New Version of Sociable Available Today

The new thickbox feature does not seem to be working with twitter. Looks like it works on some others. Also if you have “ThickBox Content” plugin installed already it seems to interfere with it and create a box within a box.

I am waiting for the option where we don’t have to use sprites as well. I like the old feature of using custom images.

@rickybuchanan you can call us blogplay people, we like that. There are lots of us, so a general term is awesome. Sprites will be able to be taken off in the next update (coming monday, coding right now)

@fredromano the problem with that is that some services (like Twitter) don’t support the thickbox

I also have problems with my custom 48 x 48 icons…..

They look like this now

https://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7708/45425659.jpg

Any body know how to fix this?

@itechezx Blogplay messed that up a touch – they said they will be releasing an upgrade on Monday that copes with custom icons. Did you read the thread?

r

The error Psyonic mentioned happens in line 825:
$link .= "\" />";
should be
$link .= " />";

I would also recommend to remove line 777:
$link .= ' id="'.esc_attr(strtolower($sitename)).'"';

The ID isn’t neccessary and it causes invalid HTML and trouble with any plugin that uses a common ID like “email” or “twitter”

But the rest of the plugin just works very well. I am really happy that you don’t use javascript on the links anymore.

Ok, Let me tell you how sociable works.

Every time you upgrade to a new version, Sociable overwrite the Icons you have change, so before you upgrade you should backup your sociable plugin and restore the icons you want.

Also if you want to use icons biggers than 16×16 (default) you should change the size in sociable.css
Under .sociable img {
change width: 16px; and height: 16px;
to
width: 48px; height: 48px;
here’s my code

.sociable img {
	float: none;
	width: 48px;
	height: 48px;
	border: 0;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

And also if you don’t want the shine when hover just change the opacity
under sociable-hovers
from

.sociable-hovers {
	opacity: .4;
	-moz-opacity: .4;
	filter: alpha(opacity=40);
}

to

.sociable-hovers {
	opacity: 1;
	-moz-opacity: 1;
	filter: alpha(opacity=100);
}

Twithis is no longer used (I don’t know why they’re let it there), you should switch to Twitter. This was change like 3 version ago.

You can find the icons of my blog here
https://www.iconspedia.com/

Version 3.5.1 is being uploaded right now, should be available shortly for download:

– fixed the xhtml validation issues
– ‘target=blank’ issue solved
– sprites can now be disabled, allowing for custom icons
– sprites have been disabled for RSS
– you can now deactivate the blogplay widget from your wordpress dashboard

We loved the feedback, please keep it coming!

I have changed to 60×60 icons. Links are opening in a new window as desired. Everything is working fine. Thanks a lot. Just in case any of you want to see, it’s on single post pages of: https://www.ezaroorat.com/

How do you add more icons to Sociable?? I already have it working and just need to find the screen that lets you select the social media icons??

Thanks

@SBIasnik
In your wp admin panel, click on sociable under Settings. You will be taken to the Sociable options page. The very first option (at the top) is the Sites option. Check the sites you want to display. You can also change the order of display by dragging the sites.

Blogplay People,

Thanks for the new version! I’ve turned off the CSS sprites and it’s working fine with my shiny personalised icons again, and opening the sites in new windows. Those were the hiccups I was having so I’m happy! Here’s a nice example:
https://nopitycity.com/shirts/what-a-person-with-an-invisible-disability-looks-like

I’m a happy camper now ?? For extra bonus shininess could you make the non-sprite icons show up on the setup page when this option is selected? It gave me a moment of fear when I thought the icons still weren’t working because the sociable settings page still shows them all as blank when you turn of CSS sprites and give it an image directory – previously giving the plugin an image directory would show preview images from that new directory. Because I have images for some but not all of the sites (as I imagine most people do) this is a really handy function.

But the important bit is that it’s working wonderfully now on all my blogs – Thanks for all your hard work!

Cheers,
r

The upgrade isn’t working for me.
I was using sociable with default settings and since upgrade my icons have stopped showing.

I’ve deactivated the plugin for now.

I’m having an issue where once you disable sociable on a particular post, I can’t enable it at a later time. For testing purposes I disable Sociable on one post using the meta box option in the Edit Post page and now I cannot enable Sociable again for that post. The only thing to do is delete the post and add it again as a new post.

Also, the url for Yahoo! buzz doesn’t seem to work. The current link url in the plugin starts: https://buzz.yahoo.com/submit/?submitUrl , which, when the yahoo! buzz page loads, shows nothing but an input box to manually enter a url. When I added a yahoo! buzz button (generated from the yahoo! buzz site) the link url starts: https://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?targetUrl

I manually changed the url to https://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz/?submitUrl in the plugin (line 596) and now it seems to be working fine.

@ Sociable
THANKS! for the updated version

@rickybuchanan
Thanks

@nehemoth
THANKS for the help,

Now it works perfectly