Light Social WordPress plugin

This is a super lightweight plugin to insert a set of social share links at the bottom of each post, focused on technical blogs.

With this plugin you don’t have options to configure. Simply activate or deactivate to show or not the bookmark social links.

This is the list of used social sites:

  • Digg
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Yahoo Buzz
  • DZone
  • Facebook
  • Viadeo
  • Delicious
  • Dotnetkicks
  • LinkedIn
  • Technorati
  • Twitter
  • Faves
  • Mister Wong

The plugin is implemented using the most simplistic html code to ensure fast load and minimal impact on your blog.

Works with IE6 and HTML feed (atom, rss) readers. Handles selective placement and position of the links.

If you want to perform some changes, here it is a small guide:

There is a function inside lightsocial.php that you can edit directly on the WordPress plugin admin section called: lightsocial_insert.

// insert Light Social custom html
function lightsocial_insert($content)
{
    global $wp_query;

    $post = $wp_query->post; // get post content
    $id = $post->ID; // get post id
    $postlink = get_permalink($id); // get post link
    $title = trim(urlencode($post->post_title)); // get post title
    $link = split('#', $postlink); // split the link with '#', for comment
    $link = urlencode($link[0]); // get the actual link from array
    $img_prefix = get_bloginfo('wpurl') . '/wp-content/plugins/lightsocial/';

    $code = '';

    //$display = is_home() || is_single(); // use this line for display on home and single posts only
    //$display = is_single(); // use this line for display on single posts only
    $display = true; // if you want to put some special condition

    if ($display)
    {
        $code .= '<div class="lightsocial_container">';

        // digg
        $code .= code_digg($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // reddit
        $code .= code_reddit($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // stumbleupon
        $code .= code_stumbleupon($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // yahoo buzz
        $code .= code_yahoo_buzz($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // dzone
        $code .= code_dzone($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // facebook
        $code .= code_facebook($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // viadeo
        //$code .= code_viadeo($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // delicious
        $code .= code_delicious($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // dotnetkicks
        $code .= code_dotnetkicks($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // linkedin
        $code .= code_linkedin($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // technorati
        $code .= code_technorati($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // twitter
        $code .= code_twitter($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // faves
        //$code .= code_faves($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        // misterwong
        //$code .= code_misterwong($title, $link, $img_prefix);

        $code .= '</div>';
    }

    //return $code . $content; // use this line if you want the links before content
    return $content . $code; // use this line if you want the links after content
}

Comment the line of code corresponding to the social network you wish to remove. For example, to remove LinkedIn:

//$code .= code_linkedin($title, $link, $img_prefix);

If you want to display only in the home page and single posts, uncomment and comment the following lines:

$display = is_home() || is_single(); // use this line for display on home and single posts only (uncommented)
//$display = true; // if you want to put some special condition (commented)

If you want to display the links before the content, uncomment and comment the following lines:

return $code . $content; // use this line if you want the links before content (uncommented)
//return $content . $code; // use this line if you want the links after content (commented)

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130 Comments

  1. Posted December 21, 2009 at 1:18 pm | Permalink

    Hi Alden,

    I like your new plugin! I’m running into a bug serving up the icon files though. It looks like the direct links to them return 404s, yet the file permissions look correct. Any thoughts?
    http://www.drelmo.net/wp-content/plugins/lightsocial/digg.ico

    Thanks!

    -Marc

    • Alden Torres
      Posted December 21, 2009 at 1:23 pm | Permalink

      I will fix it in a minute. It’s something related to new setup with wordpress.org directory.

  2. Posted December 21, 2009 at 1:26 pm | Permalink

    Hi Alden,
    I Just tried the plugin from the WordPress Site, and I ran into the same issue. I was able to locate the problem:

    WordPress gave your plugin the folder name “light-social”.

    In your code, you use “lightsocial” for links.

    It’s a pretty easy fix, just add a dash to your css path on line 29, and to your image paths on line 172. I made these changes on my files, and it works like a charm.

  3. Alden Torres
    Posted December 21, 2009 at 1:36 pm | Permalink

    Thank you!! Fixed and uploaded. Need to wait about 15 minutes for the update in wordpress.org directory.

  4. Posted December 21, 2009 at 1:56 pm | Permalink

    Yes, I’ve found myself in that anxious “Please don’t let anyone download the old code for the next 15 minutes” state several times.

  5. Posted December 21, 2009 at 1:59 pm | Permalink

    Ahaha! Already fixed and updated. I’m very impressed with the quick turnaround time. Keep up the great work!

  6. George
    Posted December 23, 2009 at 6:03 am | Permalink

    Hey there

    I have a problem using your plugin in IE 6.0. Not sure if its only my website but it wont show most if icons in IE but showing them ok in Firefox and other browsers. Seems like the IE cant parse the files.

    Thanks
    G

  7. George
    Posted December 23, 2009 at 6:11 am | Permalink

    Hmm Its definitely something wrong with the ico files. I cant open them with the photoshop and I have the ico import/export plugin

  8. George
    Posted December 23, 2009 at 8:31 am | Permalink

    Oh I have edited all icons and they works in IE now (twitter one lost its transparency but its not a big deal).

    You can download them from:
    http://rapidshare.com/files/324852159/light-social.zip.html

    And upload/replace original in the /plugins/light-social/ folder

    Best
    G

  9. Posted December 23, 2009 at 12:56 pm | Permalink

    Hi Alden,

    I just installed your plugin, and I love how simple and easy it is to use.

    I’m having a similar problem described by George above with some of the icons not showing up in IE6: Digg, .NetKicks and Technorati.

    I tried to replace those icons with the ones posted by George, with no luck. If I navigate to the urls directly, IE6 displays them properly. Then when I navigate back to my blog, they show up. However, if I clear my cache, it reverts to the same problem as before.

    If only IE6 would just die already.

  10. Posted December 23, 2009 at 2:09 pm | Permalink

    @Chris Zeh
    It looks like some, maybe all of the ICO files are actually renamed PNG files. I’m going to try and re-render them as small loss less GIF files, and edit the plugin’s pathnames accordingly, lets see how it goes….

  11. Posted December 23, 2009 at 2:09 pm | Permalink

    It looks like some, maybe all of the ICO files are actually renamed PNG files. I’m going to try and re-render them as small loss less GIF files, and edit the plugin’s pathnames accordingly, lets see how it goes….

  12. George
    Posted December 23, 2009 at 5:05 pm | Permalink

    You can check my website: http://www.videocreativ.com in IE, they work well for me now when I re-rendered them in photoshop. Must be some cache problem with Chris browser or something

  13. Alden Torres
    Posted December 23, 2009 at 5:23 pm | Permalink

    @George and @Chriz Zeh I’m glad you are using the plugin and providing me with this feedback. I just was quiet since I’m very busy. I updated the plugin to a new version 1.2 with a new set of icons and a fix for PNG transparency in IE6.

    Thanks!!

  14. Posted December 23, 2009 at 7:27 pm | Permalink

    @Alden Torres
    Sweet, looks like it’s working perfect now! This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks for a great plugin. Thanks for getting back to us so quick with the updates!

    Great website @George , looks good in both firefox and IE6 :-)

  15. Posted December 24, 2009 at 1:04 pm | Permalink

    Hi Alden. Very nice plugin. Simple and clean. Any idea on how to make the icons displayed correctly in RSS feed? They won’t float left forming a horizontal row but stay one below the other making a vertical row.

  16. Posted December 24, 2009 at 2:15 pm | Permalink

    @varometro
    Thanks for your feedback. I found a way using the function the_content_feed and also, I have plans to simplify the code even further. I will make the changes during this weekend.

  17. Posted December 26, 2009 at 4:53 am | Permalink

    I want to know if it’s alright to just take out the css source line in the php completely. The lightsocial.css only contains two lines so I figured it won’t do much. Do you recommend this?

  18. Posted December 26, 2009 at 10:20 am | Permalink

    @Bryant Irawan
    You are ok as long as you keep your style separate from your html markup. Otherwise it’s not the recommended way. You can put the content of lightsocial.css inside your main css and comment the line to save one request.

  19. Posted December 26, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Permalink

    @varometro
    The change is already made, you can see how it looks in Google Reader at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/light-social/screenshots/

  20. Posted December 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm | Permalink

    @Alden Torres
    Nice work Alden. Now it works perfectly!

  21. Posted December 31, 2009 at 5:57 pm | Permalink

    I am getting errors on my newsfeed at Facebook, Google Reader, FeedBurner and Bloglines! Bloglines reports it as:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: preg_last_error() in /hsphere/local/home/a***c/res***ful.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/light-social/lightsocial.php on line 233

    I’ve deleted part of the path for privacy reasons.

    I’ve tried uninstalling light social to no avail, followed by reinstalling.

    Still a problem. How can I correct this?

  22. Posted December 31, 2009 at 6:45 pm | Permalink

    @jonathan barnett

    If you are familiar with PHP: The function preg_last_error requires PHP 5 >= 5.2.0. Based on your X-Powered-By header you are using PHP-4.4.9. You can comment the validation line if upgrade is not an option.

    If you are not familiar with PHP: You need to upgrade to the latest PHP version. Highly recommended.

    Hope this helps.

  23. Posted December 31, 2009 at 7:24 pm | Permalink

    I’m following you (I think). Next stoopid question: When you say “I” need to upgrade PHP version, I assume you mean my web hosting service needs to upgrade? Or is this a local issue?

  24. Posted January 1, 2010 at 1:05 am | Permalink

    @jonathan barnett
    Yes, I mean your web hosting service provider if your are using a shared hosting account. If they are not willing to do it, I recommend you move to another provider.

  25. Posted January 1, 2010 at 8:31 am | Permalink

    Thanks. And Happy New Year, btw.

  26. Posted January 2, 2010 at 3:00 pm | Permalink

    Can I set this to show only on posts not pages?

  27. Posted January 2, 2010 at 4:15 pm | Permalink

    @Shanna
    Are you familiar with PHP? I would like to keep the plugin without “Admin” page for simplicity and instead, I can give you the right line of source code to replace.

  28. Posted January 4, 2010 at 5:23 am | Permalink

    is it possible to appear on the top of the post instead of the bottom?
    Great work by the work!!! :D

  29. Posted January 5, 2010 at 12:43 am | Permalink

    @lambros Ntokas
    Yes, let me put the change and document it. Thanks for your comment.

  30. Posted January 5, 2010 at 10:26 am | Permalink

    @Shanna
    @lambros Ntokas

    The changes are already commited and documented in this page.

  31. Posted January 5, 2010 at 2:47 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for this great plugin ! It would be great to include .po files for internationalization…

    Since I installed this plugin, rss feeds are bugged… is it incompatibility with feedburner plugin ? don’t know… As this plugin is in posts, do you think rss /feed can be disturbed ?

  32. Posted January 5, 2010 at 7:26 pm | Permalink

    Hi @Bruno, I can see that your have the following error in your feed:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: preg_last_error() in…

    Check this previous comment @Alden Torres for the solution.

  33. Posted January 6, 2010 at 3:36 pm | Permalink

    Hi, I experienced a problem with this plugin. When it is active and ONLY if I login as registered user, and ONLY using internet explorer 8, my left sidebar starts from the end of the article and not as it should at the beginning. I am running worpress 2.9. This is strange since nothing happens if I visit articles without logging in or if I am logged in and use firefox or chrome. Nobody else experienced this issue?

  34. Posted January 6, 2010 at 3:45 pm | Permalink

    Hi @Enrico, probably it is some problem related to the theme. Can you give me a link to take a look?

  35. Posted January 6, 2010 at 5:19 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the quick reply, at the moment I disabled the plugin but if you tell me that this could be useful for you I can activate it. But you should register to the site, since this problems shows up only to logged in registered members. my theme is WP-Multiflex-3 and you can see the site @ http://www.dove-andare.net

  36. Posted January 7, 2010 at 5:58 am | Permalink

    bonjour
    j’aurai souhaité ajouter “viadeo” à la suite de facebook etc …
    est-ce possible et comment
    D’avance merci de votre réponse

  37. Posted January 7, 2010 at 10:19 am | Permalink

    Hi @Karin HUPFER, it’s included in the new version. Just remove the comment from the following line

    // viadeo
    //$code .= code_viadeo($title, $link, $img_prefix);
    
  38. Posted January 7, 2010 at 12:46 pm | Permalink

    Merci beaucoup, bonne soirée !

  39. Greg Olson-Hyde
    Posted January 7, 2010 at 5:11 pm | Permalink

    Hi,

    Just installed and activated this plugin. It does not appear as an available widget in the widgets list.

    I am using the “Patagonia” theme – any ideas?

    Thanks Greg

  40. Greg Olson-Hyde
    Posted January 7, 2010 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

    @Greg Olson-Hyde
    Duh – it doesn’t appear as a widget – it’s at the bottom of the post – my mistake – please ignore.

    It looks excellent – thanks!

    I’ll try and wake up before I post next time – sorry!

    greg

  41. Posted January 8, 2010 at 1:23 am | Permalink

    Hi, I’ve to notify you that i have to disable light social (v1.16), becouse it breaks my rss feed.
    The problem that i’ve noticed, is that when I’ve enable light social, i’ve got a “XML parsing error: :34:29: unclosed CDATA section” when trying to validate my RSS trough W3C validation Service.
    After disabling it, the RSS feed returns W3C compatibile. I’ve tryied more than 1 themes, and with all themes i’ve trued have got the same error.

  42. Posted January 9, 2010 at 1:04 am | Permalink

    Hi @Andrea Crippa, the problem is that I use a function preg_last_error which requires PHP 5 >= 5.2.0. You are the third person with the same problem and for that reason I decided to check if such function exists before use it. The change is in the new version.

  43. Posted January 10, 2010 at 5:14 am | Permalink

    @Alden Torres
    Ok, i’ve noticed that the Centos/RHEL distributions that I’m using provide php version 5.1.6 and version 5.2.0 is still not available in Centos-Base and Centos-Plus repository. I prefer to stay in compliance with the upstream distribution, so thank you for the roll-back.

  44. rohan
    Posted January 12, 2010 at 11:15 am | Permalink

    Hi Alden,

    Just wanted to say that what you have created is just so much better than any other widget out there attempting the same job. Thank You!!!

    Suggestion for you to think about (or toss out the window as i have no idea how much work goes into this stuff – its totally beyond me haha) but it would be great to be able to delete any social networking sites we dont want (in a graphical user interface) through the WP back-end. But thats just being picky – the product you have is totally brilliant!!

  45. Posted January 12, 2010 at 11:20 am | Permalink

    Hi @rohan, I will think seriously about creating the admin page, however the priority is keep as simple as possible. Thank you very much for your comment. Regards.

  46. rohan
    Posted January 12, 2010 at 11:32 am | Permalink

    Yup simple is always a very good priority ..Im playing around with your advice column above for modifications :)

  47. Posted January 14, 2010 at 4:15 pm | Permalink

    Great plugin, great work. “The priority is keep as simple as possible” please do so. Any possibility to integrate MisterWong to the bookmark social links?

    Cheers!

  48. Posted January 14, 2010 at 4:37 pm | Permalink

    Hi @Theo, I can add MisterWong as a commented one, similar to Viadeo and Faves. I would like to wait at least one day in order to keep the update frequency moderate. It this something you need now?

  49. Posted January 14, 2010 at 11:12 pm | Permalink

    Thank you for the plugin!

    I’d like to suggest that you add a lightsocial_img class to your plugin’s CSS. When I switch between various WordPress themes the image margins of the theme wreck havoc with the look of the plugin.

  50. Alden Torres
    Posted January 14, 2010 at 11:15 pm | Permalink

    Hi @Andrew, I will do it for the next version. Thanks.

  51. Posted January 15, 2010 at 10:13 am | Permalink

    Hi Andrew,

    Great plugin!

    I’m running into a problem with it with IE6 (works fine with Chrome, Firefox and Flock, IE7 and Mobile IE).

    With IE6 (on 2 different machines) it produces 2 rows of large icons and one row of smaller icons above the page and none of the icons are clickable. The normal icons show up under the posts but the mouseover doesn’t work.

    Any workarounds for IE6?

    Thanks,

    Tony

  52. Posted January 15, 2010 at 12:13 pm | Permalink

    when I activate the plugin, it displays the buttons with a blue border and in vertical instead of horizontal alignment. any ideas?

  53. Posted January 17, 2010 at 1:48 pm | Permalink

    Hi @Phil, I can see the issue in your site.

    If you are not familiar with PHP: The problem is in your template and probably you will face another problems with another plugins.

    If you are familiar with PHP and HTML: The problem is that I use the wp_head hook. Quoted from WP.org doc.

    “wp_head() is triggered within the section of the user’s template by the wp_head() function. Although this is theme-dependent, it is one of the most essential theme hooks, so it is fairly widely supported.”

    Additionally, I can see that you have this line in your head: <script type=”text/javascript” src=”"></script>. This will cause you a lot of problems.

    Regards

  54. Posted January 17, 2010 at 1:52 pm | Permalink

    Hi @Tony. Thanks for your comment. Could I have the url to your website?

  55. Posted January 18, 2010 at 9:25 am | Permalink

    The alignment seems to messed up on my site. The png’s are way too spread out. Anybody have any ideas?
    screen capture here.
    http://bigfishfreeride.com/photo_files/light%20social.JPG

  56. Posted January 18, 2010 at 9:32 am | Permalink

    Hi @fish. This seems to be an incompatibility problem with another style included in your theme or by another plugin. Could I have access to your public url?

  57. Posted January 18, 2010 at 12:30 pm | Permalink
  58. Posted January 18, 2010 at 2:24 pm | Permalink

    @Andrew, @fish, thanks for your feedback. I made the change suggested by Andrew and it must fix the fish’s issue.

    Regards.

  59. Posted January 19, 2010 at 1:44 pm | Permalink

    Hi@Alden Torres
    When ever you have time, there is no hurry ! and thank you again for the plugin

  60. Posted January 19, 2010 at 8:20 pm | Permalink

    Hi Alden,

    if i want this to only show on posts and never show on Pages and homepage , what would be the quickest way to do that ?

    This is the sexiest Sharing plugin ever , lite , hot , powerfull,

    Thank you

  61. Posted January 20, 2010 at 10:25 am | Permalink

    Hi @mody, look for this line in the plugin editor (Plugins->(Light Social) Edit.

    $display = true;

    and replace with

    $display = is_single();

    Regards

  62. Posted January 20, 2010 at 10:57 am | Permalink

    Hi @Theo, Mister Wong is now added as a commented one. Regards.

  63. Posted January 20, 2010 at 3:19 pm | Permalink

    It seems to be broken in displaying in feeds. I’m seeing the icons vertically in my feedburner feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/tkassembled/ and I didn’t mess with the source code at all. Is there something I need to do to get them displaying horizontally in feeds?

  64. Posted January 20, 2010 at 3:34 pm | Permalink

    Hi @TK. Which version of PHP are you using?

  65. Jason
    Posted January 20, 2010 at 5:42 pm | Permalink

    Is there any way to more finely adjust the location that the links are output at?

    My general structure looks like:

    the_content()
    the_tags()
    comments_popup_link()

    I’d like to have the social links display after the tag list and comment link. I’ve tried removing the filter on the_content() and calling lightsocial_insert() where I needed it, after removing $content from the output and leaving only $code.
    When I do this however, it throws an error about missing the first parameter. I tried putting in a post number, post->ID, or something of the sort, however when I pass it any parameter it seems to just go blank and display nothing.

  66. Posted January 20, 2010 at 6:26 pm | Permalink

    @Alden Torres Thank alot Alden , Great work , will make a post about this plugin later on my Site

    Regards

  67. Posted January 21, 2010 at 1:24 am | Permalink

    I’m using version 4.4.9. I’ll see if I can upgrade to PHP5. I thought for sure I was running at least PHP5…

  68. Posted January 21, 2010 at 1:29 am | Permalink

    @TK, let me know the results. I use a function that requires PHP >= 5.

  69. Posted January 21, 2010 at 1:30 am | Permalink

    Hi @Jason, let me think about it. I will back to you.

  70. Jason
    Posted January 21, 2010 at 11:19 am | Permalink

    Hey @TK , noticed you were unsure about upgrade to PHP5, here’s an htaccess tip I’ve used before to enable PHP5 when upgrading was not a viable option to me: https://www.asmallorange.com/help/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=34

    All it should take is adding: “AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php” to your htaccess file – hope that helps

    And @Alden Torres thanks for the reply, I look forward to hearing back from you. I have some limited PHP knowledge, but not a great amount. I do love the plugin though, exactly what is needed without being a huge load on the site.

  71. Posted January 21, 2010 at 11:45 pm | Permalink

    Hi @Jason, I think the solution is a direct modification of your template, since you are looking for a special placement inside “The Loop”. If you provide me with your template I will take a look in my development environment and perform the change (no promise about the time).

    Regards.

  72. BJ
    Posted January 23, 2010 at 5:33 pm | Permalink

    Hi,

    The only button I’ve tried so far is the one for twitter. But I noticed that it just outputs the URL of the post and not the post’s title. Is that the way it’s supposed to work and/or how would one get the post title included (which I suppose would then require the URL to be sent as a shortened URL, right?)?

    Any thoughts?

  73. Posted January 23, 2010 at 6:36 pm | Permalink

    Hi @BJ. Yes I’m putting only the url due to the length restriction. I would rather keep this without the shortened URL for simplicity. Is this something you need?

    Regards.

  74. Posted January 29, 2010 at 9:36 am | Permalink

    Hi@Alden Torres,

    Sorry, just saw this. It’s: http://indietrak.com

    Tony

  75. Posted February 4, 2010 at 3:11 pm | Permalink

    Hi Alden, it seems like the following line is no longer being called in my version of WordPress (2.9.1):
    add_filter(‘the_content_feed’, ‘lightsocial_insert_feed’);

    My light_social is no longer showing up in my rss feeds. Any idea’s about what’s going on?

  76. Posted February 7, 2010 at 6:24 pm | Permalink

    Hi @Tony , did you tried upgrading the plugin to the last version?

  77. Alden Torres
    Posted February 7, 2010 at 6:51 pm | Permalink

    Hi @Chris Zeh , I can see that you are up to date with your PHP. I just fixed an issue regarding the display in the feed. Can you update to the latest version? Regards.

  78. Posted February 8, 2010 at 3:07 am | Permalink

    This will be a very useful plugin for me.

  79. Posted February 8, 2010 at 2:53 pm | Permalink

    Hi @Alden Torres ,

    I installed the latest version of Light Social, but still no luck.

    I tried to replace the “return $new_content;” line in the lightsocial_insert_feed function with something simple like: return ‘Here!’;

    But this gave me no changes in the feed. It seems like the lightsocial_insert_feed function is not being called at all.

    I tried to remove this line:
    add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘lightsocial_insert’);
    thinking that perhaps its filter was overriding the feed filter. But no luck here either.

    I’m I the only one having problems with WP V2.9.1? I’d like to narrow it down and see if it’s just a problem I’m having, or everyone with 2.9.1 is having.

    Thanks for the support!

  80. Posted February 8, 2010 at 3:09 pm | Permalink

    @Chris Zeh My next idea is some incompatibility with the theme or another plugin. Could you test in a clean WP install? Just trying to figure out what’s the problem.

  81. Posted February 8, 2010 at 10:42 pm | Permalink

    @Alden Torres , I just checked my Feed when I got home from work and it seems to be working here. It works with Firefox and IE8, I’ll check it again at work tomorrow to see if it is a IE7 issue.

    Perhaps there was some kind of caching going on that I wasn’t aware of. I tried to clear IE7 cache, but might have failed.

    Thanks for the awesome support.

  82. Posted February 9, 2010 at 3:28 pm | Permalink

    Now it’s working for IE6. Perhaps my Feedburner plugin was doing some caching.

  83. Posted February 10, 2010 at 12:02 am | Permalink

    @Chris Zeh , good to know that it’s working now.

  84. Posted February 11, 2010 at 10:36 am | Permalink

    Hi Alden,

    do you think about adding the Google Buzz to your Light Social plugin. I absolutely love this plugin and it would be great to have it updated.

    Thank you so much in advance

  85. Posted February 12, 2010 at 11:45 pm | Permalink

    Hi @WordPress SEO, the plugin is updated to support Google Buzz (aka. Google Reader). Thanks for your comment.

  86. Posted February 14, 2010 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

    Great plugin, though I only have one gripe. How can I push the inserted buttons to appear after the comments link ? It seems to force itself either before or after content. I’d like to have more placement options which seems rather tricky.

    • Posted May 13, 2010 at 11:17 pm | Permalink

      Hi @Nash, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, I can’t find a way to provide such functionality without change the template. If you know a plugin with that capability, let me know. Regards.

  87. Posted February 14, 2010 at 1:56 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for this great and simple plugin. Two questions/requests though, is it possible to add an rss and/or email subscription icon to this, and second, are the icons scalable if I want them bigger or would I need to find replacement ones?

    Thanks!

    • Posted May 18, 2010 at 12:02 am | Permalink

      Hi Chris, while it’s possible to add any link to this icons row, the purpose of this plugin is more about social sharing/bookmark. Regards.

  88. Posted February 15, 2010 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

    I love the plugin and this may seem silly but, I wonder can the links to allow people to post open in a new window?

    • Posted May 22, 2010 at 12:34 pm | Permalink

      Hi Jim, I updated the plugin to include this feature. Iadded the open in new window option (using target=”_blank” or javascript) in the admin page.

  89. Posted February 15, 2010 at 9:31 pm | Permalink

    @Nash, @Chris, @Jim Reynolds I’m taking note of your questions and requests in order to implement them in the next major version. Thanks for your comments.

  90. Posted February 16, 2010 at 6:00 am | Permalink

    Hi Alden, thanks for the plugin. It’s s-weet :)
    I translated it with poEdit, but I’m not sure if I did the right thing. wplang is set properly (tr_TR), but lightsocial doesn’t seem to have noticed it :) What should be the naming of the .po files / or am I completely doing something wrong?
    Thanks in advance!

  91. Posted February 16, 2010 at 11:04 am | Permalink

    @Alden Torres
    Awesome, thanks. Looking forward to the update.

  92. Posted February 19, 2010 at 1:31 am | Permalink

    Hello Alden,
    excuse my bad english.
    First : I would like to say you “Thank you” for this plugin and the time you pass on it.
    Second : A request. Can you plan to improve the php code of the plugin, making it to take advantage of using multiple sitename for loading the gif image.

    Example :
    digg loaded from static1.hostname.com
    reddit loaded from static2.hastname.com

    etc…etc….

    In my site I’ve made some changes to your php code to reflect this changes.

    I hope that you have understand my request; Take a look to my site and you how it work.

    Thank you in advance.

    Crippa Andrea

  93. Posted February 19, 2010 at 4:42 am | Permalink

    Thank you, Alden. I have just updated the plug-in on my blog. it works greaT. Thank you so much, I will write a quick post about your plug-in with link to it. Cheers

  94. Posted February 19, 2010 at 11:43 am | Permalink

    Hi Alden, thanks for a lovely straightforward plugin. While I understand your reasons for not inserting the blog title in the twitter insert – it would be nice to have the option of enabling this behaviour (and possibly passing it through a url shortener).

  95. Posted February 22, 2010 at 11:56 am | Permalink

    Hey there, Love the plugin, but for some reason, the icons appear vertical on buzz and it shows the name of the article but then it shows the name of the site (i presume it’s the name of the site) as null

  96. Posted February 22, 2010 at 5:14 pm | Permalink

    You have some great plugins on your post. Your insight and expertise would be a welcome addition to our new community, i hope you will consider joining, and thanks for sharing!

  97. Posted February 28, 2010 at 12:59 pm | Permalink

    Hey,
    Thanks for the plug-in – its super.

    I’m just having a little style issue – on certain posts the plug-in the styling doesn’t seem to apply http://craigleontowicz.com/blog/?p=265

    It works perfectly on the blog home page and half the posts http://craigleontowicz.com/blog/?p=249

    Sorry if this is a noob question.

    Thanks for the updates too.

  98. Posted February 28, 2010 at 2:08 pm | Permalink

    Hi, I just installed the plugin and tested it (the facebook button) but it is not sharing the actual post that the button is on, instead it is posting my ‘About Me’ page and a random photo from elsewhere on my site. Any help appreciated. Many Thanks Simon

  99. Posted March 12, 2010 at 4:39 am | Permalink

    Alden, do you know by any chance how to add ‘nofollow’ to those links?? Please help!

  100. Posted March 15, 2010 at 11:23 pm | Permalink

    Hi,

    I just to make a suggestion to the plugin.

    When wp-content directory moved to somewhere else (different domain/subdomain), the images will not show up.

    It’s seem the problem can be fixed by changing LINE:
    ++
    $img_prefix = get_bloginfo(‘wpurl’) . ‘/wp-content/plugins/lightsocial/’;
    ++

    with this LINE:
    ++
    $img_prefix = WP_PLUGIN_URL . ‘/lightsocial/’;
    ++

    Best,

  101. Posted March 17, 2010 at 12:26 pm | Permalink

    How can I add target=”_blank” so I open in a new window?

  102. Posted March 29, 2010 at 3:37 am | Permalink

    A great plugin. I installed it at it just works. No mess no fuss.

    Thanks!
    Dave

  103. Posted April 4, 2010 at 9:54 am | Permalink

    If you want to add Ping.fm

    Image Download:
    http://www.zoomwebvideo.com/zoomlab/wp-content/plugins/light-social/pingfm.png

    function code_pingfm($title, $link, $img_prefix)
    {
    $href = ‘http://ping.fm/ref/?link=’.$link.’&title=’.$title;
    $img = $img_prefix.’pingfm.png’;
    $tooltip = __(‘Ping This!’, ‘light_social’);

    return code_helper($href, $img, $tooltip);
    }

  104. Posted May 7, 2010 at 8:39 pm | Permalink

    Hey Alden,
    Would you consider adding fwisp to the list of supported sites in your plugin? Email me if you get a chance please!
    Thanks.

  105. Posted May 11, 2010 at 2:14 pm | Permalink

    I have your plugin running on my site and it’s great. However, the latest update causes the plugin to run “after” all the other plugins have run. This messes up my layout because I have some plugins I want to run that have content I want to appear AFTER the social links.

    Any solution?

    • aldenml
      Posted May 11, 2010 at 10:05 pm | Permalink

      Hi @Mayour, Thanks for the feedback, I reverted that behavior and added the position settings. The plugin is updated now.

      • Posted May 13, 2010 at 8:10 am | Permalink

        Alden,

        Thanks for that, that was a fast response! However, this setting was already available if I edited the actual plug-in file.

        What I was referring to is that originally the plug-in was called by hooking the function to a specific action. The codex states that the add_action hook can accept priority arguments.

        What I had was another plug-in also hooking in with add_action and merely changed the priorities for each.

        Nevertheless, I played with the CSS and changed the layout to work around this issue. No complaints, still love your plug-in, keep up the great work!

  106. Posted May 13, 2010 at 5:27 pm | Permalink

    I downloaded, unziped, installed & activated your great looking program, but, it is not showing up anywhere. Where did it go? What did I do wrong?

    • Posted May 13, 2010 at 10:40 pm | Permalink

      Hi @yuli, I can see you are using WP-Cache. Did you reset the cache?

      • Posted May 13, 2010 at 11:44 pm | Permalink

        Now I am showing my ignorance! I have no clue how did this wp-cashe got there. Should I reset cache? How? Have tried a few time to delete and reinstall. So far it has not worked yet.

        • Posted May 17, 2010 at 1:12 am | Permalink

          Hi yuli, another person have the same issue but I can’t find the problem. I have plans to update the plugin next week.

        • aldenml
          Posted May 17, 2010 at 10:58 pm | Permalink

          Hi yuli, can you tell me your version of PHP?

  107. Posted May 13, 2010 at 8:47 pm | Permalink

    Hi, Alden

    I love your work all the time. But it seems the latest version of Light Social is not compatible with my exist website/layout. The icon list disappears when I upgrade from 1.x to 2.0 (and 2.1). Any solutions? And may I have your previous version of Light Social?

    One feedback: The 1.x version will show vertical icon list on my Facebook (automatically forward from WordPress). You may take a look at the URL below:

    http://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/malic-huang/gu-qi-yi-qian-nian-de-zhi-qi/411716222144

    • Posted May 13, 2010 at 10:45 pm | Permalink

      Hi @Malic Huang, thanks for your comment. Could you activate the latest version in your blog to detect what the problem is?

  108. Posted May 14, 2010 at 3:26 am | Permalink

    Hi Alden,

    I already active it on my wordpress site (http://www.wordtech.com.tw/wordpress). And I put a screen snapshot on website for you (http://www.wordtech.com.tw/ftp/others/light_social.jpg) to indicate the location that I expect Light Social icon list to show up. Version 1.x shows up icon list here.

    Thanks for your help.

    • Posted May 17, 2010 at 1:14 am | Permalink

      Hi Malic, I can find the problem. I have plans to update the plugin next week. Maybe you can provide me with more information. Regards.

    • aldenml
      Posted May 17, 2010 at 10:57 pm | Permalink

      Hi Malic, now I can see that you are running an old version of PHP. I strongly advice you move to the latest version. Regards.

  109. Posted May 17, 2010 at 4:38 am | Permalink

    There was a update for this plug-in and after I clicked on auto update it no longer shows up on my blog. The plug-in is active.

    • aldenml
      Posted May 17, 2010 at 10:54 pm | Permalink

      Hi jeannie, can you tell me the your PHP version?

  110. Posted May 18, 2010 at 3:56 am | Permalink

    2.9.2 Is this what you mean by PHP?

    • Posted May 21, 2010 at 1:14 pm | Permalink

      2.9.2 is the version of your WP blog. You can ask to your hosting service provider.

  111. Posted May 23, 2010 at 12:30 am | Permalink

    Hi Alden,
    I have installed it, works very well, thanks. However, I would like to keep only a few of the “share” functions – such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. How can I do that, i.e. remove the other icons?
    Thanks,
    Ilgar

  112. Posted May 23, 2010 at 3:05 pm | Permalink

    Love your plugin! One quick question…Is it possible to have the links show up only on posts and not pages?

    That would help a lot…thanks again!!!

  113. Posted May 24, 2010 at 2:01 pm | Permalink

    Instalei o pluguin, porém quando vou compartilhar os posts aparece sempre a mensagem dizendo que o conteúdo do meu post está bloqueado por alguns usuários do facebook (aliás, utilizo apénas essa rede social). Obrigado

  114. Posted June 1, 2010 at 5:58 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the plug-in. Anyway to get links to open in a new tab?

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