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
Floating 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:
- Extract and upload the
getsocialfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to Settings page and adjust the options as described there.
- Review and Save Changes.
- 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> and </div> tags. For example:
<div>
<!-- Code for additional button 1 -->
</div>
<div>
<!-- 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
Visible even after scrolling down
Smartly hides on resizing the window
Hovering over will show the full view
More Information
Demo
Comments
Hi,
nice plugin but the problem is that in german the “Gefällt mir”, Like in german is not complete. It is cutt off at the right side.
Thanks for answer.
Awesome plugin. Thanks a lot for the share.
Hi, I’m sorry to bother you again! You answered this question for me already, but I’m now installing GetSocial on all my sites, and I’ve lost the “fix” you sent me.
When I visit my site, the share bar appears over on the far left, then takes a second or two to position itself in the right place. How do I get it to stop doing that?
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.
Hi Riyaz,
Thanks for creating this plug-in. Its really very awesome plug-in. but unfortunately its not working my own template pages… Please help me…. how can i use this plug-in in my blog own template pages…
Try this answer – www.riyaz.net/getsocial/#comment-92387
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.
Unfortunately there are no shortcodes at the moment. You could try inserting
add_getsocial_scriptsandadd_getsocial_boxfunctions in the relevant templates. I havent tested this myself though.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?
www.cleancutmedia.com/internet/who-has-access-to-your-facebook-clean-it-in-1-minute
thanks in advance!
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.
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?
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.
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..
Can you please share the link to the particular post where you face this issue?
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!
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?
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.
Like the plugin.
How about the icons without counters as an option?
Sure..possibly in the upcoming releases :)
I love this plugin, but how can i enable it on my homepage?
thx
Unfortunately it wont work on homepage or any page that has multiple URLs to share.
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.
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.
Love it! :)
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.
Can you please share the url of your blog?
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).
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.
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.
If you check the source of your pages, you’ll find all the scripts loaded by GetSocial are in-deed in footer. This itself defers parsing of javascript to a great extent. Check this out – code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/mobile.html#DeferParsingJS. So your site speed is least likely to be affected by this. I will consider adding async loading options in the future updates if possible.
The twitter count doesn’t update on my site, it’s stuck on 0. Know what the problem is?
Robert, Could you please share your site url?
First off the plug-in is awesome!! The only issue is that the on my latest events page the style is different see:
www.stalsshandon.org/events/month/ it shows below the page content
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!