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<p>The Social Media Widget is a simple sidebar widget that allows users to input their social media website profile URLs and other subscription options to show an icon on the sidebar to that social media site and more that open up in a separate browser window.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
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<p>Supports the following social media sites:</p>
<ul>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Google+</li>
<li>Twitter</li>
<li>MySpace</li>
<li>FriendFeed</li>
<li>Orkut</li>
<li>Hyves</li>
<li>LinkedIn</li>
<li>aSmallWorld</li>
<li>About.me</li>
<li>Skyrock</li>
<li>VK</li>
<li>Goodreads</li>
<li>Github</li>
<li>Instagram</li>
<li>Flickr</li>
<li>Picasa Web Albums</li>
<li>Pinterest</li>
<li>YouTube</li>
<li>Skype</li>
<li>Digg</li>
<li>Reddit</li>
<li>Delicious</li>
<li>StumbleUpon</li>
<li>Tumblr</li>
<li>Buzz</li>
<li>Google Talk</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>Blogger</li>
<li>WordPress</li>
<li>Yelp</li>
<li>Last.fm</li>
<li>Pandora</li>
<li>UStream</li>
<li>IMDb</li>
<li>Hulu</li>
<li>Flixter</li>
<li>FourSquare</li>
<li>Meetup</li>
<li>PlanCast</li>
<li>SlideShare</li>
<li>DeviantArt</li>
<li>Cuttings.me</li>
<li>Live365</li>
<li>Digital Tunes</li>
<li>Soundcloud</li>
<li>BandCamp</li>
<li>Etsy</li>
<li>Better Business Bureau</li>
<li>Merchant Circle</li>
<li>Ebay</li>
<li>Steam</li>
<li>RSS</li>
<li>E-mail (mailto: or a link to mailing list service)</li>
<li>Plus create 6 of your own using a URL to an icon and URL to the service</li>
</ul>
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<p>Select from the following icon sizes:</p>
<ul>
<li>16×16</li>
<li>24×24</li>
<li>32×32</li>
<li>64×64</li>
<li>Custom</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<p>Select from 4 icon packages:</p>
<ul>
<li>Web 2.0 (Default) – Icons from <a href="http://www.iconspedia.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">various artists</a> </li>
<li>Sketch – <a href="http://theg-force.deviantart.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Icons Hand Drawn</a> by TheG-Force and <a href="http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2008/10/20/handycons-a-free-hand-drawn-social-media-icon-set.aspx" rel="nofollow ugc">Handycons</a> by Janko At Warp Speed</li>
<li>Heart – <a href="http://thedesignsuperhero.com/2009/03/heart-v2-free-social-iconset-in-heart-shape/" rel="nofollow ugc">Heart v2</a> by The Design Superhero</li>
<li>Cutout – <a href="http://www.iconspedia.com/pack/icontexto-inside-2222/" rel="nofollow ugc">Icontexto Inside Icons</a></li>
<li>Custom – These will be unaltered via updates. Make sure you follow the same naming scheme as the other icons (facebook.png, twitter.png). You can look at the other icon packs if you are unsure about the naming. See the FAQ for more information on usage.</li>
<li>Note that some of the icons in the packs were created and added for this widget by myself. Not all of the requested social media sites were included so I attempted to create icons that mimicked the original artist icons. These are unattributed to myself. I keep attribution to the original artists since it is there design I modified.</li>
<li>All icons in this pack are licensed under the Creative Commons license. Note that some of these are non-commercial only. Please go to the sites linked above to get full information on their allowed uses.</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<p>Choose from multiple animations including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fade In (you can choose the starting opacity too!)</li>
<li>Scale (zoom in)</li>
<li>Bounce</li>
<li>Combo (All three)</li>
<li>Note: Because these are all CSS3 style animations, IE6-7 aren’t supported at all, although IE8 will support Scale. In IE6-8, icons will not be animated and use 100% opacity.</li>
</ul>
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<p>Create your own image alt/title tags for hover-over text (i.e. Follow Us On {service})</p>
</li>
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<p>Choose whether or not to use the rel=”nofollow” tag in your links. (Recommended see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow)</p>
</li>
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<p>Choose whether or not to open links in a new tab (or browser window).</p>
</li>
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<p>Align your widget left, center, or right.</p>
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<p>Arrange the order of the icons however you like.</p>
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<p>Choose to the number of icons per row. Currently you can have one icon per row or auto (maximum # based on the width of the container the widget is placed in).</p>
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</ul>
<p>If you like this plugin, please rate it and click “Works” for your WordPress version!</p>
<h3>Help</h3>
<p>Please add a post on the WordPress.org support forums with the plugin tagged.</p>


Social Media Widget

Easy to use. I like the flexibility of listing the services in whatever order I want. I also like that I can customize for a service that is not listed.

Only thing I don't like is the out-of-the box-Instagram icon is their former branding ( brown icon instead of the new pink one). I can get around this by doing a custom icon, but it would be great if it were correct in the regular Instagram line.

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Adds links to all of your social media and sharing site profiles. Tons of icons come in 3 sizes, 4 icon styles, and 4 animations.

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<h4>Sharing content</h4>
<p>The plugin currently supports the following networks for sharing your content:</p>
<ul>
<li>Facebook (like, share and send buttons)</li>
<li>Twitter</li>
<li>Google +1</li>
<li>Pinterest</li>
<li>LinkedIn</li>
<li>Tumblr</li>
<li>Digg</li>
<li>Reddit</li>
<li>Myspace</li>
<li>Gmail</li>
<li>AOL</li>
<li>Evernote</li>
<li>Outlook</li>
<li>Instapaper</li>
<li>Mail.ru</li>
<li>Pocket</li>
<li>Sonico</li>
<li>vkontakte</li>
<li>Weibo</li>
<li>Yahoo Mail</li>
<li>Yammer</li>
</ul>
<p>On Tweet button you can specify a Twitter handle which is then appended to the tweet a visitor sends (like “… via @WordPress”). An email send button is also included.</p>
<p>You can decide which networks to support on your blog, where the buttons will appear (either above or below the content). Through drag and drop you can easily change the order in which the buttons appear.</p>
<p>For each button you can choose a different type (not all types are available for each button):</p>
<ul>
<li>button</li>
<li>button with counter on the side</li>
<li>button with counter on top</li>
<li>small icon</li>
<li>small icon with text</li>
<li>medium icon</li>
<li>medium icon with text</li>
<li>large icon</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also choose the orientation of the buttons:</p>
<ul>
<li>horizontal (buttons are placed side by side)</li>
<li>vertical (buttons are placed below each other)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Divider</h4>
<p>In version 2.0.4 three dividers were added to each list. These might be useful in ordering the buttons, especially in the case of varying button types used with a horizontal orientation. A divider will split the element containing the buttons in two, allowing for more customization.</p>
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
<p>It is also possible to only let the buttons appear where you want by using shortcode. The shortcode function has it’s own list of buttons with the same possibilities as the list for content. Use the shortcode [social_share/] in the content where you would like to display the buttons.</p>
<p>Since version 2.1.2: Use one or both of the url and title attributes to override these settings with your own information. Example: [social_share url=”http://www.mywebsite.com” title=”My Website”/]</p>
<h4>Widget</h4>
<p>The widget has it’s own list of buttons with the same possibilities as the list for posts & pages. You can however specify a fixed title and url to use for the buttons in the widget.</p>
<h4>Follow Widget</h4>
<p>Since version 2.0.0 an extra widget is added with the possibility to provide easy links to your profiles on other social networks.</p>
<p>The networks currently supported for the Follow Widget are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Twitter</li>
<li>Google+</li>
<li>Pinterest</li>
<li>Goodreads</li>
<li>LinkedIn (including company and group links)</li>
<li>Tumblr</li>
<li>Myspace</li>
<li>Hyves</li>
<li>YouTube</li>
<li>Flickr</li>
<li>500px</li>
<li>Instagram</li>
<li>DeviantArt</li>
<li>Last.fm</li>
<li>Spotify</li>
<li>Soundcloud</li>
</ul>
<p>A button for an RSS feed is also included. Of course the type, order and orientation of the buttons is also configurable for the Follow Widget. Each button for the Follow Widget supports the following types:</p>
<ul>
<li>small icon</li>
<li>small icon with text</li>
<li>medium icon</li>
<li>medium icon with text</li>
<li>large icon</li>
</ul>
<p>To use a button you must enter your user / profile id or username for the network. To use the RSS feed button you must enter the full url.</p>
<h4>Automatic Twitter links</h4>
<p>This plugin also includes a configurable & improved version of my earlier Automatic Twitter Links plugin. You can decide if you want to convert Twitter names and/or hashtags to links.<br />
Twitter names will link to their Twitter profile and hashtags will link to the Twitter search page.</p>
<h4>Bitly</h4>
<p>Since version 2.0.5 the plugin has the option to use bitly to shorten the urls for the tweet button. To use it you need to register with bitly and fill in your bitly username and API key.</p>
<h4>Pinterest</h4>
<p>Since version 2.0.5 the plugin has the option to show Pinterest buttons. The plugin tries to find the featured image or first image in the content if available. If no image is available the button is omitted.<br />
Since version 2.0.7 is is possible to enter the URL of a default image to use in case no image was found. You can also set the plugin to always use the default image regardless of any available images.</p>
<h4>Open Graph</h4>
<p>Since version 2.0.5 the plugin also has the option to automatically create Open Graph tags on your WordPress site. These will tell Facebook for example which image to display when sharing a page.<br />
You can enter the URL of a default image to use in case no image was found. The plugin will try to use the thumbnail attached to the post (if your theme supports it), or the first image it finds in the content. To turn of this behavior you can check a box which will force the plugin to always use the default image you have specified.</p>
<h4>Analytics</h4>
<p>The plugin runs off our servers at LinksAlpha.com in order to process the social sharing analytics which helps you track virality of your content across social channels.</p>


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