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[Plugin: Simple Sidebar Share Widget] having diff w/ install (9 posts)

  1. Rick Patterson
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    hey Mike,

    getting error message w/ install of simple on my WP 2.8...

    "no header"..blah blah

    Next, I go to the plug in side bar and not listed ...

    then go to WP site to re upload and says I already have the latest version already...

    pls give some insight and direction here...

    Thanks for considering my request.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-sidebar-share-widget/

  2. mike_jenkins
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi Rick,

    Could you let me know when and where you get that error message? A screenshot would be extremely useful. I haven't come across this problem before.

    It might be something simple in my code that I need to tweak.

    Thanks

    Mike

  3. ladycrow
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I've actually run across that problem with a different plugin so I decided to install yours just to see. When I try to press Activate, this comes up

    The plugin does not have a valid header.

    Nothing more or less.

    I googled it and came up with this, just FYI: http://showfom.cn/how-to-solve-the-plugin-does-not-have-a-valid-header-for-wordpress-2-8/

  4. mike_jenkins
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I have just updated the plug-in, hopefully this should fix the issue.

    The update should be available through WordPress in about 15 minutes or so.

  5. mike_jenkins
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Ok, doesn't work for me now. Will let you know when fixed.

  6. mike_jenkins
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Tested and installed on my version.

    Should work fine, I had to change the folder structure (think I had it wrong originally!).

    Let me know.

    Thanks

  7. Citadel712
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi there. Nice plugin! I do have one small problem with it though. For some reason I get unusual spacing with the widget in the sidebar, almost like it forces everything below it to go down to the bottom of the page, past the last content.

    Editing the CSS of the Div that it is in seems to do the trick:

    <div style="clear:both; height:1px; width: 1px;">

    I think the clear:both was forcing the rest of the sidebar to act wonky, so I eliminated the div. I am using the theme by Switchroyale.com, so the situation may vary from blog-to-blog. Just thought I'd point that out in case someone else has trouble.

    Also, for those who have their wordpress files in a subfolder, to get the icons to show up you will need to edit the simp-side-share-widg.php file to add /[yourwordpressfolder]/ into the line:

    transparent url('wp-content/plugins/simple-sidebar-share-widget/bookmarks.png')

    to make it something like

    transparent url('/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/simple-sidebar-share-widget/bookmarks.png') (Assuming your wordpress folder is wordpress)

    I'm not an expert on this so if there's a better way to do this, please post here for others to see. :)

  8. Citadel712
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Also, how would I go about putting this code in my template?

    For example, I want this to only show on the Single Post pages. What code do I add to my template? Is there a shortcode?

  9. mike_jenkins
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hey Citadel,

    Should be able to fix all of those issues. Will need to look in to it this afternoon, will post back when its done :).

    Cheers

    Mike

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