[Plugin: Simple Sidebar Share Widget] having diff w/ install

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/

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

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. 🙂

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