James

I’m having this exact same issue.

I installed via the Dashboard.

The problem seemed to happen after my web host, hostgator, migrated my site to a new server. I’m wondering if that is relevant.

Did you solve it?

Hi – no, I don’t use MultiSite. I’ve deleted and re-installed anyway but still get the error. This time it’s on line 790

Thank you for your time. It is appreciated. This must be something weird with my particular setup.

Take care,

James

Thank you for the very prompt reply.

Thank you for explaining where the delay is coming from.

For what it’s worth, my opinion is that your plug-in changes the behavior that visitors are used to which could easily put off potential ‘Likers’.

They are used to a delay as the buttons load. This delay happens as the page loads. It is normal to see the buttons take a moment to arrive. However that happens while the visitor is busy reading the article or waiting for other elements to load.

What your plug-in does is move that delay to the precise moment where the visitor is wanting to press the button. At the exact moment that the visitor is motivated to Like a page your plug-in removes the buttons from the page – albeit for only a second or five.

This isn’t normal and would put off some people.

My suggestion is that the plug-in loads the ‘fake’ buttons exactly as it currently does. That means the page loads faster – brilliant: I love that! Then, a second or three after the page has fully loaded, the graphic is replaced by the real buttons (rather than waiting for the user to move their mouse there).

This gives all the speed advantages you gain in your design; it would flash the Like buttons and could draw additional attention to them*; and the buttons would be fully loaded by the time the visitor had read the article and was ready to press the Like button.

It’s only my opinion.

Thank you for your time.

James

* perhaps you could even turn this in to a feature by allowing us to choose the delay before the change occurs and using an animation effect to flash the floating bar a subtle color just before the real buttons are loaded.

Hi, and thank you for the very prompt reply.

So I deactivated all plug-ins but the errors remain.

Then (without activating any plug-ins) I deleted and then re-installed the floating social bar.

The errors still remain.

I’m wondering if it’s anything to do with the ‘Better WP Security’ plug-in by Bit51. This plug-in changes all sorts of settings which are designed to make WordPress less vulnerable to hacking – some of which it says are not reversed when the plug-in is deactivated. Examples are the wp-contents directory can be renamed, the database can be given a different table prefix than is standard and the User with ID 1 is removed from the system.

Do you know know if your plug-in has been tested with that plug-in?

Thanks again for your time,

James