WP FollowMe plugin

September 30, 2009 by admin 328 Comments »

WP FollowMe is a wordpress plugin that allows you to add a twitter “Follow me” badge on your wordpress blog.

Get what version you like more :

v 0.1.3 – No flash, followme message displayed sideways, using images to display the folowme message
v 0.1.4 – Flash used only for the icon, text displayed vertically
v 2.0.3 – The badge is completly in flash, text displayed sideways (some users reported problems in chrome browser)
v2.0.4 – Same as 2.0.3 but with some minor bugs fixed.

Update v2.0.4 :

404 not found error for css file fixed
minor bugs fixed

Update v2.0.3 :

The badge is completly in flash.
The text is displayed sideways.
Added border color option.
“I love it ” icon and question mark removed

Update v2.0 :

Choose from 16 twitter icons or use your own.
Edit the icon background color.
Edit the “Follow Me” text.
Change text color.
Change font size.
Change font family.

If you found a bug or if you have a twitter icon that you want to share with all other users of this plugin let me know on comments section.

What you need to use this plugin :

a wordpress powered website (blog)
a twitter.com account (obviously)

How to use it :

Download it ( from wordpress plugins directory)
Extract all files from the zip archive
Copy the wp-followme folder to wp-content/plugins
Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in wordpress
Add your Twitter URL on “Your Twitter URL” text field and configure the other options as desire
That’s it !

Demo :

This website is a good demo to see how the FollowMe badge will look on your website.

Screenshots :

FollowMe badge

Download WP FollowMe v2.0.4

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Tags: FollowMe, twitter, WP FollowMe

328 Responses to “WP FollowMe plugin”

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Corbett says:

January 25, 2010 at 11:55 pm

Noticed the plugin has incompatibility with mobile themes. Would be great if the plugin disabled or forced to the bottom of the page by default when mobile browser is detected/selected. We are using the WP Mobile Pack to control automatic detection/switching of browser.

Corbett
- admin says:
  
  January 26, 2010 at 3:59 pm
  
  I plan to do this on next version of the plugin.
  - Nick Coman says:
    
    February 1, 2010 at 7:01 am
    
    when do you plan to release the next version?
  - Chad says:
    
    February 14, 2010 at 9:39 pm
    
    I was just going to ask the same thing Great plugin though!
DuckbilJones says:

January 26, 2010 at 10:02 pm

Cool plugin mate! Works like a charm on all my blogs now cheers!
Marcus says:

January 27, 2010 at 10:56 am

HI there,

still got some 404 issues on wp-followme/js/arrow.gif and wp-followme/js/cross.gif – seems to come from jscolor.js.
I am using wp-followme 2.0.4.

Regards,
m.
- admin says:
  
  January 29, 2010 at 10:03 pm
  
  For a quick fix you can download this file jscolor.com/release/jscolor-1.3.1.zip
  Unzip it and upload arrow.gif and cross.gif to wp-content/plugins/wp-followme/js
  
  Seems like I forgot to add those files to my plugin.
  I’ll fix this on next version.
vuxuanhoan says:

January 27, 2010 at 11:41 am

This plugin seem to not run on IE 6.0. could you tell me how to fix it
- admin says:
  
  January 29, 2010 at 9:51 pm
  
  You’re right, this plugin doesn’t work on IE6 and will never work, don’t ask for a fix.
  IE6 is just an 10 years old browser that doesn’t support web standards, even microsoft dropped the support for this ancient browser.
  IE6 just don’t understand all html tags and all css rules.
be3n says:

January 28, 2010 at 10:30 am

your plugin in incompatible with the wptouch plugin/theme for blackberry and iphone browsers. i suppose i could try a non flash version, but i am working on a way to fix it while keeping the latest version of your plugin. it just doesn’t look good on my iphone. has anyone seen this before and have suggestions/ fix? thanks. and btw – GREAT PLUGIN!
- be3n says:
  
  January 28, 2010 at 10:35 am
  
  also, wptouch has exclusive mode that disables all plugins. which is also a fix, but inherently counterproductive. (that is how it’s setup now)
- admin says:
  
  January 29, 2010 at 9:48 pm
  
  ATM there is no support for iphone or any other cellphone.
  I’ll look at wptouch plugin too see how to fix this issue on next version of followme plugin.
  - be3n says:
    
    February 23, 2010 at 9:01 am
    
    fyi, it was fixed in the latest wptouch update. which simply disables flash element for mobile devices (or something). it doesn’t show up anymore and i didn’t have to disable all my plugins for the mobile theme. i guess it was really a wptouch issue all along. thanks again for a great plugin!
LInda Jennings says:

January 28, 2010 at 12:30 pm

I put the wrong twitter URL in my follow me set up – I can’t figure out how to change it. Can someone help?
- admin says:
  
  January 29, 2010 at 9:45 pm
  
  You can edit your twitter username any time by going to plugin settings page
zpr says:

January 28, 2010 at 10:11 pm

Hi

This plugin works like a charm on my blog. See here url-ok.com/3ec4fd.

Would you please create another plugin like this but for facebook? It would be really nice to have both icones working side by side on the same page.

I have tried Andreas proposal but it seems that it isn’t done for newbies. No supports…

Thanks in advance

All the best
- admin says:
  
  January 29, 2010 at 9:43 pm
  
  At this moment there is no easy way to put two badges same time.
  Maybe I’ll implement this on next version.
Greg says:

January 28, 2010 at 10:24 pm

Works great on IE but the icon does not show up on Firefox. Any suggestions? Noticed on WP support there is another who is having the same problem.
wordpress.org/support/topic/357257?replies=2
- admin says:
  
  January 29, 2010 at 9:41 pm
  
  Are you sure on Firefox isn’t flash blocked by a plugin ?
  
  I just checked your website and works fine on Firefox 3.6
  - Greg says:
    
    February 1, 2010 at 11:03 am
    
    OK Thanks. i have v3.5 gone to update.
King's Road says:

January 30, 2010 at 4:21 pm

Just one thing, instead of “Follow Me” I want to say “Follow The Road” but when I try it the box containing the text doesn’t expand – how do make this happen?
- admin says:
  
  February 2, 2010 at 12:17 pm
  
  ATM you can’t do this on the latest version, the badge have a fixed height.
  Use the 0.1.4 version instead.
Hugh Fraser says:

January 30, 2010 at 7:38 pm

Hi,
I have the plugin working great except for one post, can you give me a hand to troubleshoot it please, I am using FollowMe 2.0.4.

Hugh
- admin says:
  
  February 2, 2010 at 12:19 pm
  
  Use the contact from wpburn.com/contact to send me all details and a link to the post.
geraldine says:

February 3, 2010 at 6:16 pm

Hi, the plugin is great, but it’s incompatible with emyl.fr/ongame/poker/plugin-social-buttons/.
Can you help me with this ?
- admin says:
  
  February 6, 2010 at 5:40 pm
  
  You should give me more details so I can help you.
  Is there any error, or why you say that ?
ibrahimcakici says:

February 4, 2010 at 1:49 pm

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ibrahimcakici
turkish seo expert
Andres says:

February 5, 2010 at 9:02 pm

Thanks this plugin is great
Chris Casconi says:

February 5, 2010 at 11:48 pm

Is there a way for it to be disabled on a moble browser such as safari on the iphone. I have an iphone theme for use on a mobile device and it shows up as a flash error on the side. It also takes up some real estate on the screen when shown on iphone. any help is appreciated.
- admin says:
  
  February 6, 2010 at 5:42 pm
  
  Read my comments above.
  As I said ATM there is no support for mobile phones.
Matt says:

February 6, 2010 at 5:40 am

I’ve found out how to expand the height so the phrase can be longer, but the text alignment is off. Where in the php file can I adjust the alignment so that longer text will show? Thanks.
- admin says:
  
  February 6, 2010 at 5:45 pm
  
  Sorry, you can’t align the text because it is positioned inside the flash file.
Indi says:

February 6, 2010 at 6:09 pm

Hello,

I have a home.php ( my landing page ) and a page.php ( for all other pages )
Now I want to exclude FollowMe from the landing page and show it only on all other pages.
Is this possible? Yes? How?

Thanks!
- admin says:
  
  February 6, 2010 at 6:25 pm
  
  ATM there is no easy way to do that.Only if you know php very well and you modify the plugin.
LivingTheVogue says:

February 8, 2010 at 1:59 am

Hi,
Sorry I’m new to wordpress and I can’t figure out where the zip archive is located (is it inside my computer somewhere?)

I downloaded it ( from wordpress plugins directory) and then I want to “Extract all files from the zip archive” and that’s where I’m incompetent…

Thank you very much for your help!
- admin says:
  
  February 8, 2010 at 12:34 pm
  
  Read this codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins or search on google about how to install a wordpress plugin.
  You can download the plugin from here.
FrArGaOn says:

February 8, 2010 at 7:27 am

Thanks for the great plugin!

Looking forward to your facebook one.

Keep up the good work
Christian says:

February 8, 2010 at 11:42 pm

Great plug-in- works perfectly! Does anybody know if there’s a plug-in that does exactly the same as this one, but for a facebook page? I can find plenty that add widgets via sidebars by my blog theme doesn’t have sidebars, which is why FollowMe is perfect. Thanks
JCMFernands(Lord Arcanjo) says:

February 11, 2010 at 2:09 am

WP FollowMe plugin é o que eu estava procurando…muito obrigado!
Já usei