[Plugin: Sociable] Will Not Display the Pics

Nothing works for me. Using 2.8.1 and IE8

Sorry for the rookie question, but how do I access the sociable.php file mentioned by ardee00 in order to change this code below. is it within the wp admin dashboard, or via ftp to the actual plugin? specific instructions are appreciated. thanks in advance:

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I had to replace the line of code in the plugin where it determines the path, back to the way it used to do it before the current update.

Specifically, in sociable.php, near the beginning, I changed the line of code back to this:

// Guess the location
$sociablepluginpath = WP_CONTENT_URL.’/plugins/’.plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__)).’/’;

from this:

// Determine the location
$sociablepluginpath = plugins_url(”, __FILE__).’/’;

That seems to have made the icons appear again.

ardee00 thanks! Worked for me on a WordPress 2.7.1 installation.

Using WP 2.7.1 The last two updates of Sociable have gotten worse and worse. This last update shows a vertical list; instead of the Horizontal list that we used to have. And, this time, there are no images.

Never had a problem til now. Tried lots of other plugins of this type in the past, and Sociable is definitely my choice. Not so sure now.

I hate to complain about a free plugin, but it used to be such a good plugin. I’d pay if I had to. I hate to start looking again for another plugin. Maybe an patch or another update might come along pretty quick. Will Disable for now. Not worth the time to go in and make my own changes to the code. One purpose of plugins is so we don’t have to continually edit code to get a specific functionality. That way, we can spend our valuable time on other activities.

I’m using WordPress 2.7.1-RC1

I am using WP+BP, latest versions of both. Prior versions of Socialble worked fine, but I’ve had to deactivate it sitewide because of the issues noted earlier.

@ardee00 – thanks for the fix. However I’m not in a hurry and will wait for an update to the plugin.

I am using Sociable 3.3.4 on WP 2.7.1 with a Custom Hybrid Child Theme FWIW.

Same issue – no images just text.

Same Issue – No Images, vertical text links, and every upgrade seems to get worse. I will Disable for now. I hate to complain about anything free (I would pay for this plugin) but Sociable has become more of a problem than its really worth.

I would tell any new WP users to not install Sociable and to look somewhere else for a similar plugin. If you do install, you will dread every time the plugin needs to be upgraded.

Hmmm.. the fix posted above worked for me. But I am spotting a pattern with the 2.7.1 versions being reported lol

I guess all us cautious types waiting for 2.8.1 are to blame ??

nommo I tried upgrading to 2.8 and it screwed things up as expected. Sticking with 2.7.1

I am using 2.7.1. Same behavior – css file not loading. And the patch given by ardee00 DID work for me!

I am using the company-website-001 theme but heavily customized.

ardee00, thanks for the fix, however…

Some of the icons are still not showing up even though it’s no longer vertical, and most of them are showing up.

Joost, did you not test this with 2.7.whatever versions before the last update? My blog looked like shit until I found the fix for it here. Many complaints from my readers. <insert roll-eyes smiley here/>

Missing icons are Sphinn, Furl, Spurl, Twit This and Scuttle. There may be more, but of the icons I’ve selected, those are missing. Any idea how to regain those images?

In checking my other blog, I see that YahooMyWeb, and Pounce are also missing their icon pictures.

When I add ardee00’s line of code, i get the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in D:\Hosting\3152827\html\wp-content\plugins\sociable\sociable.php on line 32

Can anyone help me out with this one? The code is in the correct place as I followed the directions and have since re-checked severyal times???

Hey Folks – In case this helps anyone, this works for me:

$sociablepluginpath = WP_PLUGIN_URL.’/sociable/’;