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GetSocial WordPress Plugin

Now Powering Over 14.4 Million Pages and 23k+ Blogs!

GetSocial adds an intelligent, lightweight, quick to setup floating social media bar to your blog posts.

Features

  • GetSocial WordPress PluginFloating social media box compatible with leading web browsers
  • Out-of-the-box functionality like
    • Twitter Tweet Button
    • Facebook Like button
    • Google +1 (Plus One) button
    • Tweetmeme Retweet button
    • Stumbleupon Submit button
    • Digg Button
    • The Web Blend Button
  • Easily add any number of additional social media sharing buttons
  • Always visible and accessible even if the user scrolls down the page
  • Auto-adjusts itself to all screen resolutions and window sizes
  • Automatically hides itself partially to the left of the screen if window is resized to smaller than defined width
  • Hovering over a partially hidden GetSocial bar displays the full bar
  • For higher screen resolutions, displays full by default
  • Options to add the social media bar to posts as well as pages
  • Options to disable the social media bar on individual posts/pages
  • Color Picker to customize colors to match your blog theme.
  • Lightweight plugin with minimal settings
  • Scripts are loaded in footer to improve page-load time. Scripts can optionally be loaded in header if your theme does not support the wp_footer WordPress hook

Download GetSocial Plugin Free

Click here to download GetSocial plugin from WordPress website

Installing the GetSocial Plugin

Upload the GetSocial plugin folder to your plugins directory, activate it and it should work out of the box. Detailed instructions follow:

  1. Extract and upload the getsocial folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Go to Settings page and adjust the options as described there.
  4. Review and Save Changes.
  5. Floating social sharing box will now appear on all blog posts.

Frequently Asked Questions

How to add additional social media sharing buttons to the floating share bar?

Simply add the HTML code for the additional buttons under the ‘Additional buttons’ options in the settings page. Enclose each button within <div class="sharebutton"> and </div> tags. For example:

<div class="sharebutton">
<!-- Code for additional button 1 -->
</div>
<div class="sharebutton">
<!-- Code for additional button 2 -->
</div>

Nothing happens when I hover over partially hidden GetSocial bar

Set the Browser Width option in the Settings page to suit the maximum width of your theme. For example, if your theme’s width is 1000px, you may set the browser width to 1140px (1000 + 140) or slighly higher. Try out different values of browser width and set the one that gives desired behaviour.

I have activated the GetSocial plugin but the floating social media bar does not show up. What could be wrong?

Make sure that you have selected the desired Display options on the Settings page and saved the changes. If the sharing box still does not appear, it could be because your theme does not use the standard WordPress function wp_footer(). You can try one of the following options:

Add following code to your theme’s template (possibly in footer.php) just before the </body> tag:

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

OR Add following code to footer.php just before the </body> tag or in header.php after opening <body> tag:

<?php
if (function_exists('add_getsocial_scripts')) {
    add_getsocial_scripts();
    if (function_exists('add_getsocial_box')) {
        add_getsocial_box();
    }
}
?>

How do I add the email and more buttons from Addthis.com?

Please refer to How to Customize GetSocial with CSS3 Buttons.

Where can I report a bug or submit feature requests?

Please contact us, drop a comment below, or Ask me on Twitter.

Screenshots

GetSocial WordPress Plugin

GetSocial WordPress Plugin

GetSocial Plugin with Floating Social Media buttons

Visible even after scrolling down

GetSocial Plugin - Smartly hides on resizing the window

Smartly hides on resizing the window

Hovering over will show the full view

Hovering over will show the full view

More Information

Demo

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  1. Lee Hughes says:

    I use my category pages as my navigation so it’s important to me that they get shared since they are always updated. Do you know what the shortcode I could use is? Many thanks for your reply.

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Unfortunately there are no shortcodes at the moment. You could try inserting add_getsocial_scripts and add_getsocial_box functions in the relevant templates. I havent tested this myself though.

      Reply
  2. Paul says:

    Hey Riyaz,

    It’s great that you answer so many of your users questions.
    I love your plugin and have used it for a while.

    One thing I can’t figure out though is why the stumbleupon button refuses to show on mine. There is just a big space there. Any thoughts on this? Here is an example post. You’ll see the space above the digg button. Also the google+ box is sadly cut off.. any easy way to get the horizontal version of it?

    http://www.cleancutmedia.com/internet/who-has-access-to-your-facebook-clean-it-in-1-minute

    thanks in advance!

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      I could see SU button on the link you shared. Try refreshing your browser cache or try from another computer. Regarding the +1 button, I guess some other plugin might be interfering. Try disabling the Wibiya bar temporarily and see if it solves the issue.

      Reply
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  1. Lee Hughes says:

    Hey,

    Lovin’ this plugin. What would make it perfect would be the ability to get it to display on archive pages. Is there a shortcode I could use in my code?

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      The plugin wont show up on archive page as it has multiple posts. It would rather confuse the users as to which post they are sharing. I would consider adding a shortcode. However, on every page/post you have an option to enable/disable the plugin.

      Reply
  2. Renuka says:

    Hello Riyaz, Thanx for wonderful plugin. But m having trouble. It doesnt show up for the posts having more than 2-5 images. sometimes it appears on some post and not appearing in long post why ? awaiting your reply…plz help..

    Reply
  3. Elena@Best Web Hosting says:

    Hello Riyaz, this brings my attention I am a newbie to blogging. My blog is kinda boring no audience seems to come to my site yet, so I think I might wanna need this now real quick and install this. Thank you!

    Reply
  4. Michael Gusto says:

    Hi!
    I’ve tried all similar sharebar plugins and this one is by far the best.
    But I have one question about upgrades and two about support.

    Are you planning to upgrade the facebook like button to their new version which enables you to add a comment and share the link when you push “like”?

    The “sharebar” loads on a different location when you open a page and then jumps to where I want it, anyway to change this?
    Whatever facebook like-code I try, the shared link on Facebook never displays the featured image of the post or any other picture from the post or the page than a small rss-icon in the footer, is this possible to change?

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      For the GetSocial initial location, you can edit the CSS code in file getsocial/lib/getsocialstyles.php as below:
      Locate the following piece of code;

      /*display:none;*/

      And change it to:

      display:none;

      Click on Update File button to save the changes. Clear the cache from caching plugins and you should be all set.

      For Facebook meta like featured image, you need to implement Facebook OpenGraph into your site. You can easily do this via Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin.

      For the share button for Facebook, I will try to include it in the upcoming releases.

      Reply
  5. James Thoenes says:

    Like the plugin.
    How about the icons without counters as an option?

    Reply
  6. ronald says:

    I love this plugin, but how can i enable it on my homepage?

    thx

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Unfortunately it wont work on homepage or any page that has multiple URLs to share.

      Reply
      • eynugget says:

        Hi, really love this plugin!
        I’m puzzled as to why it wouldn’t work on a blog or home page.
        You say it won’t work on pages with multiple URLs, but the homepage or blog page has only it’s own URL to share, so why wouldn’t it work?
        Are you going to make a version that works on a blog / home page? It’s very important for blogs.
        Great job!
        Thanks.

        Reply
        • Riyaz says:

          I agree that homepage has its own url. However, the GetSocial box scrolls as the user scrolls down the page. When the box is next to an article, it might confuse the user as to which article he is about to share. When a page has multiple articles on it, its a good idea to have static share buttons next to each article instead of scrolling one like GetSocial. And after all, if something confuses your users, they are less likely to share your content.

          Reply
  7. Jamie says:

    Love it! :)

    Reply
  8. nutz Inspirations says:

    Hello Riyaz,

    We’ve installed your get social plugin. But have some conflicts with our theme. The theme has a j carousel slider and the slider malfunctions when the plugin is activated. The plugin is visible on posts but doesn’t scroll with it. The theme developers said that they won’t provide support for third party plugins. What can I do for prevent j query conflicts.
    Thank you.

    Reply
  9. Marisa Wright says:

    I do like the GetSocial plugin, but I have a couple of problems with it. One, it doesn’t display properly on my site. The “Tweet” button is partially cut off so it looks like “Twee”. I feel that looks unprofessional.

    The other question I have is – is there any way I can have the buttons without the counters? On a new site, the count can be quite low which doesn’t look very impressive!

    Finally, when I run Firebug, I notice the plugin has slowed my site slightly (not a big deal but worth being aware of – as you know, site speed is very important these days).

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      I could see the plugin work correctly on your site. “Tweet” is in deed displayed correctly. Current version will by default display the counters. I will consider adding buttons without counters in the upcoming plugin update. For site speed, you can choose to load scripts in footer by choosing the option on the settings page.

      Reply
      • Marisa says:

        Thanks, I’ll be hanging out for the update! I have loaded scripts in the footer, but Firebug still tells me “335.2KiB of JavaScript is parsed during initial page load. Defer parsing JavaScript to reduce blocking of page rendering”. It gives me a list of the Javascript and most of it relates to the plugin.

        Reply
  10. Robert Jay says:

    The twitter count doesn’t update on my site, it’s stuck on 0. Know what the problem is?

    Reply
  11. Thomas says:

    First off the plug-in is awesome!! The only issue is that the on my latest events page the style is different see:

    http://www.stalsshandon.org/events/month/ it shows below the page content
    http://www.stalsshandon.org/events/upcoming/ it shows on the left but with different margin than the rest of the pages.

    Any assistance or suggestions on how I can solve this problem would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Looks like the calendar page template does not use the_content WordPress function to output any text. If you can add the function to the template, the plugin should work correctly on that page. Else, you can turn it off by choosing hide GetSocial on this page option.

      Reply
  12. Nina says:

    Hello,

    Is there a way to see who clicked one of the buttons? (Like, +1,…)

    Thank you

    Reply
  13. Josh says:

    Hey man, I’ve seen a lot of my friends using your plugin so I decided to install it. But I’m having some issues with getting the plugin to move with the page and get it closer to the blog content. Any ideas? It’s installed now, so if you go to a post you’ll see what I’m talking about. Thanks!

    Reply
  14. Mohsin @ wordpressguide says:

    Thanks for the great plugin. I first downloaded another plugin from WordPress website but it wasn’t displayed properly but now i downloaded this plugin and it works for me.

    Reply
  15. Gazalla says:

    I’ve downloaded the plug-in (following instructions on the wordpress site). It’s showing up on my dashboard but not on my blog. I even put in the php code in my footer as recommended in the wordpress support forum and no luck. Please help!

    Reply
  16. abhi says:

    Excellent plugin. It looks very nice and well fitted. I am looking these type of plugins to gain some seo push. Thanks for sharing keep up.

    Reply
  17. d i l i p says:

    Hi Riyaz,

    Thanks for the plugin. Just wanted to bring to your notice a small bug I am seeing when the site is opened in Mozilla (ver 3.6.23). Instead of the tweet button, all I see is a small brown patch. I checked with another site from one of the comments above and your site too. It shows all other buttons correctly except the twitter one. Displays perfectly in Chrome though. Hope you will look into this. Thanks. :)

    Reply
  18. Latest XBOX 360 Games News says:

    Hi Riyaz,
    I like your plugin. But i got the same problem with Yavor. I already tried the solution you gave to him but it seems doesn’t work properly. I recited the yavor statement here “Hey man, I can’t seem to get the plugin to display properly. It loads below my site, not to the side”.
    Could you visit my website and help me to resolve this problem? Your help is appreciated. You can visit one of my post here: http://www.exboxnews.com/copy-any-game-download-review-dvd-copy-games-software.html
    Thanks

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Your theme may not be using the standard WordPress function wp_head() and wp_footer(). If this is the case, open the header.php file of your theme and add following line before tag
      wp_head();

      Also, open footer.php and add following line before tag
      wp_footer();

      Reply
  19. Aniruddha Shukla says:

    Thanks a lot Riyaz. This post was just what i needed to install the getsocial plugin on my wordpress blog.
    Thank you again :)

    Reply
  20. Yoric says:

    Hi man, great plugin.

    I have many clients using different web hosts etc.
    such as Joomla, weebly and privatized hosts.
    is this plugin compatible only with wordpress or is it also available for generic usage???

    Reply
  21. Yavor says:

    Hey man, I can’t seem to get the plugin to display properly. It loads below my site, not to the side…

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Try changing the option for Load scripts in footer. That might help. Another issue could be your theme is not using the standard WordPress function wp_head(). If this is the case, open the header.php file of your theme and add following line before </head> tag
      wp_head();
      Hope this helps.

      Reply
  22. Sravan says:

    Hi Riyaz. First of all I would thank you for such a nice and wonderful plugin. It made my manager feel happy for me. Thanks once agian. I need to add an RSS feed button to the sidebar generated through the plugin. I tried to find the related code in HTML , but was not able to get it. I got something in PHP, but was not working when I copied it to the plugin. Please let me know if you can help me in this issue and fix it. Thanks.

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      If you are using a service like Feedburner to create your feed, you can grab the code from their website. Alternatively you can simply place an anchor link to your RSS feed and wrap it around the icon image using standard html.

      Reply
  23. Jason says:

    I want to manually add the GetSocial code to the template where I want the social buttons to appear. What is the code for this? Thanks!

    Reply
  24. Jeremy says:

    Hi Riyaz,
    Love the plugin. Only thing I’m having issues with is the Twitter counter not working… any ideas?
    Thanks,
    JV

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      counts are displayed by the twitter api..if it doesnt work for you..try using tweetmeme button..another thing to look at is your site name is appended to the post title twice which makes the tweet length longer than 140 chars…you should check the setup of SEO plugins in case you are using any

      Reply
  25. Daniel Henrique says:

    Hi.

    Sorry to bother you. For some reason, “GetSocial WP Plugin” always shares the first post on my blog:

    http://inconvencional.com.br/2011/10/o-mito-do-empreendedor-soa-familiar/
    http://inconvencional.com.br/2011/10/resolva-o-problema-certo/

    Is this expected behavior?

    Thanks.

    Reply
  26. Paul says:

    Hey Riyaz,

    Just wanted to let you know that your plugin is great. Great job!
    I had implemented it a while back on my site ( http://www.cleancutmedia.com ).

    One recommendation for features would be to allow setup for “recommended related account” for the twitter button. I believe after someone shares your content, it can show “related accounts” and that could be pre-set. That would be awesome.

    Reply
  27. andre says:

    Hi,

    i’m trying to install getsocial in my web. but i can’t see any of share button on the web page/post. please help

    http://www.kedaicabe.com

    tks

    Reply
  28. mfirdausmohd says:

    hye! first of all, thx for creating this awesome plug in!
    but i have a problem, which when i hover my mouse to the google +1 button. the text “Click here to publicly +1 this as your name.” seems like a bit dropped too far. can you help me please? the text is not shown directly under the box. its got a range, my assuption its around 200px from the text and the box.

    Reply
  29. rainer says:

    Great plugin. Is there a way to change the order of the buttons? And is there somewhere a Gallery of copy&past additional buttons for lazy guys like me? Thanks so much!

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      The only workaround to change the order of buttons is disabling standard buttons and using additional buttons to add button codes in your order of preference.

      For button codes, standard codes are available on individual websites. Alternatively you can grab all the codes from AddThis website.

      Reply
  30. Joe says:

    Hi, I love this widget but got a problem that you might or might not heard about before.

    Whenever someone press the “Like” for Facebook – which is the most commonly used button for my site, what will be displayed on Facebook is the correct headline, but an incorrect photo and incorrect text.

    It says like this (for instance):

    (headline) Crash in The Shanghai subway!

    (text) Did you like this article? Also read xxx and xxx. This site is writing about news in China and Asia, xxx.

    (picture of something else)

    It’s hardly tempting for the user to click on a link that has one headline, another photo and a third text.

    Did anyone run over this before?

    Thanks,
    Joe

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      The plugin does not implement Facebook opengraph meta by itself. If your theme does not already implement it, you should consider doing so. I will be adding option to implement this via the plugin. however, I don’t have any timelines for this at present.

      Reply
  31. Jon says:

    Hi Riyaz,
    Thanks so much for the plugin! I have the plugin working okay, and I have set the postion of the plugin to appear “below the fold” at first. But on page load, the plugin ALWAYS shows up at it’s default coordinates first, and “flickers” there for a couple seconds until after the page is fully loaded, at which time it then goes to it’s location I’ve specified.

    I’ve tried having the script load at the head and footer, and I’ve also tried caching plugins, none have solved the problem. Do you know what’s causing this?

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      You need to edit the CSS code in file getsocial/lib/getsocialstyles.php as below:

      Locate the following piece of code;

      /*display:none;*/

      And change it to:

      display:none;

      Click on Update File button to save the changes. Clear the cache from caching plugins and you should be all set.

      Reply
  32. Allen says:

    Hello, my sidebar is to the left of the post so how do I move the plugin to the right of the post? I set the pixels to negative and it didn’t move further to the right.

    Thanks.

    Reply
  33. Eric says:

    Hello Riyaz.

    Great plugin you have here. Just a quick question: how do you get an additional button to align on the left with the others that are pre-coded? I got the button to appear and work properly (it is a script) but can’t figure out how to adjust the alignment. Thanks!

    Reply
  34. brian says:

    Hi Riyaz,

    I would like the social media buttons to stay on top of the page so its not following the reader as he scroll down. How can I make this happen?

    Please support! Thank you!

    Brian

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      You will need to edit the file getsocial.php in the /wp-plugins/getsocial/ directory. Find the following line of code:

      function add_getsocial_scripts(){ echo get_getsocial_scripts();}

      Replace it with following line of code:

      function add_getsocial_scripts(){ /*echo get_getsocial_scripts();*/ }

      You also might need to edit the CSS code to position the getsocial box if necessary.

      Reply
      • brian says:

        Thanks for your reply!
        You are correct.
        The code stopped getsocial from scrolling down and the position is off.

        Can you give more instructions of where and how to “edit the CSS code to position the getsocial box if necessary”?

        here is my post: marriageadvicethatworks.com/testing/
        Thank you very much!

        Brian

        Reply
        • Riyaz says:

          Open the file getsocial/lib/getsocialstyles.php and find following piece of code:

          top:200px;left:0px;

          Change the value for top to move the box vertically and change value for left to move it horizontally. Higher values will move the box down and right accordingly.

          Reply
  35. Miguel Araujo says:

    hello help me how add the Facebook Share button in getsocial

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Share button will soon be deprecated by Facebook and many sites reported that Share button stopped working for them. Hence we have switched to the Like button. However, if you wish to use it, you can download the version 1.4 of GetSocial which uses Facebook Share button.

      Reply
  36. info obat herbal says:

    very interesting article, .. I like thanks for the information …
    if we may be able to share about the article – an article of interest?

    Reply
  37. Dennis O'Brien says:

    I can see you have put a lot of effort in and many are able to get it working. I have seen it working. Yours is the third I have tried Slick Soicial Plugin has been the closest thing to work so far although it places the bar beneath the footer whenever I activate it no matter what settings I use.

    I am having the same problem as Linda had. I am using Thesis theme. The plugin settings panel does not appear in the Dashboard. This http:///wp-admin/admin.php?page=getsocial/getsocial.php doesn’t solve it either. Just get 404 error.

    Thanks

    Reply
  38. Ryan says:

    I just installed it, but seem to have a problem. When someone clicks the like button, they get js code on their wall on facebook. How do you fix that?

    Reply
  39. Mauricio says:

    Hi Riyaz, great plugin!

    I have an issue though. For some reason it loads up in the middle of my post and then it appears correctly (to the left of the post) only when I begin to scroll down. How can I fix this? Same thing happens on all browsers:
    http://www.mmafight.com/2010/11/ufc-123-results-rampage-defeats-machida-split-decision-penn-knocks-hughes/

    Also, how can I make it appear on all categories? Not pages, just categories with several posts:
    http://www.mmafight.com/category/ufc-news/

    Thanks in advance!

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Plugin does not support display on category pages as it generally has multiple posts and only one instance of the plugin can be displayed at a time. Regarding the first one, you should first try to set up the position properties in the plugin settings to suit your blog theme.

      Reply
      • Mauricio says:

        Hi Riyaz and thanks for the prompt response!

        For the categories portion, that’s fine as it makes sense that it would not work due to the many posts on the categories page.

        However, for the positioning of the plugin, I am still having trouble. I played around with the position properties, but no matter what, the plugin starts in the middle of the post/article. Once you scroll down, it aligns immediatley to the left of the post just like I want it to. What else can I do here in order to prevent this? If you had maybe an “Initial Offset from Left” (notice “Initial”), then maybe I could fix it. However, your plugin only has an “Initial Offset from top”, “Offset from top after scrolling” and “Offset from left”.

        Let me know if there is anything else I can do here to fix this, this plugin was exactly what I was looking for. It certainly helps prevent customization like Mashable.com has it on their site.

        Reply
        • Riyaz says:

          Looks like your theme design is interfering. If you have added any css code for GetSocial elements in your theme css, comment it out. Else, try doing a fresh install of the plugin by deleting the existing copy and downloading the current version from WordPress website. After re-install of the plugin, I would recommend to temporarily switch to another theme and see if the issue persists.

          Reply
          • Mauricio says:

            Hi Riyaz,

            I deleted and re-installed the plugin, but it continues to do the same thing. I also did not add any CSS code to this. What could be in my theme that is interfering with it. It works perfectly once I scroll down, but it starts off in the middle of the page. Is there any way to find out what this could be?

          • Mauricio says:

            Hi Riyaz, I fixed it! Just so you know in case someone ever asks this again. It was definitely something with my wordpress theme. In order to fix it, you need to remove the “postition: relative;” from the wrap section of the style.css. Not sure if this applies to all themes with that same problem, but it worked for me =)

            Thanks again for this great plugin!

          • Riyaz says:

            Thank you Mauricio :)

  40. Jayleen says:

    How can I add the get social bar to the Homepage. It shows up in pages & posts but not the homepage/landing page.

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      By design the plugin won’t show up on homepage or any page that has multiple posts on it. This is because there could be multiple URLs to share and only one instance of the plugin can be displayed at a time.

      Reply
  41. Memo says:

    Hi Riyaz, We are using yur pluging thaks but, there is a Problem with Facebook Share. It shares it but doesn’t count it on the Pluging. My Self Shares one and still it shows zero Share for facebook. Could we do something wrong ?

    Thanks

    Reply
  42. Brian Loher says:

    Great Plugin!!! How do I go about customizing the color scheme of the actual logos of the Get Social plugin to black and white? I do not want any color in the images. Thanks in advance for your help.

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      To change the background, you can set the desired colors on the settings page. If you would like to change the colors of the Social Media icons like Twitter, Facebook etc, you will need to disable the standard icons from settings. Then add the button codes for the respective social networks in Additional buttons section with your own custom images. If you havent done this before, you could use the ready to use code from Addthis.com and configure the plugin settings as explained in this article: How to Customize GetSocial with CSS3 Buttons

      Reply
  43. Simon says:

    Hi, thanks for this, very cool indeed.

    I have a few issues:

    In your screen shot it shows a very nice “email” and “more” button, yet I cant’ see any settings / options for that in the settings page, will they be available soon ?

    Secondly is it dynamic, in terms of the count, for example on this blog post
    http://www.brinkzone.com/articles/muscles-%E2%80%93-not-just-for-bodybuilders/
    It has 50+ FB shares but none show in the plugin.

    Lastly the social media icons are not centered in the middle of the vertical strip, more offcenter to the left, is this fixable? Only a minor issue but would be nice to see it perfectly justified.

    Any advice appreciated on point (1) and (2)..

    How is this not being used more, very very cool, Mashable but without the huge private coding expense

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Thanks Simon,

      For the email and more buttons implementation, please refer to How to Customize GetSocial with CSS3 Buttons. This is also mentioned in the FAQ section above.

      Regarding Facebook counts, is it the issue with all your posts or only with this particular post? Try this – In the settings page, scroll to the bottom. Make sure that the checkbox for Load scripts in Footer is checked. For this to work, your theme should have a call to the WordPress function wp_footer. Let me know if this works for you.

      About alignment of icons, the plugin aligns all icons to left since the widths of icons vary. If you would to align them to the center, you might want to edit the CSS code in file getsocial/lib/getsocialstyles.php.

      Reply
  44. Moro says:

    Hi Riyaz, excellent plugin. I was wondering if you could help me with an issue. When using additional buttons, which are just some images with link, on IE when moving the mouse between images, the box disapears for a short time and then it comes back. You can see on my website: demo.evotek.ro/newanna

    Thanks

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Hi Moro,
      I checked the link you provided on IE9 and Chrome. I did not face any issues you described. I would suggest you to clear your browser cache and try again or check from a different computer.

      Reply
  45. Memo says:

    Hi Riyaz great Pluging we have started using in our site. it is working but there is problem.
    The Problem is when you share it on facebook the numbers uppers on the Pluging dont match with how many times you have share it. How Can we solve that problem ?
    thanks you in advance

    Reply
  46. reganfrank says:

    Hi, thanks for the awesome plugin.
    Just wondering though, I am using a theme where the homepage is a page, rather than a simple list of blogs. Is it possible to turn the plugin “off” for this page only?

    Thanks again

    Reply
  47. Jack says:

    Hey Riyaz,

    I’ve put your plugin on my site. 2 questions:

    1. How can I add it to the homepage?

    2. How can I add the facebook +1 button? Can you add that as an update to the plugin? Facebook like is much more important than FB share I think.

    Thanks!

    Reply
  48. Rashed says:

    Hi, i love your floating bar plugin, just discovered it 10 days ago :) it was working like a charm till today afternoon, it just disappeared suddenly !
    i checked everything in settings, all seems good
    the script is automatically loaded in footer.php right before the tag, yet nothing is showing.
    I tried the following:
    - Unchecking the “load script automatically” in settings. it shows, but retweet button would fail, and facebook like button wouldnt show
    - I put it back to load automatically, then i copied the script into Single.php. it showed up normally but the stumble upon button wouldnt submit !
    - if i add the script to the header.php it would show but also retweet button fails !!!

    Now, i restored everything like before with the script in footer.php only, yet its not showing
    Kindly advice
    this is my blog http://urbanpeek.com

    P.S i tried deactivating all plugins on my blog but it didn’t make a difference
    Thank you in advance

    Reply
    • Rashed says:

      I Just discovered something; I unpublished my last post and the getsocial bar appeared again, yet now, when i publish any new post it dissappears again !! i need your advice please

      Reply
      • Riyaz says:

        I am able see the GetSocial bar on your blog posts. It might be a browser cache issue. Clear your browsing cache and also clear server cache if you are using any caching plugins or similar functionality.

        Reply
  49. Anastasia says:

    Hi, I’m making a blog for work and I’m using this Floating Bar. My issue is that I can’t get the linked in button to show when I add it into the ‘additional share buttons’. How should this code look? I’ve seen it on a blog in mashable…..http://mashable.com/2011/06/22/klout-gate/. Is there a way to make it work in the floating bar?

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Simply add the following code under the ‘Additional buttons’ option in the GetSocial Settings page:

      <div class="sharebutton">
      <script src="http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
      <script type="IN/Share" data-counter="top"></script>
      </div>

      Reply
      • Anastasia says:

        Thank you so much : ). I kept trying that and variations of it, but it was because I didn’t clear the cache that it didn’t show : S

        Reply
  50. Sorin Matei says:

    After the last update, the share bar does not show in Chrome anymore… See http://matei.org/ithink/2011/03/29/online-interaction-graduate-seminar-to-be-offered-during-the-fall-semester-2011-at-purdue-university/ in chrome… bummer…

    Reply
  51. Job78 says:

    Hello Riyaz,

    Thank you so much for this wonderful plugin.

    I have a two questions :
    - Why the +1 google button is getting over the youtube video ? You can see what I mean on the blog I link on my nickname (I sent you a screen by mail).

    Secondly, is there a way to display the box on homepage, with, for instance :
    - Facebook button like of the fan page of the blog
    - Twitter follow button
    - and the classic getsocial box, with Tweet button, Google +1 button, etc… (the same box which is on posts/pages in fact), in order to share the entire blog via its homepage.
    Just an idea, but I think that it would be great !

    Thanks in advance ;)

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      The plugin does not have homepage option at the moment. About the +1 button behavior, its rendered by Google provided scripts. I need to check out why its behaving this way.

      Reply
      • Riyaz says:

        Until I figure it out, use this quick workaround – Go to Plugins Editor, select GetSocial plugin and choose the file getsocialstyles.php. Alternatively, open the file directly from /wp-content/plugins/getsocial/lib/getsocialstyles.php. Locate the string “display:none;” without the quotes and delete that string. Save the file. This should resolve the issue.

        Reply
  52. Sven says:

    Thanks for a very nice plugin, Riyaz.

    Just a small suggestion: is it possible to strip out this part of the url “#comment-12345″?

    At the moment GetSocial is showing that post have been shared zero times, even if it has been shared several times. Maybe “shares” will be lost if someone shares it after they have left a comment and the url ends with somthing like: “#comment-12345″…

    Thanks again Riyaz

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      The plugin actually uses the post permalink and will not include the comment portion. Can you please provide any specific link where I can check this?
      Also, note that for Tweet button, the counts before some date two years back are not included. This is default functionality provided by Twitter.

      Reply
  53. Andrea Kalli says:

    Hi,

    I’m using your plugin, which seems to be the new version of the fixed social buttons plugin, and I’m seeing that it’s grabbing the wordpress address url and not the site address url when it is creating the sharing links. Since these two are not always the same, and the site address url is the proper url for links, I’m wondering how to handle this. Can you provide some insight into what I need to do to make your plugin look at the right url?

    Thanks in advance.
    Andrea

    Reply
    • Andrea Kalli says:

      Nevermind… I’m looking at the wrong plugin. Your plugin works great. Sorry about that. Silly me.
      Andrea

      Reply
  54. Funghie says:

    Hi there, great plug – thanks. Is there any way to STOP it appearing on certain pages? i.e. I don’t want to share my Thank You page or my CV etc. Thanks. :-)

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      You can certainly do that.

      To hide GetSocial box on specific pages or posts, open that page/post in edit mode and check the box that says ‘Hide GetSocial box on this post/page’.

      If you don’t want to show GetSocial on all pages, you can uncheck the corresponding checkbox on the settings page.

      Reply
  55. Linda says:

    I have installed Get Social but can’t find the Settings page. It’s not listed in red near the ‘plugin info’, like for ‘commentluv’ for example.
    How do iI access the settings please, so I can start using it?

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Settings page is located on the left sidebar at the bottom on WordPress dashboard. You can also load it via this address http:///wp-admin/admin.php?page=getsocial/getsocial.php

      Reply
  56. Rakesh Kumar says:

    I see this plugin features on many blogs but i was not aware from its name. is it will work on Thesis? If yes then i gonna use this. Thanks

    Reply
  57. healthzine says:

    great plugin, i will try this plugin on my blog. keep up the good work

    Reply
  58. silpada says:

    I’ve download and install the plugin and it’s very nice. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  59. rohit says:

    Its a cool plugin.. i’m going to use it to my new blog site…

    Reply
  60. Bridget says:

    I love the plugin I am just having an issue with it staying in view when you scroll down. When I leave it at the defaults, it shows up inside of the header, like you last image in this post. As you scroll down it moves over to the proper positioning on the left side.

    I adjusted it to show up lower and more to the left but now when you scroll down it pops off from view. How can I get it to stay in the same position when you scroll down? I am having this issue on my blog and website both have themes from the same theme designer.

    Original Settings New Settings
    200 350
    20 20
    80 320
    1140 1140

    Thanks

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      This could be due to the structure or single.php template of your theme. If the template has more than one content areas or a split content area. Or you might need to alter some margins in the CSS file of your theme.

      As a temporary solution before you alter your CSS, try with browser_width = 1200 and offset from left = 180.

      Reply
  61. paul says:

    I love your plugin it took me a while to sort but i got there, thanks.

    Paul

    Reply
  62. Ingrid says:

    Hi Riyaz,
    Great plugin. But unfortunately I installed it and it’s not appearing on my site. Can you please advise as to how to fix this? Thanks a lot.
    Cheers

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Recheck the options in the GetSocial settings page. If the plugin does not show up, try unchecking the checkbox next to ‘Load scripts in Footer’ option in the Advanced Options.

      Reply
      • Ingrid says:

        Thanks a lot for replying so quickly. Ok, it works now but only when you click on each individual post. Any chance of having it appear on the home screen as well or no?

        Also – how can i add reddit?
        And – will the tweetme button start again at zero or will it include all the other times the post was retweeted before installing getsocial? cause right now it shows a ? (question mark) whereas the facebook one does indeed have the number.

        sorry to trouble you with all these questions
        thanks again – i appreciate your time and prompt reply
        regards

        Reply
        • Riyaz says:

          Great!

          As of now, the plugin can appear only on pages/posts..not on homepage or other templates.

          I see the tweet button working correctly. It fetches the counts from Twitter server. So you wont lose any tweet counts you had before installing the plugin.

          To add reddit buttons, you can pick up the button code from http://www.reddit.com/buttons/ and put it in the Additional buttons section in the GetSocial Settings page. The instructions to how to add additional buttons is provided on the settings page itself.

          Reply
          • Ingrid says:

            You’ve been so helpful! Thank you Riyaz. Yeah, my tweet button is working fine – it was just the tweetme that was showing a ?. And I’m also all set with Reddit thanks to you :).
            Have a great day
            and thanks again for being quick to reply

  63. Harsh says:

    How can one remove the word SHARE written on the side?

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Simply go to wp-content/plugins/getsocial/images folder and rename the sharetitle.png file to something else say sharetitle_bkp.png. Alternatively, edit the getsocial.css file located in the lib folder.

      Reply
  64. Garry says:

    Hi,

    very nice plugin. Of the 3 I tried, it’s the one that works best for me. I’d like your opinion on a few things though :

    1- the social icons share the current page the user is browsing, which is nice. However, on my homepage, the facebook share button shares another url, the one of a blog post. Do you know how to fix it?

    2- If I want the icons to be fixed at the total left of the website, like on this website :
    http://sherimoritz.com/Training/. I’d like it to auto adjust to users screen resolution if that’s possible. Can you please assist me with this?

    Thanks in advance

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      1. GetSocial was not designed to work on pages that list the posts. So not recommended for homepage. Future versions might support this, not as of now though.

      2. You can adjust the positioning parameters on the GetSocial settings page to adjust the position of the box on your website pages.

      Reply
  65. sylvie says:

    I have the latest version of the plugin, but its currently only appearing on single post pages. I’ve enabled the the settings to show on both pages and posts, but still no go. Any ideas?

    Thanks
    http://www.qwerkydesigns.com/headCount/

    Reply
  66. Gabe says:

    How can I change the sidebar that says “Share” to something other than purple?

    Your plugin was just what I needed! Thank you!

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      You can change the image located in wp-content/plugins/getsocial/images folder to suit your theme. If you want to remove the bar, simply rename the image to anything else or edit the getsocial.css file accordingly.

      Reply
  67. Deb says:

    that seems to do the trick – thanks!

    Reply
  68. Deb says:

    on the mac at least, the GetSocial bar ‘vibrates’ on hover – meaning that is bounces from the left side of the site to the left edge of the browser window very rapidly – depending on width of browser window.
    http://blog.halopets.com/2010/07/30/dog-leads-her-ailing-dog/
    his happens on safari, firefox and chrome…

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      You need to set the Browser Width option on GetSocial settings page correctly. For example if your blog’s content area is 800px wide, you should set the Browser Width option to approximately 800+140 = 940.

      The current value set on your blog is too high for the size of the content area. Try changing it to a lower value as I described above and it should work correctly. Let me know how it goes.

      Reply
  69. dotw says:

    trying to get this to work, pasted the code into the footer, still doesn’t show up. site is drinkoftheweek.com

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Please remove all the code you manually pasted in your theme templates. Activate the GetSocial plugin. On the GetSocial Settings page, go to Advanced options and uncheck the checkbox. Save changes and then let me know if it works for you.

      Reply
  70. Deb says:

    hi –
    i’m able to implement the new tweet button (twitter’s new ‘official’ button) using div tags as you described.
    question: how do I make this the top button instead of just an additional button displayed below the one’s available from your plugin?
    thanks!
    - asking the question is often enough to set me on the path to finding the answer myself – but still would appreciate a response :-)

    Reply
  71. Liam says:

    I tried the too methods you descrided above, but the footer one did nothing and the other made my page get really distorted. anyway you could take a look and see if theres a solution?

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Try the second option again. Add the code just before the closing </body> tag. Make sure you clear the caches if you are using any caching/minifying plugins. The closing body tag is generally located in footer.php.

      If it doesnot work, you can try adding the code anywhere after the opening <body> tag. The opening body tag is generally located in header.php. Again make sure you clear the caches if you are using any caching/minifying plugins.

      Let me know how it goes.

      Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Before doing above steps, I would suggest you to change the value of ‘Offset from left’ property in GetSocial settings page. Too high value will make the box disappear from the view. Try with initial value of 80 and see if the GetSocial box appears. Then you can change the value gradually as necessary.

      Reply
  72. Ranjith Siji says:

    Great Plugin. I added another feature. Just share on design Bump. The arrows gives the plugin a better look. Thanks for created this great plugin.

    Reply
  73. Riyaz says:

    Jamal,

    I want you to add following lines just before the </body> tag in your theme:

    <?php
    if (function_exists('add_getsocial_scripts')) {
    add_getsocial_scripts();
    if (function_exists('add_getsocial_box')) {
    add_getsocial_box();
    }
    }
    ?>

    I dont see it currently on your site. Let me know once you put this code in.

    Reply
  74. johannes says:

    hi

    how do i add the email to the social plugin like you have?

    how does this work with the addthis

    thanks

    johannes

    Reply
  75. hanish says:

    Ok,thats great plugin.
    tell me then if it shows up on single post page ..how do we show re-tweet button on home page besides the posts. what i meant to say that before using ur plugin i was using tweetmeme only… then with the code i was able to use it on home page and single page. now two retweet buttons are appearing on my singlepage one solo and one with your get social.

    if i remove ONLY tweetmeme plugin and keep your plugin then how do i show retweets on homepage.
    pls. solve it asap.

    Reply
  76. Coba Diklik says:

    Hi, okey, I want to try it, tanks yeah?

    Reply
  77. Bill says:

    Hi Riyaz,

    Great plug-in! Any tips to get it to show up on Pages as well as posts? Also, FYI, I added in a height to the CSS of the plugin – your “GetSocial” was getting cut in half by the bottom border (on Mozilla 3.6.7 and IE8) when only using the Retweet, Share to Facebook and Buzz buttons. I set the height to 188 and it fit perfectly. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Bill,

      I will be adding the feature to be able to display GetSocial box on pages in the upcoming release. For now all you need to do is change all the occurrences is_single() in the getsocial.php file to is_single() || is_page() and it should work.

      I will look at the height issue as well and fix it in the upcoming release.

      Reply
  78. Den says:

    Hello Riyaz,

    I have the same problem similar to what Jorge is having…I installed your plugin on my WP blog but it’s not showing up at all.

    Any known conflict issues with other WP plugins?…

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Jorge’s issue got resolved. The issue was with the theme’s code. The theme did not use the WordPress standard function wp_footer() and hence the plugin’s code was never invoked. Is it the same issue with your theme? If so you can try either of the following options:

      add following code to your theme’s template (possibly in footer.php) just before the </body> tag.

      <?php wp_footer(); ?>

      or add following code to footer.php just before the </body> tag:

      <?php
      if (function_exists('add_getsocial_scripts')) {
      add_getsocial_scripts();
      if (function_exists('add_getsocial_box')) {
      add_getsocial_box();
      }
      }
      ?>

      If this is not the issue, please let me know the url of the blog where you want to set it up so that I can look into it.

      Reply
      • Den says:

        wp_footer function exists in my template but contained in a div.
        If I add the codes you suggested, it will get caught in that div container and thus pushing or expanding the GetSocial display downward.
        I can’t moved the theme author copyright around because it will trigger an alert if I’m tempering with it.
        The author hard-coded his license link with temper-proof codes or some sort.
        I figured out that the footer is not a part of the main body.
        I need to tweak the template first so it will play along with your plugin.
        Anyways, thanks for the hints and help.

        Reply
      • Jamal says:

        Hello ,

        Thank You for the great work , I’ve tried to set up your plugin , but it seem dont works with my theme .

        Please I will need your help to fixe this issue.

        Regards

        Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Den,

      Just had a look at your site and it doesn’t look like theme issue. I guess some plugins causing the issue.

      Some users have reported that deactivating tooltip plugin helped. I would suggest to deactivate any jQuery based plugins and check if it helps. Let me know the outcome.

      Reply
      • Den says:

        I will also look into what you said about jQuery based plugins.
        Disabling some of the plugins and test if that helps…

        Reply
  79. Jorge Barba says:

    Hello,

    I installed your plugin on my blog (game-changer.net) but for some reason it’s not showing up on individual blog posts.

    I have a 1920×1080 resolution on my PC, does that have anything to do with it?

    Thank you for your attention!

    Reply
    • Riyaz says:

      Hi Jorge,

      Just had a look at your blog posts. I think you have not configured the plugin options via the settings page. Click on the GetSocial Settings option in the left hand side menu in your WordPress Admin and click on Save Settings button.

      Let me know the outcome.

      Reply
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