Sociable & SlideShare update

17 July 2008 Joost de Valk 26 comments, leave your own!

I've just committed Sociable version 2.8.1, which, next to fixing some bugs and xhtml compliancy issues, brings a pretty cool new feature: the ability to add the social bookmark icons to your RSS feed.

This feature, requested by Rajiv Shivane, allows you to add the same buttons you were adding under your posts to your feed, and offer your RSS readers the ability to directly share your posts! An example:

sociable-in-feed.png

Another thing is that the SlideShare plugin didn't seem to work with WordPress 2.6 either (that completes the list of now having had to update every single plugin I have for 2.6). Turns out SlideShare have also changed their embed code, and the new version 1.3 of the plugin uses that. You will need to update your settings for this one as well (sigh, yes, I know...).

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26 Responses to “Sociable & SlideShare update”

  1. By Manuel Merz Thu, July 17th, 2008 at 21:04

    Hey Joost, is there a way to add the social icons only to single.php and not on the home or index page?

  2. By Joost de Valk Thu, July 17th, 2008 at 21:05

    @Manuel yes, that's a setting in the backend :)

  3. By Not working in feeds Thu, July 17th, 2008 at 21:40

    Hi

    Thanks for sharing the use of this plugin, totally awesome.

    I found a problem, not sure if it's something I have overlooked, or what. :(

    I don't see any instructions on how to get the social bookmarking icons to appear in the feeds, at current, there are no icons showing up in either the entries or comment feeds and the box has been ticked to apply the icons in the feeds, but they do not appear...

    I'm using wordpress 2.5.1

    Any suggestions?
    Thanks

  4. By Not working in feeds Thu, July 17th, 2008 at 21:49

    p.s
    Shuttle redirects to sourceforge.net for some reason.

  5. By Joost de Valk Thu, July 17th, 2008 at 21:49

    Are you using FeedBurner?

  6. By Not working in feeds Thu, July 17th, 2008 at 23:06

    No, your plugin doesn't mention that you should use feedburner, it says that it will place those socialbookmarking icons in your feeds, which I presumed the wordpress themes.

    Is that what it was intended to do, to place them in the wordpress themes?

  7. By Joost de Valk Thu, July 17th, 2008 at 23:07

    No I don't say you should, was just looking for a cause of slow updates. What's your site's URL?

  8. By Not working in feeds Thu, July 17th, 2008 at 23:24

    Looking at my site's url is not going to help matters...lol :)

    All I can just say is that your plugin does not insert the rss feed icons into the wordpress rss feed.

  9. By Not working in feeds Fri, July 18th, 2008 at 01:13

    Are you looking into this issue at all?

  10. By Milan Petrovic Fri, July 18th, 2008 at 02:02

    Great plugin! New RSS feature works but only if you set for RSS feed to include full posts. If it's set to Summary only, then no sociable icons. I hope that you will fix this soon. Once again thanx for the plugin.

  11. By Not working in feeds Fri, July 18th, 2008 at 02:19

    Nice Catch Milan, I hadn't thought about that. :)

  12. By Tomer Fri, July 18th, 2008 at 12:19

    Why is there a new update every day? I'm sick of that red flag going up on my Plugins tab... Getting annoying

    Love the app though

  13. By Martin Sat, July 19th, 2008 at 18:10

    Thank you so much for updating sociable so soon. Keep up the good work!
    Martin

  14. By Joost de Valk Mon, July 21st, 2008 at 16:35

    @milan: thx for noticing that, adding to the list of fixes!

    @not working in feeds: Milan's note will probably help me fix it :)

    @Tomer: then disable it. I can't help having to fix bugs :)

    @Martin: my pleasure!

  15. By Evert Jan Mon, July 21st, 2008 at 21:09

    Hi Joost,

    I'm still struggling with css coding... When you look at this site, you will notice a lot of white space between the different buttons. Can you give me some tips on how to resolve this?

    Thanks in advance.

    Regards, Evert Jan

  16. By Joost de Valk Mon, July 21st, 2008 at 21:12

    @Evert Jan: this should fix it:

    #content ul.sociable li { margin: 0; }
  17. By Evert Jan Mon, July 21st, 2008 at 21:24

    Hi Joost,

    Thanks for your very, very, very quick reply! :)
    I've tried putting that line on several places in several .css files, but without any result. (Yes, I did forced reloads between the changes)

    I will give it another try, but I'm open for any other suggestions. ;)

    Tnx,EJ

  18. By Joost de Valk Mon, July 21st, 2008 at 21:28

    Tried adding !important to the end of that line?

  19. By Evert Jan Mon, July 21st, 2008 at 21:37

    Ah, I found it!

    I changed line 26 in sociable.css into:
    margin: 0 !important;
    (I added !important)

    This fixed it for me. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

    Tnx,EJ

  20. By Joost de Valk Mon, July 21st, 2008 at 21:43

    Good :) glad I could help!

  21. By Fabricio Tue, July 22nd, 2008 at 05:02

    Maybe there is a bug in this last version. When I am writing a new post and I click "Add Media", the dialog appears as a new page instead of a popup ajax box. Disabling Sociable solves this problem.

  22. By Joost de Valk Tue, July 22nd, 2008 at 06:37

    You're right Fabricio, fixing in the next version!

  23. By Joost de Valk Tue, July 22nd, 2008 at 06:52

    Should be fixed in 2.9.1 :)

  24. By jim Thu, July 24th, 2008 at 06:53

    Does the sociable plugin work w WP 2.6? I installed two blogs tonight and I get a blank screen for managing sociable. The grid flicked on momentarily when I first clicked in but now it's a blank on both blogs. tks

  25. By Joost de Valk Thu, July 24th, 2008 at 06:54

    That's a known IE7 issue with the backend, working on a fix, but you could use Firefox for now, works great in there :)

  26. By Xavier Sat, June 13th, 2009 at 18:56

    Great plugin Joost!

    One question though - is it possible to exclude the buttons in particular category pages? I'd like them to show in my blog only, not my portfolio stuff

    thanks!

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