

Also - blog entries make up for a large amount of tutorials

Nice plugin…I already use Sociable, which adds a whole lot of others, but it looks a bit messy so I may give this one a try simply cos it’s neater.

This is just what ive been looking for however I have a problem. Its installed and everything and I add the code to the sidebar but it doesnt show up on the page. Im not sure what im doing wrong.

I love the look of your plug-in. I was wondering, can it be added to individual posts, or just the sidebar? I’ve been trying to make it work on my posts all day; and then it occured to me that might not be it’s intended usage.

Hi Dountsis,
i have included the code into the sidebar.php and the links do appear - but without the icons: I have uploaded them as they were, in the same directory as the PHP-File. What did I wrong?

Checkout
this example.

Best regards and Thanks very much!
Joerg

It works! Thanks so much.
Best regards
Jörg

Nicer and neater than the Sociable plugin! Good work!

hi there,
I am experiencing a big problem with your plugin. It does not work and I cannot desinstall it or inactivate it because otherwise it crashes my blog!

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_social_bar() in /home/hotelbl/public_html/wp-content/themes/blogtxt-12/home.php on line 63

Could you please help me?
Thank you

I would like to have this bar come up under every one of my posts (after the area that shows the category and comments, but before the division for the next post). I tried putting “” in the index.php file but it doesnt show up. Any idea why? Your advice would be much appreciated, thank you.

Hello! I tried the above solution (comment #17) to get this code to display under each post in my blog, but it messed things up and is now displaying:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ELSE in /home/doodlebug/domains/mysuspensionofdisbelief.com/public_html/
wp-content/plugins/social_bar/social_bar.php on line 82

What should I do to get this working? Thanks in advance!

Urgh. For some reason this is not showing up and I -am- using the right php code, it is enabled, and I even reuploaded the files just in case. I tried it in both my sidebar and footer.

Thanks for the plugin; here are a few suggestions:

You can define the plug-in directory automatically with
$plugin_dir = get_option('siteurl').'/wp-content/plugins/social_bar/';

Those having trouble with copying the additional code for single entries may have run into the same quote-mangling I did; perhaps you could add the code to the plugin with an option to activate it.

I thought it might help to share my set of edited icons for this plugin. I have changed them so that they always have a 1 pixel white space between each one, rather than a variable space. This means they fit into a 152 pixel total width.

You can download them here:

http://www.watchthis.co.uk/social_bar.zip

Thanks for pointing that out. I kind of selfishly made them with a white non-transparent background because that matches the colour of the background on my website. I guess if someone wants them to appear on a non-white background they’ve got some recolouring to do. I have to admit that the ones that appear on my website are actually GIF’s because I didn’t want to have to think through any browser compatibility issues.

Hi there, just having a little trouble with the plugin. I’ve uploaded and activated the plugin, updated the social_bar.php file to point to ‘/news/wp-content/plugins/social_bar/’) and added
Bookmark Page

to the top of my sidebar file. My site is located at http://www.websiteforu.com/news/
Any Idea why the links and pictures arent showing up?
Thanks in advance!!!

Lindsey (about the add-on code for putting the bar in the posts):

There is a problem in the code, with the ‘ and the ” which need to be rewritten.

I’ve made the required changes, pick it up here:

http://grandespoches.net/blog/socialadd.txt

I have the same problem like post 25 (Jim). Any idea why?

Yick

Hi, I added three more provider which are YahooMyWeb, Co.mments and Newsvine to the plugin. See the code below.

‘YahooMyWeb’ => array(’img’ => ‘yahoomyweb.png’,
‘url’ => ‘http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u={link}&title={title}’,
‘url_target’ => ‘_self’),
‘Co.mments’ => array(’img’ => ‘co.mments.gif’,
‘url’ => ‘http://co.mments.com/track?url={link}&title={title}’,
‘url_target’ => ‘_self’),
‘NewsVine’ => array(’img’ => ‘newsvine.png’,
‘url’ => ‘http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u={link}&title={title}’,
‘url_target’ => ‘_self’)

Hello there, this is a great plug in however I can’t get it to work, I have activated the plug in and also edited social_bar.php as suggested in post #11 to meet the plugins directory path on my site, I have also added to my sidebar.php everything is there saved correctly however the plug in is not showing up in my sidebar on my side, I added to the end of sidebar.php after
Any ideas on what might be wrong? thanks a lot in advance.
-Ely

I forgot that you cannot post code here, so my post above seems nonsense I wish I could edit it lol.

Thank you for providing this awesome plugin! It’s just what I was looking for. Great work.

Hi.
First off, great plugin! I’ve got it up on one site (uncorporatecommunications.com…just moved from wordpress.com and still need to move over posts) and plan to use it for many more.
I can’t get the icons to show, though, and I tried the advice you gave Jorg, and still no icons. Any help would be much appreciated!

can not get icons. I followed post 11 but it did not help. I do not have a WP folder. WP is basically my home page on th eabove domain. My directory is like www/infozeus/wp-content/plugins…

Please help

Thanks so much for this plugin!! I have been trying to figure out how to add these links to my blog and its had me banging my head against the wall when it comes to where to place the code. Your plugin makes it so much easier!!

Great plugin and exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for writing!

Only problem I’ve got is that there is a rather ugly border around the images which isn’t on the PNG files so I’m guessing it’s either my theme or something I need to change in the social_bar.php file.

Can you advise?

Cheers,

Mike

Great stuff - fixed. Thanks for the lightning quick response too!

Cool plugin, but I’m having a problem. It’s displaying at the bottom of every one of my posts even on the main page, not just when viewing a single post. Is there any way to prevent that from happening?

Alternatively, can this be used just on the sidebar and not in each post?

Can you take a quick look and let me know why the first image is higher than the others?

Great little plugin, btw. I’m anxious to get it working as I’d like. Thx!

Yes. I made some very simple edits to the border, etc. But the misalignment was always there.
Very strange.

Any ideas?

The first suggestion did the trick.
Commenting out [$html .= " ";] did the trick.

Thanks again, Apostolos. I appreciate the fantastic plugin.

Hi again,

Haveing a slight problem again, lol… If you look at my site http://www.websiteforu.com/news/ you can see that the plugin is working, just adding text links instead of adding the icons. Also on the sidebar, nothing shows up under the bookmarks header. I’m totally lost here, lol. Hope I’m not being a pain because I really appreciate the work you do offering this code to people for free! I’d just love to get it working correctly.
If anyone has any clue or has encountered this same problem and can help I’d really appreciate it!
Thanks in advance

Hi Apostolos,

I think I’ve figured out the problem. I looked at the social bar plugin, and there was a reference to news/wp-content/plugins/social_bar instead of just the regular wp-content folder. I think I changed this to point to news on the first version, and maybe when I uploaded and overwrote the new files for the new version it either didn’t overwrite it, or some other error happened? I don’t know but removing that extra news worked.

Thank you very much for this plugin its really a great tool for all of the bloggers out there!

Have a great day and happy labor day to those in the US.

The graphics are lining up vertically on my blog’s home page, but they look fine on the individual posts.

Hi Apostolos,

Thanks for the great plugin that you’ve generously provided. On my blog, though, the images have a few spaces between them. I’ve taken out the line $html .= " "; from social_bar.php, but still no joy. Is it something to do with the way my theme justifies the content?

Cheers

Andrew

Love this plug-in; I always thought other social bookmarking plugins were too ugly too use– this one looks nice.

Has anyone created buttons/icons for NewsVine and MyYahoo yet? I noticed the code posted by someone in comments, but I’d love to track down a NewsVine button (I could make one, but I bet someone already has).

Thanks!

Hello there!

Great plugin!!!

But I was wondering how can I delete bookmark links and icons from the list? I would just like to have digg, furl, reddit and technocrati.

Plus I would like to have all for icons next to the “Bookmark to:” text and not below. Can I change this?

Thanks for your help,
Yours,
Rene

Hi,
How to The plugin just appear in side bar not in wordpress posts?

thanks

Hey Good plugin (I live in Lewes) however when i hover over an icon I would like it to say yahoo or comments or whatever the link is instead it gives the full url like so:
http://www.tagtooga.com/tapp/db.exe?c=jsEntryForm&b=ie&
url=http://www.jonathanspencer.net/xoops/modules/wordpress/2006/09/10-best-plugins-for-wordpress/
is there anyway to change this and make it clearer with a short url?

Thanks, Apostolos! I would be interested in a version with those additional icons (NewsVine in particular).

Hi Apostolos..

Thank you for this great plugin. You’ve created a product that everyone loves. I’ve already noticed that other blogs like mine have installed your plugin after seeing it on my blog.

Could you email the updated code and icons that you sent Laurel? They are exactly the two extra bookmarks that I wish were added.

Thanks a bunch!

I put the code

as the first thing on comments.php in my K2 template.
I get the error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_social_bar() in /home/favfav/public_html/wmtoolbox/blog/wp-content/themes/3ColumnK2/comments.php on line 2


Any reason?

Code didnt show up…

Hi Apostolos:

Thanks again for the updates, you were very considerate in emailing them to me.

If I may, I’d like to provide some constructive criticism. Please bear with me if I’m wrong, I’m not the most computer-literate person about these things.

1. Seems like the download is “double” archived. I have to extract it twice to get to the main folder.

2. I noticed that the Del.icio.us bookmark has a “target = _blank” command and opens in a new window, while the other bookmarks do not. Can all of the bookmarks contain this command?

3. While I like the “target=_blank” command, it makes the plugin non-compliant with XHTML requirements. Is there a way to configure the plugin to be XHTML compliant?

Okay.. that’s it. Hope this helps you out. Thanks again!

Mike

I noticed that this plugin breaks the xhtml validation because the urls it produces the “&” ampersand are not html escaped -> “&”.

For example the line
'url' => 'http://del.icio.us/post?url={link}&title={title}',
should read
'url' => 'http://del.icio.us/post?url={link}&title={title}',

I can email you the changes social_bar.php with all the “&”s properly escaped if you like.

Hi, I like this plug-in a lot and I have installed it in my own blog, the only thing I’d like to ask as a n00b to wordpress and to php in general is:
How can I edit the plug-in so that it appears lower down in comparison to the entry text in order for it to stay centered? What I mean is my blog entry may have an image on the left which in some cases interferes with the location of the centered text and the images of the plug in, so if it was moved further down it would avoid this anomaly. Also if possible, can you tell me where I can apply some .css styles in order to make it blend in correctly?

Thanks

That’s exactly what I was looking for, and it’s really good looking… thanks to have shared it !

Stéphane

it’s ok, I’ve done it and it works perfectly

Hi Apostolos:

I’ll bet that your sick of hearing from me.

However, just think how my feedback can help better your product.

Well, I found something else about your plugin that you may want to consider revising. I love having the Social Bar in the “posts” footer, but it also shows up where I “don’t” want it, like the “About, Archive, Disclaimer, and Contact” pages. Can your plugin be adjusted to only show-up on the “post” and “comments” pages only? Those would be the ones where readers would most likely use the Social Bar options.

Okay.. I promise not to find any other faults.

Hey, BTW, I really like your site design, its easy to navigate and pleasing to the eyes. Take care!

Mike

i add google bookmark to your script
please test and check. i try on firefox 1.5 and ie6. thanks guys.
(i try to paste code, but its to long )

page : http://www.gunduz.info/wp/?p=44
renamed php file : http://www.gunduz.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/social_barphp.txt
google image : http://www.gunduz.info/wp/wp-content/plugins/social_bar/google.jpg

http://www.gunduz.info/wp/?p=44

i add google bookmarks to your script please visit and check chances
i test it only on firefox1.5 and ie6

$social_places = array(
‘Google’ => array(’img’ => ‘google.jpg’,
‘url’ => ‘javascript:(function(){var a=window, b=document, c=encodeURIComponent, d=a.open(\’http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=\’+c(b.location)+\’&title=\’+c(b.title),\’bkmk_popup\’,\’left=\’+((a.screenX||a.screenLeft)+10)+\’,top=\’+((a.screenY||a.screenTop)+10)+\’,height=420px,width=550px,resizable=1,alwaysRaised=1\’);a.setTimeout(function(){d.focus()},300)})();’,
‘url_target’ => ‘_self’),


Hi,

I want to align the social bar to the left hand side of the page.

I’m crapola at code, so how do I do this - as standard it is centre.

Thanks

Great plugin! I just installed it, tested it, and now it’s running 100%.

Thanks!

hey nice job! I know you recently released v3.0, but here’s a feature request for the next version. Might not be of interest to all, but how about an option to collect statistics on the actual use of the button? Maybe keep track of clicks and from which post?

Just an idea…

Mr Papa

I just added on socialable last night and it seems ok,i wonder if i could plug this one in?
or should i delete that and install this one,it looks like it has some better links on it like google etc..

Hi, nice plugin.

I want to have the sociable icons underneath the author, category, and comments on my blog, and not after the post. When I click on the printer friendly view, the socialable images appear, and I don’t want them to.

very nice plugin !
But we can i adjust it that this plugin not show it on the index.php ?

greetz from germany

its the standard index post page like this:

This social bookmark is one of the coolest plugins for WordPress. Thanks Apostolis for making it available freely on your website. I might also try the Easy Peasy Image Gallery later.
Regards,
ProTibet

Apostolos - I’m interested in having you tweak the plugin so it won’t appear in the posts on my index.php page… or having you tell me how to do it. I tried to use the code you posted in your reply to Ryan on 30 Aug, but I think maybe your code in the php file has changed a bit in the new releases since then.

Great-looking plugin… and great-looking blog, too, BTW.

Derek

Social Bookmarks v3 is awesome! Downloaded, installed and got running with ease - thanks Apostolos for your work.

I’d like to see the option for turning off on the index page as well (as mentioned by others).

Thanks for the plugin
works great and looks much nicer than my other one!
Keep up the good work:>)

Great plugin!

I’ve been looking for such a powerful social bookmark plugin for months.

I installed it and everything is working fine.

Thanks a lot for the great work!

Kind regards,
Avinash

Hi, im a chilean blogger, im not a programmer, just a graphic designer, i have a new blog tool called favoriting, i edit the code and insert this item, you can see in my blog, and i need to put more items but the syntaxis of the code makes me sick.

this items had to be added, please!!!

favoriting, onlywire,tailrank,furl

help!! (^^)

Apostolos, you listen my praying?

Please Apostolos there are many people who speak spanish only and internet and web2.0 have to break the walls between users at the whole world.

You should think about spanish webs because they can download your plugin and put it into their webs (in spanish of course).
Many people speaking spanish need to save their favorite urls and that were wrote in english, however it are important for them.

Sorry but my english is wrong.

Bye and thanks for understanding me.

Iluidion

It’s a great plugin! Though is there anyway I can arrange which sociable bookmarks appear first and secondly, how do i make them appear transparent and blend in with the site. Currently, there are borders around it and the background is grey.

Thanks.

Hi, I love your plugin but I want to place the social bookmarking sites to appear in a different part of the page. The social bookmarking sites are fixed to be in the bottom. I want to use but it is not woking. I probably need to tweak something on social_boookmarks.php. How do I make the work?

I meant I want to use get_social_bar(); but I don’t know how to get to work.

I just want the option to display it anywhere on the page. Be it below a certain paragraph or the sidebar. Rigbt now it’s fixed and I don’t have the flexibility to move it. What do I need to do? Thanks in advanced.

Hi Aposotolos..

Hope you’e doing great!

Thinking about adding more bookmark links in the Social Bookmarks?

Here are a few for your consideration: Fark, Pluck, and TailRank.

L8R!

Mike

Apostolos,

the plugin is breaking XHTML validation on my site:

1. ERROR: Line 78, column 432: duplicate specification of attribute “onclick” .

Line 78:

Bookmark this post to:

*sigh*… I have no idea what I’m doing wrong with the tags… OK, last try: I’ve replaced “” with “[" and "]” in this code snippet:

[!-- Social Bookmarks BEGIN --][div class="social_bookmark"][em]Bookmark this post to:[/em][br /][a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://cheekandbluster.com/index.php/2006/10/21/bullseye/&title=Bullseye"class="social_img" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'scrollbars=yes,menubar=no,height=600,width=750,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no'); return false;" title="Add 'Bullseye' to Del.icio.us" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/del.icio.us');"][img src="http://cheekandbluster.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/social_bookmarks/delicious.png" title="Add 'Bullseye' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'Bullseye' to Del.icio.us" /][/a]

Edited by Apostolos: You need to enter the code as

Apostolos,

It does indeed give the same error for all the links, not just Del.icio.us.

thanks,
Derek

Nice plugin. I modified the code to suit my site, which is based on K2. I have a suggestion, which will allow for greater control of the CSS for the images.

Add class="social_img" to lines 189 and 333 of social_bookmarks.php

Hi! Great plug-in!

I got two small issues on my blog:

- How do i keep the bookmarks from showing on the frontpage and just on the individual post-pages?

- Is there any other way to get the icons to blend with the background than to do a photoshop job on each of them (and if photoshop is the solution how do i change the format to gif instead of png in the plugin code)?

Hello Arvek,

You can include this code to only show in individual-pages

in your function render_plugin() at social_bookmarks.php

change the line
return $html;
to
if (is_single()) return $html;

This will prevent to content showing in the frontpage

[]’s

Apostolos,

Thanks for a great plug-in. I am using version 3 and was wondering what I needed to do in order to remove the borders that appear around the png images (as I do not have a white background on my blog)

Thanks in advance,

Jason

Hi Apostolos,

thanks a lot, really a great plugin. I do use it on our new page, however I would prefer (that question was asked before) NOT to have it directly after the post, but rather after the block of permalink, trackback etc. options that I programmed…

My php knwledge is still limited, so while I could easily implement it if you would tell me how to do it, i cannot find out which function I have to call - please let me know…

Thanks a lot!!

Best regards,
Robert

apostolos - i just discovered your plugin and it’s really awesome.

HOWEVER, i am unable to deselect various options and have the plugin retain those deselections. when i click save, they all re-activate so i have every option showing up all the time.

am i doing something wrong? i am using a mac with firefox (v2.0).

thanks in advance for any comment!

apostolos - i’m running 2.0.5 - just a regular .zip download from the .org site. i will try reinstalling - but yeah, it’s odd. i click save and it restores all the checks back to the ones i unchecked!

figures it’s just me . . . . haha. i’ll report back after a reinstall.

apostolos - same problem. completely deleted the social_bookmarks folder, uploaded a fresh copy from the zip archive, activated, same problem - uncheck ones i don’t want, then click save - they all come back rechecked and ALL the options show on my site.

what am i doing wrong? every other plugin is working fine. is there a conflict between this plugin and something else?

hi! this is a great plugin but i am also having the same issues jim is experiencing.

i am running wordpress 2.0.5. i have already reinstalled the plugin 3x.

any information in resolving this issue is greatly appreciated.

thanks!

Love the plugin, but can you add bloglines? Thanks!

Hi, Apostolos,
i have problems with your plugin on my website. Somewhy icons are displayed in one column and it brokes we website design, maybe you can help me on fixing this?

Thanks!

Hello Apostolos,

I don’t want the icons on the index page so I changed the code as follows:

line 421:


if(substr($content, 0, 12) == 'Apostolos')
{
return($content);
}
else
{
if (is_single()) {
return($content.$html);
}
}


But this time index page post contents disappeared? How can I call them back? (Everything is cool on single pages).

Please let me know,
Thanks…

Is there a way to just display text and no images?
Something like: Digg | Furl | Del.icio.us | ect.

As stated in comments 62 and 64 I want to call the social bookmarks from my comments.php template page because it doesn’t look nice under the post … Can you help me ?

I would appreciate thanks man you know my mail

Great plugin. Is there any way to specify where on the page the plugin is displayed. On my site, I have an “add to delicious” link at the bottom of my posts, which has a line of code in my Loop file. I want to then have your plugin below that, but i can only seem to get it above it. Any thoughts?

Jeff

Hi, I commented out line 367 and add the following line:
$target_img = $settings[’name’];

But the text is showing up as a white