Several weeks ago I discovered a great little plugin for WordPress called Fixed Social Buttons.
This plugin automatically places buttons for popular Social Networking and Bookmarking sites at the side of your blog page, it’s very easy to set up, and the buttons stand out much better for sharing than others I have found in the body of a post.
To install the plugin on your WordPress site, go to Plugins in the Admin Panel and select Add New. Then search for “Fixed Social Buttons. The nice thing about the latest versions of WordPress I think everyone will agree is that plugins these days can be installed and updated at the touch of a button, and this is no exception. It’s a lot better than having to download, unzip and FTP up to the correct folder on the server. But I digress…
Having installed Fixed Social Buttons, a new option should appear in the Admin Panel under Settings.
The Settings couldn’t be easier to understand. You can choose the style and size of the buttons to use, which buttons to show – currently 11 (Flickr, Delicious, Digg, Webonews, Linkedin, Myspace, Reddit, Technorati, Facebook, Twitter, and lastly subscribe to RSS feed ), whether they should appear at the Top or Bottom of the page, and whether they should be shown as Vertical or Horizontal.
You can also specify whether the links are to open in a new window or not, whether to make the links Follow or No Follow, and if you are sharing to Flickr or Twitter, add your profile details.
It’s as simple as that – simple and effective. I hope you find this useful.
See also the Fixed Social Buttons plugin page.
The only concern I’d have aout this plugin (apart from the fact that it seems to obscure part of the page as you scroll down) is that it might not be clear that the intention is to bookmark the individual post rather than the entire site.
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Hi, thanks for this post. It’s really a great plugin. But you don’t give the link to the plugin homepage : http://emyl.fr/ongame/poker/plugin-social-buttons/
I did omit that, my apologies and it was unintentional.
I am updating the article now.
Thanks for pointing it out.
The plugin is great. This post would be too but there isn’t the most important : the plugin home page where to find FAQ supports and more screenshots http://emyl.fr/ongame/poker/plugin-social-buttons/
My mistake not including the link to the plugin home page, I overlooked it.
Adding this now.
Thanks for pointing it out.
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Twitter drives MOST traffic to my sites
I still have to harness the power of Twitter to the level where I get a large volume of traffic from there, but I wonder how much of that is due to the article subject and content, not just the way that you use Twitter.
Good blog. I got a lot of great information. I’ve been keeping an eye on this technology for awhile. It’s interesting how it keeps changing, yet some of the core elements remain the same. Have you seen much change since Google made their most recent acquisition in the area?
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