View Full Version : The Mashable.com Share This Side DIV - Help
morestar
04-06-2010, 11:04 AM
I was reading this article on Mashable.com related wordpress plugins that make your site more sociable (http://mashable.com/2008/08/20/social-wordpress-blog-plugins/) and am in love with their floating social site bar that has the Re-Tweet, Buzz and Facebook share icons to the left, floating.
I've tried to find the plugin at Wordpress's plugin's page to no avail and also tried hacking the code to re-create the effect for myself but couldn't do it. ;(
Is anyone familiar with this plugin (if it is a plugin) or know of a similar script?
Any assistance is appreciated.
;)
If you are familiar with javascript (jQuery) you can do it that way fairly easily. I haven't tested this jquery plugin, but I've done something similar here at iEntry before.
Give this a try: Plugins | jQuery Plugins (http://plugins.jquery.com/project/floatobject)
morestar
04-06-2010, 12:46 PM
Very well and always thank you Rah. I'm going to take a look at that if indeed there isn't an actual plugin made for wordpress that does that.
Mashable is in Wordpress no?
I'm pretty apt. at being able to float elements etc. but was wondering if there was actually a plugin specifically for Wordpress with respect to that social bar they have and have been unable to determine this through their page code.
I'm usually able to always trace things that I'd like to use/enhance etc. but this one's a doozy...
As far as I know they do indeed use Wordpress. I'll keep an eye out for you, but from looking at their code the floating div is a one off javascript function and probably not a plugin.
morestar
04-06-2010, 05:16 PM
Thank you Rah, same here...I think they simply when in and did some work on their own...
Well, I'll probably have to do the same..and in the end, maybe I'll plugit !!
;)
deadhippo
04-07-2010, 09:48 AM
I spent a lot of time searching for this possibly mythical plugin too.
morestar
04-07-2010, 09:56 AM
It's a beautiful effect isn't it? I think we'll have to just hack it into our own themes but I'm contemplating making it an actual plugin...that would be nice...
;)
deadhippo
04-07-2010, 10:02 AM
I hope you do. It's pretty but better than that it unclutters your page.
morestar
04-07-2010, 10:05 AM
I've yet to make a Wordpress plugin but I check out some basic ones to see how the process works - doesn't seem toooooo complicated...we'll see...
Ya I love how it follows the page scroll and it really stands out too - compels you to click on one of the buttons...
Hi guys,
I also would like to have that on my blog.
morestar, you are going to develop a plugin?
MrGroove
05-10-2010, 08:48 PM
I was reading this article on Mashable.com related wordpress plugins that make your site more sociable[/URL] and am in love with their floating social site bar that has the Re-Tweet, Buzz and Facebook share icons to the left, floating.
I've tried to find the plugin at Wordpress's plugin's page to no avail and also tried hacking the code to re-create the effect for myself but couldn't do it. ;(
Is anyone familiar with this plugin (if it is a plugin) or know of a similar script?
Any assistance is appreciated.
;)
Hi Morestar - The best plugin I've seen is this one over at WPBegginer:
wpbeginner.com/plugins/add-a-floating-share-box-in-wordpress-with-smart-sharing-plugin/
It's not perfect being that it will overlay on top of your content at small screen resolutions instead of flipping on top of the content like the mashables plugin however, do some analytics on your blog for screen resolution and you may or may not care depending on the % users actually hitting your page at 1024x768.
MrGroove