Looking for horizontal social WP Plugin

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by dscurlock, May 7, 2014.

  1. #1
    I am looking for a decent WP plugin, or something that will work with WP
    to show social tabs in a horizontal position on my pages...

    good example would be:

    http://bestphonemart.com

    I just do not think it is worth paying $12/mo for addthis just to show
    some social tabs on the site, and I have seen independent social
    plugins in the past. If you have a good idea, then please let me know.

    Thanks
     
    dscurlock, May 7, 2014 IP
  2. TIEro

    TIEro Active Member

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    If you're not averse to Jetpack, it comes with sharing built in. Alternatively, Juiz Social Post Sharer is nice and subtle, plus it works off a shortcode so you can put the buttons anywhere you like in the post.

    I don't think either of them will do sharing buttons on the post extract, though personally I think that's horrible. :)
     
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    Gadstrup Motion Greenhorn

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    Do you know Jetpack.me? Search for Jetpack under Plugins and You'll find it. It works perfect on all the sites I've installed it on.
     
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    TIEro Active Member

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    The down-side to this is that you get all the other Jetpack junk, which a lot of people don't like. Plus everything starts working through WP's site (subscriptions, stats and so on) instead of independently. Just so you know.
     
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  5. dscurlock

    dscurlock Prominent Member

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    I am not sure what you guys are really talking about, but I did find a socail plugin that looks
    somewhat decent, but the user would have to click to submit aka the manual process...
    What would also be nice if there is a plugin that will submit your content to social
    media after the post has been done, maybe that is what you are talking about...
    but I will check out the sources listed above...

    Update: I tried jetpack, most of the social posts failed to
    submit, even though they were connected...The only one
    that did work was twitter....#fail

    Thanks
     
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    TIEro Active Member

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    That's completely different to what you asked for, which was a horizontal social buttons bar. :)

    Jetpack's auto-submit does work (one of my hosted users has it switched to Twitter and Facebook), but it's limited to certain things... I think it only works with FB Pages, rather than normal accounts, for example. You'd have to check. Definitely works once it's set and running, though I remember it was a real sod to set up because you need a FB API key and all sorts of other nonsense.

    I've never used an auto-submitter apart from that one (which I set up for the user), so I can't help with this new request.
     
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    TIEro Active Member

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    That's completely different to what you asked for, which was a horizontal social buttons bar. :)

    Jetpack's auto-submit does work (one of my hosted users has it switched to Twitter and Facebook), but it's limited to certain things... I think it only works with FB Pages, rather than normal accounts, for example. You'd have to check. Definitely works once it's set and running, though I remember it was a real sod to set up because you need a FB API key and all sorts of other nonsense.

    I've never used an auto-submitter apart from that one (which I set up for the user), so I can't help with this new request.
     
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  8. dscurlock

    dscurlock Prominent Member

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    Well, i told you like it is, I setup most of them, they had no issues connecting,
    and when I created a post, the only thing that was sent was sent to twitter...
    as i mentioned I did find a plugin that would show horiz tabs but when you guys
    went a step futher with the auto-social posting, thought that was a good idea too...

    twitter - posted
    FB - not tested
    Tumblr - Fail, no post
    Google+ Fail, no post
    path - what the hell is this?
    (not sure how to verify as I did not
    get a link similar of tumblr, so dont know...)

    pinterest.com - this would have been more useful then path....

    maybe it did not work because of the upgrade...
    I just did an Wordpress upgrade, who knows...
     
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    I only set up FB and Twitter for my user, and they both worked. No idea what "path" is, either!

    Does Pinterest have an auto-posting API? Last time I checked, they didn't - the only options for that were automated third-party robot scripts. That was a long time ago, though, so they may have introduced one.

    Jetpack has support in the WP forums, so if things aren't working, you can always ask there.
     
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    dscurlock Prominent Member

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    ok thanks
     
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    dscurlock Prominent Member

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    I am confused now lol.. Are you trying to autopost content to those properties? As Tiero indicated we are sorta talking about 2 different things here.

    Nigel
     
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    both...I think I am set..
    The plugin you suggested appears to be very good....
    Yes, I started off wanting the manual social tabs, then saw
    he was talking about auto posting social, so now I have
    that and the plugin that you suggested; Im good now...

     
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    Hi dsdurlock. Good to hear you have found what you are looking for.
    I have installed Jetpack on several sites and it works for both social buttons and for autopublishing. One time it didn't work but that was because I hadn't activated it on WordPress.com
     
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