Syed Balkhi
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In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] Feature Request: Hide the ZerosAdded this feature in the recent release. 0’s will be hidden by default. Count will only show if it is 1 or higher.
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In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] feature suggestionDon’t think that it is related to our plugin.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] Works sometimes. buttons disappear partially frequentlyWell that is how socialite works which allows us to keep this plugin extremely fast. But if you don’t want that, then in version 1.0.6 that we just pushed out, there is an option to disable it.
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In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] Fatal ErrorYou do have to go in the settings and drag-drop the services bar. Also you have to check which post types you want the bar to be added in. Look at the installation video.
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In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] Add option to float on bottom of windowThanks for the feature suggestion. will add it among the list of new features. Don’t have an estimated date on this, but Thomas and I will definitely discuss this and see if we can add it in sooner than later.
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In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] Fatal ErrorThis plugin will not work on local server environment if you don’t have curl enabled (which most local servers do not). Please enable curl on your localserver.
Because Google+ doesn’t have a real API, we have to use curl to get the Google+ share counts. Most live servers have curl enabled, but local servers such as WAMP choose to disable it by default.
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In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] Differences with wpbeginner pluginFirst of all, thanks for the very kind words.
Yes, there are some stylistic differences between this plugin and WPBeginner mainly because we customized the bar for our needs on WPBeginner.
1. Let’s start out with the separator. You can add this on your site by simply overriding the plugin CSS through your style.css file.
2. To keep the plugin light-weight, we will not be adding any “style” options right within the plugin at least not for the foreseeable future. Because that is something that has a potential of bloating the plugin. If you want to customize the style, then again override the CSS from your theme’s style.css file.
3. Lastly lets come to the comments button. Not everyone wants that which is why we took it off. I can say right now that it is further down the list. We might add email this // print this option because that is something I have had more requests for. However, we will give developers an option to filter through the output of the sharebar to add whatever they like. So yes expect more documentations from us 🙂
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] Nice but takes timesHey Thomas,
Thanks for leaving the review. Are you suggesting that by adding this plugin and removing the original social share buttons on your site increased your site load time?
I’d be interested in seeing the results because on every single instance we have run this test, we have found opposite results. We tested this plugin on our sites for over a year before launching it in public.
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In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] Image inserted in post is pushed outI would like to look at this issue in depth to see what is actually going wrong. Whether it is caused by the center aligned image or if it is something else.
Can you please send me an email using: http://www.wpbeginner.com/contact/
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In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] Need some helpHey Rick,
This is more of a template issue more than anything else. When you move the bar to display right below title, then you would probably need to modify the CSS, so it adjusts.
Also the function code I shared above only adds Twitter and FB. If you want to add more buttons, then you have to specify it like I have done for others. It is displayed in the FAQ section.
This is a free plugin, and I can only provide support with the core functionality. Your issue of moving the bars below title is more theme related and will require some dev knowledge. Due to the custom nature of the request, I can’t provide free support for it. You are more than welcome to hire me to customize this for your project.
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In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] feature suggestionOvidiu,
We would have to look into that. The point of releasing this plugin was to give users the same functionality that we have on WPBeginner (because a lot of them asked for it).
I think in the short term, we will probably allow users to disable socialite (i.e load real buttons if they don’t care for the load time and definitely want to avoid flickering).
For the long run, we will look into finding a better solution.
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In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] How about mobile?On smaller resolutions, the floating bar will become static. So it doesn’t ruin the mobile browsing experience.
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In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] Is it responisive?It works with responsive designs.
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In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] feature suggestionThere is no way to load the plugin fast if we load traditional buttons. We can get rid of the like functionality and open it in a new window like shares do.
Will look into adding that functionality, so users have an option to use socialite or not.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Floating Social Bar] feature suggestionOvidiu,
That is how we actually make the plugin as fast as it is. Because we don’t load the scripts on initial page load which helps with SEO and UX. When you bring your mouse over, Facebook and Google+ scripts are loaded. That’s why it takes that one second flickering.