Plugin name : Social Count
Release date : 2010-05-11
Social Count wordpress plugin shows how many times someone Tweeted, Buzzed or shared on Facebook. This plugin also shows how many people added this post on their Delicious bookmark.
1. Upload ‘social-count.php’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Put <?php social_count(); ?> where you want to show comments count in your theme file.
4. Basic styling is already done. You can apply styles for ul class = social_count .
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This is really great social plugin. Thanx!
Evan
Hello,
Social Count is a great plugin, because it is simple, light and efficient.
Congratulations!
Is there a way to manipulate the starting count? My site is new but I don't really want visitors to think that it is so I would like the counts to start at say 30 and it adds each share to that number?
Hmmm... not yet.
Data is taken and placed direct from server.
May be you can add some js to do it.
its not working. where am i supposed to place exactly. i mean which file?
Is there a trick in order to make the short link work ? (i've tried both on homepage and single page, and neither of them has worked)
two problems with retweet :
- the short link doesn't seem to work : "Failed to resolve the URL in the tweet"
- placed on the homepage, the tweet takes the hostname, and not the title of the article.
Yea, this uses post permalink. recommended to used only in single posts and pages. Will find a work around for this soon.
Only count, or vistors could also do the "add" action?
@ww: It shows the count and let visitors Retweet, Buzz, Share with facebook and Add to delicious bookmark.
i would like to replace the delicious button by a retweet one. It is possible ?
@Fx : sure, there an option for it already as you see in this blog itself. I'll update it to plugin repo in a day or two.
Could you expand on where to add this: Put where you want to show comments count in your theme file.
Is it in custom.css? Or with a hook?
@lifewithdogs : you need to add that piece of php code where you want to show these buttons. It might be in your themes folder single.php. Find the wordpress loop in it, and replace te code for showing comment count with this. I'll do a better explanation with version 2